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>But I think a good start would be to stop thinking of Star Wars as quasi-medieval fantasy and to view it as the ludicrous Cowboy-Western-meets-Samurai-Cinema-meets-Aerial-Dogfights mashup that made it so endearing in the first place. The more EU stuff I'm exposed to, the more it reads like Dragonlance with lightsabers and space ships. That is not a compliment.
Clearly it should be more like Drizzy with lightsabers and spaceships.
For what it's worth there are four options:
Bad movie: same old same old
okay movie: steps in the right direction
good move: Yaaay!
Great movie: STAR WARS DOESN'T SUCK ANYMORE! MURDER YOUR WIVES AND PAINT YOUR TRASHCANS LIKE R2-D2 IN JUBILATIONS!
Alice in Wonderland sucked. There's one.
If I were behind it, I wouldn't greenlit a huge multi-film franchise right away. At least, taking into consideration that the last six films, while amazingly succesful, are amongst the most reviled movies of the last decade.
And I think that considering the referred precedent, where Iron Man was green-lit alone before they started green-lighting the whole Avengers Phase One she-bang, well...it's not exactly off the table.
So, apparently your friends are time travelers from 1998 or earlier.
the last six films? i thought there were only six
Err, three.
I should note these aren't "my friends" so much as there are people who were in high school with me, but in a younger grade so are still there while I have graduated, and I see them on Facebook still sometimes.
Also Gravity Falls.
I don't see why people are acting like this is a MAJOR deal. LucasFilms isn't being absorbed by Disney or anything, all this is, is one group of suited business men giving lots of money to another group of suited businessmen.
Stop the thread.
Did you just say
that Gravity Falls is as bad as Alice In Wonderland?
I'm sorry but that is just offensively wrong
No no no no no. Opposite than that. Sorry, I said it in the wrong place. I LOVE Gravity Falls. I'm saying it is a point in the favor of Disney's quality.
I don't like those jokes.
They are hit or miss.
Which one?
Somewhat unrelatedly, there are rumors that Sony's entertainment division might get sold in the near future. If that does happen, and they become another Disney acquisition, the Marvel movieverse will be able to use Spider-Man. Yeah, I know Sony's CEO is denying those rumors, but things can change.
Lucas must be relieved since this means everyone will stop blaming him for everything Star Wars does wrong.
The recent live action movie, Naas.
Pretty much all of the direct-to-video ones that they were cranking out for the better part of a decade and a half, with the possible exception of the Aladdin ones. Most of the CGI ones that weren't Pixar. A whole lot of people would put everything Jerry Bruckheimer touched after the first Pirates movie on there. High School Musical, which can go directly to hell without collecting $200. Everything that was an extension of their shitty popstar sitcoms, which culminated in Jonas Brothers: the 3D Concert Experience. This thing. Most of what Gunn Films did.
I can go on if you'd like. The whole "Disney was involved in more franchises than you think" argument kind of devolves into "and most of them were also shit".
Off the top of my head? Bolt. G-Force. Home on the Range. Chicken Little. Madagascar: Disney Ripoff Edition The Wild. Meet the Robinsons (which actually wasn't that bad, but it was pretty meh). Roadside Romeo, which you should probably be glad you've never heard of.
^ Home on the Range was not CGI.
^^ Derp. You're right. I shall commit a sudoku in penance.
Lucas intends to spend almost all of the $4 billion on fundraising to improve education.
Damn.
Someone high-five this guy.
I'm cautiously optimistic about that, but the question is will he give it to primary schools that actually need it or colleges?
It's the reason the Jonas Brothers became popular, though.
Having said that, I think it's kind of important that Sturgeon's Law definetly applies to Disney studios as a whole.
so all we need to do is make sure disney makes 10 star wars movies, and one of them will be good?
well, you could easily have them do nine movies before they do star wars and that'd solve the problem.