Remember when Star Wars was awesome? When it owned the sci-fi genre and had the most devoted fans in the world, including its own legion of real storm troopers?
And then came the prequels… and then The Clone Wars…
This is where a big portion of the fans of old lost interest, where many became angry at George Lucas for what happened with Star Wars and more recently with Indiana Jones. While there were a billion different overpriced toys to buy from for the franchise from a million different Star Wars toy lines, the franchise was heading in the wrong direction.
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To me, Star Wars was no longer the cool thing and it was no longer exciting… How could that possibly happen? I used to love it! The prequels were dumbed down and not as respected as the originals, changes were continually being made to the originals for a dozen different variations of the DVD sets, most of the video games were weak and the obvious focus and effort was placed on merchandising which was getting out of hand. It had become an absurd case of quantity over quality in all facets of the Star Wars business model.
What interesting timing for Star Wars to fall a few notches in the minds of many fans, as Star Trek began to make its triumphant return with J.J. Abrams leading the charge. And to the pleasant surprise of moviegoers around the world, the movie was a smashing success critically and financially. Trek had stepped up to re-claim the sci-fi throne from the faltering Star Wars (we’re talking movies here).
One of the bright spots in all of this for Star Wars was its two amazing Knights of the Old Republic video games which brought Star Wars to a new era, with a strong story based 4,000 years in the past. The games won major awards (including game of the year for the first), were critically acclaimed and everyone seemingly loved them. It was even rumored that they might make a film based on the first game. It’s funny that the only good games we had seen in the franchise in such a long while had to distance themselves as far as possible away from where the movies had gone -- We also saw this with The Force Unleashed.
While gamers waited eagerly for a third installment in that franchise on the new generation of video game consoles, we were instead given news that the next game made by Bioware (the electronic entertainment company behind KOTR) would instead be an MMO (massively multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft) and the trailer for it debuted not long ago.
John over at The Movie Blog picked up on the trailer for this game and made a great point – If the prequels were anything like this, everyone would be a lot happier, and the state of Star Wars a lot different.
You must watch this video and see how awesome it is:
Imagine a movie like that? Instead, the recent Star Wars films targeted children in a dumb way. People of all ages loved the original trilogy movies without having overly childish moments, characters and dialogue – why do it like that now?
Anyways, instead of a movie like what we see in that trailer, we got this:
… and this:
We got ripped off.
What do you think of this trailer and where do you see the future of Star Wars heading?
Source: The Movie Blog
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71 Comments
God, just watched that trailer again and i mean wow, jizz in my pants
@ The Big Dentist,
I thought that too when watching it – I don’t know what those ships are or why they have the Star Destroyer design if it’s 400 years in the past. I guess they associate triangular ships with evil in the Star Wars universe…
=) Sweet clip. Any more?
man i’ve never been a fan of either star wars or star trek, i found both boring i’m sorry but that’s how i felt… but had they made this into a movie i would have been there for the premiere based on this trailer alone.Only thing i ever liked about star wars… “Yoda” and of course “The green light saber”. After that those movie made me sleep… i always remembered waking up to luke destroying the death star then me thanging the channel. Whoever did this trailer deserves a chance i think at one of the movies or at least the battle scene of one of the movies…
why’s it such a big deal that there’s star destroyers? did you miss all that awesome before it?
LOL – just interested! And you obviously missed what I wrote before that!
Ditto to what Andy S said. I love both worlds but the prequels for SW were horrible; except SW 3 was watchable (best of the prequels, IMHO).
No idea on the Star Destroyes, but did notice the similarities. Even something like the Tie fighters.
Can only assume these are the way Sith ships are and Sidious used the designs for the Republic’s new fleet.
Also, is that Boba Fett’s great grandmother?
Steven, yeah, I didn’t want to even mention that one!
your so right,thats why i traded all of my star wars films for the terminator films to my younger brother,that trailer was bad azz,and they need to make movies dark and gritty,well thought out,good acting,and great story,the fx have to be spectacular and the scenes were the slow down in the fight scenes were awesome. star wars im afraid is threw unless they strat makeing films a little gritty and dark like dark knight and x-men 1,and 2 ,then they will dwindle away.
That trailer was great.
I think Lucas has just lost his edge with most of the content of the prequels.
But Revenge of the Sith was good.
Star Wars has got to go down that route, much darker and nastier would be so much more fun. Loved how Vadar looked, we should get to see that in a movie.
Lucas get your act together and make one like that.
WOW!
I’ve been a defender of the Prequels, but this is just sick.
THIS is what the Order 66 scene SHOULD have looked like in Revenge of the Sith…damn!
WOw that was pretty sweet, better than the entire latest trilogy. Its astounding to see the influence of Guelermo Del Toro in media these days, fans of his work should be able to spot it.
I think the trilogy, latest one, should be rebooted and reimagined like this.
That’s a fantastic trailer! That’s the Star Wars in remember. Seeing that trailer gives me hope that the franchise could make a triumphant return; it’s only a matter of when or how.
If Lucas could make movies like that bring it on.
*that’s the Star Wars I remember
That kid from The Phantom Menace who played young Anakin gives me a migraine every time I try and watch it. Revenge Of The Sith darker and much better.
But this trailer makes them all look like bad B-movies! WOW!!!
I think they need to go backwards with Star Wars. We know who Vader is now. They told his story. They should instead do a prequel prequel trilogy like “Knights of the Old Republic” era where there were tons of Jedi and Sith. Kinda explain the origins. Just imagining seeing Yoda on the big screen (a much younger yoda) fighting sith with his crazy lightsaber style brings me hope…
I can say that I’m old enough to remember seeing the original 1977 version of STAR WARS at the theaters. Not long afterwards, there was an interview on NPR Radio with George Lucas, and the interviewer (can’t remember his name) asked what the ‘Episode 4′ meant. Lucas went on to say(and can be confirmed through many sources) about his plans to possibly created 9 movies set to the title ‘STAR WARS- EPISODE’ then the number then something like ‘A NEW HOPE, RISE OF THE EMPIRE, FALL OF THE JEDI’ and such.
NINE MOVIES.
But when he was confronted about this in 1997, he calmed that he NEVER said those things. He also said that he would NEVER bring his original movies to DVD (at the time, he got burned on the laser disk because they were too big and didn’t play well). But after years of hounding him to do the movies, he puts out the prequels that DID NOT live up to the original story. Many believed that he was under pressure by not only the fans, but his own daughters (of whom wanted the BACKSTREET BOYS in ATTACK OF THE CLONES) and TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX to finish it. Lucas has went on to say that he wouldn’t do any more movies OR T.V. because he didn’t trust anyone with keeping true to the story….
…and yet…
…there’s the animated series CLONE WARS, and the (possible) live-action STAR WARS T.V. show.
So MY question is- should George Lucas trust others to bring out the TRUE story of STAR WARS to the big and little screens? Yes, yes he should….because everyone else seems to be doing a better job than him.
But that might be just ME thinking that.
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