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Post by SciFan on Aug 31, 2004 10:06:05 GMT -5
Did anyone hear about George Lucas deciding to make Star Wars 7-9?
Apperently his employees are being asked to sign non-disclosure agreements regarding some upcoming projects and this is how the rumor has started.
If this is true and the movies are going to be made, I wish he would have made these instead of Star Wars 1-3 (the new ones).
THe new ones suck compared to 4-6.
But the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is better than ALL movies!!!!!
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 10:07:17 GMT -5
I never saw what the big deal was with Star Wars. I thought the movies were ok, but nothing spectacular. Same with the Lord of the Rings.
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Post by SciFan on Aug 31, 2004 10:28:16 GMT -5
I never saw what the big deal was with Star Wars. I thought the movies were ok, but nothing spectacular. Same with the Lord of the Rings. Are you talking about the original Star Wars movies or the new pre-quels? Because the new ones aren't that good but the originals were awesome especially for when they came out. I think the final pre-quel for Star Wars is gonna be awesome. The transformation of Anikan Skywalker into Darth Vador and the killing of all the Jedi Knights! |
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 10:33:14 GMT -5
I'm talking about the originals. I've never seen any of the prequels, have no urge to. I'm not really into science fiction movies though. Well, other than the Matrix.....
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Post by BrewCityBuck on Aug 31, 2004 10:34:23 GMT -5
I never understood StarWars...Lord Of Rings also. "OMG The Ring!" I don't give a shit about a ring.  |
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Post by SciFan on Aug 31, 2004 10:36:35 GMT -5
I never understood StarWars...Lord Of Rings also. "OMG The Ring!" I don't give a shit about a ring. Jesse, the ring is symbolic of POWER. You can make a parallel with WMDs. WHoever wields the ring and uses it, can rule the world, much like WMDs. |
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 10:47:06 GMT -5
I understood all that, and all the other references to modern day society. I guess I get turned off when you turn on the news and there are hundreds of losers dressed up like the characters waiting 48 hours in line to be the first to see it.
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Post by SciFan on Aug 31, 2004 10:49:37 GMT -5
I understood all that, and all the other references to modern day society. I guess I get turned off when you turn on the news and there are hundreds of losers dressed up like the characters waiting 48 hours in line to be the first to see it. Those people crack me up and should be ridiculed. While I have seen some of the LOTR movies on the first day/night, I have never donned a costume or waited hours in line. Jim Rome is funny when he rips on those guys. |
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Post by siudancin on Aug 31, 2004 11:00:14 GMT -5
The NDA rumor for Ep 7-9 apparently was bogus. Rick McCallum (the co-executive producer of the Star Wars franchise) has an interest in doing 7-9, but problem there is that there are already books that have been published chronicalling events from right after the "Battle of Endor" up to the formation of a new republic, Luke's kids, Lea's kids with Solo and a bunch of other crap.
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Post by siudancin on Aug 31, 2004 11:06:20 GMT -5
Return of the King was one of the more visually stunning movies I've EVER seen. I could have done without the 5 minute close-up of Frodo's face at the end. The end of the book isn't even that long.
I'd love to see Peter Jackson do The Hobbit. Smaug on the big screen and Jacksons visual creativity would probably blow anything ever done away.
I do however have to give props to Lucas for the Battle scene at the end of Ep II. The CGI there was pretty damn good. I loved how he changed foreground to backgound perspectives and kept it all very "real" looking.
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Post by Poleon on Aug 31, 2004 11:12:32 GMT -5
Regrettably fellas, most of you young'uns need to sit down and READ the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The first chapter is long and slow, but once you get past that and they start out from the Shire, you will be hooked like generations before you!!!!....  |
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 11:15:42 GMT -5
I've been reading the Jason Bourne trilogy. Does that count Poleon? |
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 11:16:33 GMT -5
When were the books written and who was the author?
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Post by Poleon on Aug 31, 2004 11:23:17 GMT -5
The Bourne Trilogy is pretty good. Those are Ludlum's writings aren't they? I read them a long time ago. As for the Star Wars Books. I read some of the authorized and the unauthorized books in the 1990s. The lost Black fleet was good and so was the one about the Jedi Academy, but others were not. I will have to look for authors, but as I remember it, they were published by Dell and two people were authorized and a bunch of others just wrote things and there was a big lawsuit that Lucas eventually won or they (unauthorized writers) settled with him. Lord of the Rings was written from 1918 or so through the 1940s and was first published in the1950s. Became very popular in the 1960s.
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Post by btcoop71 on Aug 31, 2004 11:29:55 GMT -5
Yes, Robert Ludlum is the author of the Bourne Trilogy. I'm about halfway through The Bourne Supremacy. Excellent books, I enjoy Ludlum's writing style.
I didn't realize that the Lord of the Rings was that old. I thought they were written in the 50s and 60s.
I usually read CIA/Military/Spy novels or horror novels. Tom Clancy, Stephen King, etc.
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