With J J Abrams at the helm, what's going to "Awaken" is lens flare.
Posted on 04/21/2015 10:05:35 AM PDT by C19fan
J.J. Abrams, the director tasked with bringing Star Wars back to the top of the crowded franchise heap, has always been happy to borrow. When he set out to make a new Star Trek and drag that moribund cinematic franchise back into blockbuster territory, he cheerfully swapped in some very familiar visual language to help it over the hill. Early on in the film, James Kirk (Chris Pine), nursing a desire to transcend his farmboy life, rides a motorcycle to see the U.S.S. Enterprise being built at a shipyard, and gazes up at it longingly. Star Wars fans would connect the scene to one at the end of the first 1977 film, when Luke Skywalker wistfully watches the dual suns of his home planet set; Star Trek's producers even called the scene "our Tatooine moment." Abrams has never exactly been a visionary artist, but he's a master of elevating the familiar—a fact made clear in the previews of his new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens
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Good news for Disney I would think.
The “Big Bang Theory” guys will be thrilled!
With J J Abrams at the helm, what's going to "Awaken" is lens flare.
I would have to say this statement is false based on his track record.
Saying that what he did with Star Trek was not visionary is probably true. When you come into a secondary world with a firmly established canon and cult, there's not really a whole lot you can change.
But he's taken chances on a number of things. Fringe and Lost, for example. His vision has not always been particularly good. But that's another thing entirely.
I understand by Obi Wan dressed like an Arab when on Tatoiine.
But WHY did they decide to dress every last Jedi Knight as though they just walked out of the desert?
It makes no sense.
I was disappointed with how Lost finished, but regarding Star Trek, you are talking something that has simply reached a rediculous point with all the sequels and spinoffs to the point where they should have started it over completely at the original series years ago. Or just left Star Trek to be like Seinfeld, replaying the original series. At this point, I would call the movie Star Wars: The Next Generation, given that’s pretty much what it is.
In my mind, to set things right, where they went horribly wrong...the first order of business is that the Ewok civilization must be utterly destroyed. Teddy bears with pointy sticks should not be able to levitate Redwoods, and the MUST not be able to destroy legions of the emperor’s best storm troopers. Destroy Endor. No survivors.
One of many big missteps in the Star Wars film universe.
I always felt it was a combination of a monk’s habit and a samurai’s kimono myself, which kinda went with the mystical/warrior mythos of the jedi for me.
But I can see how you could see it another way.
...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense!
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
The scene occurs no where near the end of the movie but after Uncle Owen has deep sixed Luke's plans to go the academy and get off Tattooine.
By now, the original movie should have been remade several times.
Originally it was supposed to take place on Kashyyk, and instead of Ewoks, they’d fight an army of Wookies. Now THAT would have been something.
I say go full-bore and give it an R-rating for insane violence and let’s have something we can really enjoy!
You’re forgetting what horrible shots those troopers are, and that their armor is made out of Tupperware.
As a concept they are as hideous as the "designated hitter." They must be ontologically and not just physically destroyed.
Actually, they were not dead all along, and the last episode doesn't say they were. It says, "they're all dead now." So it's not even an ending, since that is going to be said of every real and fictional character who is not some kind of deity at some point.
As for Star Trek, I think film-goers fall into two categories: those who want to just keep reliving a show with a very short run from the 1960's, and those who enjoyed that whole "world" and liked the spin-offs as much or more than the original. You can bring both groups into the theater with a rehash of Star Trek TOS.
With filmmakers being so risk averse they were never going to alienate the nostalgia contingent with a complete TOS reboot. The result is comfy but unimaginative.
Regarding Star Trek, they kept on increasing the complexity of the technology and the plot as the show dragged on. It got pretty bizarre in Voyager, but in the films, I felt that Nemesis concluded and closed the universe of the 24th century fairly well. Voyager got pretty bizarre and a mess with the plot though.
Instead, they gave Chewie the shaft. But still, if they are making one set later, perhaps we might get to see other wookies on Chewbacca’s Kashykk, who knows?
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