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What would you do if The Force Awakens is worse than the prequels?

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Be Sad. 95 28.02%
 
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Not watch it, I found the Star Wars movies interesting but I'm not a super fan, so I could care less if the new one sucks



Currently most hyped for: FFXV and Zelda U

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generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
I'd be pretty disappointed, but I have confidence that it will be a blast. Abrams made Star Trek more exciting than Star Wars, so I think he'll make Star Wars absolutely glorious. Retconning the EU was a good decision; the canon was a mess before and the narrative was too restrictive. Now we get to wonder what happens next rather than whinge about them getting things wrong from the books.

he made the WORST star trek movies ever, and thats realy hard to do. so yeah, maybe he has better luck this time.

Not according to Rotten Tomatoes---based on critics and audience review, he made two of the best of ones.

Critical Review/Audience Appreciation


Motion Picture -- 45/42
Wrath of Khan -- 88/90
Search for Spock --78/61
Voyage Home--85/80
Final Frontier -- 21/24
Undiscovered Country --83/83
Generations -- 48/58
First Contact -- 92/89
Insurrection -- 55/45
Nemesis -- 37/50
Star Trek 2009 -- 95/91 (highest rated in the series)
Into Darkness -- 87/90 (Second place to fourth overall, depending on how you want to view the data)

Abrams is going to rock the Star Wars universe.

thats like asking atheists what your favourite book of the bible...

ask a star trek fan, they will tell you how good the new movies are.


LOL you mean the few that are vocal trolls on youtube?

Also I didn't know that a movie franchise isn't allowed to try and capture a new audience because they were born in the wrong century. Only if you were there day one your opinions shoudl matter I guess.



 

 

Not really care. My brother might be pissed though. I probably won't even see it in theaters.



Cobretti2 said:
generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
I'd be pretty disappointed, but I have confidence that it will be a blast. Abrams made Star Trek more exciting than Star Wars, so I think he'll make Star Wars absolutely glorious. Retconning the EU was a good decision; the canon was a mess before and the narrative was too restrictive. Now we get to wonder what happens next rather than whinge about them getting things wrong from the books.

he made the WORST star trek movies ever, and thats realy hard to do. so yeah, maybe he has better luck this time.

Not according to Rotten Tomatoes---based on critics and audience review, he made two of the best of ones.

Critical Review/Audience Appreciation


Motion Picture -- 45/42
Wrath of Khan -- 88/90
Search for Spock --78/61
Voyage Home--85/80
Final Frontier -- 21/24
Undiscovered Country --83/83
Generations -- 48/58
First Contact -- 92/89
Insurrection -- 55/45
Nemesis -- 37/50
Star Trek 2009 -- 95/91 (highest rated in the series)
Into Darkness -- 87/90 (Second place to fourth overall, depending on how you want to view the data)

Abrams is going to rock the Star Wars universe.

thats like asking atheists what your favourite book of the bible...

ask a star trek fan, they will tell you how good the new movies are.


LOL you mean the few that are vocal trolls on youtube?

Also I didn't know that a movie franchise isn't allowed to try and capture a new audience because they were born in the wrong century. Only if you were there day one your opinions shoudl matter I guess.


the movies have NOTHING to do with star trek, and i dont like when a realy good intelligent franchise trs to grab idiots as audience with toning down the science stuff and upping wit stupid, action bubbles. 



I think the big difference between the two trilogies, aside from the drop off in Lucas' writing skills (especially with no Lawrence Kasdan writing) was Lucas had become a family man by the time the prequels were made and the movies took on a child-ish/kiddie tone.

And no the OT was not like that, maybe in part due to budget restrictions. The OT movies are more like WESTERNS ... now kids can like Westerns and want to be a cowboy, but Westerns are not made for kids. They're just something kids can enjoy on top of the adults. But there's a difference between that and outright making a kids/cartoon movie.


The prequels feel like cartoons though with a ton of pandering to kids. In the OT it was only really obvious with the Ewoks and even the Ewoks were about 30 seconds away from cooking the heroes alive and tearing their skin off to eat them.



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XanderXT said:
Zappykins said:
It's kind of what I am expecting. After seeing JJ Abrams 'Star Treks' It made me really sad to find out he was directing the new Star Wars films. I thought his Star Trek missed what made the originals great - and focused to the cheesy bad parts and made them bigger and the focus.

I've tried to watch 'Lost' but found it really dull. Super 8, is in my opinion nearly unwatchable.

He kind of makes 'walmart movies' they are popular with the masses, but like junk food with little substance. He throws in enough fan references than it works for some.

I figure the new one will probably be popular, somewhere between the 1st prequel and the other two, but most likely void of the experience the original movie was, what made it special, a challenge against the status quo and exciting.

I hope I am wrong.

In my opinion:

Star Wars >>> Empire Strikes Back - Return of the Jedi - Revenge of the Sith >>>> The Clone Wars >>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Phantom Menace > Star Wars Holiday Special

What about Attack of the Clones?

Oh, I named the wrong movie.  I put Attack of the Clones behind all the others but Phantom Menace and Holiday Special. 

And I would rate Star Wars Kinect just ahead of it (I did have fun with it.)  but also ahead of Phantom Menace and Holiday Special. 

And I'm someone that saw Star Wars like many times in the Cinema.  People would do that back then, go see Star Wars over, and over again.  It was still at the Cinema a year or so after it was out in some place.  There was no video players back then.  (Or very, very few.)



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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Soundwave said:

I think the big difference between the two trilogies, aside from the drop off in Lucas' writing skills (especially with no Lawrence Kasdan writing) was Lucas had become a family man by the time the prequels were made and the movies took on a child-ish/kiddie tone.

And no the OT was not like that, maybe in part due to budget restrictions. The OT movies are more like WESTERNS ... now kids can like Westerns and want to be a cowboy, but Westerns are not made for kids. They're just something kids can enjoy on top of the adults. But there's a difference between that and outright making a kids/cartoon movie.


The prequels feel like cartoons though with a ton of pandering to kids. In the OT it was only really obvious with the Ewoks and even the Ewoks were about 30 seconds away from cooking the heroes alive and tearing their skin off to eat them.

I have a theory that most great artist are ruined when they have kids.  This seems to support that theory.  (And just look at Robert Rodriguez if you want a second.

I hated the Ewoks; I felt while watching the movie that Lucas had sold out.  Made even worse by all the Ewok toys that were everwhere.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

Tell me a funny joke!

SuaveSocialist said:
generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
generic-user-1 said:
SuaveSocialist said:
I'd be pretty disappointed, but I have confidence that it will be a blast. Abrams made Star Trek more exciting than Star Wars, so I think he'll make Star Wars absolutely glorious. Retconning the EU was a good decision; the canon was a mess before and the narrative was too restrictive. Now we get to wonder what happens next rather than whinge about them getting things wrong from the books.

he made the WORST star trek movies ever, and thats realy hard to do. so yeah, maybe he has better luck this time.

Not according to Rotten Tomatoes---based on critics and audience review, he made two of the best of ones.

Critical Review/Audience Appreciation


Motion Picture -- 45/42
Wrath of Khan -- 88/90
Search for Spock --78/61
Voyage Home--85/80
Final Frontier -- 21/24
Undiscovered Country --83/83
Generations -- 48/58
First Contact -- 92/89
Insurrection -- 55/45
Nemesis -- 37/50
Star Trek 2009 -- 95/91 (highest rated in the series)
Into Darkness -- 87/90 (Second place to fourth overall, depending on how you want to view the data)

Abrams is going to rock the Star Wars universe.

thats like asking atheists what your favourite book of the bible...

ask a star trek fan, they will tell you how good the new movies are.

Care to point out the True Scotsmen from the Not True Scotsmen for me?  Or is the Star Trek fanbase so small we only account for a tenth of the audience?  For the record, I'm a Star Trek fan and the data looks about right from where I sit.

its not a true scotsmen argument...  not every critic has an understanding of star trek, they are happy with a good action movie, but thats not what star trek is about.

 



Oh i already have a bad feeling about it.

If the trailers dont show me something for me to really be interested in... i will probably not even go watch it at all.

I'm really feeling it will be a Disney flavored disaster. This movie will definitly make money but it might kill the potencial and trust in the series even more. Again... i am way more interested in the SWTOR expansion. Story looks way more interesting.

I guess the best way to describe it is that the new Star Wars movie is looking more like a Disney flick than a new Star Wars. Its so painfully aimed at kids that it looks to not be appealing much to older audiences.



Soundwave said:

I think the big difference between the two trilogies, aside from the drop off in Lucas' writing skills (especially with no Lawrence Kasdan writing) was Lucas had become a family man by the time the prequels were made and the movies took on a child-ish/kiddie tone.

Precisely what I see in Nintendo. Aiming videogames for the whole family and of course that demands kiddie stuff for the children. 



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1