Rumors have been floating around about it for quite some time, but it appears that all systems are go for the entire Star Wars franchise to be re-released in the 3D format. DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed the details in a recent interview with Comingsoon.net saying "Lucas is excited about it" and "He isn't going to put a product out, I think, that isn't anything other than first rate."
Apparently, the cost of converting a traditional 2-D movie into 3D is between $50,000 and $100,000 per minute. I'm sure that Lucasfilm will make their money back and then some, but is it really worth it? Does anyone care to see this or is it just another case of Lucas screwing around too much with the franchise?
This should get the fanbois all wet. Ofcourse there will be the hardcore fans who will complain that they shouldn't do it and how it's blasphemy. Personally, I couldn't care less. It doesn't add anything to the movies.
It will just make them like the clash of the titans in 3D - pure shit...
Ah so it will match perfectly with the flicks perfectly as they are already shit.
Well I liked the original trilogy. Especially because those were amongst the first SF movies I saw as a kid... I don't care much for the other trilogy...
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chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.
Maybe it's sentimental value more than anything for many people. I watched them relatively late, especially after viewing films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner. SW are crap really.
Maybe it's sentimental value more than anything for many people. I watched them relatively late, especially after viewing films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner. SW are crap really.
Oh definitely the sentimental value There are way better SF movies, but I like the whole SW universe. Especially when you're a kid and you see things like that
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.
The original trilogy was the best space opera ever made. With the movie technology of today they look mighty dated and with some quirky acting, but they're still great space opera movies. Combining the new trilogy with the old one and adding pseudo-3D is just atrocious. Wasn't it enough that Lucas messed with the original movies by adding CGI?
Maybe it's sentimental value more than anything for many people. I watched them relatively late, especially after viewing films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner. SW are crap really.
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Maybe it's sentimental value more than anything for many people. I watched them relatively late, especially after viewing films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner. SW are crap really.
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Maybe it's sentimental value more than anything for many people. I watched them relatively late, especially after viewing films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner. SW are crap really.
A lot of people here are a guilty of posting opinions as facts including myself but what is so crappy about the 1st trilogy?
Should I post my disclaimer that I only post my opinion and it should not be taken as fact?
I don't like it. I don't like the acting, I don't like the silly characters, I don't like hammy stories, I don't like method of story telling. Obviously has nothing to do with the effects being old, that's nonsense. I am not here to judge, obviously people watched them when they were young and didn't know better and now love them to religion (mainly in the US where this has become perverse really). Can you say what exactly you like in it? I mean really think about it, not what your mind throws at first thought. Really think about what is really so good about them.
When watching movies the age of the subject matters imo. I was young when I first saw the SW movies and I thought they were great. I watched the Indy trilogy recently for example, I have no idea what's so special about those movies.
When watching movies the age of the subject matters imo. I was young when I first saw the SW movies and I thought they were great. I watched the Indy trilogy recently for example, I have no idea what's so special about those movies.
When we're kids, everything seems wonderful and exciting, even Star Wars and Indiana Jones
Should I post my disclaimer that I only post my opinion and it should not be taken as fact?
I don't like it. I don't like the acting, I don't like the silly characters, I don't like hammy stories, I don't like method of story telling. Obviously has nothing to do with the effects being old, that's nonsense. I am not here to judge, obviously people watched them when they were young and didn't know better and now love them to religion (mainly in the US where this has become perverse really). Can you say what exactly you like in it? I mean really think about it, not what your mind throws at first thought. Really think about what is really so good about them.
What did I like about the original SW sage? First thing that comes to mind is, it is SF. As kid my appetite for SF was insatiable, started with reading the three big classic SF writers (Heinlein, van Voight, Asimov) at age 10. Obviously I was also quite young when I saw the movies and all three of them entertained me greatly. Epic tale of a fight between good and evil. In my memory enough likeable characters and even a funny, cowardice robot and a brave one. I didn't like Chewbacca though because of its silly noises. Enough characters to hate as well Darth Vader duh but also Jabba the Hut.
I haven't seen the movies since age 15, so can't really say how I would react to it now. But as Mister_s already stated you can't judge movies that old now like they are new. Today's movies have fast paced action and storytelling. You should try Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil (1958)" or "Le procès (1962)" and see if you like them, both movies shot in b&w and great classics but if watching those old ones you need to be able to judge them in their time period. Btw the special effects of the 1st SW movie were actually ground breaking. Lucas used special lenses from NASA equipment if my memory serves me right. Given that according to today's standards it could have been done a lot better, how can this trilogy that entertained so many be crappy?
Wait a minute. I enjoy 2001 A Space Odyssey (based on novel by Arthur Clarke) to this day. Have you seen that? I think it's a masterpiece really. And that one is certainly not "fast". As I said, age has nothing to do with me liking or disliking it. I hope you do not mean to say that crappy story and characters also need be looked at with period consideration as well. And on topic of effects, since you brought it up, 2001 is from 68 I think and the first Star Wars if from what, ten years later? And, yet 2001 manages to look a lot more believable and plausible. (2010 The Year We Make Contact was not as impressive as 2001 but still alright.)
Or Blade Runner (somewhat based on a novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep" by PKD), would hardly consider it traditional science fiction by any means. And it is also "old" and also has outdated effects. And still, I love it. These two examples are for me timeless, they will remain loved even in hundred years.
I think the culprit of your argument is you have not seen them since the age of 15. I understand if you wish to keep them as sentimentally majestic as possible. But upon mature viewing, they really do not stand up. Just like I liked Batman and Robin as a child. Certainly not now. It's called maturing, and taste matures as well (or at least hopefully). Star Wars is a children's science fiction, and bad one at that.
iconized wrote:
how can this trilogy that entertained so many be crappy?
Should I ask you the same about the Twilight series?
Anyway, if you haven't seen it, I would suggest 1997's Contact, it is really one of the best science fiction films out there. I think it's based on a novel as well, but I haven't read it.
I still love it, don't get me wrong, but if you look at it objectively, it's really not that spectacular. A bunch of stereotypical one dimensional alpha males killed one at a a time. That is why I don't get all the hate for Predators, the two are very much alike.
Likewise, when I watched the four Alien movies, I remember Aliens as the best one, because I was young and it had action and funny marines (I even fell asleep when I first watched Alien when much younger). Well how have things shifted now. After watching Alien, Aliens is really somewhat on the silly side for sure. Not as idiotic as Resurrection, but still not up there with Alien or even Alien 3 Assembly Cut. Aliens is still very good, and the longer cut is a lot better than the original release Aliens, but still something feels missing from the original (and surprisingly the third one as well).
Should I post my disclaimer that I only post my opinion and it should not be taken as fact?
I don't like it. I don't like the acting, I don't like the silly characters, I don't like hammy stories, I don't like method of story telling. Obviously has nothing to do with the effects being old, that's nonsense. I am not here to judge, obviously people watched them when they were young and didn't know better and now love them to religion (mainly in the US where this has become perverse really). Can you say what exactly you like in it? I mean really think about it, not what your mind throws at first thought. Really think about what is really so good about them.
I watched star wars for the first time about 7 years ago, when I was still in high-school. It was definitely still considered a very old movie even then. And I loved it. It's weird, but cool at the same time.
And about this 3D version. Are they just gonna digitally enhance it somehow? I'd rather see proper remakes, even if they end up shit, there are just not enough sci-fi movies.
Remakes bar a very small minority are the plague of Hollywood, and should be outlawed.
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Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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There are way better SF movies, but I like the whole SW universe. Especially when you're a kid and you see things like that 
