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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 6, 2018 15:09:18 GMT -5
I thought we already saw Boba the younger years. Some of them anyhow. They were creepy. As I understand it, the "expanded universe" explained that there was a mercenary named Jango Fett who sold the rights to make clones of him in exchange of getting to keep one of the clones himself. The rest of the clones became the cloned army of stormtroopers, and the clone he got to keep for himself he raised as his "son", Boba Fett. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jango_Fett
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 15:10:49 GMT -5
Yes. That was in the prequels. Clone Wars or whatever.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 6, 2018 15:19:28 GMT -5
Yes. That was in the prequels. Clone Wars or whatever. Ah. I never actually saw any of those movies.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 6, 2018 15:36:18 GMT -5
... I want to see more about Jar Jar. Maybe a Jar Jar and Jaba road movie? A movie where they go looking for something and, in the process, find something much more meaningful -- themselves. Yeah, never seen any movies like that before.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 15:53:49 GMT -5
Yes. That was in the prequels. Clone Wars or whatever. Ah. I never actually saw any of those movies. You didn't miss much. Well, some back story obviously. But, man, they were bad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 15:55:40 GMT -5
... I want to see more about Jar Jar. Maybe a Jar Jar and Jaba road movie? A movie where they go looking for something and, in the process, find something much more meaningful -- themselves. Yeah, never seen any movies like that before. Any movie where Jaba ends up finding himself is going to appeal to ... well ... no one. I say they find something this time. Like $20. And then they realize they'll have to wait a long time and go far far away to spend it.
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Post by nowhereman on Feb 6, 2018 16:10:45 GMT -5
I would answer "yes" to the comment that Disney is milking dry the Star Wars Franchise. But hey if that's what people want they'll continue to get it.
Having said that after I read why Rian Johnson did some of the things he did in Last Jedi I said I'm done with Rey, Finn, and Po. I could care less how their saga ends up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 16:12:42 GMT -5
What did you read? C'mon, give us some specifics.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 16:22:19 GMT -5
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Post by ironhammer on Feb 6, 2018 21:53:31 GMT -5
Sure, but that's a pretty low bar to jump over. Lucas's prequels had clunky dialogue, jar jar binks and bad acting. It wouldn't be that hard to improve over the prequels...but that does not automatically make Disney's Star Wars a home run either. With the exception of Rogue One, I just don't find the current crop of Star War movies that inspiring or spectacular. Decent and watchable? Certainly. But it just does not move me the way the original trilogy did. Yeah, but the point is that Rogue One, the only "non-main-sequence" movie, was actually quite good. And with Ron Howard at the helm, I have hopes that this "non-main-sequence" movie might be pretty good too. Howard took over part-way through, but they say he reshot a significant chunk of the movie. I don't know, the jury is out for me. Howard has of course made some pretty good movies...and others that weren't as great. I am going to be a bit on the skeptical side.
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Post by ironhammer on Feb 6, 2018 22:06:10 GMT -5
Actually, far from "milking it dry", I think the Disney movies I have seen have been better than most of the ones Lucas made. Lucas was a visionary, but he wasn't a very good director or writer. The best Lucasfilm movies were the ones he didn't direct. I always wondered why he never got Spielberg to direct a Star Wars movie. He is named as an assistant director though on Revenge of the Sith. Lucas....clearly something went wrong with him in the years between the end of the original trilogy and the prequels. Maybe he rested on his laurels for too long. He may have gotten rusty and lost his feel for what ideas make a good movie. Maybe all the praise and adoration heaped on the original trilogy went to his head and he felt he had a cache-blanche to make whatever Star Wars movie he pleases free from studio interference. Something similiar happened to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. Between the end of the original series and the Motion Picture in 1979, he developed some very strange and weird ideas about Trek. That proved unworkable on the big screen and the motion picture was a borefest as a result. Gene was then removed from the producer role for the rest of the Trek movies.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 22:10:53 GMT -5
To me, Lucas's problem has always been that he doesn't know how to get good performances from his actors. He's had some fine actors in his movies, but the acting has always been bleh. Part of that is because he can't write dialogue either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 22:12:57 GMT -5
As for Ron Howard, the guy has never lived in the real world and his movies reflect that. Some have been better than others but they have all felt like the work of a guy who doesn't know the difference between a sitcom and real life.
This may not be a drawback in a comic book movie, however.
Gary Marshall had the same problem.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 6, 2018 22:19:54 GMT -5
Lucas was a visionary, but he wasn't a very good director or writer. The best Lucasfilm movies were the ones he didn't direct. I always wondered why he never got Spielberg to direct a Star Wars movie. He is named as an assistant director though on Revenge of the Sith. Lucas....clearly something went wrong with him in the years between the end of the original trilogy and the prequels. Maybe he rested on his laurels for too long. He may have gotten rusty and lost his feel for what ideas make a good movie. Maybe all the praise and adoration heaped on the original trilogy went to his head and he felt he had a cache-blanche to make whatever Star Wars movie he pleases free from studio interference. Something similiar happened to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. Between the end of the original series and the Motion Picture in 1979, he developed some very strange and weird ideas about Trek. That proved unworkable on the big screen and the motion picture was a borefest as a result. Gene was then removed from the producer role for the rest of the Trek movies. The original trilogy had the Ewoks so clearly, he lost it during the time of the original trilogy.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 6, 2018 23:19:33 GMT -5
The original trilogy had the Ewoks so clearly, he lost it during the time of the original trilogy. I present to you the legendary Star Wars Christmas Special!
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