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New Star Wars films

can't wait!

21% (7)

hate the idea

12% (4)

do not care, not even a little bit

30% (10)

I just hope they bring back that nice Captain Picard

24% (8)

I gotta go check out something at the back of the house

12% (4)

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New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:13:12 AM

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Are you looking forward to them, or do you think it's a bad idea?

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:35:51 AM

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I'm sure I'll see them, but not on opening weekend.

I'm looking forward to The Hobbit much more.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:43:19 AM

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South Park offered a wonderful take on what we may get, but the episode isn't available online yet.

Bookmark the link, and it will be posted in a couple weeks

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e14-obama-wins

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:43:25 AM

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I hate checking out movies on opening weekend. I prefer matinees during the week ( last movie watched was "Brave" with Lizard).

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:45:20 AM

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'Happy for the deranged glee Sci-fi/Vampires/Hobbits/Harry Potter bring to others, would rather have a root canal.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:52:29 AM

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Hey Rich; I feel about the same; I'll see them, but I wouldn't stand in some mile long line to do it. I've never been a Tolkien fan, so I'll probably skip that alltogether.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:56:01 AM

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I think they really should have stopped this at the first three. They were good popcorn movie type fun, they were iconic, and they've aged better than most fantasy from that era.

I found the three "prequels" all dismal to the point of borderline unwatchable. The CGI overdose didn't help, either.

Just another franchise running itself into the ground.

( For the record, I'm not a nostalgic Gen X-er pining for my youth, as the last of the original three came out long before I was born, and the first of the new three came out when I was eleven, so I should by all means be of the generation that liked the prequels. )

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 9:57:57 AM

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I've never seen the prequels, the whole thing just felt off.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 10:16:58 AM

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The prequels were a shower of shit.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 10:20:25 AM

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57542614/disney-buying-lucasfilm-for-$4.05-billion-slates-new-star-wars-movie-for-2015/

http://mashable.com/2012/11/01/star-wars-original/

To sum up : Disney proposes to make an original story set in George Lucas' "Star Wars" Environment. As distinct from the completely-not-gonna-happen alternative reality in which George Lucas finishes filming his original story.

There is in this one thing I find interesting. That Disney would pay $4,000,000,000 to be able to use the word Wars immediately after the word Star. There are those that dismiss consideration of such on the basis of the craziness. But those err. If you exclude from your picture of the Universe all that you deem crazy, your sketch of the Universe will reflect exactly your brand of crazy. So, keep in mind, when haggling the price of your old car, that stringing two words together can be worth $4 Billion.

The Movie? YAWN!

It would be different if George did it. It would be part of an unfinished entertainment. But he decided not to do it, long, long ago...

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 3:05:54 PM

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The prequels were a shower of shit.

You're being kind, Niney. While episodes 4, 5 and 6 have become a tad quaint, I would be willing to sit through all of them, in a marathon run. Not so, with the 3 more recent ones. 4, 5, and 6 are not full of nearly as much annoying whiz-bangery as the "prequels," which were pretty much a lot of whiz-bangery and had no friggin' plot - Beautifully filmed garbage filled with embarrassed cringe-inducing superfluity.

One can hold out hope that some of the better(?) Star Wars shared universe storylines and characters, which have become "canon," of sorts, will be explored, and none of Kevin J. Anderson's tripe allowed anywhere near it!

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 3:52:56 PM

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The guy that wrote Toy Story 3, and won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine is writing the next one... not sure how that'll turn out.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 4:04:22 PM

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Are you looking forward to them, or do you think it's a bad idea?

There is no such (bad) thing as a:

1) New Star Wars film.

2) New Star Trek film.

3) Blow job.

I have spoken.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 4:04:28 PM

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I think Lucas has flim-flammed us for decades.

When the first film was such a success, he said: "Oh, it's a trilogy".

When the second film did well, he said: "Oh, it's a trilogy of trilogies!"

When the third movie was almost a carbon copy of the first, I said: "Oh, shit!"

I wonder why it took him almost 20 years to come up with the "prequels"? Could it have taken him that long to come up with some ideas for movies he claimed he had planned 20 years previously? Did he have trouble getting people to let him make his movies? Hardly. I wonder if maybe, back when he mentioned a trilogy of trilogies, maybe he was just taking advantage of good press?

I won't be waiting in line and I probably won't watch them unless someone turns one on at their house.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 4:17:11 PM

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Lookie, I enjoyed the hell out of the most recent Trek movie; the whole cast was good, especially Chris Pine.

And if Zoe Saldana wants to blow me....

Michael, one CAN wonder if Lucas is more of a lucky bastard than a story-telling visionary.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 4:32:20 PM

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I'm skeptical. I love 4, 5 & 6. Tolerate 1, 2 & 3.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 4:44:54 PM

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I was 12 or 13 when Star Wars came out and for me I couldn't have been any more excited than if it was the Second Coming.

I got the action figures, and the plastic light saber, and the comics and unfortunately lost in the sands of time a genuine star wars poster. No not one of the Reprints but an original pre-release poster $$$$$$$$$ today.

I stood in lines for Empire and for Return. I stood in lines for the re-releases of all three films.

I am PISSED as HELL as to what Lucas did to his original Master Piece. HAN SOLO SHOT FIRST!

So I find now that the House of Mouse has bought out Lucas, and I say Good for George. I am glad he won't have to work another day in his life. But at the same time Do you think I give a "RAT'S ASS" for what "The House of Mouse" will do to the franchise???

I am not 12 years old any more and I don't care!

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 5:06:56 PM

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The next Star Wars movie will be a sensation (unless they choose to ride the coat tails) because technology has changed so much.

My guess is people will be actually able to have sex with the movie.

(I'll be sitting 4 seats away with my popcorn though).

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 6:07:08 PM

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Whether one likes or dislikes any of the first 6 films, it is undeniable that Lucas created a huge franchise the likes of which have never truly been seen before. The original movie came out in what, '77, and kids today are still watching the movies, and buying the merchandise. 35 years later? No other franchise has seen this kind of $$ around it. Not to mention that Lucas also built several hugely successful businesses from these films (Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound to name two). These companies provided both special effects and sound effects for a multitude of films in the past decades (films that had nothing to do with Star Wars). Lucas built an entire industry.

The money that was paid for LucasFilm was for the COMPANY which includes Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm Animation and LucasArts and, of course, includes the rights to make the next films. But the company as a whole is not just about Star Wars. Lucas is a genius. And the genius is not limited to the Star Wars films - a very small part of what this man has influenced.

From Wiki re Industrial Light and Magic (ILM):

From here on, ILM expanded and has since gone on to produce special effects for nearly three hundred films, including the entire Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, the Harry Potter series, the Jurassic Park series, the Back to the Future trilogy, many of the Star Trek films, Ghostbusters II, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Terminator sequels, the Transformers films, the Men in Black series, most of the Mission: Impossible films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, *batteries not included, The Abyss, and also provided work for Avatar, alongside Weta Digital.
In addition to their work for George Lucas, ILM also collaborates with Steven Spielberg on most films that he directs, and for many that he produces as well. Dennis Muren has acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on many of these films.
Apart from flashy special effects, the company also works on more subtle effects - such as widening streets, digitally adding more extras to a shot, and inserting the film's actors into preexisting footage - in films including Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Snow Falling on Cedars, Magnolia, and several Woody Allen films.
ILM began creating computer-generated imagery when they hired Edwin Catmull from NYIT in 1979. John Lasseter worked for ILM in the early 1980s as a computer animator. The computer graphics (CG) division, now known as Pixar, was sold to Steve Jobs and created the first CG animated feature, Toy Story.

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RE: New Star Wars films - 11/18/2012 6:11:24 PM

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p.s.

Here is a list of ILM milestones (again people who think Lucasfilm is just about Star Wars could not be more wrong):

1975: Resurrected the use of VistaVision; first use of a motion control camera (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
1982: First completely computer-generated sequence (the "Genesis sequence" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
1985: First completely computer-generated character, the "stained glass man" in Young Sherlock Holmes
1988: First morphing sequence, in Willow
1988: Integrating 2D animated characters with live-action footage in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: First computer-generated 3-D character, the pseudopod in The Abyss
1991: First partially computer-generated main character, the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992: First time the texture of human skin was computer generated, in Death Becomes Her
1993: First time digital technology used to create a complete and detailed living creature, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, which earned ILM its thirteenth Oscar
1995: First fully synthetic speaking computer-generated character, with a distinct personality and emotion, to take a leading role in Casper
1995: First computer-generated photo-realistic hair and fur (used for the digital lion and monkeys) in Jumanji
1996: First completely computer-generated main character, Draco in Dragonheart
1999: First computer generated character to have a full human anatomy, Imhotep in The Mummy
2000: Creates OpenEXR imaging format. [6]
2006: Develops iMocap system, which uses computer vision techniques to track live-action performers on set. Used in the creation of Davy Jones and ship's crew in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2011: First animated feature produced by ILM, Rango

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