Star Wars - Episode VII

[dholliday]

there's already cheesy crossovers with R2D2 appearing in the latest Star Trek film.

...so we'll have Spock turn up and be mistaken for an old Jedi (it's bound to please the audience that)

 

[Deleted member 28206]

there's already cheesy crossovers with R2D2 appearing in the latest Star Trek film.

...so we'll have Spock turn up and be mistaken for an old Jedi (it's bound to please the audience that)

ET was in Phantom menace.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

R2-D2 was in Raiders Of the Lost Ark.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Hate Star Wars

I so want to neg this Derek.

 

[dholliday]

R2-D2 was in Raiders Of the Lost Ark.

good point.

bit like how Alien was in Predator 2, which ended up spawning the critically-acclaimed Alien vs Predator series.

Star Trek Wars: Episode 1...coming soon!

 

[alpha1]

I think the real question we should be asking ourselves is do we really want to see another star wars film or not?
For me the answer is yes, I would like to see many more.
Some will be good, others not so good, but I would rather take the risk and see more produced.
For me, the worst case scenario would be no more star wars films ever again!
Let's give Disney the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Elong]

I'm excited. I know I'll be let down first time, I was with the prequels.

I was with The Hobbit's first movie too. When you've read a book repeatedly since the age of 7-8 and you have it all pictured scene by scene in your head, you're natural reaction is pretty much always to be let down I feel. But you give it a couple more views and a bit of time and you come to appreciate them for what they are.

The Star Wars prequels are a bit like that for me. NHD is right about the last 30 mins of Return of the Sith, brilliant fight scenes and lots of action, and ties into the old trilogy well.

Who knows who the next movies will play out. They need a new bad guy(s), they need to cast the children of the original star roles (I guess that's the route they will go), they need the script. Loads to wait and see about.

 

[DanEFC92]

Can't see how they'll come up with a good enough story to follow with the death of the emperor.

 

[Philw]

I think the main problems are:

- no sense of danger anymore...we don't think "holy fook, how they're gonna get out of this one?"
- no care for the characters, who mostly only pretend to die anyway (see Star Trek ffs)
- no immersion in the action, mostly due to stupidly-hectic editing with lots of software-powered zooming, rather than using the cameras to do the zooming. And why, in my humble own like, Casino Royale is so much more superior to Quantum of Kakk.


Without these things, I don't understand how the bulk of modern audiences feel any immersion at all. I fear the new Star Wars will be more of the same.

Man I hate the use of this nowadays, and all the shaky-cam work that everyone seems to love using nowadays. FFS just let me watch the action already!

Totally agree, I watch NCIS LA, its terrible, the acting is hammy as fck and the storylines are always predictable and clumsy, but I love it so much.

Haha, LA is pretty cheesy, but love the original NCIS

agreed.

the first 3 have a charm with their memorable characters. Han Solo + Leia + Vader + Yoda + The Emperor (even Luke was great when he went all Jedi). The prequels only had The Emperor as the sole interesting character, the rest were so stiff it was embarrassing (new Yoda was a parody, and let's not even mention Annakin/Vader).

Or to put it in film-school terms, the prequel characters were written, directed and acted so poorly that it affected our suspension of disbelief in the story.

The characters and their interaction, especially Han and Leia are the things that makes the original series so good to me. Plus the gritty grimy look. There's just nothing like that in the prequels.

I'm excited. I know I'll be let down first time, I was with the prequels.

I was with The Hobbit's first movie too. When you've read a book repeatedly since the age of 7-8 and you have it all pictured scene by scene in your head, you're natural reaction is pretty much always to be let down I feel. But you give it a couple more views and a bit of time and you come to appreciate them for what they are.

The Star Wars prequels are a bit like that for me. NHD is right about the last 30 mins of Return of the Sith, brilliant fight scenes and lots of action, and ties into the old trilogy well.

Who knows who the next movies will play out. They need a new bad guy(s), they need to cast the children of the original star roles (I guess that's the route they will go), they need the script. Loads to wait and see about.

Is that the bit where Anakin gets all chopped up by Obi? Worst scene ever.

 

[Elong]

Worst scene ever?

I can think of lots more.

But hey, up to you

 

[noharmdone]

Worst scene ?
It's boss..

 

[Pat's Van]

it is a good scene, does tie in well to the originals too

 

[Moomin]

I think in the new Movie they need to copy the greenhouse scene from the motion movie 'Scum' with Chewbacca being the victim.

 

[cbpointblank]

Hate Star Wars

Bad, bad Kopite.

 

[ijjysmith]

Of the newer three movies. The last 30 minutes of the third one are by far and away the best bits.

For me anyway.