|
hhhat posted:Plus it's like poetry... I was born here. Yeah well you're gonna die here. Convenient.
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 21:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 21:11 |
|
|
Parachute posted:Between watching STITD last night and seeing that awesome-looking creature, I am confident that Episode 7 will look loving fantastic, if nothing else. loving hell. STID looks like loving poo poo, sounds like poo poo and plays out like poo poo. ST09 was pretty drat good, though it had a few rough patches. How STID can be made by the same people is a loving enigma. If episode 7 has just one scene that matches the opening of ST09 I'll be ecstatic, because drat if that wasn't one of the best openings to a summer blockbuster in years.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 22:40
|
|
|
I really like the overall plot and style of STID. It's paced and shot like a classic space adventure, and I love how much of it takes place inside one or two ships in perilous situations. It's just the Star Trekky details and the script that lets it down. I wouldn't call it a failure of Abrams though.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:10
|
|
|
I hope the planets they introduce have more than one eco-system. Tatooine? Desert planet. Hoth? Ice planet. Dagobah? Swamp planet! Also, both of Abrams Trek movies own and I'm confidant that Episode 7 will follow suit.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:27
|
|
|
Naboo seems to have a mostly normal ecosystem, but it somehow isn't good enough to support people during a blockade.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:35
|
|
|
Pops Mgee posted:Naboo seems to have a mostly normal ecosystem, but it somehow isn't good enough to support people during a blockade. They need their death stick supply!
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:43
|
|
|
Pops Mgee posted:Naboo seems to have a mostly normal ecosystem, but it somehow isn't good enough to support people during a blockade. I always thought of it in a sense that a modern (in this world obviously) functioning planet-state would potentially have billions more inhabitants than it could possibly be able to provide for with agriculture all on its lonesome. It would be dependent on essentially how modern nation-states cope in our world today, a from of globalisation - but in this case, being galactisation. This makes sense on its own, as a galaxy-spanning state in the form of the Galactic Republic could only have formed in the first place through some level of galactic economic inter-connectedness. It makes even more sense if you want to take into account the EU stuff/fluff that points out that the human population of Naboo is a colonial one, I don't know how long ago this colonisation occured, but if it happened within the last few centuries then you could argue that it hasn't developed a reasonable sense of economic autarky yet. If it happened much earlier though, with enough time to be established, then the galactisation point still stands.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:44
|
|
|
I wish someone would create some new and exciting IPs. We seem to have a decade of superhero/scifi sequels ahead of us.
|
|
#
?
May 22, 2014 23:58
|
|
|
Sylink posted:I wish someone would create some new and exciting IPs. We seem to have a decade of superhero/scifi sequels ahead of us. They made $$$ over the previous decade so I doubt producers are going to stop now.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:00
|
|
|
Sylink posted:I wish someone would create some new and exciting IPs. We seem to have a decade of superhero/scifi sequels ahead of us. Go watch Edge of Tomorrow then.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:12
|
|
|
computer parts posted:Go watch Edge of Tomorrow then. Yes do this! 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:13
|
|
|
So this is happening... Would otherwise be incredibly excited if it werent for the writer having done After Earth. http://starwars.com/news/gareth-edwards-and-gary-whitta-onboard-for-star-wars-stand-alone-film.html Star Wars posted:
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:19
|
|
|
Gotta love how their press release doesn't mention that this screenwriter's only other credit is After Earth. I'd trust a random teenager they pull off the street as a screenwriter over that guy. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Episode 7 better deliver or this might lose them a lot of money.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:21
|
|
|
AccountSupervisor posted:gareth edwards
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:34
|
|
|
Arkane posted:This is a disaster waiting to happen. Episode 7 better deliver or this might lose them a lot of money. You are cute! You really think they can lose money on the Star Wars brand? The worst thing that can happen is audience fatigue, and by the looks of it, it'll be 10 years before that happens.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:40
|
|
|
Slugworth posted:Krayt dragon attacks Mos Eisley There's Renoir, there's Ozu, and then there's Gareth Edwards.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:52
|
|
|
AccountSupervisor posted:So this is happening... He also worked with Telltale on The Walking Dead, which automatically makes him a pretty cool dude. I like to think that Will Smith and Shamalyamalan's influence was the biggest problem with After Earth (which I forgot that I saw until I was just reminded) and they meddled their way to the bottom of the poo poo-heap. So you never know.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 00:55
|
|
|
Steve2911 posted:He also worked with Telltale on The Walking Dead, which automatically makes him a pretty cool dude. I like to think that Will Smith and Shamalyamalan's influence was the biggest problem with After Earth (which I forgot that I saw until I was just reminded) and they meddled their way to the bottom of the poo poo-heap. So you never know. Yeah, remember that Will Smith originally came up with the idea of "father and son traveling in the wilderness, their vehicle breaks down, and the son has to go get help" and then decided it should be a big budget sci-fi epic.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:02
|
|
|
Gary Whitta also wrote The Book of Eli which I think is a good movie 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:06
|
|
|
Trump posted:You are cute! You really think they can lose money on the Star Wars brand? It is by no means a foregone conclusion. Ep 7 is pretty much guaranteed to be a money maker, yeah. Stand alone film with a bad screenwriter and a tenderfoot director, not so much. I guess we'll see how it goes. We're off to an inauspicious start.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:06
|
|
|
Star Wars 7 will make its budget back on merchandising alone weeks before the movie releases.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:40
|
|
|
computer parts posted:Yeah, remember that Will Smith originally came up with the idea of "father and son traveling in the wilderness, their vehicle breaks down, and the son has to go get help" and then decided it should be a big budget sci-fi epic. I know it's not too clear whether Will is/was a member, but his son posts stuff on Twitter that sounds like the ramblings of someone in Scientology, I swear.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:52
|
|
|
Come on you know that After Earth had a bunch of script control by Smith and M. Night. That dude barely gets a credit, unfortunately for him I guess.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:52
|
|
|
Arkane posted:It is by no means a foregone conclusion. Ep 7 is pretty much guaranteed to be a money maker, yeah. Stand alone film with a bad screenwriter and a tenderfoot director, not so much. Stars Wars + "From the Director of GODZILLA" should be ok.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 01:56
|
|
|
Steve2911 posted:He also worked with Telltale on The Walking Dead, which automatically makes him a pretty cool dude. I like to think that Will Smith and Shamalyamalan's influence was the biggest problem with After Earth (which I forgot that I saw until I was just reminded) and they meddled their way to the bottom of the poo poo-heap. So you never know. I don't know what level his involvement was, but The Walking Dead games are brilliant and the best part of that franchise pretty much on the strength of their writing alone, so there is that. Of course, he also worked on Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, and Gears of War. So...
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 02:02
|
|
|
Kart Barfunkel posted:I guess this means we're back to loving Tatooine again. Well...as a ground zero for a new era I guess it's alright. But seriously, for the most boring place in the galaxy there sure is a lot going on. But you see, everybody knows nothing goes on there, so if you want to try something... everybody knows that's the place to go, because, everybody knows nothing goes on there, so... Edit: Trump posted:You are cute! You really think they can lose money on the Star Wars brand? Well, they came as close as they ever did with the Clone Wars "movie"... RunAndGun fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 23, 2014 |
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 02:56
|
|
|
I like how literally every screenwriter ever mentioned in CD is singled out as bad, unless they're also a director.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 03:51
|
|
|
A good screenwriter is me, please read my script it's called "look who's talking
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 04:12
|
|
|
Slugworth posted:Krayt dragon attacks Mos Eisley Exogorths vs. Death Stars
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 06:45
|
|
|
Quotes in case he deletes some more: On The Clone Wars series: quote:<---- sick of the clone wars. quote:Obligatory joke about how Lucas already made Star Wars comedy, it's called Episodes I-III, etc etc quote:Having seen 1-3 maybe it's for the best. quote:I mean the OT. I don't know what Revenge of the Sith is, is that fan fiction? quote:Guess what, those movies loving sucked too. On the Blu-Ray editions: quote:Word of the Star Wars changes reaches Hitler's bunker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBP_U5VAB-Q quote:OG editions of Episodes IV, V and VI ACQUIRED! Ripping them to AppleTV this afternoon, then I plan to watch the trilogy the way I remember it! gently caress Lucas and his vandalized Blu-rays. He's turned us all into scavengers, scraping around in the trash cans of the internet for our childhoods. quote:Was accused today by a twitter follower of boycotting the BDs because I am "old and jaded". That motherfucker got BLOCKED. This was deleted but survives in quotes: quote:I just want my original ROTJ ending with the original non-lovely Ewok victory music and non-lovely Hayden ghost Anakin. With his Star Wars shoes: 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 07:05
|
|
|
Corek posted:With his Star Wars shoes: This thread looking in the mirror.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 07:09
|
|
|
I'm reserved but excited about this. Gary Whitta is a good dude and I'm happy for him. He seems like he has the right attitude for this, so I hope it pays off. I guess we'll see in 2016.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 07:18
|
|
|
Well all of his opinions are correct so I guess that's a decent start.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 07:31
|
|
|
I like the cut of this Gary Whitta chap's jib.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 11:08
|
|
|
This is all a good sign. Everything I've heard from people making the new films sounds like it's coming from the same nerds that hated what Lucas did to the series and wants their childhoods back. JJ Abrams in particular is very much a kid at heart who wants the old series back. It's a shame they couldn't go as far as declaring I-III and the Clone Wars non-canon, because I'm sure they'd like to. That would have been a bit too much of a diss to ol' Georgey though. I just really hope Disney has enough sense to release the originals on Blu Ray one of these days with the love they deserve.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 11:28
|
|
|
kiimo posted:Well all of his opinions are correct so I guess that's a decent start. Even better is the fact that he got hired by Disney with those opinions and what that says about their approach. 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 12:29
|
|
|
hhhat posted:Even better is the fact that he got hired by Disney with those opinions and what that says about their approach. Considering Disney's actions included canceling Clone Wars, shipping all the games to EA and deleting the Extended Universe, I'd say Gary Whitta's fundamentalism is perfect.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 12:52
|
|
|
I want my childhood back!! Finally, now that a Star War is being written by a man as angry as I am the childhood stolen from me may be retuned finally. Finally.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 14:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 21:11 |
|
|
I don't get the Clone Wars hate, rocky start at first, but it got a lot better. Season 6 had some great story arcs.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2014 14:42
|
|
