luckydube56 said:
Bingowings said:
It's called Star Wars not Star Tea-dance. It can't and shouldn't be a 'feel good' movie though it could have upbeat moments (just hopefully not so many goofy slapstick comedy moments).
I'm not talking slap stick per se but I do think it will very much have that same feel in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls movie where Indy, at every step, begins to realize he is just getting too old.
There will be action and there will be comedy and depending on how much of each they use, it could be really good and it could be really bad.
I expect this movie (Ep 7 only) to serve two purposes:
1.Service the fans who miss the characters even if they're old.
2.Ween the fans off those characters and onto new ones by playing the 'they're just too old' card.
Anyone who hasnt paid attention wouldn't realize how much of the comic element there is in the films. The whole notion of "out of the fryer and into the frying pan" is going to be played out with a crew of geriatrics. Why do you think they're being asked to get into shape...to watch them sit on their duffs and give counsel?
In fact something tells me the old cast will be in some way directly though inadvertently responsible for the perils the younger cast will face.
The sole purpose of the movie should be to be a great movie in the spirit of the original movies.
Obvious jokes are not funny. It makes a mockery of the story to put people in a movie just to constantly talk about how they're old. I think they should go out of their way to avoid age jokes.
We know there was humor in Star Wars. From little things like Chewbacca yelling at the mouse droid, R2's idle whistles, to comments about Luke being short for a Stormtrooper from a woman who was tortured, her home planet destroyed, and then awaiting execution. It was not the fans who missed the prevalent humor. A bunch of jokes about Han Solo being older than "space dirt" will not be a service to anyone who likes Star Wars. We don't need to be "weened" off of any characters, we need to enjoy the new ones and appreciate the story arcs of all of them. We don't need to be convinced to not care about the old characters.
I avoided commenting on this once, having a good chuckle at SilverWook's good response, but you're on the wrong track.