Disney Buys Lucasfilm (and other stories)

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  • edited November 2012
    Robot.

    SpongeBob: Just like the robot in the movie. He couldn't cry either.
  • edited November 2012
    Robot.
    Yeah, the movie does seem like it was spit out by a robot. It was about as sincere and heartfelt as a Hallmark commercial.
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    manipulating your feels in the cheapest way possible doesn't make a good movie.
  • edited November 2012
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    manipulating your feels in the cheapest way possible doesn't make a good movie.

    You and Dashing are both pretty knowledgeable about manipulating feels so you'd know.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah, the movie does seem like it was spit out by a robot. It was about as sincere and heartfelt as a Hallmark commercial.

    All I can think of is this
  • edited November 2012
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    All I can think of is this

    Someday, I wanna be that guy. But only for a day. Then I want to go back to liking shitty things.
  • edited November 2012
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    All I can think of is this

    That guy is scum and he should know this. I don't care how much he's liked, I'll point out every flaw until your opinion of him is ruined.
  • edited November 2012
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    All I can think of is this

    So spot on it's ridiculous.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah, the movie does seem like it was spit out by a robot. It was about as sincere and heartfelt as a Hallmark commercial.
    As opposed to the toys getting put in the attic and then sold in a garage sale 10 years later? If Andy had kept them long enough to give to his kids, I'm not sure how well that would go.

    Did your dad give you all of his old toys? Would you have appreciated them the way he'd want you to?

    I don't see the problem with the ending how it is. The question about their ultimate fate which is posed at the beginning of the movie remains no matter the ending. The point I think they're making is to appreciate what you have now because soon it will be gone; and that even if you know that the end for you will come someday, it's good to spend what time we have now with friends.

    That doesn't sound tacked on to me.
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    edited November 2012
    I want something special.I want a director I can't immediately tell what they'd do.
    Kevin Smith? :D
  • edited November 2012
    Jennifer wrote: »
    Kevin Smith? :D

    We saw what his version of Star Wars would look like in Zack & Miri.

    Joe Johnston, I'm tellin' ya guys!
  • edited November 2012
    This thread has made me reminisce a bit about some badly translated Star Wars dialogue.

    "Be careful, he is a big."
    "Mr. Speaker, we are for the big."
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    Wait, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO=Do not want?
  • edited November 2012
    Such is the way of badly translated foreign subtitles.
  • edited November 2012
    Wait, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO=Do not want?
    From English to a badly translated Chinese bootleg copy and then back to English, yes.
  • edited November 2012
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    From English to a badly translated Chinese bootleg copy and then back to English, yes.

    Kinda like the "English as She is Spoke" of the twenty-first century. But that one was Portugese to French to English and was legitimately published.

    Edit: HOLY SHIT! I suddenly figured out why I listed one of my favorite things in high school as "craunching marmosets"! It was that book all along!
  • edited November 2012
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    From English to a badly translated Chinese bootleg copy and then back to English, yes.

    well, in chinese, the word "no" is bu yao. which literally means "not want" or "do not want". so it's not badly translated into chinese, it's just sloppily translated back into english.
  • edited November 2012
    That's what makes it awesome.
  • edited November 2012
    There's a new rumor that is lighting a fire under fanboys asses that Vader will be resurrected. People are losing their minds online and seething.
  • edited November 2012
    I don't want Vader to return! They already humiliated him by making him a bland weenie in the prequels.
  • edited November 2012
    He could return as a ghost played by Hayden Christensen!

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  • edited November 2012
    Okay, I'm calling it!

    Star Wars Episode VII: Attack of the Jedi Clones
  • edited November 2012
    I don't want him back either, but let's be honest. From a marketing standpoint, Darth Vader is the poster-man for Star Wars and because his face his behind a mask, he can be virtually any actor. Whereas Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher can no longer put their faces forward and say that they're Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa. And I don't think CGI'ing the actors faces, ala Tron Legacy, is the answer. Mainly because there's not enough CGI in the world to make poor Carrie look young and beautiful again. So yeah. Maybe not from a story-telling standpoint, but Vader DOES make perfect sense from a marketing standpoint.

    EDIT: Coolsome, Luke was a bland weenie in the first movie too, or need I bring up "But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up some power convertors!"? The difference is everyone built up their own vision of what pre-suit Vader was like, and Lucas didn't match our visions. And Hayden's acting didn't help much.
  • edited November 2012
    I declared it after that stupid Yuuzhan Vong storyline, but this franchise is dead to me. DEAD.
  • edited November 2012
    DAISHI wrote: »
    I declared it after that stupid Yuuzhan Vong storyline, but this franchise is dead to me. DEAD.

    Because of a rumor? A rumor from a British tabloid, no less?
  • edited November 2012
    EDIT: Coolsome, Luke was a bland weenie in the first movie too, or need I bring up "But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up some power convertors!"? The difference is everyone built up their own vision of what pre-suit Vader was like, and Lucas didn't match our visions. And Hayden's acting didn't help much.

    He's not that bland if you mentally insert this scene somewhere at the beginning of the movie.
  • edited November 2012
    Because of a rumor? A rumor from a British tabloid, no less?
    Well, technically speaking, because of the Yuuzhan Vong :P
  • edited November 2012
    I liked the Yuuzhan Vong storyline. Quite a bit, actually. It was the next one that ruined the novel continuity.
  • edited November 2012
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Well, technically speaking, because of the Yuuzhan Vong :P

    The wha?

    Seriously, I don't read past the Hand of Thrawn duology. They killed Chewie. It doesn't deserve to be read.
  • edited November 2012
    I just have no idea at what point they plan on picking this up again for 7,8,9. I mean seriously, all the main characters are too old now to reprise their roles. so what are they going to do, jump ahead a generation? Even if they did, Mark Hamill has said he would never be interested in doing another Star Wars.
  • edited November 2012
    The wha?

    Seriously, I don't read past the Hand of Thrawn duology. They killed Chewie. It doesn't deserve to be read.
    Yes, yes it does. That was one of the very best and most dramatic moments in any Star Wars novel. He was given a hero's death like nobody else's, and everything that came of it made sense and was dramatically poignant. Yeah, they could totally have kept Chewie around doing random adventure bullshit that he'd done before, but one of the biggest problems with Star Wars EU material is the fucking stagnant nature of it all.
  • edited November 2012
    I hope it went something like this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsTO57M3KgA
  • edited November 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    I hope it went something like this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsTO57M3KgA
    More like this
  • edited November 2012
    Jokieman wrote: »
    I just have no idea at what point they plan on picking this up again for 7,8,9. I mean seriously, all the main characters are too old now to reprise their roles.

    ...why? People don't age in the Star Wars universe? What's wrong with it taking place 30 years later?
  • edited November 2012
    ...why? People don't age in the Star Wars universe? What's wrong with it taking place 30 years later?

    775duv

    Any other questions?
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah. That's what happens when people age.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah. That's what happens when people age.

    No.
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    This is how normal people age.

    Carrie Fisher is how people age when they binge on alcohol and drugs. And Mark Hamill's only slightly better off, but that car wreck messed his face up. Harrison's in the best shape of the three.
  • edited November 2012
    Ok man, Sean Connery is not how normal people age. You'll learn that yourself in a few decades.

    Also, the difference between the way you look at 27 and 56 (Carrie Fisher in RotJ and now) is a lot wider than between 59 and 79 (Sean Connery in those pics). Case in point: Sean Connery at 27 vs. Sean Connery at 56. Most people visibly age the most in their 40s and 50s.

    My point is, Carrie Fisher looks the way Princess Leia probably would have looked 30 years later.
  • edited November 2012
    Ok man, Sean Connery is not how normal people age. You'll learn that yourself in a few decades.

    Also, the difference between the way you look at 27 and 56 (Carrie Fisher in RotJ and now) is a lot wider than between 59 and 79 (Sean Connery in those pics). Case in point: Sean Connery at 27 vs. Sean Connery at 56. Most people visibly age the most in their 40s and 50s.

    My point is, Carrie Fisher looks the way Princess Leia probably would have looked 30 years later.


    Because in Star Wars Princess Leia apparently went on an Ewok eating binge, and didn't stay away from the death sticks.

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    Looks like the whole village got eaten. :(
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