Disney buying Lucasfilm

[Ingmar]

I would have no problem with Spielberg doing it myself yeah.

[Trippy]

Spielberg said no.

[Samwise]

I can't really imagine a well-established director wanting to do a Star Wars movie with the stench of the prequels still clinging to the brand.  The odds of being The Guy That Saved Star Wars are low; the odds of being The Last Guy To Fuck Star Wars's Corpse are high.

[Samprimary]

Dude, I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if everyone else was too afraid to. I'd be like "The fuck I know about directing, anyway, but like I can do worse than mr. A Camera, B Camera, Sitting on a Couch, Sitting and Talking, ..

[eldaec]

I can't really imagine a well-established director wanting to do a Star Wars movie with the stench of the prequels still clinging to the brand.  The odds of being The Guy That Saved Star Wars are low; the odds of being The Last Guy To Fuck Star Wars's Corpse are high.

You could have said same about batman. Or about the screenwriter position. Or about Harrison Ford.

They won't have a hard time finding an established director. People like doing big projects.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Spielberg simply won't do it out of respect for his friend, nothing odd about that.  I'm sure there's a line from hollywood to somewhere in Kentucky of directors wanting a piece of this.

[Furiously]

Kevin Smith is the logical choice.

[tazelbain]

Kenneth Branagh.  The spacespeare stuff was the best part of Thor and would mesh well with Star Wars.

[Merusk]

Kevin Smith is the logical choice.

I love Kevin's films for what they are, but thankfully he's retired from directing so this won't be a possibility.

[Fabricated]

Kevin fell off big time basically the instant he discovered weed, which believe it or not was pretty late in his life relative to how old he is now.

He (and Joe Rogan) pretty much have smoked themselves retarded over the last 10 years or so and it honestly kinda shows.

[Ironwood]

Kenneth Branagh.  The spacespeare stuff was the best part of Thor and would mesh well with Star Wars.

Oddly, yeah.

[Tebonas]

Kevin fell off big time basically the instant he discovered weed, which believe it or not was pretty late in his life relative to how old he is now.

He (and Joe Rogan) pretty much have smoked themselves retarded over the last 10 years or so and it honestly kinda shows.

Which (for bonus points) can be experienced live in his podcast (Smodcast). You really can hear the fun and talent drain out of him while his sanity slips from episode to episode until you can't bear it any longer. This should really be mandatory hearing for drug awareness classes.

[Fabricated]

Kevin fell off big time basically the instant he discovered weed, which believe it or not was pretty late in his life relative to how old he is now.

He (and Joe Rogan) pretty much have smoked themselves retarded over the last 10 years or so and it honestly kinda shows.

Which (for bonus points) can be experienced live in his podcast (Smodcast). You really can hear the fun and talent drain out of him while his sanity slips from episode to episode until you can't bear it any longer. This should really be mandatory hearing for drug awareness classes.

Yeah, pretty much. It starts with Kevin and Co. snarking and bullshitting and it's genuinely funny. Now it's literally half-there pot talk and unironic personal endorsements for Fleshlight.

[Rishathra]

He also spends half the podcast bragging about how he's MORE creative and productive since he started smoking weed.

[UnSub]

Which a lot of other hardcore pot smokers take to heart. And ignore that all of his best work was before he started getting stoned all the time.

Is he still married? I remember one interview where he was saying how his wife was bemused that he was stoned all time, and then thinking, "Is that her view, or your view?".

[HaemishM]

I would have no problem with Spielberg doing it myself yeah.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Please to keep Spielberg the fuck away from anything I give two shits about these days. He's becoming a literal parody of himself and has Lucas's "I can do no wrong" arrogance when it comes to his own work.

As for Kevin Smith, I think Red State was pretty goddamn awesome as his next-to-last directorial outing, and Cop Out showed he could do action a lot better than he thought (yes, the script was utter shit but he didn't write it). I can't say the pot smoking has helped or hurt him since I don't follow podcasts. I'd love to see him WRITE (or at least co-write) the Star Wars movies with someone else to un-Smith his dialog (because his dialog wouldn't fit the story) but not direct.

[Fabricated]

Smith dialogue is the only thing he does well really; not much else. He makes characters that are fun to listen to banter...but it's pretty specific types of banter- sex, pop culture, etc.

I mean, you have seen his Batman comic right?

Post Jedi Star Wars as directed by Kevin Smith would I fucking guarantee, have a scene where Luke is sitting around drinking or smoking space weed, bitching at Obiwan for not letting him know Leia was his sister. Then Obiwan would ask Luke if he would've hit it anyway, then Luke would admit "yeah" and they'd laugh. And Chewie/Han gay jokes everywhere, probably with a "spoon for warmth" anecdote about the time the Falcon's Life Support partially failed and the temperature controls turned off.

[Furiously]

And it would still be better than 1-3...

[HaemishM]

And it would still be better than 1-3...

This.

[WayAbvPar]

I was always a huge KS fan. Listened to about 5 podcasts before I gave up. He is a fucking moron now. He is either A) always high, B) suffering from some sort of pot-induced permanent damage, or C) all of the above. It is really a pity- he was a genuinely funny and interesting cat back in the day.

[Pennilenko]

Kevin Smith hasn't changed. He is the dude now that he always was. The difference is the amount of light available to inspect him with.

[WayAbvPar]

I disagree. Go watch/listen to the first A Night With Kevin Smith- he talks to a college crowd for 4 hours telling stories, answering questions, etc. It is really really funny and interesting. Then go and listen to a couple of his recent podcasts. His energy level, his recall, his ability to string together a coherent thought- all gone.

[HaemishM]

I disagree. Go watch/listen to the first A Night With Kevin Smith- he talks to a college crowd for 4 hours telling stories, answering questions, etc. It is really really funny and interesting. Then go and listen to a couple of his recent podcasts. His energy level, his recall, his ability to string together a coherent thought- all gone.

Holy shit, I just tried to listen to one of those smodcasts. What the fuck, dude?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Kevin smith is still there, jsut under a haze of pot. it really is hard to listen to him now, its not permanent though because I know of a lot of weed smokers that clear up once they quit, they never realize how deep underwater they were until they come out.

[Selby]

Holy shit, I just tried to listen to one of those smodcasts. What the fuck, dude?

Weed is a hell of a drug?  It's quite sad to listen now, as the "A Night With Kevin Smith" series shows he was able to be quit entertaining and now... well he's just another stoner sitting around giggling at his own bad jokes and inner thoughts that no one else but other stoners can hear or care about.

[Chimpy]

Keeping with the Kevin Smith derail: I was not aware that he has turned into a huge stoner, but knowing all of the stuff he did over the years to help Mewes get his life back in order after smoking/snorting/shooting it all away it seems really odd that he would have gone down that road.

[Samwise]

Mewes was on heroin.  I dunno if it's strictly comparable.

Marijuana is not a drug.

[Sheepherder]

He is either A) always high, B) suffering from some sort of pot-induced permanent damage, or C) all of the above.

The latest scientific data (2012) is that pot is only capable of inflicting measurable damage on an adolescent brain.  Really, I think he just likes getting high a lot, combined with the ridiculously long half-life of cannabis.

[SurfD]

With all the shit disney has their tenticles on now, I just have to ask: What crazy, fun worlds could we possibly see in the next Kingdom Hearts Game?  Sora meets the Avengers?  Gummie Block Xwing strafing runs on the Deathstar?

[UnSub]

With all the shit disney has their tenticles on now, I just have to ask: What crazy, fun worlds could we possibly see in the next Kingdom Hearts Game?  Sora meets the Avengers?  Gummie Block Xwing strafing runs on the Deathstar?

Well...

[Shannow]

win!

Reach for the sky? (cept he shot first..:P)

[Sky]

Marijuana certainly doesn't hurt creativity. I've known way too many musicians and artists who create amazing stuff while high. And from personal experience I can play the hell out of the guitar while stoned, I'll sit and play for three hours straight no problem...but that's more about my adhd and zero attention span. Now I just play some written classical stuff, being straight sucks :) I haven't smoked in years and my creative output took a nose-dive. Less crap but way less gold, too. I might play for a half hour instead of all day.

That said.

Marijuana is not conducive to conversations that non-stoned people have to listen to.

[Lantyssa]

It's entirely possible it's like ritalin in that it helps some people while hindering others.  Brain chemistry is complicated.

[Ingmar]

I've known a lot of musicians who think they sound great stoned. For a couple of them it's even true.

[UnSub]

To nerd this conversation up: when I used to p'n'p RPG, my group had to implement a no-mull rule because two or three guys used to get progressively more stoned and just couldn't follow what was going on. Even worse were the days when the GM would get stoned.