Like many a recovering Star Wars fan, I await the premiere this Friday of Star Wars: The Clone Wars with a mix of excitement and Read the full post.
Aug 14
2008
07:50 PM ET
The Hopes of a Long Suffering 'Star Wars' Fan
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State Your Name Here needs to STFU
George is the Man! When it comes to Starwars he is the Alpha and the Omega. No one and I mean No one is going to give the attention to detail and story line like George. He must be involved. Everyone else is his employee.
I must agree with Tom Strong when it comes to people bad mouthin SW and Lucas. STFU.
One thing I don’t get is this whole thing about SW fans always being Virgins. I love SW and I love chicks and get plenty of both.
Hey Dan, you’re a Dingle Berry.
Personally, I’m sick of Star Wars milking the “prequel” thing, and I say this as a lifelong fan. Just how many times can “The untold story between Episodes X and X” be told? I never found the Clone Wars too interesting to begin with, and it seems to me that after ROTS, it’s all about Jedi in hiding and watching the original heroes in diapers. Why not adapt some of the literally hundreds of expanded universe novels to the screen in some form? The New Jedi Order is an epic series about a gritty war that is much darker in tone than Lucas’ movies; I’d willingly pay to watch that story play out onscreen. But I refuse to pay for the new Clone Wars movie, because it is a cheap marketing ploy, I already know how it ends, and its story is basically irrelevant (introducing characters like Anakin’s apprentice that have no bearing on future films).
http://livingboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/clone-wars-director-gets-revenge-on-lucas/
Alright, so Pegg’s sadness at Phantom Menace and beyond is no secret. If he’s anything like his Spaced character Tim Bisley, that is (and I think he is very much like his character).
He’s a brilliant comedy guy, and a huge star wars fan, and if he wrote a new star wars film I’d be the first in line. Lucas needs (DESPERATELY) to get some new blood into his star wars franchise if he even wants to consider continuing it…
I believe the point of the series and probable others is to get new blood involved. Lucas will move on when he has chosen his padawans. And the SW universe is filled with other writers in novels and comics. The only concern for Lucas was to tell the Skywalker storylinee (including the Clone Wars), because he is very interested in how wars start and change societies and people.
As for the idiot” STATE YOUR NAME HERE”..(too much of a coward to give his real name)..hey buddy…everyone has an opinion.It fine to voice them what ever you think of Star Wars…but your statment of death is desturbing. You are like Mark Chapman who who thought another icon should die..are you mentaly insane? Keep it clean. That in not a respectible debate. You are a coward!
The three “Star Wars” prequels were all awful. And all directed by George Lucas. So does the franchise need some fresh creative perspective? Let me think about that one…
Like many on this board, I found this movie extremely disappointing. In my review (http://www.thisishowyoudoit.com/blog/star-wars-the-clone-wars-movie-review/ ), I refer to it as a Reel Disaster. What happened to the great Star Wars movies of yesteryear?
Well, Clone wars was an immense disappointment. The only thing i ever go back to watch in the newer trilogy are the choreography of that battles, which isn’t that bad, and rather impressive when it comes to the Emperor V. Yoda. As has been said before, where are so many story lines to chose from that are considered canon that ignoring those and sticking with such a small time frame seems foolish. Lucas had his run, and messed it up at the end. It’s time to progress or to watch the series lose momentum and fall into mere memory. I’m sure ther are a few people who could take a book and make a decent movie, and I’m sure there are people who can make a totally new idea or direction for the SW Universe and renew the franchise and more than a marketing ploy. The original trilogy didn’t need odd plot twists, and nor did it need and overplayed out and forbidden romance, it just needed a solid storyline, and good hero and villain, and a Force that was more mythical than scientific.
I apologize for the spelling errors, I sort of rushed the comment. *laughs*
all this crap about star wars not living up to fans expectaions no more is a pointless waste of time. it’s george work, he can do what ever he wants, and only three people in world cares about star wars and he decides to to make movies for those three people, then so be it. he’s not caring about anybodies gripes and hangups about what he does and nobody else is either. you don’t like the franchise, then don’t watch it plain and simple. and let the people that still like star wars enjoy it.
George Lucas told the greatest story ever with his Star Wars saga. Name another filmmaker who enthralled us with an epic story written directly for the silver screen over 30 years. Everyone who wrote in on this comment list saw each of the prequels opening weekend, and they know it, and suddenly, they’re bad movies? And, Peter Jackson directing Star Wars??? Are you crazy? I don’t need an Episode VII that is 4 and a half hours long with multiple endings and every character looking like they’re gonna s@# their pants every second of the film. George is the master storyteller and editor when it comes to Star Wars because it’s pure cinema. Star Wars is what movies are all about. Star Wars is Forever. Those who don’t like it, don’t get it. Sorry, your loss…Shakespeare would be bowing at the altar of George Lucas if he alive today…
May the Force Be With Those That Get It. Those that don’t, stay out of the theatre when they’re re-released. More popcorn for me…
“Skywalking” is a 25 year old book that George hates probably more than the Star Wars Christmas special, so I’d probably take whatever you read in that with more than a few grains of salt.
I was born in the late 80′s. We didn’t own the Star Wars movies on VHS. But we did have parts of Hope and all of Jedi taped. Later in when the Sp. Eds were released my mom bought them and for the first, that I can remember, I watched all three movies all the way though.
When I was ten my dad took my younger brother, and two younger sister to see the Phantom Menece ( my mom stayed home with my three year old sist and ten month old brother). I enjoyed watching it! When it came out we pestered our mom to get it. She bought it on a wedesday night and we wanted to watch it the moment we got home (it would have been about eleven pm when we got done). I don’t hate Jar Jar, in fact kids used to make fun of me when I was little because I had glasses, was smaller and sometimes repeated myself.
There are those who feel a fan should take over. I laugh at you. A fan would ruin the Star Wars saga.
Oh and by the way those Ewoks are way better the the new care bears.