Force Awakens | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:51:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Force Awakens | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 George Lucas seems at odds with new Star Wars movie https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/george-lucas-seems-at-odds-with-new-star-wars-movie/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/george-lucas-seems-at-odds-with-new-star-wars-movie/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:49:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=279340 Nobody expected the sale of the Star Wars franchise to Disney to sit easy with original creator George Lucas. Letting go of anything you've worked on for decades is always supposed to be a difficult parting, but in an interview conducted with talk show host Charlie Rose, Lucas seems a little embittered about the sale …

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Nobody expected the sale of the Star Wars franchise to Disney to sit easy with original creator George Lucas. Letting go of anything you've worked on for decades is always supposed to be a difficult parting, but in an interview conducted with talk show host Charlie Rose, Lucas seems a little embittered about the sale and the direction of the new film.

“They looked at the stories, and said ‘we want to do something for the fans.' So, I said all I want to do is tell a story of what happened, it started here and it went here,” Lucas said in discussing Star Wars and its new entry in the series, The Force Awakens.

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“If I get in there […] I'm just going to muck everything up.” You can say that again George.

He went on to make similar comments about people and perhaps specifically Disney, as having the wrong idea about what Star Wars is.

“It's not about “spaceships,” he said, but's a family soap opera. It's about the disfunctions in a family. “We call it a space opera, but people don't realise it's actually a soap opera,” he said.

This is a mentality that people have discussed with Lucas since the creation of the Star Wars prequels. That he and the majority of fans had very different viewpoints on what the Star Wars franchise was about, what it meant and perhaps most commonly mentioned, the type of effects that should be used throughout.

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That also cropped up in the Charlie Rose interview, where Lucas discussed Disney wanting to do a “retro,” movie. That's something he's opposed too still, despite years of fans clamouring for more practical effects and less CGI. Indeed the final entries in the series feature endless green screens, perhaps only eclipsed in their dominance by Peter Jackson's recent productions.

Regardless of Lucas' misgivings about the new film though, it's clearly found a sweet spot among fans and critics alike. As well as becoming the fastest movie ever to earn a billion dollars, it received a 94 per cent rating on Rotten tomatoes and a similarly strong rating on IMDB.

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KitGuru Says: Keep the spoilers free of the comments please, but what did you think of the film? Did it live up to your expectations?

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If George Lucas directed the new Star Wars trailer… https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/if-george-lucas-directed-the-new-star-wars-trailer/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/if-george-lucas-directed-the-new-star-wars-trailer/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:36:09 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=224195 While it was no Jurassic World, the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer has been setting the internet afire over the past few days, but clearly it was missing a few things. Like extraneous and unnecessary CGI, random things taking up half of the shot, more tie fighters and something to push the plot …

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While it was no Jurassic World, the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer has been setting the internet afire over the past few days, but clearly it was missing a few things. Like extraneous and unnecessary CGI, random things taking up half of the shot, more tie fighters and something to push the plot along. Hmm, what about trade negotiations?

Thank god we have fictional George Lucas to save the day for us:

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Quite an impressive turnaround for Youtube TimTimFed, who managed to get this trailer out there just two days after the official Force Awakens trailer was released. As accurate as it feels though, fortunately it's not a reality. Lucas isn't anywhere involved with the directing of this movie, just some of the character writing.

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Well, at least we know the tie fighters shot first

Of course you could easily poke fun at Mr Abrams methods of filmmaking too, as successful as he's been as of late. Just add lens flares to everything.

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KitGuru Says: This silly trailer aside. Who's excited by the actual Force Awakens trailer? Did anyone else think the light sabre guard was a bit odd? 

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