Khan!!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure the convention is "Khaaaaaaan!!!"
JJ Abrams and Star Wars: I've got a bad feeling about this
“Boys are only interested in pirates and Star Wars,” my daughter tells me. She is four and speaks with the confidence and clarity only a four-year-old can manage. Star Wars Thirty-seven years on, and the Star Wars franchise still captures kids' imaginations Her proof? The games played, toys brought in and the clothes worn …
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 10:00 GMT Pascal Monett
Yes, let's not
Fringe was brilliant. Brilliant character development, and a relations story that actually brought something to the series and was not just tacked on as an afterthought once a thousand bored housewives had sent a petition to have some smooching (like in Bones, Castle, House, FBI Missing Persons, and just about all the others).
Abrams has his name on Fringe ? I'm surprised, but I will accept it as the one good thing he did.
Except for Season 5, that is. That season doesn't exist.
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 10:49 GMT codejunky
Re: Yes, let's not
Season 5 was such an awesome idea and the teaser from season 4 built up my hopes greatly. Then I watched season 5 and it all went down hill from there. The worst part is that the actors gave a great performance as usual and the new supporting cast were good, even the observer actors with their highly restricted allowance of acting (no emotion, specified observer movements, etc) yet the story was aweful. Maybe this is the one Abrams got his hands on
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 14:05 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
"I very sure that Han shot first"
I'd be surprised if you weren't sure, considering he did. My point was that I doubt Quentin would re-master a film to change a fundamental character aspect of one of the main protagonists.
Imagine Beatrix waking up and just deciding to let bygones be bygones and go back to the Hick record store? Or El Prez deciding that he'd keep the treasure for himself?
No, because I'm sure he has artistic integrity.
Also, it's the flaws in things that give it character. Make everyone sacharine sweet and you're just turning out another Hollywood CGI turd.
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 17:09 GMT JEDIDIAH
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
Quentin is also not squeamish about violence and flawed characters.
I wouldn't be surprised if Quentin has actually fired a real gun and can relate to having one pointed at him. There is nothing remotely sinister about defending yourself in that situation.
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 19:20 GMT Ian 55
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
JJ Abrams: Well, on the plus side, MI:III is easily the best of the franchise. On the other, all the rest of his haven't been.
The problem with letting Tarantino near one would be his ego and the inevitable cameo: "What do you think, Jedi Quentin?"
I'd like to see one by Park Chan-wook or Kim Jee-woon. Stunning visually, and not afraid of revenge killing blood baths which is what (without the blood) the Star Wars films have been about.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 09:35 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
"The problem with letting Tarantino near one would be his ego and the inevitable cameo: "What do you think, Jedi Quentin?"
Whilst he obviously does give himself a part to play, it isn't usually a role that affects the movie too much, and he does bump himself off quite regularly too - keeps everyone happy :)
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Friday 23rd May 2014 13:56 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
I'd like to see one by Park Chan-wook or Kim Jee-woon.
I'd like to see a Star Wars film by Stephen Chow. Obi-Wan flings hundreds of stormtroopers at Darth while undercranked Luke, Han, and Leia race through the corridors of the Death Star! Everyone meets in the hanger bay for a song & dance number. Then they join forces to fight the Emperor and his sidekick Super-Powered Jar-Jar, and their army of droids that don't fall apart when you blow up their ship.
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Friday 23rd May 2014 15:17 GMT jelabarre59
Re: "You could at least be sure that Han shot first with Quentin at the helm."
> Well, on the plus side, MI:III is easily the best of the franchise...
Remembering, though, that the Tom Cruise "Mission: Impossible" films have pretty much nothing to do with either incarnation of the TV series. If you want to see something more in spirit to the original M:I series, watch "Burn Notice" (at least the earlier BN seasons) or "Leverage".
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 14:37 GMT Afflicted.John
Re: Fringe
And just for the damn record, did anyone watch the final series of Fringe and not wish to the Gods of Kobol that there was another? It was absolutely amazing. The final scene were genius, bringing a neat conclusion to a pretty damn epic storyline. It more than made up for the lack of Peter Bishop a couple of years earlier...
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 09:34 GMT GreggS
Not just his films but his TV series as well!
Believe (executive producer)- Cancelled after 1 series
Almost Human (executive producer)- Cancelled after 1 series
Person of Interest (executive producer) still going but getting very samey.
Fringe (executive producer) - Lost the plot in the later series.
Alcatraz (executive producer) - cancelled after 1 series
Undercovers (executive producer) - cancelled after 1 series
Lost (executive producer) - lasted 5 series too long
In fact probably the last good thing he did was Alias and that lasted 2 series too long.
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 23:27 GMT Neil Stansbury
Re: Not just his films but his TV series as well!
Err one word:
Revolution
The post-apocalyptic world without electricity, where the woman had great hair, impeccable makeup and neatly ironed white t-shirts with some awful acting and dire story lines thrown in for free.
Cancelled after 2 series
JJ Abrams is proof you don't need talent to succeed in Hollywood
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Friday 23rd May 2014 13:50 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: Not just his films but his TV series as well!
Revolution
The post-apocalyptic world without electricity, where the woman had great hair, impeccable makeup and neatly ironed white t-shirts with some awful acting and dire story lines thrown in for free.
Agreed. I watched the first few episodes of Revolution, and it lacked any bit of verisimilitude. It made Alias and Fringe look plausible.
I assume that after the power went out, someone went around and killed everyone with any knowledge of pre-electrification technology - the survivalists, the reenactors, the primitive-camping enthusiasts, the subsistence farmers, many of the people who grew up on reservations... Because clearly no one in the show had the slightest clue.
(And, yes, for the sake of argument I'm overlooking the favorite complaint about the show's rather choosy "stop electricity" magic, which somehow only affects deliberate technological use. I'll overlook a whoppingly inconsistent magic premise if the world-building is a little convincing.)
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 09:36 GMT corcoran
If we're really lucky, Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof will take over writing and let JJ crack on with blinding us with lens flares and horizontal wipes.
Course we're all gonna watching from behind the sofa with rock bottom expectations anyhow -- what's the worst that could meesa happen?
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 12:03 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Amongst the worst...
What could be worse? Hmm... That gives me an idea for the plot:
Sick of being marginalised, ignored and despised - but equally disgusted with democracy and the Jedi, for failing to save the Republic - he turns to the Dark Side. In training during the period of the Rebellion, when Vader and the Emperor were in power, he missed most of the defeat. But he emerges now, to revitalise the Sith, and provie a counterbalance to the new government, who have become arrogant and corrupt - as so many revolutions do. Who is this?
Cower in fear before: Darth Jar-Jar!
Possibly with his new army of Ewok storm troopers, for extra comedy value.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014 20:04 GMT MityDK
Re: Amongst the worst...
I hate all of you. Ewoks and Jar-Jar were only surpassed in their terrible awful out of placedness, uselessness and badness by the collective performance of the young Anakin, I thought that kid in Episode one was the worst actor with the worst lines ever until I saw episode 2 and 3, in which Hayden Christensen made me simultaneously cry and homicidally angry with the sheer vast ineptitude of his performance, quite possibly the worst acting work of a bad script ever executed by anyone in every possible instance of the multiverse from forever to eternity.
JJ Abrams can't possibly do worse than Lucas in Episodes 1-3. DOUBLE PLUS UNPOSSIBLE.
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