Star Wars 7 - Cast Revealed
POSTED BY: SHINYGOODGUY
UPDATED: Friday, May 9, 2014 00:12
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I too am afraid that JJ will sterilize much of the action and character development much like in Phantom Menace (about the only worthwhile character was Qui-Gon Jinn) Liam Neeson gives new meaning to the word gravitas. Everyone else could have gone home (Lucas' script and direction was not good at all).
In Star Trek JJ managed to make a half decent movie, with the emphasis on half. I liked the origins story part of the script, and how Kirk met Bones, Spock and the rest of the crew.........but then things went south.
What encourages me, or, at the very least, doesn't have me so leery about this new Star Wars adventure, is that Lawrence Kasdan is involved in writing the script to Episode 7. That alone gives me hope that something good will come of this. If only Irvin Kershner were still alive.......I would choose him.
SGG
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I've been looking forward to this about as much as I did Abrams' second Trek film. Meaning, not at all.
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
My only hope is that JJ doesn't homogenize it, much like Episodes 1,2 & 3
SGG
How do you feel it was homogenized?
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Ok, let's see how I can narrow down the field. Let's choose acting. First, Liam Neeson was about the only decent thing that went on the screen, and maybe the actor who played Palpatine. All others were weak, at best.
Now I'm a fan of Ewan McGregor, but even he seemed rather wooden and stilted. Mark Hamill is not an accomplished actor, but he looks like Tom Hanks compared to those in Phantom Menace.
Pacing: If you were to view any of the 3 Prequels alongside the original 3 (Episodes 4,5,6) you could see that they don't compare in story pacing. The actors just seemed to be a bit off in dialogue and in movement, which made the story plod along. Somehow the action sequences managed to work. I draw your attention to the Pod races, except whenever they showed Anakin's mom and the others watching on, what we now know as, Tablets. It was so odd.
Dialogue: "I got a bad feeling about this" Count how many times McGregor, as Obi-Wan, uses that phrase. And who could ever forget, although I have tried, the infamous cry by Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith, "Noooooooooooo."
Enough said.
Shall I go on.
Listen, there is no bigger Star Wars fan than yours truly. That's why I can criticize and complain. I was there in 1977 when the original was released that summer. The beginning of the true Blockbusters. Standing in line to buy a ticket and then standing in the ticket-holders line to enter the theater.
Those were the days. Went 3 times to see it. So I know the thrill of watching film history being made, but also the sheer enjoyment of sitting in a darkened theater and being transported to another world. George Lucas, in writing the prequel episodes, somehow lost the magic.
The scenes and sets seemed so antiseptic in the prequels, there was nothing that seemed lived in and worn. Nothing that felt homey and comfortable, except, of course Qui-Con. In Episodes 1,2,3 even the dirt didn't seem like dirt, it felt somewhat sanitized.
Part of the original's charm was just that, that lived-in feeling. That these folks had been around for a long time, in a galaxy far away. That was missing in the prequels.
What Lucas did was a remarkable achievement in cinematic history and will remain unmatched for some time to come. Lucas was the creative genius behind the best sci-fi movie franchise ever made, and even he cannot recapture that magical moment. Dare I say it? If only Kershner were alive.
SGG
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
My only hope is that JJ doesn't homogenize it, much like Episodes 1,2 & 3
SGG
How do you feel it was homogenized?
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Ill give you the acting to a degree, but I also think a lot of it was on-par with the original triology.
Id also say many of your complaints were present in the originals to varying degrees. Harrison Ford and Alec Guiness both rather famously made fun of the dialog in the originals "You can write this shit, George, but you can't say it."
Return of the Jedi being particularly guilty of most of the prequels flaws (pacing, kiddie stuff, rehashed story points, contrivances, etc).
As for the "bad feeling" line - Kenobi says it twice in the trilogy - the exact same number of times Han says it in the originals....
Which kind-of illustrates my point - those a bit blinded by nostalgia tend to excuse the flaws in what they grew up with, while despising the same things in what the next generation grows up with.
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I have to admit I am really curious about all of this. I heard JJ Abrams insisted he want to reunite the original cast for the first installment. I am really, really looking forward to the first movie.
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