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hairy_hen said: 

Clearly, alienating a percentage of longtime fans isn't something they're concerned about, given the way they annihilated all the post-RotJ stories that have ever been published in the past two decades.  They cater to the mainstream who don't know or don't care about such things, and that's all.

The EU had to be nuked out of necessity because of whatever is in the outline that George wrote out for this new trilogy. Whether it be the offspring or the rumors about what Luke's been up to are true, it was too big to be retconned and thus the EU was demolished.

But Lucasfilm is still staffed by fans. They love the OT as much anyone and after all these years of having to be PT focused they're loving getting to re-explore the era they first fell in love with. It's evidenced in the interviews that come out. As well as things like the Kenner Troop Carrier appearing in Rebels.

Heck, the idea of an Imperial Inquisitor first originated in the WEG RPG source books. The books that provided the backbone of the EU itself.

The very people that had to destroy the EU are the ones that spent the last decade plus building it. So it was no small matter to them to have to do what they did. But you can be sure that over the course of the next few years they're going to be systematically reincorporating as much of the old EU back into the new canon as they can.

And you can bet that they'd love to see a proper release of the OOT too.

Vision:

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Ugh, just awful. Just like the film that proceeded it, it was far too self-aware and packed to the gills with blink and you miss them "celebrity" cameos.

None of the Muppets are given any time to shine. Most that do get to speak get a single generic line that could've been said by anyone. The Muppets thrive on their unique personalities but here they're mostly used as living set decoration.

Now, the original films had their share of cameos but they were done with some class and respect. Take this great scene with Steve Martin. Today he'd be on the screen for five seconds and maybe get a single line.

The greatest problem with these films is that they're in a big rush to go nowhere. They're given absolutely no breathing room to allow for any characterization or genuine moments. They just plow forward as quickly as possible to get as many cameos in as they can before the credits role.

Lastly, the songs are pretty terrible as well. I love Bret and the Flight of the Conchords but that style just doesn't jibe with the Muppets. It was so bad that they had to resort to recycling one of their classic songs to end the movie because they just weren't up to the task of coming up with something new and memorable.

Like the rest of the film, it's all pop and no heart.

1) The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

2) The Muppet Movie (1979)

3) Muppet Treasure Island (1996) 

4) The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 

5) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 

6) Muppets from Space (1999)

7) The Muppets (2011)

8) Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Pending a fresh viewing of the franchise everything but the first two and last two are subject to change.

Doubtful, considering Filoni has confirmed that Stormtroopers are not clones. I believe their intentions are as they stated, revisiting the OT era and exploring the formation of the Rebellion.

I'm definitely not a fan of whoever drew the Princess Leia cover. Didn't capture her likeness at all.

I've never liked much of the modern Marvel art that I've seen compared to Dark Horse. I guess the writing will be the determining factor for me.

Also, if that helmet is any indication they're also keeping that stupid idea that Leia is a fighter pilot from the current ongoing Star Wars title from Dark Horse.

Heero Yuy said:

The term Padawan doesn't even make sense. Kanan himself was barely a Padawan himself when the purge went down. It's as I said, a noob leading a noob.

 Where has it been established that Kanan was a Padawan during the purge?

Also keep in mind the character who is calling him that doesn't know the characters, he's just seen a Jedi and what appears to be his apprentice so obviously he's going to call him a Padawan.

emanswfan said:

The animation of everything looks much more realistic (almost movie quality), but I really get bothered by the lack of any textural details.  TCW had some more detailed textures in its latter seasons.

 Yeah that's one aspect of it I'm a little iffy on. The Clone Wars had a very stylized painted look whereas Rebels looks to be taking on a colored pencil kind of vibe. I don't think it works as well but I guess we'll see how it develops over time like TCW did.

Ryan McAvoy said:

It's not the word "Padawan" so much, it's more that I was allowing myself the nieve dream that Disney-Star Wars was going to be a PT free universe.

 That dream should have been shattered once you saw the Inquisitor. It was for me. Unless you've never seen ROTS. =P

You know, I'm just now noticing those guys in the far back. Could that be a hint that the Royal Guards are actually supposed to be Pau'ans?

TheBoost said:

 Harry single handedly broke into a high security prison to free a super villain to help him break into his unguarded office. That movie made no sense from word go.

 Again, likely a consequence of the reshoots. They cut a scene from the film where the Green Goblin attacks Oscorp on his own.

There are 13 confirmed deleted scenes and likely more altered ones we don't know about.

ObiWanKennerobi said:

"What do you HATE about the EU?"
Star Wars Rebels
:P

 First of all, you haven't even seen it yet.

Secondly, the EU no longer exists. Rebels is a product of this new era where all future projects are now canon, same as any of the films.

greenpenguino said:

Ask them if people in the star wars universe wear glasses.

Duh. =P

Burn (2012)

Fantastic documentary that follows a Detroit firehouse for a year. It's one of those films that you get lost in.

Lucy (2014)

For the first time in my life I honestly don't know what to make of a film.

Fantastic line up of directors for the Agent Carter series has been revealed at SDCC:

• Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America 2) will be directing the second and third episodes of the series
• While Joe Johnston will tackle the fourth

Agent Carter will hit the small screen in January of 2015.

Here's the complete audio from the SDCC Rebels panel.

Some Highlights:

• "After the Clone Wars, to the majority of the galaxy, the Jedi are traitors. Disappointments."
• There are consequences whenever you pull out a lightsaber in this time period
• there will be very few lightsaber fights.

pittrek said:

Bad things :

- "Disneyfied" animation

- 3PO not dubbed by Tony Daniels

 I keep hearing this and I still have no idea what you people are talking about.

I'm also not convinced that it's not Daniels. I'll grant you that his voice sounds a little weird but it's still very close to Anthony Daniels voice.

Traditionally, whenever Anthony isn't available they tap Tom Kane to fill in and that just doesn't sound like Kane's Threepio. It's also about on par with Daniels performances on the Clone Wars. For which he always spoke softly for some reason.

They've already poured too much into it to turn back now. I'm sure the decision to do the Sinister Six before TASM3 was made long before TASM2 ever hit theaters. We're just hearing about it now.

Tyrphanax just pointed this my way:

Star Wars Rebels: A Look Ahead

If they didn't care they wouldn't have interfered with the last two films and be trying to setup Spider-man as a poor man's Marvel film universe.

Anyway, here's a great interview with Chris Pratt.

What they're doing is trying too hard. TASM2 had inklings of being a much better movie but all of the reshoots they did to shove the Sinister Six down our throats turned it into a jumbled mess. It seems like Sony has taken to using a heavy hand on this franchise and it's turning out for the worst.

You didn't know about the Sinister Six? They're responsible for turning Amazing Spider-man 2 into the mess it ended up being.

The first official poster for Ant-Man is here!

team_negative1 said:

Thanks again for all the comments.

Here is the last of the preview clips:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1Rt12wVMyXxdD8iFER

Team Negative1

 Looks like you've already done a cleaning pass on this, has it been color corrected as well?

So how about we start discussing some of the preview clips, eh?