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Merusk
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This does not displease me. As Schild says at least he makes watchable films.
I can only hope he destroys much more of the EU with his movie than the Prequels did. I'd giggle so hard.
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Yegolev
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I'd be fine with a scene where there is a literal explosion of crappy canon, maybe shooting blasters in a store with Ep 1-3 discs on the shelves.
Hell, the LEGO mini-movies were already kicking Lucas. One scene, LEGO Han shoots a bad guy as he is being charged, and someone in the back yells "Oh my goodness, Han shot first!" Han: "Well of course I shot first, he was coming right at me!"
I want more of that.
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HaemishM
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This does not displease me. As Schild says at least he makes watchable films. This. It could have been a LOT fucking worse. I mean, shit, Lucas could have directed it. |
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Morat20
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This does not displease me. As Schild says at least he makes watchable films.
I can only hope he destroys much more of the EU with his movie than the Prequels did. I'd giggle so hard.
Look, compared to the shit that Star Trek movies, in general, were the man is a master. If he can flip the bird at the general trend in Star Trek movies (half decent, half utter shit, and like two good ones out of 10) maybe he can do something about the Jar-Jarization of Star Wars. |
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Venkman
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Exactly.
I want entertainment that is good on a scale reserved for summer blockbuster fap. I don't need no December awards movie quality. But I also don't want Cannonball Run 2 want-my-90-minutes-back-either. And unless he's asleep or high during production, anything he does will be better than any of the prequels.
Don't care about the EU much either as long as he doesn't midichlorian retcon it.
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Nayr
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I'm worried about what Disney will do to Star Wars.
The guy they have writing it, the highlight of his career apparently is writing Toy Story 3, a little kids movie. Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
Disney also oozes censorship, you really think they'll show people being hacked to pieces by laser swords like the previous films? Look at The Avengers. Good movie, yes, but compared to past Marvel movies, it was very toned down.
Not to mention they'll probably ignore the extended universe canon and flood it with cameos of old characters.
If Disney wants to do anything good for Star Wars, they should remake the original trilogy identically to the former, except with modern graphics and cast(I've always thought Zac Efron looked a lot like a young Mark Hamil.)
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Malakili
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If Disney wants to do anything good for Star Wars, they should remake the original trilogy identically to the former, except with modern graphics and cast(I've always thought Zac Efron looked a lot like a young Mark Hamil.)
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HaemishM
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If Disney wants to do anything good for Star Wars, they should remake the original trilogy identically to the former, except with modern graphics and cast(I've always thought Zac Efron looked a lot like a young Mark Hamil.)
Do not want. |
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Yegolev
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I'm worried about what Disney will do to Star Wars.
 If Disney wants to do anything good for Star Wars, they should remake the original trilogy identically to the former, except with modern graphics and cast(I've always thought Zac Efron looked a lot like a young Mark Hamil.)
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Abagadro
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Toy Story 3 is not just some "kids movie." It actually has a lot going for it, including a fair amount of depth and pathos. The moment when they all think they are going to get incinerated is actually pretty powerful.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Toy Story 3 is not just some "kids movie." It actually has a lot going for it, including a fair amount of depth and pathos. The moment when they all think they are going to get incinerated is actually pretty powerful.
Can't be said enough. Seriously if you wanna shit on kids movie writers fine but Toy Story 3 was in it's own league. |
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Nevermore
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Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
I don't want anyone who's been in any way associated with the EU anywhere near the new movies. |
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Ingmar
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Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
I missed this line. Karpyshyn is an absolutely awful author. He can write for games, but his novels are terrible terrible terrible. |
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Cyrrex
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Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
I missed this line. Karpyshyn is an absolutely awful author. He can write for games, but his novels are terrible terrible terrible. I personally rather liked the Darth Bane stuff, and I know I'm not the only one. But assuming I did agree with you, maybe being able to write for games makes him even better suited for writing movies anyway? I guess we'll never know. I'm happy with the JJA choice. He made the Star Trek stuff good again, rather unexpectedly. I think he'll do the same here. |
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Ironwood
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Hmmm. Could be good. Can't be worse than the prequels. Really, really can't.
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tgr
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Hmmm. Could be good. Can't be worse than the prequels. Really, really can't. Don't make it into a challenge, he could make it just as bad as the prequels, and add lensflare. |
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Ironwood
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The prequels were super double bad due to expectation.
This time, there is none. Indeed, it's crashingly into the negative.
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eldaec
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Anyone shitting on arndt for toy story or sunshine can fuck right off.
He is a properly disciplined writer who isn't likely to turn in 3 hours of flabby EU bullshit and will hopefully complement and help limit JJA's fan service instincts.
Arndt is the guy giving me expectations for this film.
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eldaec
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And anyone thinking an EU author should be involved in any way should know they have a bad opinion and should feel bad.
Drew fucking Karpyshyn. Jesus fucking Christ on a stick.
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K9
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Still waiting for a confirmation of Muppets Star Wars
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tgr
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Still waiting for a confirmation of Muppets Star Wars
This must happen. |
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DraconianOne
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I'm worried about what Disney will do to Star Wars.
The guy they have writing it, the highlight of his career apparently is writing Toy Story 3, a little kids movie. Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
Disney also oozes censorship, you really think they'll show people being hacked to pieces by laser swords like the previous films? Look at The Avengers. Good movie, yes, but compared to past Marvel movies, it was very toned down.
Not to mention they'll probably ignore the extended universe canon and flood it with cameos of old characters.
If Disney wants to do anything good for Star Wars, they should remake the original trilogy identically to the former, except with modern graphics and cast(I've always thought Zac Efron looked a lot like a young Mark Hamil.)
The highlight of Arndt's career was probably winning an Oscar, BAFTA and various other awards for his first produced feature length screenplay (Little Miss Sunshine) followed closely by getting a truck load of nominations for his second feature length screenplay (Toy Story 3). The Little Miss Sunshine screenplay in particular is one of my favourite screenoplays (and the movie was good too) - it is structurally great and the storytelling is superb. As for Toy Story 3 being a kids movie - what do you think Star Wars was? tl;dr - go sit on the naughty step and think about what you said. As for Abrams, I liked Star Trek and MI3. Wasn't sold on Super 8 so much but more because of what it was trying to be rather than what it actually was. The direction was fine. Also, on recent form, where Abrams leads, Simon Pegg is likely to follow and that is not a bad thing either.  |
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DraconianOne
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Still waiting for a confirmation of Muppets Star Wars
This must happen. . And I'm sure folks of a certain age remember it from first time around. |
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tgr
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Not quite what I had in mind, sadly.
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Margalis
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The guy they have writing it, the highlight of his career apparently is writing Toy Story 3, a little kids movie. Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
I'm going to agree that Toy Story 3 is a kids movie, having never seen it, based on the fact that all Pixar movies are kids movies. People like to claim that Pixar movies have something for adults boredom, but I suspect watching the movies with their kids puts them in a brain-mush state. That said if you can write a good kids movie you are still a good writer and it doesn't mean everything you write is going to be a kids movie. It could mean you are only good at that, but it could also mean you have fundamental writing skills and are versatile. Of course the new Star Wars film is going to be garbage so it's all irrelevant anyway. |
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Fabricated
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A reliable but boring choice, which is exactly what everyone expected. Personally I would have liked some new up-and-comer to have gotten it to do something potentially new and cool rather than a slick "let's save the franchise" modernization, but well if the screenplay is good JJ will make something watchable out of it.
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eldaec
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All the Toy Stories are family movies. They are perfectly serviceable adventure stories without over-reliance on violence and swearing.
They are no more exclusively for kids than Indiana Jones or Spiderman. Or Star Wars.
But as you say, the key point is that they are good movies.
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Shannow
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The guy they have writing it, the highlight of his career apparently is writing Toy Story 3, a little kids movie. Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
I'm going to agree that Toy Story 3 is a kids movie, having never seen it, based on the fact that all Pixar movies are kids movies. People like to claim that Pixar movies have something for adults boredom, but I suspect watching the movies with their kids puts them in a brain-mush state.  This quote is so misguided I'm wondering if it's a troll. Considering I've seen 60 year old men cry at the end of Toy Story 3 (Christ it still makes me tear up) they are Definately not just kids movie. See finding nemo, the incredibles and ratatouille. |
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I kinda hated the Incredibles, but Pixar does good movies for kids and the parent set.
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I kinda hated the Incredibles, but Pixar does good movies for kids and the parent set.
Yeah, I would have preferred anyone who was directly involved with my favourite Pixar movies: The Incredibles (which was a bit boring halfway through, yeah), Ratatouille (best one, IMO), Wall-E and Finding Nemo  |
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The guy they have writing it, the highlight of his career apparently is writing Toy Story 3, a little kids movie. Drew Karpyshyn would have been a better pick, writing Star Wars novels made him a bestseller.
Toy Story 3 is one of the best written movies out there, and Karpyshyn is a hack. |
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Shannow
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I kinda hated the Incredibles, but Pixar does good movies for kids and the parent set.
Yeah, I would have preferred anyone who was directly involved with my favourite Pixar movies: The Incredibles (which was a bit boring halfway through, yeah), Ratatouille (best one, IMO), Wall-E and Finding Nemo They let Andrew Stanton do live action sci fi.....and we got John Carter of Mars... |
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