Topic: Fire George Lucas that would be blasphemy (Read 11453 times)

762 · « **Reply #100 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:13:49 pm »

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The one thing I thought was lacking in both movies was dramatic light saber duels. They were over way too quick. The one cool thing in the final movie is that it will be full of light saber duels. And the final DUEL we all expect is touted as being the longest duel ever in a movie.

The Darth Maul duel (especially the finale with Obi-Wan) was awesome. The Dooku duel was lame - I guess he was supposed to be too good for either Anakin or Obi-Wan to compete with. The Yoda bit was just silly, and the horrible writing only made it worse.

Praxis · « **Reply #101 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:34:35 pm »

One thing's for sure, Ep3 is gonna have some awesome battles.

What will we have?

Anakin vs Obi-wan
Someone vs General Grevious
Someone vs Dooku

Someone is going to kill Mace Windu at some point, and most of the Jedi are going to die. There will be a big opening battle, and the final battle of the clone wars, and the takeover of Emperor Palpatine.

Whoo!

BTW you guys really should watch the Clone Wars cartoons. Grevious is AWESOME.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #102 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:34:59 pm »

remember in that millue fights are different because the force augments thier endurance, strength, agility, reactions, even allowing precognition, annd abeyance of phisics and physiology to a degree. Thier fights do not have to follow the normal course of a mundane sword duel. If it did it would be pretty boring.

Praxis · « **Reply #104 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:44:05 pm »

Don't forget the force.

A Jedi can read the mind of an opponent, and know where he is going to strike before he actually strikes. That is why the Jedi can lightsaber duel for such a long time- they know where every strike is going to hit, and thus, can block every strike, until they tire and slip up once, and in that moment they get stabbed through the chest.

Praxis · « **Reply #105 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:51:03 pm »

I do think the Jedi can be quite silly at times.

If I were Obi-wan or Qui-gon, when they were on the TradeFed ship at the start of TPM and the 3 shielded Droidekas attacked, I would have destroyed them.

How, you ask? When they have shields and were firing so rapidly?

Force push. Bam, they're all down. Shields can't stop the Force, you know. Just reach out with the force, find their computer core, and rip it out of it's sockets.

Fighting people? Use the force to smash their brain flat.

Fighting an army with AT-AT's? AT-ST's? Use the Force to knock them over, then use the force to send the downed vehicles sliding into the armies around them.

Fighting a spaceship? Mind trick the bridge crew to activate self destruct. Or if the self destruct sequence is complicated, mind trick them to drop the shields to their docking bay (make them think fighters are exiting), then fire torpedoes inside.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #106 on:** May 21, 2004, 12:54:16 pm »

Or like the vulcans did thier most powerful TKs destroyed the welds in an enemies hull plating while it orbited thier planet.

J. Carney · « **Reply #108 on:** May 21, 2004, 01:43:59 pm »

Watched a lot of colligate matches when i was at University of Alabama (friend who took basic classes took me). Some went 5 mins or so. Most were over in 2 or 3. Plenty went in a lot less.

20 minutes... they probably had to drag those folks off the mat. They had to be exhausted.

Ravok · « **Reply #109 on:** May 21, 2004, 01:52:16 pm »

If a Jedi used the Force to smash sombodys brain flat, They would be Sith not Jedi......

Stormbringer · « **Reply #110 on:** May 21, 2004, 02:06:44 pm »

My WEG Starwars force user character played telekinetic people tennis all the time.

Ravok · « **Reply #111 on:** May 21, 2004, 02:14:11 pm »

I guess he was a Sedi ?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #112 on:** May 21, 2004, 02:32:17 pm »

Well the rule books allowed for non sith force users that did not subscribe fully to the jedi code. An example is the witches of Endor (I think.) so we created a "grey order" who were not fully white nore wholy black. This predates ATOC by nearly a decade but it bears out becasue mace windu uses rage to channel his fighting power as an accepted if feared jedi technique.

Tremok · « **Reply #113 on:** May 21, 2004, 03:20:26 pm »

I have too much love in my heart for Star Wars to truely dislike any of it's movies. Though, I'm sad to say, George Lucas does appear to have his limits. He needs to rediscover whatever gave the magic to the original trilogy (assuming he had anything to do with it at all. I can't say for sure.)

I have to agree with Praxis and say that the Star Wars microseries by Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of the amazing Samurai Jack) is awesome. The action in it is stupendous. I can't wait for it to come out on DVD.

Elvis · « **Reply #114 on:** May 21, 2004, 09:55:45 pm »

The problem is we are fans and I probably wouldn't go to far out on a limb to say that we grew up with the original trilogy and I think that somewhat clouds our vision. George Lucas had the chance to deliver another trilogy that would "shock and awe" us. He hasn't delivered, he hasn't even come close to meeting expectations; and the new trilogy lacks any kind of impact. How many lines can you remeber from the first three films? Things like "Use the force Luke.", "May the force be with you." or "I am your father" all show an indication of some kind of influence those movies had on us. What comes from the second trilogy? The new trilogy also really lacks anything really inspirational that effects us. I really don't feel anything toward the characters, except for maybe pity. Are the characters really memorable or the battles all that climatic. No, not really, I loved the first Star Wars, saw it like 15 times during its run at the original Cine Capri in Phoenix, but the second series just lacks. As a final note as with LOTR I think the Academy is just waiting to give the last installment the notice the series deserves.

Rat_Boy · « **Reply #115 on:** May 21, 2004, 10:08:02 pm »

In a similar vein, he is also releasing a special edition of his first film THX 1138 in the fall, complete with computer-generated images and edits. Here's the trailer (Quicktime and a bit of bandwith required).

J. Carney · « **Reply #116 on:** May 21, 2004, 10:36:52 pm »

How many lines can you remeber from the first three films? Things like "Use the force Luke.", "May the force be with you." or "I am your father"

"Scoundrel, scoundrel... I like the sound of that."

Or one even better:

"No reward is worth this!"

Ravok · « **Reply #117 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:37:03 pm »

Ah yes i for got about Vapad, Mace Windu is a force to be reckoned with. I wonder how he is going to be killed?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #118 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:41:15 pm »

I would say either taken by stealth or while distracted, killed by something like a deadfall or explosion or betrayal by a trusted friend.

Ravok · « **Reply #119 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:51:21 pm »

It would have to be some thing like that. From what im reading you cant even see him move when he gets going, He is so fast.

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