Lets talk about Lucas

[Azazel]

Also, I liked the prequels, so fuck you hoes.  Go suck the dick of whatever the latest "trendy to say you like on the web but probably about to be cancelled" sci-fi TV show is.  There's one of those like every two years.

Having said that, I can't get excited about these piles of little Star Wars spinoff projects.  I saw Vader go into the suit, and baby Luke get dropped off at the farm.  Star Wars is over.

The Prequels contained approximately 1 and 1/3 movies worth of good, and about 1 2/3 movies worth of suck. I've watched about a third to a half of the Clone Wars animated show, and I was severely disappointed and confused as to why everyone seems to think it's so great. It was pretty much the dictionary definition of mediocre to me.

Two new telemovies? Wasn't there supposed to be a 99-episode live-action series? A series is something that I could actually see working, in the same way that Star Trek did.


As for Spider-man 3. I haven't seen it, but I imagine of ILM did the fx, he'd be gobbing it off as much as any other film ILM worked on. Lack of story? Has he seen TPM?

[WindupAtheist]

You really are myopic sometimes.  Everyone knows Harrison Ford is getting very old.  There will be very little push back if they go ahead with another movie with some young guy and bill it as an Indy prequel.  As I posted above no one even blinked an eye at the quite successful Young Indiana Jones from the 90's.  Heck, I watched the show and had 0 problem accepting the actor in his role.

Young Indy was "Young Indy the TV show" and not an Indiana Jones movie.  The expectations and requirements were different.  What's more, it needed to attract a much smaller audience than a movie would.

If your syndicated television show has five million loyal viewers, it's fairly successful.  If your high-budget movie sells five million tickets on opening weekend, it grosses forty million dollars, finishes around a hundred, and is written off as a failure after doing less than half of what Raiders did all the way back in 1981.

[Paelos]

Not to mention the bashing it would get by the nostalgic nerds and closet nerds everywhere.

[Murgos]

Young Indy was "Young Indy the TV show" and not an Indiana Jones movie. 

Your point is, "No one will accept anyone other than Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones."

You are obviously, patently, wrong because it already happened!

[Ironwood]

As I indicated, statements like that are always wrong, since it only takes one pedant like me to say :  "I don't give a flying fuck who plays Indy as long as the Movie is good.  Fuck me, Get that Bloke off Stargate to do it and I'd be happy."

But WUA never thinks before writing;  he expects everyone to follow his own mindset, which is pretty clearly warped.

[stray]

i'm such a sucker for that kind of treasure hunter adventure storytelling, that I'd happily accept an Indy series.

I wouldn't really care if it was Indy or not though (just so long as it wasn't B material, like that dumb Tia Carrere series from awhile back).

[Ironwood]

Relic Hunter sucked balls.

Worse, given the female talent in the show, it didn't suck MY balls.

:(

[Sky]

Mr. Roper wants to kick WUA's ass.

[tazelbain]

I've watched about a third to a half of the Clone Wars animated show, and I was severely disappointed and confused as to why everyone seems to think it's so great. It was pretty much the dictionary definition of mediocre to me.

You probably didn't like Samurai Jack either, Commie bastard.

EDIT:yikes! I can't type for shit.

[WindupAtheist]

Young Indy was "Young Indy the TV show" and not an Indiana Jones movie. 

Your point is, "No one will accept anyone other than Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones."

You are obviously, patently, wrong because it already happened!

The general public won't accept anyone else as an adult Indy enough to make a successful movie, you pedantic fuck.  The fact that years ago they cast a teenager to play teenage Indy instead of Harrison Ford means what?  It's moderate success means what?

Fuck all.  Syndicated television means shit.  An audience of four or five million viewers puts you in the top ten syndicated ratings today.  If you produce a big-budget movie and it finds an audience that small, you're fired.  You might as well bring up how popular your Indiana Jones puppet show was with your kids, for all it matters.

"If they make an Indy movie with no Ford, I predict failure!"
"Well fifteen years ago a number of television viewers, insignificant by movie standards, accepted a younger man playing a younger Indy that would have been preposterous for Ford to play anyway!"

Does that give me any reason to change my prediction of failure?  No?  So who gives a shit?

[Ironwood]

Keep on Trucking.

[Sky]

So who gives a shit?

You, apparently.

[Furiously]

Get that Bloke off Stargate to do it and I'd be happy."

Hmmmm. I dunno. Maybe the other guy....

[WayAbvPar]

You might as well bring up how popular your Indiana Jones puppet show was with your kids, for all it matters.

This is a youtube begging to be made.

WUA, I think you are giving the American public FAR too much credit. They are morons. Most of them likely wouldn't even notice it was a different actor unless Simon Cowell bitched about it.

[Yegolev]

Totally Awesome Actors to Play Indiana Jones

James Gandolfini
Kevin Klein
Brad Pitt
Benicio Del Toro
Hugh Jackman
John C. Reilly
Michael York
Bruce Campbell
Matt Frewer
Albert Brooks
Matthew Broderick

A couple of those are serious.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Bruce Campbell as Indy?

*Congratulations you win the thread*

[Paelos]

Bruce Campbell would be an awesome Indy in the most ridiculous sense.

[Yegolev]

With Kathy Najimy as Short Round.

[Ironwood]

WUA, I think you are giving the American public FAR too much credit. They are morons. Most of them likely wouldn't even notice it was a different actor unless Simon Cowell bitched about it.

Yeah, there are fucking morons on these boards who don't know who Malcolm McDowell is.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

Yes who can forget his best work as Alex de Large.

Well he was in "Tank Girl" too, guess he needed a paycheck 

[stray]

Hey, Tank Girl/Lori Petty was kind of cute. The comic artist wasn't bad either (same guy who did the Gorillaz stuff). Also, Ice-T played a mutant Kangaroo.


Kind of hard to sit through it though, I'll agree. But it actually did a good job at recreating the comic world, unlike many films of the time. I put it in the same category as Judge Dredd.

[Big Gulp]

Don't get your panties in a bunch WUA, I still have plenty of love for the prequals (sans JarJar), but to suggest that they were not exceptionally silly in spots is just ludicrous.

Has everyone gone batshit crazy?!?  The world would be a far, far better place if those pieces of shit had never been made.

[HaemishM]

Yes who can forget his best work as Alex de Large.

Well he was in "Tank Girl" too, guess he needed a paycheck 

Hey, Tank Girl gave us the unbeliveable hotness of Naomi Watts with dark hair. Do not diss the Tank Girl.

[Riggswolfe]

Yes who can forget his best work as Alex de Large.

Well he was in "Tank Girl" too, guess he needed a paycheck 

Hey, Tank Girl gave us the unbeliveable hotness of Naomi Watts with dark hair. Do not diss the Tank Girl.

*blinks* was she the pilot chick? I may have to go back and watch it now...

[HaemishM]

She was Jet Girl, and a damn site hotter as a raven haired beauty than a blonde. And she's hot as a blonde.

[DraconianOne]

Yeah, there are fucking morons on these boards who don't know who Malcolm McDowell is.

Manager of the Sex Pistols wasn't he? 

[DraconianOne]

The comic artist wasn't bad either (same guy who did the Gorillaz stuff). Also, Ice-T played a mutant Kangaroo.

I remember reading an interview with Jamie Hewlett (the artist) at about the time the film was released when he was talking about the concept of Tank Girl with the studio.  Apparently they couldn't get their heads around why Tank Girl had a kangaroo as a boyfriend so asked Hewlett what his reasoning was.  His response was something like "Dunno.  We were drunk at the time and it seemed like a good idea."

I put it in the same category as Judge Dredd.

That'll be the "put it in a deep deep pit, pour gasoline on it, set it on fire, bury it in concrete, build a towerblock on it" category then.

[Miasma]

Connery is out.

[Der Helm]

Connery is out.

I just now noticed that Connery retired. And the "The league of extraordinary gentlemen" was his last movie. How sad. 

[schild]

Huh.

That's worse than him dying. (Retiring that is).

[Nonentity]

Huh.

That's worse than him dying. (Retiring that is).

Totally - I didn't even know that.

How depressing.

[DraconianOne]

Is it me or does Connery actually look years younger than Ford in the photo on that article?

[lesion]

Sean Connery doesn't really exist, he's just projecting from Zeist

[Murgos]

Sean Connery doesn't really exist, he's just projecting from Zeist

Aren't you supposed to be Legion?  Being lesions is kind of icky.

[Miasma]

I thought it was an avatar tie in.