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#653758
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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Jonno said:

Bingowings said:

The point I was making is Alien isn't about Ripley or her 'family' it's not even really just about the creatures it's about the adjective as much as the noun.

It's about the disturbing qualities of something being where it normally isn't.

Aliens was a lesser movie but Ripley, Hicks and Newt were still as much and Aliens and survivors as the creatures.

If the next one had gone down the soap route it would have fundamentally altered the nature of the series it was brave to shatter that possibility.

Well said. I would have hoped that folks had come around to what Alien 3 was trying to achieve by now - quit griping, it's over 20 years old! If you want something to complain about, just look at the genuine balls-up that is Alien Resurrection (which makes the critical error of insisting that the series is all about Ripley, against all logic and good taste).

The Star Wars analogy would be the single-minded (or is that simple-minded?) obsession with Jedi and Sith which the prequels and their progeny have relentlessly peddled - at least Abrams can be counted on to give the new films slightly broader scope.

Hey, TPM is 14 years old now, and we still gripe about it. ;)

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#653641
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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There could always be small isolated pockets of Imperial remnants. A system or two who had it great under the Empire could refuse to join the New Republic. And somewhere there must be the SW equivalent of Switzerland.

What would they do with all those stormtroopers and Imp officers that were captured or surrendered? Put them on one giant prison planet? Force them to clean up all the Death Star debris that rained all over Endor?

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#653594
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Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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An idea I just wanted to put out there, would there be any interest in preserving the true full frame LATT Laserdisc? I've got the disc, but my house is still a mess, so it might be September before I can get back into the groove of doing captures again.

Maybe someone could make a synchronized side by side screen presentation with the Cinemascope version so a viewer could easy analyze the differences? Something Disney should have thought of doing.