New Star Wars films? set long after ROTJ.
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Solo4114
Master Member
Alright, let me rephrase.
I can't muster the excitement beyond "Meh" for any new product. That or a general rolling of the eyes and a "Pass, thanks." If anything, I'm more just disappointed that the potential of the franchise keeps getting wasted on crap product. I know what Star Wars can offer, and it's way more entertaining than what it DOES offer these days.
I also distinguish between Star-Wars-That-Was and Star Wars today. The franchise today holds very little interest for me, and has actually diminished my enjoyment of the older stuff. The older stuff absolutely mattered to me, but that passion is long gone. I can talk about it plenty, but it's just talking. But while I've moved on in the sense of looking for my enjoyment elsewhere, there's definitely still a feeling of consistently wasted potential with what gets made these days.
The jilted lover thing is somewhat accurate, but not exactly the way you put it. It's more like, you loved someone once, enjoyed a good long run with them, and then grew apart. You tried to make yourself enjoy the new direction, but after much frustration, anger, and bitterness, you realized it just wasn't working anymore. So you went your separate ways. The anger is gone now, as is much of the love, but you still have bittersweet memories of the good times.
So, yeah, you're right. It's not that I don't care. It's just that I'm not excited, enthusiastic, or positive about the new stuff they announce. I typically give it a look, see that it's still focused on the same uninteresting stuff as before, and skip it.
For me, Star Wars isn't Star Wars without Darth Vader and the characters in the original trilogy.
Heck, I'd be happy with a live action television series set between ROTS and ANH, chronicling the rise of the Empire and highlighting Vader and the Jedi purge.
Vader made Star Wars. I would wager a lifetime of salary that if Vader was not the Vader (armor and voice) we came to love in the OT, Star Wars would not have been the success that it was.
Heck, I'd be happy with a live action television series set between ROTS and ANH, chronicling the rise of the Empire and highlighting Vader and the Jedi purge.
Vader made Star Wars. I would wager a lifetime of salary that if Vader was not the Vader (armor and voice) we came to love in the OT, Star Wars would not have been the success that it was.
GeektressGalore
Sr Member
Hey look! More chances for Lucas to **** on all of the Star Wars fans!
Dont' get me wrong. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what happens to everyone after ROTJ, but after seeing what he did to the prequels, I can't help but also dread the quality.
I heard Lucas was waiting for his son to be old enough to play Luke (a meaningless task, considering Mark Hammill is going to be the right age, but y'know, what the hell?) and so he rushed through the prequel, but that's no excuse.
As for re-releasing the prequel in 3D, that's just going to lose money. OTC in 3D would be amazing and I'd pay money to see that, but no self-respecting Star Wars fan would EVER willingly see the prequels again. It was bad enough the first time. Seriously. Jar jar Binks. In 3D. Someone pass me a bucket.
Personally, I'd love to see the next trilogy, but I'm not sure what to expect, especially because I know LucasFilm won't release many good details about the new movies.
What does everyone else think?
Dont' get me wrong. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what happens to everyone after ROTJ, but after seeing what he did to the prequels, I can't help but also dread the quality.
I heard Lucas was waiting for his son to be old enough to play Luke (a meaningless task, considering Mark Hammill is going to be the right age, but y'know, what the hell?) and so he rushed through the prequel, but that's no excuse.
As for re-releasing the prequel in 3D, that's just going to lose money. OTC in 3D would be amazing and I'd pay money to see that, but no self-respecting Star Wars fan would EVER willingly see the prequels again. It was bad enough the first time. Seriously. Jar jar Binks. In 3D. Someone pass me a bucket.
Personally, I'd love to see the next trilogy, but I'm not sure what to expect, especially because I know LucasFilm won't release many good details about the new movies.
What does everyone else think?
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Back on Yavin, Luke has established a new Jedi Academy. He has gone far and wide to find those with a high mideclorian (sp?) count. So far he has found two dozen kids who have been training in the Jedi arts. One special child is named Timmy! This kid has the highest mideclorian (again sp?) count that ever registered. He has learned to use his light saber as a mere extention of his hand, and can not be defeated. His only problem is that he has severe A.D.D. and has a propensity to wear lime green and rub soft furry things!
Meanwhile, Luke and Mara Jade have divorced and their slacker son, Barney would rather listen to his ipod all day than practice with his lightsaber. Though he does like to use the force push feature when his class mates get on his nerves, or the force levitation when the girls wear skirts!
Lea is in rehab and Han has traded the Millineum Falcon in for a corvet. Not a small type of ship, the actual car. He and Chewie spend the day riding around with the top down, though Chewie hates having to comb his upper body down after the ride!
C3PO had proclaimed his undying love for a service bot named I-wan-2B, but she is in love with R2 and thus a bitter "oil fued" has resulted.
Suddenly a great disturbance is felt in the force. Luke believes it to be the ressurection of Darth Vader's clone, or the Chicken Maul that was mentioned earlier. He sends Timmy to go investigate, however, Timmy sees a bumble bee and forgets why he was sent out and what he was supposed to look for. He therefore uses his lightsaber to slice bread. He thinks it's cool because it toasts it at the same time!
Luke sends Barney to look for Timmy. After five minutes, Barney gets bored and force grabs Han and Chewie out of the corvet and takes off on a joy ride in it.
Luke discoveres the disturbance in the force to be the spirits of Obi Wan and Qui Gon who have been 'butter cupping' each other in the afterlife. *
* Butter cupping is when you cap your hand over your butt, fart in it and throw it at the other person.
Carry on!
Darth Brass
Sr Member
I'd be totally happy if they used the original actors voices and used the CGI technique displayed in the Force Unleashed I/II cutscenes/trailers.
Mola Rob
Sr Member
By all the gods no more please. As it is we are at about half and half in terms of quality 3 good movies (yeah I know ROTJ had it problems but compared to the prequels it was a freaking masterpiece) and 3 terrible movies. Lets not tilt the scales any further into the negative.
Please note I absolutely no faith in Lucas to tilt the scales in a more positive direction.
Please note I absolutely no faith in Lucas to tilt the scales in a more positive direction.
Well, Golly, look at that, the final word.
This guy says it on the internet.
The controversy is over.
Organic Mechanic
Sr Member
You guys are funny.
Hey, everyone says TPM sucked, and AOTC sucked less, and ROTS sucked less then that, and the Clone Wars is pretty good........at least Star Wars is moving in the right direction right ?
If it's got a great story, interesting characters, and solid acting I'll be there. Of course if it has Jedi and lightsabers I'll probably watch it anyway.
If it's got a great story, interesting characters, and solid acting I'll be there. Of course if it has Jedi and lightsabers I'll probably watch it anyway.
Organic Mechanic
Sr Member
S'what I'm sayin'!
Yeah, the Prequels had some bad moments, but so did the OT. Anyone who didn't get a tingle up their spine when Vader drew that 1st mechanical breath in ROTS was never really a SW fan anyway. (My opinion, no malice, "This is NOT the geek your looking for." etc.)
I've been in the theatre for the original run of all 6 films (I have no recollection of going to IV & V, but I've been assured I was there.), and if* Mr. Lucas makes three more, I'll be there for those too.
*I don't believe it for a minute.
:lol That's me. :lol I loved the OT, and I actually liked most of the new films too, but I HATE the dark turn star wars fandom has taken.
I hate CGI, and I hate no CGI more then CGI cartoons, so I haven't watched anymore then the first episode of the CGI cartoon. But I was an avid reader of the books. I LOVED the books of the 90s, I made it through the "New jedi order series." (though I really didn't like them much ,and I hated the death of so many great characters.
) But with the last film, the new comics, and the new books, it is all so very dark. And I hate how much people like it that way. I hate listening folks telling me how they like this book, or comic, etc. that tells the tail of this sith loard, or that one. How they love it when these mediums Tell tales of children jedi being killed. How they love it when any good guy dies. I hate how the evil characters have become the fans favorites, and their heroes, and the real heroes, have become cannon fodder. It is an awful time to be an old school star wars fan. IMHO.That said, as much as I hate what the franchise has become, and as tired as I feel I am with the OT. I am realizing, that I will never truly escape the grasp star wars has on me.
Some part of me will always be a fan. I will not read the new books, or comics, I will not watch the cartoon, but I may give the live action show a chance, and I will go see the re-re-releases, and I would love to see new films set after ROTJ. (He did say in an interview in the 80s that he planned on making films long after ROTJ, and Mark said back then, that Lucas did say that he would like to make films set quite a ways in the future, with luke as as jedi master, training others.)I would love to see films with the old gang. Oh, yes they are ancient, and Gorge will probably make CGI models of them, and as sad as that makes me, I guess I would still go.
I really do HATE what star wars has become. I really do HATE what star wars fandom has become. And I really do want to be done with it. To be an X star wars fan, but I have come to except that they will probably never truly happen for me.
Darn you lucas, and your mind control. 
DL 44 Blaster
Sr Member
If he makes it...they will come.
I'd be in line with damn near everyone on this board.
I'd be in line with damn near everyone on this board.
Mola Rob
Sr Member
There will never be a final word when it comes to Star Wars as long as all of us opinionated dorks exist.
I would love to see a return of good quality Star Wars. I have seen all of the movies in the theater starting out with the original in 1977. I am a SW fan and always will be a SW fan but a bad movie is a bad movie no matter if it has light sabers or not.
Jannix Quinn
Sr Member
I don't like the Force Unleaded Jedi. I'm sure it makes a good game, but from a story telling point of view, they're just too powerful. The things they do are just so out of touch with normal people.
One of the things that made the OT work was that everything was grubby and broken and had a look of 'used' to it. Even the Empire was great as the giant faceless army.
The Force Unleashed guys are just so over the top that it removes all sense of threat.
I was disappointed in the prequels because they didn't do what I thought they'd do. I wanted to see Vader fighting Jedi. Instead, we got a whiny kid, a poorly acted love story and some politics.
The return of great characters like Han, Luke & Leia is a great idea in my heart. In my head though, they're just too old, and there's no way they'd match up to the OT. Not ever.
Plus there's the face we're mostly grumpy old men who are complaining about the good old days and nothing is as good as it was back when I was a boy.
One of the things that made the OT work was that everything was grubby and broken and had a look of 'used' to it. Even the Empire was great as the giant faceless army.
The Force Unleashed guys are just so over the top that it removes all sense of threat.
I was disappointed in the prequels because they didn't do what I thought they'd do. I wanted to see Vader fighting Jedi. Instead, we got a whiny kid, a poorly acted love story and some politics.
The return of great characters like Han, Luke & Leia is a great idea in my heart. In my head though, they're just too old, and there's no way they'd match up to the OT. Not ever.
Plus there's the face we're mostly grumpy old men who are complaining about the good old days and nothing is as good as it was back when I was a boy.
KnightAsylum
Sr Member
New Star Wars films, nothing but great news to me - Lots of stores left to tell in the SW universe. I hope it happens:thumbsup
defstartrooper
Sr Member
I think i'm a prophet :lol
GeektressGalore
Sr Member
Sorry, but I read this and pictured Jay saying "****, I could beat up little kids in Redbank and make myself a profit!" Prophets ... Two of them ... "You've gotta be kidding me ...."
Maybe I watch too much Kevin Smith.
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Wrong. Nothing in TPM was quite so badly botched as 'Annie''s turn to the dark side in the later films, or the way Dooku sent Annie and Padme into that arena without even talking to them to see what they'd been up to. This last was an error so awful, I don't think I've ever seen the like anywhere. There is almost an Ed Wood-like retardedness in that error. Just appalling.
