Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens *SPOILERS*

[MattG]

Well, there you go...official indeed. I see Lawrence Kasdan reference in there too. A nice team coming together.

[Reverend Strone]

Agreed. I'm excited by the news. I think JJ could do a really great job so I look forward to seeing what he and the team come up with.

[Harvey Mushman]

Exciting times ahead!

[Reverend Strone]

Lost started off okay, but became an incomprehensible mess made up as he went along.

I'd totally agree that Lost, ahem, lost its way as it went along, but I'm not sure we can lay that one at abram's feet. Unless I am mistaken, didn't he create the series but leave it in someone else's care two or three seasons in?

Star Trek and Star Wars should, in theory, have two very different briefs going in. With Star Trek it was something of a reinvention of a franchise that had peetered in recent years and struggled to attract a new generation of fans. It was an update and revamp that was required of the new director. With Star Wars, I would hope at least that it is less about reinvention than it is about returning to the franchise's roots. Despite so many people in the film industry having got into the business because of the effect Star Wars had on them at a formative age, there's not a lot of love for the prequels. While the classics are held in awe and reverence, the newer films are largely dismissed as charmless and boring.

I have to imagine someone like JJ is going to be looking to reallign Star Wars with what he most loved about it growing up, so he's goinmg to be looking back at Eps IV-VI. I would imagine he'd be hoping to capture some of the energy and charisma that is so germane to those films but which the newest trilogy never quite managed to find. And he can do that. He writes characters well. He's funny. His action sequences are inventive and eye-popping. I think there's reason to think we're in safe hands, or at least, have reason to expect more than we did from the last trilogy, though that may be my own bias showing.

[Buzz Bumble]

Lost started off okay, but became an incomprehensible mess made up as he went along.

I'd totally agree that Lost, ahem, lost its way as it went along, but I'm not sure we can lay that one at abram's feet. Unless I am mistaken, didn't he create the series but leave it in someone else's care two or three seasons in?

That's the other issue with Abrams - he's supposedly doing so many things at once that there's no way he can actually be doing any of them properly (if at all).

His action sequences are inventive and eye-popping. I think there's reason to think we're in safe hands, or at least, have reason to expect more than we did from the last trilogy, though that may be my own bias showing.

There were "eye-popping" action sequences in the Original Trilogy?!?

[oota goota]

There were "eye-popping" action sequences in the Original Trilogy?!?

buzz you are funny

[Harvey Mushman]

There were "eye-popping" action sequences in the Original Trilogy?!?

Yes.

[Reverend Strone]

That's the other issue with Abrams - he's supposedly doing so many things at once that there's no way he can actually be doing any of them properly (if at all).

A very real concern, but that's all about scheduling. It sounds like if LF/Disney really want him then Ep VII will happen on his schedule.

There were "eye-popping" action sequences in the Original Trilogy?!?

Battle of Endor? Heck yeah. Those movies set the standard for eye-popping.

[Buzz Bumble]

There were "eye-popping" action sequences in the Original Trilogy?!?

Battle of Endor? Heck yeah. Those movies set the standard for eye-popping.

I was jokingly (hence the winking smiley) thinking of the comparisons between the Ben-Vader duel in ANH and the lightsaber duels in the prequel Trilogy.


There is one change that is almost guaranteed to be happening. The new movies will (almost certainly) be shot in 3D and get a 3D release ... hopefully that does not mean idiotic 3D gimmickry (lightsabers pushed "out" of the screen) and even more hopefully they still realease a porper, normal, 2D version as well.

[oota goota]

I'm no expert on 3d but my understanding was that there was a couple of different types of 3d out there? First the 'please put your glasses on now' type and the another rear projection type 3d. Anyone know anything about this?

Overall I like the effects you can get from 3d but the glasses are a pain in the pawa culka! (huttese)