Star Wars: Episode VII

Awesome.

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Originally Posted by FuryFox

It's disingenuous to say that's the only factor.

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Sure, but most of them come down to similarly obvious timed things. Star Wars was pretty much the birth of the basic blockbuster movie; even if Episode IV was to somehow have not existed previously and came out today it would be underwhelming (likely way more so than The Force Awakens will be). It's timeless because of when it came out, what it started, and those impacts on our culture, and that's not something which can really be recaptured by purposeful manufacturing.

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Originally Posted by FuryFox

No, they're incredible. They can create anti-armor traps, within minutes, using nothing but their environment, they easily overpowered and captured the most effective squad in the rebellion, they can pilot speeders with only half the required interfaces, and they can understand complex narrative with nothing but words they don't understand and sound fx. I think it's pretty obvious why Lucas replaced Wookies with Ewoks in RotJ, considering Chewbacca spends most of the original trilogy in handcuffs.

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It's not even like that. The originals are great. Popcorn flicks are still cool. The prequels were just inept and now the universe is tired and this will be a retread.

I'm pretty ok with lighting fire to the Extended Universe stuff and pilfering whatever was good at this point. This hits the right notes for me, I'm in.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

The prequels were just inept and now the universe is tired

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The EU did all that before the prequels came out. I still think these will be just fine.

The prequels were just boring, which made no sense. There's no reason for a Star Wars movie to talk about galactic trade policy.

I think this new one will be rad, I just don't really care.

I care.

So apparently the two dudes from The Raid are in this movie (!!!).
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1449972872

Showed my wife my original edition Episode IV VHS today. I don't have a player at home, it was at the mother-in-law's house. She liked it a lot.

I'm really mad I can't show her the original editions of the other two movies now. It's just...it makes me angry about star wars.