DBWI Disney didn't buy Star Wars in 1997?

We all remember what a disappointment the Disney Star Wars films were to their older fans, and everyone talks about how much better they would have been if George Lucas was involved. What would have been different? Would Lucas have even gotten around to making more Star Wars films in the first place? I've heard him in an interview claiming that he would have.
 
We all remember what a disappointment the Disney Star Wars films were to their older fans, and everyone talks about how much better they would have been if George Lucas was involved. What would have been different? Would Lucas have even gotten around to making more Star Wars films in the first place? I've heard him in an interview claiming that he would have.
Honestly, while they were a disappointment to their older fans, you can't deny that they attracted a whole new base of younger fans towards the whole mythos. Star Wars got renewed popularity and while the first and second of the Disney movies were mediocre, the third and fourth ramped things up to a whole new level. The Jedi Eclipse was awesome. My god. The battle between Han Solo and that rogue admiral? Pretty goddamn badass.
 
I liked most of them too, but I thought the 1st was too childish, and I got bored with the whole thing by the time the 5th one came around. I'm not an old fan either, but I don't like how Disney let a teenager rule a planet, or the cartoony alien sidekicks that were supposed to appeal to the little kids. I think that if Lucas ever made another movie, he would have done much better.
 
We all remember what a disappointment the Disney Star Wars films were to their older fans, and everyone talks about how much better they would have been if George Lucas was involved. What would have been different? Would Lucas have even gotten around to making more Star Wars films in the first place? I've heard him in an interview claiming that he would have.
He's saying that NOW, but the reason why he sold the film rights in the first place was because he didn't want to make any more beyond the original three at the time, and he figured someone else might as well make the Prequel Trilogy and Sequel Trilogy everyone was hoping for. Now that they've turned out to be kind of mediocre, he's trying to make himself look better in retrospect.

(OOC: In OTL, Lucas first came up with the basic story for the Prequel Trilogy in 1995. Just so you know, so we can set a POD for this.)

Yes, even the Sequel Trilogy wasn't that good, trollhole. Although, maybe I'm just bitter because they don't acknowledge Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. :D I guess it's possible my expectations were too high for any Episode VII so that's why I wasn't happy with Jedi Eclipse.
 
He's saying that NOW, but the reason why he sold the film rights in the first place was because he didn't want to make any more beyond the original three at the time, and he figured someone else might as well make the Prequel Trilogy and Sequel Trilogy everyone was hoping for. Now that they've turned out to be kind of mediocre, he's trying to make himself look better in retrospect.

(OOC: In OTL, Lucas first came up with the basic story for the Prequel Trilogy in 1995. Just so you know, so we can set a POD for this.)

Yes, even the Sequel Trilogy wasn't that good, trollhole. Although, maybe I'm just bitter because they don't acknowledge Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. :D I guess it's possible my expectations were too high for any Episode VII so that's why I wasn't happy with Jedi Eclipse.
The Sequel Trilogy was alright, but like I said, it's really in the third movie where things get awesome. If you watch it all together it's like, Big Momma's House 1 and 2, but then three is the Godfather.
 
The Sequel Trilogy was alright, but like I said, it's really in the third movie where things get awesome. If you watch it all together it's like, Big Momma's House 1 and 2, but then three is the Godfather.
Yeah, all right, Episode III is really good.
 
We all remember what a disappointment the Disney Star Wars films were to their older fans, and everyone talks about how much better they would have been if George Lucas was involved. What would have been different? Would Lucas have even gotten around to making more Star Wars films in the first place? I've heard him in an interview claiming that he would have.

I guess you probably wouldn't have seen nearly as many Star Wars/Disney crossovers, for one. There was one on FF.net that was pretty darned epic, too.
 
What bugs me the most is the actors being chosen more for their pretty faces than for their acting skills. Heath Ledger as Annikin? Seriously?
 
What bugs me the most is the actors being chosen more for their pretty faces than for their acting skills. Heath Ledger as Annikin? Seriously?
Hey, Heath Ledger is awesome. Just 'cos he's pretty doesn't mean he's not a good actor. (He's like a younger Leonardo DiCaprio that way.)
 
What bugs me the most is the actors being chosen more for their pretty faces than for their acting skills. Heath Ledger as Annikin? Seriously?
They are pretty good actors. The problem is: you can't expect even good actors to be at their peak performance when acting on a blue screen alone, without being in a set that remotely resembles where they are supposed to be at.

I'm sure Lucas would have stuck with the more classic flavour of papier-mache filming sets, that gave the original trilogy its classic flavour.

As for Disney... they should have just given up on mixing real actors with CG. They should have just gone full CG... i mean, they marketed the whole thing for children, right? And they got enough CG talent when they absorbed Pixar after Toy Story 2.
 
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