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i suppose you want me to start posting 10 page epic posts do you?

i'd certainly apreciate it yeah

and thats old news btw more shocking is the rumors surrounding new content supposedly being added in.


"Something wicked this way comes"

To add on to Arcons post, the new footage was said to be filmed recently with some of the new actors to be included in the old movies. Such as Bail Organa of Alderaan (Jimmy Smits) on the planet when it was destroyed by the Death Star.

Sir S

this sounds like a lame excuse to try squeezing a little more milk from an old cow. don't get me wrong, i loved the original trilogy, but i'm just a little bitter and have lost faith in GL after EPI and EPII

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

"try squeezing a little more milk from an old cow"

i heard lucas has this tatooed on his ARSE!

anyway, talk about milking, u seen the "Hyperspace" feature on SW.com? well its paying for the latest information about Episode 3 and the future of Star Wars. Thing is, after 05/05/05 when Ep3 comes out, the system will become defunct. There will be nothing more to talk about. Doesnt stop people signing up all the time....assholes


"Something wicked this way comes"

I've heard something about a character called "greivious", if its true, Lucas is really going over the top with the whole "hey, lets look at what new lightsabre gimmick we can create now" routine. I'll avoid posting any real spoilers unless this thread gets marked as OK for them. Overall though I hold high hopes for this movie, provided that Hayden Christensen got some decent acting lessons and the dialogue is much improved over AotC.

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I friggin hate that hyperspace tthing they are doing at SW.com. It's a bit like when they were making people pay for quicktime to get the Attack of the Clones high quality trailers.

Im really starting to wonder whether George Lucas likes money more than he likes telling a good story.

i'm very interested in making a remake trilogy of episodes 1-3 in about 20 years or somthing. I'd have made them SOO differently. In fact i mean to do so


"Something wicked this way comes"

I think George Lucas is a great idea man, but not a good director. He's better as a producer than the man in direct control of the film. The only reason the Ep 4 was as good as it was, was because it wasn't relying on other movies of the same genre and he wasn't stupidly influenced by them. Then of course he didn't direct Ep 5 which is the best of the whole series.

Great idea of his to have Indiana Jones directed by Spielberg instead of himself.

Sir S

i have never been convinced of Lucas' abilities as a director. Other than SW none of his other films have been that good, although interesting in the case of THX-1138 and American Graffiti. Richard Marquand did a far better job.

(parallel - just as Lucas is really only remembered for SW, will Peter Jackson only be remembered for LotR? that would be a shame, even though LotR is a masterpiece achievement, because he actually is a very good director anyway)

back to Lucas - despite my misgivings as to his directorial ability, hard core film freaks like me have a major reason to be grateful to Mr Lucas. He rescued the career of the greatest director in the world, Akira Kurosawa, who was reduced at the time to doing whisky commercials. Lucas (along with Spielberg and Coppola) provided the money and resources for Kurosawa to make Kagemusha, Shadow Warrior, and the profits, crew, sets and costumes for that film were shortly thereafter used to make Ran, just about the greatest film ever made imho. lucas is a great admirer of Kurosawa and based Jedi on the Samurai films such as 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and The Hidden Fortress, the plot of which formed the core of the first SW (Ep4)

I often find in interviews that Lucas & Spielberg can both be a bit full of themselves, but when the conversation switches to Kurosawa or Bergman or Fellini, even Kubrick, they become very subdued and respectful. Which i find rather pleasing, that they recognise and respect true genius even though most other people would consider them as the best directors in the world.

btw did you know that the Battle of Helm's Deep in TT was visually inspired by the Siege of 3rd Castle in Ran? All good director's know how to work influence into their films without it turning into plagiarism.

what i really dont like is lucas's love for CGI. The guy pretty much invented modern day special effects, and props to the guy for that but in watching the 'making of' documentaries for episodes 1 & 2, he just goes around saying "make this cg, make that cg". i think Lucas has a lot more confidence in the work of CG guys that the cinema public. I watch big animated scenes in Episode 2 and they pale into comparrison against large live action scenes from LOTR. despite the subject matter, Jacksons continued use of models and sets as opposed to cgi for EVERYTHING is a real breath of fresh air after special effects extravaganza's of the last few years.

Without trying to give my ideas for a 're-imagined' Prequel Trilogy, i think one of the key's to The OT's success is that it was a group of friends that really did meet in a bar after a fight and went on to topple the ruling power in the galaxy and end a civil war. Hell, thinking about it, thats just cool! I wanna get back in there and bring the scale down a bit. You can have anakin, padme, obiwan, the whole "new" gang, but when the scale is so big, when your leading characters are players in the intergalactic scene, it makes it harder for the story to be as compelling. When i do it, the whole thing is gonna come down about 20 notches so the audience can relate.

Although this is just a pipe dream, i'll never get to do it, but it would be nice, one day, to maybe make some kinda "fan tribute" movie(s)...i dunno.

Here is the most important question though; Despite having stated that he will not create episodes 7,8, and 9, will George Lucas make them anyway? I think that he will, as after a few years he will reconsider, and decide to create them. Whether or not this is a good idea, is another issue entirely. What's your opinion?

Esquilax

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Well - I think Peter Jackson is a great director - and here is another little parallel.

He has had his dream - he made the triology that is basically gonna be remembered for - well, perhaps ever?

Anyways - George Lucas had a 'dream' - a story that he wrote, and rewrote - and then he made it. It was a phenomenon or whatever you call it, and had nutcase hardcore fans around the world for 20 years. To be honest, i am a fan - but NOT A FAN! I like the films, and when the new ones came out - well, i went and saw them too..........

Now - unlike most - i actaully enjoyed them. They were great entertainment. The fact that so many people felt so strongly about the odd character here and there (darth maul, the dumb gungan) meant that it couldn't have been that bad else no-one would have cared. The ONLY problem is that we all expected to have a film that blew our socks off, and made us become drivelling idots again. Back then the special effects were unseen before - not on the scale he did anyway. The storyline was at best only 'okay' and the acting was a mismatch of strong performances (Alec Guiness) all the way to bloody awful (erm - Mark Hamil). It was the characters that got everyone going though - and to be honest, there are some things missing from the characters in the new films - charisma for one!! Only really good ones so far have been Yoda and Samuel Jackson - okay - there are more - but Anakin, Obi Wan and a few others have hardly been what i would call great performances.

The story once again was only 'okay' - but this time it would have been impossible to do 'blow us away' special effects in a genre that has been saturated with films over the years. Instead, everyone sat their with thier preconcepted ideas about what it should be, and then moaned like hell when it wasn't what they had hoped for. Personally - what did you really expect. A mix of mediocre acting and storyline are to blame, but overall it is still a good film, it just had such trouble living up to such high expectations!!!! Now i liked those two as films. I didn't think i would see the film to finish off all films when i went to see them, and i still don't - at which point, i sit and enjoy them rather than get disappointed. If everyone saw them like i did, then perhaps you wouldn't have found them such a let down. After all - George lucas is telling his story still - and he can do it how he wants! - and seeing as we aren't directors - how can we really judge??

As for re-working the storyline and including extra new footage - what did you expect? Of course that was going to happen - he had to make some way of getting the two triologies to mesh together - without direct references from episode IV to the previous films- only vague references. To make it so you can watch 1 - 6 wihtout a massive leap and disassociation of the films, he HAS to do something. However, i am sure it will be well done!!

Just my 2 cents - or thousand words