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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:20 pm
by Malcolm
Hell, if we could go ahead and erase Eps I, II, and III while we are at it I don't think anyone (besides Lucas) would mind.
I think of them as the collective hangover nightmares of Luke, Han, and Leia after the party in VI.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:25 pm
by GORDON
"We were restoring the jedi temple... these history cubes leading up to the Emperor dissolving the senate were found to be corrupted, possibly as an attempt by him to rewrite history. Here are the original, uncorrupted memory cubes."
(Or whatever storage medium they were using.)
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:26 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:"We were restoring the jedi temple... these history cubes leading up to the Emperor dissolving the senate were found to be corrupted, possibly as an attempt by him to rewrite history. Here are the original, uncorrupted memory cubes."
(Or whatever storage medium they were using.)
My opinion of Disney would go up, possible more than a full notch, if they had the balls to do that.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:32 pm
by Leisher
I think if they retconed the prequels, it'd be the biggest fuck you in Hollywood history.
Releasing the original trilogy on Blu-Ray minus the bullshit Lucas additions would be a minor fuck you.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:46 pm
by GORDON
I still say Annikin needs to destroy the ship he doesn't know his wife is on, trying to get away from him, and the babies get put into an escape pod at the last second because Padme is trapped under a Space Beam (and looks sad) and that scene looks just like when R2 and Threepio jettison and go to Tattoine.
That "dying of a broken heart" scene is just.... it's like... a 6th grade girl wrote it.
Seriously, the man lost his fucking mind. I'm telling you. Someone needs to get him some help. But I am satisfied the franchise is out of his control.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:53 pm
by TPRJones
When it comes to writing he was always an awful hack. It's just that earlier in his career he had people that would tell him how to make it better instead of kissing his ass and telling him he's shitting gold. His real brilliance was as a visual storyteller, working with models and practical effects to make movie magic. But he lost that when he got so far up into the ass of CGI.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:58 pm
by GORDON
Know what I have seen at the movies lately? A commercial for some kid charity.... there is a wheelchair kid and suddenly R2-D2 is there and they are pals... and if you give so much money to this charity, you can gt your fave Star Wars character in some sort of heart pendant. And one of the options is a Darth Vader/heart pendant, because nothing says "I love kids" than a pendant of the guy who slaughtered a bunch of really little kids in the movie.
I find that to be weird. Sorta tells me that peeps don't generally consider the prequels to be real.
Retcon that mother fucker.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:04 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:12 pm
by Malcolm
Fuck. That. Noise.
"No disintegrations."
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:03 pm
by Vince
GORDON wrote:That "dying of a broken heart" scene is just.... it's like... a 6th grade girl wrote it.
Really bad, but no worse than the ending of the 5th Element.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:09 pm
by Malcolm
Vince wrote:GORDON wrote:That "dying of a broken heart" scene is just.... it's like... a 6th grade girl wrote it.
Really bad, but no worse than the ending of the 5th Element.
No. It is. At least the bullshit love thing took out a fucking asteroid made of evil. Cause aside, the effects are bad-ass. Padme dying was perhaps the ultimate emo death scene.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:18 pm
by TPRJones
The creator of the 5th Element was very French, and it showed. Lucas has no such excuse.
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:24 pm
by Malcolm
Also, it ends with Bruce Willis fucking the Milla "Cheetos Dust Hair" Jovovich.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:46 am
by Vince
Malcolm wrote:Also, it ends with Bruce Willis fucking the Milla "Cheetos Dust Hair" Jovovich.
See, I think that's why nerds end up giving the 5th Element a pass. Because of nerd crush on Milla.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:53 am
by Leisher
In her defense, she was insanely hot in that film.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:13 am
by GORDON
Well, like he said, the antagonist was a ball of evil. It was going to kill all life, and apparently that cycle was built into the universe, or whatever. What else is going to counter evil?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:46 am
by Malcolm
What else is going to counter evil?
Other kinds of evil.
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:08 pm
by Vince
Leisher wrote:In her defense, she was insanely hot in that film.
Definitely. I think another reason we give it a pass is because it came out on the trailing edge of the vast lack of good Sci-fi. I still think the reason people think the original Star Wars was great and the later three were so horrible is because there weren't many options for Sci-fi when the original came out. It was an immersive world, but beyond that they weren't that great. We just remember the great parts because we took what we could get.
For every "City On The Edge of Forever", we had two "Spock's Brain".
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:53 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:What else is going to counter evil?
Other kinds of evil.
Holy crap..... I would fund a kickstarter for a 5th Element/Riddick crossover. Any reason they can't exist in the same universe?
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:56 pm
by Malcolm
Any reason they can't exist in the same universe?
Make Leeloo a Furyan.