Comments on: Editor’s Desk: Seeing A New Star Wars Movie Today And I’m Not Excited

By: hecticstairs

hecticstairs — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:46:16 +0000

rawrodrigo you’re hating on the person, not the product. A product that clearly has lost the love. The edge. The willingness to be something beyond a money making machine. Which is fine. That just means that it sucks. Yes that’s rather obtuse of me, but that’s the point.

If everyone was like me then we’d have a much better star wars franchise. There would be some visionary director and maybe a reboot bc it’s fashionable (gasp!) and wow look at Nolan’s batman and just think of the potential. No, not nolanwars.

And it is a tv show. Not a movie.

Like everyone else, I still have my hopes up for the live action series.

Just like you, your rawness ;)

By: kai

kai — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:05:17 +0000

Why? It’s because star wars has no more interesting story line to transmit to the audience. We saw in the movies how Darth Vader grew up, gets corrupted and then dies. Now there is nothing more to expect from that. The plot line is perfect and there is nothing to add to it.
Lucas has already put an end to that story. We all know how it all starts, how it develops and how it ends. A movie that excite the audience would be a one which happens after episode VI, where we could see new star wars, new characters with new twists and problems to solve. Lucas can create new movies and “overlap” them onto those 6 episodes, but it will all be like a “supplement” = nothing-to-hype-for.

I don’t expect that another revolutionary star wars film will be created…

By: Mikey M

Mikey M — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:01:32 +0000

The animation looks horrible and the story looks like yet another one of Lucas’s bomb fests.
Hopefully people will stay away but I won’t count on it.
You still got the people who thought the prequels were good…and they weren’t.

By: Hector D

Hector D — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:29 +0000

Like John i saw episode 4 as a small child and i was completely captivated by the whole star wars mythos. Hell i even know Vader’s theme by heart. That being said, contrary to popular opinion about the prequel movies sucking…..i happen to love them(everything except Jar-Jar..he was annoying). i just love the entire star wars universe. Big fan of the graphic novels. However, i do believe if they were going to do a flick set during the Clone Wars they could have focused on other Jedi instead Obi-Wan and Anakin. So i will see The Clone Wars but maybe next time(if there is a next time) i’d like to see a flick about Han and Leia’s twins Jacin and Jaina. Their story is awesome.

By: mlp1234

mlp1234 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:13:13 +0000

Lucas lost the recipe after E3. It has been all icing and no cake since then.

George’s Original Recipe:

1. ICONIC Character’s & Dialog (Han Solo etc…)
2. Tight action sequences
3. Simple, myth-like storyline (no politics!)
4. DIRTY & BUSTED Space Ships (Falcon etc…)

Firefly had most of this right in recent memory…

By: Supernetuser

Supernetuser — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:18:46 +0000

I think many Star Wars fans are in this state of flux with the whole series anyway. Or George Lucas can come up with more material that’s post-prequel, I.e. episodes 7,8,9, or he just gives up altogether. The books that I’ve read, which have been many including original series novelizations of the movies, were very detailed, and very thick. Not to mention that the books from someone who comes from a literature background/creative writing background, are very intense. Let me tell you though, action is hard to put down on paper. Its much easier to animate or put into physical movements. Writing action can be a real pain in fact, and its very hard to do right because someone will always nitpick. All in all though if someone does action right, you just keep right on reading the whole story. Emotional tension + action and you have a good mix.

By: TEK

TEK — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0000

I am excited about Clone Wars just because it brings the Expanded Universe to screen. The EU is virtually endless — that’s what I like about it, you can never exhaust the EU. So I hope Clone Wars does well and I can look forward to seeing Thrawn, Dark Nest, etc., for the rest of my life. But if it flops you’ll never see Thrawn or New Jedi Order.

I wouldn’t even compare Clone Wars to Episodes I-VI. It’s Expanded Universe. I don’t think Lucas could gateway into the Expanded Universe on film with unfamiliar characters to the mass audience.

Anyway, to answer your question, maybe you’re not excited because you’re thinking in terms of Ep. I-VI, rather than a visual gateway into EU.

By: Orren Jensen

Orren Jensen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:26:25 +0000

When I say I would like to see it as a live action movie, I really mean I would be willing to settle for a well made TV mini-series (a non cheesy TV made movie). Especially since most of the people and events I mentioned happens in the extended universe (non-canon) material. The only people from the list above that is even half way close to being canon is Darth Bane (Dessel) and Darth Ruin (Phanius) for being almost apart of the back story in the prequels ( the part of George Lucas notes) and Darth Plagueis for getting a honorable mention from Darth Sidious (Palpatine) in Esp III. The reasoning behind mentioning the other people and events from the extended universe is I would like to see: cool and ruthless Sith lords in power, a Wookie Jedi, and bunches and bunches of Jedi and Sith fighting one another in a war. If “non-canon” stuff gets made I rather have it as a mini-series than a movie release in theaters. I don’t know why clone wars was…it more or less a pilot episode premiering on the big screen.

By: BobaFett

BobaFett — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:12 +0000

I read SHadow of the Empire…Good book. Xizor was a good villain, BUT…

Introducing Black Sun now would confuse a lot of people.

I would like to see a live action series with Nal Hutta the focus with Han and Chewie showing up once in a while? Or at least mentioned in the background…This would take place in the same time period as the proposed one, but keep better continuity as well as allowing ANY stories to be done.

By: Orren Jensen

Orren Jensen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:25 +0000

It’s the original 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9 idea I would like to see.

I would like to see the following come to life in a live action movie:

SITH:Exar Kun, Xanatos, Darth Bane (Dessel), Darth Plagueis, Darth Revan, Darth Nihilus, Darth Ruin (Phanius)

JEDI: Tyvokka, many more old republic jedi

WARS: Great Hyperspace War, Great Sith War, Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, Stark Hyperspace War

By: BobaFett

BobaFett — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:14:40 +0000

HappyBob >>> the Live Action series has also been confirmed to be in between the 3rd and 4th movies…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_live-action_TV_series

Which is EXACTLY the problem…My other problem with GL is he has established canon and still wants to micromanage every aspect of the universe.

Does anyone NOT want to see Thrawn on the Big Screen?

The Thrawn trilogy itself would’ve EASILY been better than TPM, AOTC, and ROTS.

My opinion of GL since 1998: is summed up best by the quote:(You’ve heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons…)

Lastly, when we heard Luke talk about the Clone Wars in ANH, didn’t most of us think about cloned heroes and Jedi? Not a bunch of Jango Fetts and droids…

By: Orren Jensen

Orren Jensen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:48 +0000

From what I can recollect and have been lead to believe: George Lucas wrote all 9 episodes back in th 70’s wanting to releasing them 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9. To my understanding he has two basic story lines: Anakin’s and Luke’s. Anakin and Luke’s story lines cross paths in 4,5,6 so start there. Then jump back and tell the back story of Anakin. Then jump to the future and tell what happens after the fall of the Epmire. This was the original plan but Lucas is getting old and doesn’t want to pass the torch. So what dose he do? Expands the universe by fill in the gap between 2 and 3 saying the Clone War lasted for so long and there are many more adventure left to be told…hints the spin off to TV.