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« on: October 14, 2006, 11:58:38 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 11:40:15 AM »
*Ahem*

Wow...

At least I thought this was funny.

I thought that surely Dave would have something to say about this.
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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 11:48:14 AM »
look... obviously the books and games and toys are better than the movies or there wouldn't be so many of them. I've certainly READ more books than Lucas has even written as scripts Wink Happy?  Grin

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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 01:00:51 PM »
 Undecided

Is it that touchy of a subject or did I misread?

The thing is that Lucas apparently really believes this.

Here is where I found the link:
http://www.monitorduty.com/mdarchives/2006/10/picking_george.shtml
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picking George Lucas

Stuff from that George Lucas cartoon article stood out to me.

So Lucas has Indiana Jones coming up the pipe?

    "We're working on it. We haven't agreed on a script yet," Lucas said.

They've been "working on this" since I was in high school. They have been accepting and dropping scripts since before I went to college and after I went to college. I made a joke on Monitor Duty that Harrison Ford will die before a script is approved and at this point I gauruntee that Mr. Ford will be so old that the Indy character will be a CGI creation.

So about the cartoon's setting....

    The series is set during the time when the Republic is fighting a civil war against separatists led by Count Dooku. The mythic period hasn't been dealt with too much in the popular "Star Wars" movies, so "it's a fun place to go," Lucas said.

Of course it hasn't been dealt with much! The prequel trilogy starts at a point when nothing fun or interesting was happening! If we only had three movies to immerse ourselves in this kind of stuff then why waste one of them on a time period where the most interesting bad guys are Thai hypercapitalists with a spindly robot army whose most interesting acts are reactions to a trade embargo by putting forth a blockade of a planet with no military.... I'm bored typing that.

oh, and in Episode I Darth Vader is cute. Awwwww.

By the time we get to Star Wars in the second Star Wars trilogy, we are at the second movie and really the Clone Wars start at the end of that movie and the Clone Wars wrap up more or less in the first and third acts of the final movie, with a lot of time left over to focus on children being slaughtered and then utter dialogue confusion by Lucas on which characters were speaking in absolutes and which weren't.

How little have we seen of the Clone Wars era?

    The show is planned as a continuation of the Emmy-winning "Clone Wars" that aired in 25 episodes on the Cartoon Network from 2003 to 2005. That series used limited animation. The new version will use 3-D computer graphics.

25 animated shorts with lengths between three minutes and fifteen minutes each. We've spent about 100 minutes in the animated Clone Wars. There are two DVDs each with approximately one hour of content, and both are priced the same as a two hour plus Star Wars movie.

I think we can revisit the era without retreading much.
Posted by bluespider at October 9, 2006 12:47 PM

Note the use of the word "limited" when used to describe the emmy award winning Clone Wars.

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We can, but do we really want to? The Clone War has been revealed as nothing but political maneuvering by Palpatine/Sidious, there is no one to root for, as even the Jedi have been shown to be somewhat unsympathetic, and I've long since grown tired of Lucas's arrogance and worship of CGI ("limited" animation my {mmm...tasty}). Let's face it, Star Wars sucks now; let it go.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lv4Potdpjhw
Posted by: Eric Schwenke at October 10, 2006 11:27 AM
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2006, 01:09:45 PM »
I NEVER said he was a great director or writer. Some of the writing of the original trilogy is just... bad. Same with the acting. The new trilogy is a different, more formal, time though. That only makes things worse for him Smiley He kinda gets casual for the first 3 (of which he only directed 1), but he does loose it on the new series. I do think he tried to write the love scenes as if he was shakespear though. To that effect, he did decently.
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2006, 01:56:42 PM »
i won't take away from a guy who made a few of the most influential sci fi films of all time.

the funny parts of that for me are about lucas constantly wanting to change his old films,and his contempt for the lord of the rings fans.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2006, 03:39:17 PM »
well.. seriously... we remix music so why not movies? Movie editing has been around longer than audio editing. Seems silly that we wouldn't look positively upon this like we do for music. GRANTED... we don't lock up the original like Lucas DID and we shouldn't. There isn't anything realy "wrong" with the special ed version of the orig trilogy other than han not shooting first and the musical numbers in RotJ.
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2006, 04:06:04 PM »
Quote from: redsavior on October 19, 2006, 03:39:17 PM
GRANTED... we don't lock up the original like Lucas DID and we shouldn't. There isn't anything realy "wrong" with the special ed version of the orig trilogy other than han not shooting first and the musical numbers in RotJ.

I think that was what all the outrage was for. I think fans generally interpreted it as "I don't care about your childhood memories. I'm going to change it anyway."

FYI: the original is on DVD now:

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Trilogy-Collectible-Widescreen/dp/B000IJ6QTC/ref=sr_11_1/104-5644417-6579924?ie=UTF8
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2006, 09:57:13 PM »
Another good critique by Mr. Chris Arndt:

Why I Like the Clone Wars Cartoons and Want More
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2006, 10:21:05 PM »
I liked the Star Wars movies and the Lord of the Rings, both had good storylines and production.  Yeah, I would of done some things different in the first three SW movies, but hey if was still good.  He said it himself he waited for the first three cause the technology wasnt out yet.  Which brings another thing, Lucas and his team invented some major technologies in the audio/video world, so hes got a major contribution to the Audio/Video world.
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2006, 05:59:06 AM »
Bringing Jar Jar to life has to be one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time.

Forget Hitchcock, Scorsese, Coppola... "Mesa Jar Jar Binks!"

Heh.
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2006, 09:12:00 PM »
Quote from: joncarlson on October 20, 2006, 05:59:06 AM
Bringing Jar Jar to life has to be one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time.

Forget Hitchcock, Scorsese, Coppola... "Mesa Jar Jar Binks!"

Heh.

Don't forget Jim Henson and his scale special fx and archaic hand-puppets.
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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2006, 04:32:39 PM »
Archaic??? Hardly. They still rock the film world today. Just look at Hitchhiker's Guide and Farscape.
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