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Oh hey, now he can almost buy a destroyer.boblipton wrote:George Lucas sells Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion....
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In other words, I wouldn't mind some slickly entertaining Star Wars movies with no windy humbug about Jedi knights and midi-chlorians at all.Disney. Yes, soulless corporate monster that gives babies adorable Mickey Mouse ears and tickles their chins before it swallows their souls. On the other hand: Also smart enough to buy Pixar and Marvel, give their respective brain trusts the keys to the castle, and say “Get to work.” Result: Films that are relentless commercial, entertaining and profitable, not only in themselves but in all sorts of ancillary markets. The mouse is a monster because it knows how to entertain the very living crap out of you. This can only be good for the Star Wars universe, freed now as it is from its cranky, frustrated Emperor Lucas.
I would. There is enough brainless CGI out there already.Mike Gebert wrote:In other words, I wouldn't mind some slickly entertaining Star Wars movies with no windy humbug about Jedi knights and midi-chlorians at all.
Frederica wrote:Oh hey, now he can almost buy a destroyer.boblipton wrote:George Lucas sells Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion....
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I also liked John Carter, although to me it's biggest flaw(s) were the banal leads. It's not my favorite movie by any means, but I had a good time. Which is pretty much what I'm looking for in a movie.fwtep wrote:The first trailer for John Carter made me very much NOT want to see it. It looked like a big-budget SyFy channel movie. But when the movie finally came out some friends dragged me to see it and I really liked it. It's not perfect, it could use some editing, and the blocking and camera work in the dialog scenes needs a lot of work, but overall it was a lot of fun. It felt to me like a cross between the original Star Wars and the 1979 Flash Gordon. It's WAY better than any of the Star Wars prequels. It also has one of my favorite scores (by Michael Giacchino) in a very long time.
Not a problem that a Disney Star Wars could make worse.I also liked John Carter, although to me it's biggest flaw(s) were the banal leads.
I think the leads could have been much better with a better director. I think Stanton was just too used to the way animation direction works, which is so much different. I don't think he has what it takes to work with an entire performance (visual and verbal) from an actor. Look how terrible even the GOOD actors are in the Star Wars prequels. Good actors still, generally, need good directors.Mike Gebert wrote:Not a problem that a Disney Star Wars could make worse.I also liked John Carter, although to me it's biggest flaw(s) were the banal leads.