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Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if George Lucas bought Hasbro?

It would get infinitely better?

I know everybody hates him, but he was still the one who brought us the original Star Wars films. And Revenge of the Sith was pretty darn good.

Better put on that tinfoil hat complimenting ROTS.

What? I thought it wasn't too bad. I can understand why people didn't like The Phantom Menace (although I liked it) but Revenge of the Sith was a decent film. I didn't see any glaring problems with it.

A lot of fuss has already been made of Arndt’s Disney connection – he wrote Toy Story 3 – with certain internet pundits seemingly seeing this as proof that the Mouse House intends to kidify the series. That’s a very blinkered view on Arndt’s credentials, though.

Um, lulz? They say that like it isn't already kiddy.

 LordofHats wrote:

A lot of fuss has already been made of Arndt’s Disney connection – he wrote Toy Story 3 – with certain internet pundits seemingly seeing this as proof that the Mouse House intends to kidify the series. That’s a very blinkered view on Arndt’s credentials, though.

Um, lulz? They say that like it isn't already kiddy.

Right. Even then, Toy Story, like The Last Airbender, is the good sort of kiddy: the sort that appeals to both kids and adults. The sort that Star Wars movies were supposed to be. Better that than alienating the kids with trade disputes and an obnoxious love story and alienating adults with kid Anakin and an obnoxious love story.

Still, at least the obnoxious love story remembers that dating the creepy, aggressive guy who expects you to keep your relationship a secret is going to end in tears domestic violence, unlike a certain bestseller I could mention.

What would that bestseller be?

Fifty Shades of Grey: the romantic equivalent of telling newbies that claymores are full of delicious candy.

Ah. I see. Knowing little about FSOG, I can't comment.

For a second I thought you meant Twilight

 Grey Templar wrote:
For a second I thought you meant Twilight

I pretty much did: Fifty Shades of Grey started life as a piece of Twilight alternate universe fanfiction called Master of the Universe.

uggg, Twilight fanfiction. Now thats a scary proposition.

Wow, guy responsible for TS3 is doing the next Star Wars films? Um....wow. I'm speechless. In a good way. TS3 was amazing. It was sad and powerful. Justice will be done to the SW francise with him at the helm.

 Peregrine wrote:
To be fair, that seems to have more to do with the fact that GW decided to do a no-budget direct-to-dvd release with a no-name studio and then never bother marketing it to anyone but existing 40k players. It says a lot about the wisdom of GW's marketing department, but not much about the viability of a proper 40k movie.

Meh, the production values sucked, but even they'd been amazing all we would have ended up with was a pretty, but generic sci-fi action movie.

When your basic creative concept is to take ideas from film and other media and mould them into miniatures, then you may well end up with a really cool line of miniatures and a fun game. But if you then take all that and turn it into a movie of its own, then you're almost destined to end up with a really dull movie.


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 d-usa wrote:
Wasn't there a D&D movie a few years back?

I don't think it did well, which is why I probably don't remember it...

There have been at least two D&D movies. I mentioned them in my post, exactly two posts above the one where you asked this question;
"I mean, ignore the woeful fail that was the first D&D movie, but look at the one they made a while after that."

Does nobody read threads? Why are people here if they're not reading other posts?

 Grey Templar wrote:
Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if George Lucas bought Hasbro?

I don't wanna see a Jar Jar pony

Might make MLP worth watching...

My Little Jar-jar. Has a nice ring to it.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Might make MLP worth watching...

My Little Jar-jar. Has a nice ring to it.

OKay... that was funny... wasn't expecting.

Now I have this image of Jar Jar, rainbows and ponies...

Thanks a lot man

 AlexHolker wrote:
I pretty much did: Fifty Shades of Grey started life as a piece of Twilight alternate universe fanfiction called Master of the Universe.

With that title it really should have been He-Man fan fiction.