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silverwheel said:

It ruined one of the most powerful lessons of the series.  The ghost of Old Anakin symbolized that while he could not undo the many terrible things he had done, he could still make amends and seek forgiveness.  Old Anakin symbolized a wasted lifetime.  Hayden's ghost basically gives the character a free pass.  Plus, Old Anakin fits with what we had just seen in the movie - a tired old man trapped in an iron lung, desperately wanting to get out.  Now, in death, he has his release.  The notion that his ghost can just "go back" makes no sense, literally or metaphorically.

This is absolutely word for word perfect.

SilverWook said:

http://trekmovie.com/2013/04/12/pix-video-from-star-trek-live-to-projection-concert-giacchino-say-williams-should-score-star-wars-vii/

And he's absolutely right!

Fucking fantastic if that's true!

Harrison Ford is 70, Mark Hamill 62 and Carrie Fisher 56.

Bit old for teenage kids!

Han v Vader in the finals, with Han to win by a nose. 

There's my prediction!

Tobar said:

CatBus said:

I only have one question I'd want answered by a sequel trilogy:

Why was the sequel trilogy made?

 

George Lucas said:

'Well, I’ve got to build this company up so it functions without me, and we need to do something to make it attractive.’ So I said, ‘Well, let’s just do these movies.’

 

CatBus said:

I'm not saying it can't be done, but one of the best things about ROTJ was that it ended the story.  Not necessarily well, or entirely satisfactorily, but it ended the story nonetheless.  It will be hard to write past that ending.

Twenty two years worth of novels would disagree with you. =P Sure they blew up the Empire's big super weapon and killed the Emperor but there's still a fleet out there that's big enough to police a galaxy. Not to mention Luke's continuing journey toward becoming a Jedi master and his obligation to "pass on what you have learned."

There's still plenty of dollars in that far, far away galaxy.

FIFY!

Really good article on exactly what skyjedi2005 is talking about:

http://www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com/completehistoryofthesequeltrilogy.html

MathUser said:

http://www.sescoops.com/the-rock-star-wars/

 

The Rock wants to be in the new Star Wars films.

If JJ needs a bit of charismatic muscle, why not.

none said:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/mark-hamill-at-the-sydney-opera-house-20121121-29q7p.html

Mark Hamill explains the story of Star Wars

Once upon a time in a galaxy.....no-one knew what Star Wars was. Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tries to explain it in an interview at Sydney Opera House, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Footage courtesy: The Opera House Project.

 

It was filmed not long after the movie was released in 1977.

Interesting take on the later films.

That was really terrific - Hamill is such a legend.

NeverarGreat said:

msycamore said:

zombie84 said:

Irvin Kershner turned down directing Empire Strikes Back. Lucas had to twist his arm to get him to do it; they had to have a second meeting where Lucas basically begged him to make the film. It turned out...pretty good, to put it lightly. To make things worse, the film he did right before Empire, Eyes of Laura Mars, sucked. Even Kershner apologized for it. And the rest of his films up until then were fairly obscure. I've seen "Hoodlum Priest," but have you? If the internet was around in 1978 we'd all be crucifying him.

A lot of people are looking for things to nail Abrams on but honestly none of us has any idea how well he will work out. I give him the benefit of the doubt until I see the movie, as he is not a bad director by any means.

I think it's quite amusing that after all these years, people are still waiting for that new "The Empire Strikes Back" but it's never going to happen, without lens flares or not ( "The Phantom Menace" had quite a good portion of artificial lens flares IIRC, so JJ will fit nicely)

To draw parallels with how things went down when the legendary sequel was made in the past to how things are proceeding now is quite pointless. The differences are quite big, not in the MO and not what you Zombie tried to say, the times and in what climate this new film is made in, is a very different scenario from Empire 30 years ago.

Is this a movie, that really needs to be made? Is this a story, that really needs to be told? Why are these new movies made? Is there someone with the passion behind this? Dollars of course!! Of course it's dollars, back when Empire was made it was all about money as well and more importantly the building of a new movie facility and planned franchise, it just happened to be a genuine interest on all fronts to make a great follow-up to one of the biggest surprise hits in movie history behind it. The last gasps of the golden 70's US independent era behind this kind of a blockbuster, it will never happen again. 

I know that I sound bitter, but it's because I am bitter, Star Wars have been reduced to a fuzzy old little DVNR'ed LD transfer, that's all we have left today of this little legendary film. THANK YOU LUCASFILM!!! :)

Never say never. After all, there are more projects now than ever before to bring the original Star Wars back to life, and I think that many of the people that will work on the new movies were probably inspired by the originals. It's not their fault that Lucas drove the prequels into the ground.

At the end of the day, movies will be made and remade, and the great ones will be remembered. With so many people now contributing to the brand of Star Wars, a lot of dross will be added, true, but it's up to you to accept it or not. There was a quote from the end of Myst 3 Exile that I think is quite pertinent.

http://youtu.be/JAkfbqVszXk?t=1m34s

"I know now that we can't erase the past. Nor can we rewrite it, hoping to lessen our pain. The best we can hope for is to continue to learn. Take from the past only that which is good, and move on. Perhaps in the process, we will build a brighter future."

 

Really good post directly above. 

 

I had given up on Star Wars - fatigued by the prequels and tinkering with our beloved GOUT.

 

But now I feel there's life; I'm no longer looking back lamenting what was lost, or changed - now there's a literal new hope.