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2013/10/28 15:56:00
Subject: JJ Abrams and Larry Kasden writing Star Wars
Breotan wrote: The one redeeming thing about JJ is that he put the adventure back into Star Trek. That was missing all they way since the original TV show. The "next gen" movies all felt like television episodes shown on the big screen, too. Can't say that about JJ's films.
Quoted for extreme truthiness. The ST franchise had become almost impossibly dull and bland, with the exception of DS9.
I fully expect these new movies to be a significant improvement and blast of fresh air. Of course, that doesn't mean SW fans will be happy with them. From my perspective, there were many, many people very, very into those terrible prequel movies, even if they carped about them publicly.
Genre fans sometimes seem to care about keeping the status quo and checking all the boxes rather than making good films/series.
They could avoid a lot of that if they put it substantially in the past or the future. Aka pre or early Republic or maybe a few decades post empire. Make your own space in the SW empire.
Would be nice to see something not heavily focused on jedi though. SW was a romp and only had the one jedi fight in it. making another uber jedi for entire movie movie would be boring.
This is basically what I have hated about a lot of the non cannon star wars stuff. All the sudden there are a million Jedis everywhere?
2013/10/28 17:17:18
Subject: JJ Abrams and Larry Kasden writing Star Wars
Manchu wrote: The prequels have some good points in terms of the SW setting but as movies they have poor pacing, awkward and melodramatic dialog, wooden acting, and extremely limited character development.
That and most of the movies take place either sitting on couches or walking down hallways. Its pretty crazy.
2013/10/28 18:24:01
Subject: Re:JJ Abrams and Larry Kasden writing Star Wars
AlmightyWalrus wrote: While we're on the subject, what's the deal with everyone hating the prequels? Can someone explain to me why they're supposedly so awful?
