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I'd rather have a Mulan sequel.

 reiner wrote:
I'd rather have a Mulan sequel.

Been done, long time ago actually.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 reiner wrote:
I'd rather have a Mulan sequel.

Been done, long time ago actually.

Why stop at two? I'm sure the market is ripe for yearly sequels. I mean look at the Air Bud franchise... gold.

 Tappers wrote:
But Anakin could use the force and appear in all of the movies like he does at the end of Episode Six! Oh no!

Maybe would could have a Star Wars/Ghostbuster cross over film then

 reiner wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 reiner wrote:
I'd rather have a Mulan sequel.

Been done, long time ago actually.

Why stop at two? I'm sure the market is ripe for yearly sequels. I mean look at the Air Bud franchise... gold.

Uhg...my children love those movies.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Meh, without George Lucas's suckage, these films will probably be awsome.

FTFY

George is not a genious by any streach of the imagination.

You do realize he gave us the original right? As well and Thx 1138, American Graffitti.

Honesty if you read the production behind star wars 4 you'll find it was plagued with problems and no one took George seriously (sometimes even ignoring him and doing their own thing). George was even annoyed that a lot of the movie was turning out very different than he had imagined.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Meh, without George Lucas's suckage, these films will probably be awsome.

FTFY

George is not a genious by any streach of the imagination.

You do realize he gave us the original right? As well and Thx 1138, American Graffitti.

The originals were good because there were other people involved. George didn't get to do exactly what he wanted with New Hope. He got more and more freedom as the movies progressed. Total freedom gave us the prequels.

I hope they replace JarJar with Howard the Duck.

As bad as that sounds on the surface.....that would be an improvement

After a few years of constant releases, the last film in the series will be Jar-jar and ewoks beating a dead taun-taun.

 Khornholio wrote:
After a few years of constant releases, the last film in the series will be Jar-jar beating a dead Taun-taun with an Ewok.

FTFY

I know lots of you probably aren't fans of the whole extended universe, but there isn't a single Gungan to be seen in any of the books...and jedi can basically go super sayan.

That would still be better than Phantom Menace.

Meh, only really bad thing was Amidala's ridiculous hairstyles. And Jar-Jar. But Jar-Jar was almost in the "So bad its good" category.

Sure, and there's White force, force destroying crystals, force eating monkey lizards, and the fierce forceless alien menace (which ironically was strengthened by the introduction of the midichlorian explanation). Much like the old west, the EU is good, bad, and ugly. I couldn't stop reading the Thrawn trilogy- and almost couldn't finish 'The Crystal Star'. Discretion is the key word when selecting good plot lines for standalone movies.

For instance, if they let Michael Stackpole write a movie about Corran Horn, it will be a story about a man who is essentially Han Solo given force powers. I would bet that it would be an even better seller than the inevitable Boba Fett movie.

Jar jar was certainly not so bad it was good

No, the bad thing about the phantom menace was flat boring characters acting in a completely unbelievable manner while shuffling along an incomprehensible, also boring plot punctuated with cold sterile light shows that lacked meaning and style.

Not to mention a total badass Sith, that pwns 2 Jedi something awful, only to have the biggest HerpyDerpy moment at the end to get himself sliced in half.

Something which I'd really like to see is the power balance of the original trilogy flipped over - I'd like to see the heroes leading a successful and powerful New Republic while fighting guerrilla insurgences from the Imperial Remnant. I've only read the Thrawn trilogy from the New Republic era EU, but that didn't quite do it for me, because the New Republic was depicted as too thin and weak while Thrawn's forces were too many and too strong. From what I understand, the same power balance goes for a lot of the New Republic EU.

I met Zahn the other day! He's awesome!

 Grey Templar wrote:
Meh, only really bad thing was Amidala's ridiculous hairstyles. And Jar-Jar. But Jar-Jar was almost in the "So bad its good" category.

No Jar Jar was in the "so bad its racist" category.
*Everything about naboo sucked.
*Baby Darth annoyed me. I hate overly smart kids.
*Much of the pod race was stupid.
*The villains weren't scary, they were incompetent mouth breathers.
*Mitochlorians???? Seriously???
*Darth Maul was cool. His death was lame.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Meh, only really bad thing was Amidala's ridiculous hairstyles. And Jar-Jar. But Jar-Jar was almost in the "So bad its good" category.

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*The villains weren't scary, they were incompetent mouth breathers.

Lol, I have no argument on anything you said- but I thought it was deeply ironic that you used mouth breather as an insult to Star Wars villains. Vader is the scariest mouth breather in history!

The villains really were lacking in terror and motivation in Phantom Menace- heck, episode had bloody Grand Moff Tarkin- who was utterly horrifying without engaging in any combat whatsoever. "You're far too trusting", delivered so indulgently as he is about to obliterate a world could be a poster for evil- we don't hate you.... we just do not care.

Indeed. The bad guys are literally office clerks. Seriously? The trade federation who buy an army of dorkobots?

It was made to be a children's movie. At that level, it succeeded, sort of. But bringing it back to the central topic, at that level, Disney is in a far better position to handle proper kids' movies.

oh god, star wars movies every year...

It's a pretty safe bet that the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe is going to get squatted with the films. A Lucas-written story treatment was part of what Disney bought, and he's being kept on as a consultant. He's also on record as saying the EU after the last movie is not what he would have made it.

Sure, but he liked money more than the integrity of his universe so he allowed them to be written.

 Seaward wrote:
He's also on record as saying the EU after the last movie is not what he would have re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-made it.

Fixed that for you

I have to say that I don't like any of the star wars films particularly. They are all fairly dull, poorly acted and badly written. I just really hope the new ones are proper films rather than CGI films for four year olds.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Sure, but he liked money more than the integrity of his universe so he allowed them to be written.

Yes. The hierarchy of canon that he established allowed him to let people write all the fanwank they wanted, and for him to profit from it all, but to invalidate it any time he chose.

From what little I remember of the EU from being 13, invalidating it would be no great loss.

True enough, I can't stand most of it.

Especially all the stupid super weapons they pull out of their arses.