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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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It felt almost like a remake of IV.
It was (of course) better than any of the prequels.
Maybe it was too much stuck in the past and not enough surprises and new twists for a new director. Maybe he'll have more courage next time unless he plans to remake V and VI too...
Erm, did you watch Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness? Courageous, JJ is not. He changed the whole Star Trek galaxy back story in the first one so much that half the fans almost exploded... I'd call risking losing a huge proportion of your built in fan base pretty courageous!  | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong | | | | Last edited: by Voltaire53 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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Quoting iPatsa:
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It felt almost like a remake of IV.
It was (of course) better than any of the prequels.
Maybe it was too much stuck in the past and not enough surprises and new twists for a new director. Maybe he'll have more courage next time unless he plans to remake V and VI too...
Erm, did you watch Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness? Courageous, JJ is not.
He changed the whole Star Trek galaxy back story in the first one so much that half the fans almost exploded... I'd call risking losing a huge proportion of your built in fan base pretty courageous! Star Trek? Sorry, you're in the wrong universe. Now if Episode VII had actually had a back story, any kind of back story no matter how unorthodox, I would have been intrigued. I guess I just felt that I had seen everything before... | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Ipatsa - Now if Episode VII had actually had a back story, any kind of back story no matter how unorthodox, I would have been intrigued. I guess I just felt that I had seen everything before... I guess $1.2 B in 12 days don't agree with you ...  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,747 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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Quoting iPatsa:
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It felt almost like a remake of IV.
It was (of course) better than any of the prequels.
Maybe it was too much stuck in the past and not enough surprises and new twists for a new director. Maybe he'll have more courage next time unless he plans to remake V and VI too...
Erm, did you watch Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness? Courageous, JJ is not.
He changed the whole Star Trek galaxy back story in the first one so much that half the fans almost exploded... I'd call risking losing a huge proportion of your built in fan base pretty courageous! Phaw. Trekkers have survived worse, look at Voyager. But both movies were slight variations of the pre-existing movies. He plundered and looted plot elements from the most popular installments and created a potpourri - not unlike what he did with Star Wars now. Neither the two Star Trek nor the new Star Wars bring anything new to the table, it's all a "been there, seen that" just with a lot of lens flare and modern CGI. As I said he's like a good Queen cover band, playing all the favourite tunes. But he will never compose a Bohemian Rhapsody of his own. | | | Karsten
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,747 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
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Now if Episode VII had actually had a back story, any kind of back story no matter how unorthodox, I would have been intrigued. I guess I just felt that I had seen everything before...
I guess $1.2 B in 12 days don't agree with you ...
I will not use the "eat faeces, one billion flies can't err" analogy, I will only say this: Cinema has become a theme park with an extremely cool rollercoaster. But at the end of the ride you're exactly where you started. This part of Mr. Plinkett's review of The Phantom Menace makes this point very succinctly (start from 5:56) | | | Karsten
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