Would anyone want to see more star wars movies if they were made ? — Page 2

I would. Star Wars is a worldwide phenomenon that never ceases to amaze me. Rather than picking up wher Return left off however there should be further prequels showing the origins of the Force and the first battle with the Sith. Also, there should be more focus on the primitive races, to show what Star Wars looks like without technology.

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Technically xhonzi started it by not having a nose.

It's possible.  I don't really remember, and most of my old PMs have been erased to make room for new ones.

So, no.  I don't think I'd enjoy any new Star Wars movies.  I just don't trust their creator anymore.

The first "Knights of the Old Republic"could translate into an excellent trilogy with a good team of writers and a competent director. That, I would love to see. Probably the best story and setting since the OT itself.

Otherwise... no, not really.

Basically, no. There's no reason to continue the film series as it already ended on a high note. Now, if Lucas made Episodes VII-IX after the release of Jedi (like maybe late 80's), I guess that's OK. However, I agree Burdokva, maybe a Knights Of The Old Republic movie trilogy could work and maybe another Clone Wars movie could work also as long if it dosen't disrupt continuity between anything that's already happened.

Anyone who has seen what happens when strong arm tyrannical regimes collapse would know that the story is far from over.

The PT would have us believe that the Old Republic was already in a state of corrupt stagnation and Palpatine exploited this to create the Empire.

With the Empire out of the way all those influences held down by the Empire would pop up and frustrate the former Rebels in the attempts to create a better society.

That may force them to consider strong arm tactics themselves and Leia would be the obvious next Skywalker open to temptation.

A political leader with a passionate temper and Force abilities seeing everything she has fought for under risk.

She seems like an obvious character to create conflict in, not Luke.

Potentially such a story would be much more interesting than Anakin's fall because we already care about her, that half of the equation has already been drawn.

The idea that ROTJ is the clear ending of the story shows an epic lack of imagination.

Bingowings said:

The idea that ROTJ is the clear ending of the story shows an epic lack of imagination.

No but it does show an understanding of the intent of the filmmakers.

It shows the intent of one film maker at a particular period of his life, which was to stop making Star Wars films very quickly after a period of time considering something different but to say that's clearly the end of the story demonstrates a lack of imagination.

ROTJ was a cobbled together ending to what was just a few years before intended to be a much longer and broader story and a few years before that a much shorter story with a cleverly alluded to backstory.

The PT was an attempt to make more money out of fleshing out that back story while ignoring most of it and redefining the main story as something that was about something other than what it was at other points in it's telling.

That was one of the many reasons I loved the Thrawn trilogy--it showed that the fight against the Empire did not end with the Battle of Endor, and that the Rebels had spent the next five years trying to take back the galaxy from the remainder of the Imperial fleet.  It was a long and difficult series of battles even before Grand Admiral Thrawn returned to rally the Empire, and of course setting up the "New Republic" was an even more difficult process of slow diplomacy, trying to convince the galaxy one planet at a time that a viable new form of interstellar government could be established.  And all the while the Rebels were strapped for cash and subject to divisive political infighting.  To my mind, this was an extremely realistic portrayal of what the state of things would be after such massive upheaval; though of course in true Star Wars fashion most of the focus and problem-solving lies with the heroes doing what they do best.

To me, the Thrawn trilogy in effect is the sequel trilogy, episodes 7, 8, and 9 in written form if you will.  I wouldn't want anything to replace that for the world.  Episodes 1, 2, and 3 have yet to be told to my view, and most likely never will be, because doing so would require throwing out the official prequels and starting from scratch in a way that will mesh with the unaltered original films.

Editing to add: Bingowings' post above is spot on.

That is exactly how I feel, HH.  Episodes 4-6 are in film form, 7-9 are in book form, and 1-3 don't exist yet.

The Thrawn trilogy were a cracking good read but there was a lot of nonsense in them Luuke Skywalker was uutterly daaft.

They don't really push any of the main characters along the path from ROTJ if anything Luke goes backwards to somewhere around the ESB stage.

I'd have had Han give up the Falcon (the fastest bachelor pad in the galaxy should have reverted to Lando).

Leia did seem to spend a lot of time being pregnant in peril.

Thrawn himself though was a brilliant creation.

It makes perfect sense that Luke would flounder a bit, since he's completely on his own as a Jedi and doesn't really know what he's supposed to do next, either for himself or knowing how to train anyone else.  His own training was rather fragmented and cut short, after all.

Leia manages to single-handedly convince an entire race to abandon their allegiance to the Empire, which proves to be the most important element of the entire story in the end.  The same race that had been trying to kidnap her and her children, mind.  Not bad for pregnant and in peril, I'd say.

And who can forget the awesomeness of Mara Jade?

If they didn't feature or mention any of the characters or events in the PT ... maybe.