Yeah I respect his opinion to, I mean he the reason for all of it. I think he may be having a little bit of regret about not being involved or even selling to Disney and I can get that. I personally feel that The Force Awakens did everything it needed for the franchise and got a whole new generation of fans interested in Star Wars. Something completely new might have done the trick as well but we will never know. I think making a movie for the fans was the right choice and don't really understand that bit of criticism from Lucas.

You really are hilarious. You should get up off your computer every now and then, dude. Maybe stop going to 4chan so much. I think you're starting to lose touch with reality. That or you really need to move out of whatever Southern trailer park you might be living in. Either way there's clearly a major disconnect between the world you live in and the world most normal people live in.

Oh and :rofl: at your school comment. I think you need to calm your tits, man. I'd expect that kind of idiocy from the Youtube comments section, but not this foru- nevermind, I actually totally should have expected that from this forum... Still, un-rustle them jimmies, brother.

Immensely more entertaining.

I would love for him to publicize his treatment for this trilogy.

More on Lucas:

I think he kinda stinks as a director and script writer, but he knows Star Wars. The best case would have been to adapt his own treatment for 7-8-9. I'm sure Disney is gonna do well, but we'll never really know how the story was going to continue. Also, certain EU elements he already signed off on had a higher chance of being filmed if he was still in charge.

He certainly wouldn't have made a soft-remake of A New Hope.

It's because he doesn't want to make or see that movie. He thinks the movie the movie they want is terrible, because it doesn't match his overall story. Telling his story is the only thing that matters to him.

His comments are all BS. he likes to make things different every movie? He used 2 Death Stars, wound up on tattooine in 5 movies, shoe horned in chewbacca and boba Fett into the prequels, somehow thought Anakin building 3po was a good idea.

Just because he created it doesnt give him a free pass to consitently make bad decisions.

The prequels weren't just had films. They were terrible from their core.

He does stink as a director and script writer. We have 2 horrible movies, and 1 "ok" movie to prove that.

George Lucas does haveas great ideas though. just having the idea for Star Wars is amazing in itself. The prequels too are even pa great idea, and it is really visioniary work to create this huge universe that he did. However at some point he lost the ability to be able to put his ideas on screen in a convincing fashion.

The Clone Wars animated series is a good example of George Lucas being on his game. Lot of those ideas on that show come from him, and he was able to successfully hand stuff off to the people on that show who could properly visualize it for him. If he could do that with his movies, and didn't have do be involved with every job and detail I bet episodes 1.2, & 3 would have been better.

Who cares about filming the EU? Why would anyone want that filmed except the fan boys who wrote it?

Are you fucking insane?

There's shit from the EU that would have been balls out awesome if it were filmed. And fanboys? The main issue with TFA is Abrams is too much of a New Hope fanboy.

I can not believe what you're saying right now.

Ok fanboy. No wonder you didn't like the movie with your poor taste

A New Hope got everyone that is a Star Wars fan interested in the franchise. The Force Awakens does that for a whole new generation. I wasn't born when a New Hope came out but my dad had the VHS( actually still have it, when I was 5 the trailor we were living in got taken in a flood and we were watching it as the water got up and its the only thing we took out of the trailor at the moment). I didn't think the prequals were bad but they did have bad moments. They were the first Star Wars films I seen in theaters and with The Force Awakens I walked out completley satisfied feeling like I had just seen a great movie. JJ using New Hope as a base for this film was probably the best thing that could have happened. It reminded old fans of the past while making the wonder about the future of the franchise.

Yes.

Poe specifically described BB-8 as "one of a kind", and everyone that ended up looking for the macguffin specifically described it as an "orange BB unit"... it is not the same as the search for the plans in the original, as nobody knew R2 had them.

But for sake of argument, let us say everyone looking for the Death Star plans knew it was R2, and the Empire were specifically looking for a blue R2 unit... the Rebels could paint, or cover with grease, or some other shit to disguise the blue parts of Artoo. There were already other colored R2 units in the universe... at least red, black, or green. C3PO's joke about the one red arm making him "unrecognizable" was only funny because it was just one arm. If the whole damn gold was replaced with red, it wouldn't be so funny, as everyone would legit question it being C3P0 specifically and not just some random other protocol droid.

Rei/Ray/Wray caught the idea of people looking for BB from jump. The "I'll pay you..." way more than she was ever used to getting form the scrap she was collecting, then after saying "no", she gets jumped and chased and shot at. If she can master the force and (sort of) fly a Correlian ship with no previous attempts, I'm pretty certain she can put 2 and 2 together on the droid being a hot target. Cover it, hide it carry it, paint it, something. Instead, she just continues around with it like it is a completely inconspicuous thing. As for Finn, he was specifically told by Po that BB was unique (which is how HE knew what to look for). Same thing; hide/disguise the fucking droid.

This "there is no Home Depo" shit is invalid, because they can paint insignias and numbers all over X-Wings and Y-Wings and landspeeders and any other ship or vehicle, they can expend a bit of effort to obscure BB's orange, even if they covered the little fucker with mud.

If an army were trying to capture and/or kill me, and everyone knows I've got really long dreadlocks, guess who is finding a way to shave his head *immediately*? Or at least cover my head. I wouldn't just keep roaming around like normal. *They* knew he had the map. That's enough knowledge to be as careful as possible. Nope, we just wander around with this unique droid that everyone seems to be chasing like it's no big.

wtf

You are wrong. It wasn't an issue until Poe sends him on his way. After that show me a moment that they would've had time to fucking paint him.

If there's anything I learned about the internet is you can make a simple statement and people will miss your point/misrepresent you. And then you can commit a fucking essay clarifying and elaborating it and people still will miss your point/misrepresent you.

And the nerve calling people fanboys when he's deflecting even the most benign criticisms of this movie. That is next level shit.

I don't really see the point in painting BB-8. If you paint him then you don't get figured out and you don't have a movie really. Don't know when she would have time to paint him either.

The point is yes it would've been great to paint him but there never a moment to even do that

I don't remember seeing any other BB units in the movie either but I might have missed it if there was. Might have been funny for the First Order to have a line up of BB units and BB-8 was painted or something but other than that I really don't see painting it being a priority.

Listen man. You're really annoying. I don't mind having a discussion with anyone about anything, but you talk like an asshole with no social skills, so people generally just don't want to deal with you. There's nothing necessarily wrong with any of your theories, but the way you address everything is pretty much the worst.

You're eloquent enough, and you have passion for the subject matter and that is awesome, but dial down your tone a notch or two and this thread would be great.

Nope.

TPWW has taught me we are all package deals. Thanks for recognizing my better traits, and I do not mean to be an asshole, but I'm not 'toning down', sorry.

Do as I do and just argue the points. Plenty of you guys have eccentricities that annoy me, but you can trust that I will stay on point and accept you all as you are.

I love you all.

I just don't think the EU is a standard to judge anything nor not sure why you would want a bunch of stories filmed that you already know what happens. That worked out terribly for the prequels because it takes the drama out of most situations.

In addition I think they are poor stories. To each their own. Happy New Year

What?

The prequel movies had very little to do with what the EU had out at the time. In fact the prequels introduced EU premises rather than the other way around.

There is a possibility you do not understand what we mean when we mention the EU.

I'm not saying they did.

I understand perfectly fine what EU is

He wasn't saying that the EU had anything to do with the prequels he was just pointing out that people knew the outcome of episodes 1,2,&3 so it took something away from the films. He was saying if you just remake a EU story some people will know it and it would take away from the film.

Thank you for putting it better than me

I think asserting that we 'knew' what was going to happen in the prequels because we knew the set-up for A New Hope is comical.

Nobody during any of the pre-release discussions of any of those movies 'knew' what was going to happen. What the fuck?

Yeah there's gonna be Clone Wars, and Obi will fight Vader, and Padme is going to have twins. You consider these spoilers? Are you against the concept of prequels in general?

"No need to make X-Men First Class we know how things will end up." Really?

No but you knew the end game. You knew that young Skywalker would become Darth Vader and have a set of twins. It was cool to see how it all went down and I enjoyed them but there was that feeling of I know how this will end.

And what I'm saying is entertaining this kind of criticism is literally the rejection of the very concept of prequel stories. Of course we know the endgame, the point is how did we get there.

Hell, you just murdered nearly half of Arrow's story telling. I mean we know the endgame; he gets off the island and puts on a suit. So why bother, right?

That is what you're saying right now.

Actually Arrow's a bad example, since they use their flashbacks in a 'concurrent revelation' sort of way.

A better example would be again X-Men First Class. Or Star Trek Enterprise. Gotham. Smallville. That Underworld prequel. So on and so forth. Are you against prequel stories?

Also, the Star Wars prequel trilogy had WAY more problems than us knowing Anakin grows up to be a dick.

In general no, adapting stories ready written is fine but there has been a whole set of 3 movies that do that. I'd much rather see new characters like we got. I've also stated several times I don't find the EU characters that interesting.

You may want to see them. I have no interest. Most of it in my opinion is just crap. Enjoy it all you want

I'm not against them but was just agreeing that knowing the end game does take away from some of the drama. I don't connect them with the likes of Arrow, Smallville, Gotham and things like that because those are their own universe separate from what made them popular to begin with. The Star Wars prequals are directly connected to episodes 6,7,&8 unlike any episode of a comic book TV show. I'm not bashing the prequals as I said I enjoyed them and it was cool to see how everything went down.

Is there really a discussion here about why a droid wasn't painted to disguise it in a movie?

Some people just really don't enjoy life do they?

Yes REALLY.
I like 1-3,although I loath to admit it, but we knew that several things had to happen to get us to A New Hope and to some extent that took away from the impact of the films. Adapting the EU works to film works the same way. Yes the movies would be good but the journey we take would be different because we literally know how it ends.

To get back on topic of the movie I know Vader's lightsaber feel down to the same place the Emperor did but do you think they're is any chance of it making a n appearance? I could see Ren wanting to find it since he traets the helmet as a piece of worship.

It's possible. I doubt it and wouldn't care for it because that would be a little tough to explain but you never know

Kalyx, please list your top five Expanded Universe moments/characters you would have liked to see done in film. Please back up each choice with an essay explaining why.

Fo real? I would. Perhaps make a new thread over it.