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    Star Wars VII auditions

    To be held around the UK, to look for "a 'street smart and strong' orphaned girl in her late teens and a 'smart capable' man in his late teens or early 20s.".

    No overweight, world-weary 41 year olds then? Nuts.

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    Maybe they'll be casting son of Jabba?

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      Oh no this is going to be terrible

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        Apparently along with a few teenaged actors I've never heard of plus the old gang, Andy Serkis and Max Von Sydow are going to be in the new Star Wars movies.

        So presumably Serkis as some ape-like version of a Wookie, and the baddy will be Ming the Merciless!

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          I just hope JJ Abrams remembers that Star Wars was essentially a film for children.

          Y'know, clearly defined characters, good vs evil, princesses, sword fighting, space battles … that kind of thing.

          I hope it's not the aged, world-weary angst of Han Solo and Leia. Still, I'm hopeful Abrams is the right man for the job.

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            I'm with Stumpy. Star Wars film were fun, they weren't about taxation by-laws and senatorial decorum. No clue whether the casting of the younglings is good or not. How can you? I'm sure the internet will already have passed judgement, mind.

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              Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the title, apparently.

              Should have gone with Star Wars: The Audience Awakens, after the last two.

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                The Force Awakens is a shockingly bad title.

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                  Not for Lucas. It's just about right, really.

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                    Stumpy Pepys wrote: I just hope JJ Abrams remembers that Star Wars was essentially a film for children.

                    Y'know, clearly defined characters, good vs evil, princesses, sword fighting, space battles … that kind of thing.

                    I hope it's not the aged, world-weary angst of Han Solo and Leia. Still, I'm hopeful Abrams is
                    the right man for the job.
                    I don't agree with that.

                    First of all, if that's what the first movie was - in your opinion, not mine* - why do all the successive movies have to be the same? Why can't a new director do his own thing with the characters? People bitch about there being too many sequels in Hollywood, but then they also bitch whenever anybody does something different.

                    Besides, when directors just think "this is just for children" they make shitty movies. See all of Joel Schumacher's attempts at Batman.

                    The better approach is to make a movie for adults, or at least one that doesn't condescend to kids that adults won't mind seeing, that doesn't have anything in it that would put off kids or make it rated R. Marvel has succeeded in that in the Spider-Man and Avengers franchises.

                    In a different way, Pixar is really good at this. That's their marketing scheme. They deliberately make movies that dads especially will like.

                    I agree that the background plot of the prequels got a bit convoluted, but all that stuff about the senate, etc, was very necessary. Even kids aren't impressed with a bad guy who is just plain bad from beginning to end. There has to be more of an arc to it - in this case, a betrayal. It showed how the Republic used to be this great thing until they let fear take over and give control to the emperor. I think even kids could get the importance of that theme.

                    The problem was the wooden acting, poor directing, and bad dialogue. Not the overall plot.

                    * I fully believe that the power of many comic book characters and stuff like Star Wars is how it taps into wishes and fantasies that are first born in childhood but never really go away. Sports do that too, actually.

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                      I was thinking of Pixar already after your first paragraph, Reed. The bit in Up where he meets his wife and all of that. How that can be for kids I don't know. It's one of the saddest things I've seen in a film in decades.

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                        Yeah, kids won't get that at the time they see it. But they may get it later if they remember it and, even if they think that part is boring, it's not going to put them off seeing a movie with a talking dog.

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                          I just hope that there's not so much lens flare that I have to wear sunglasses to watch it.

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                            #14
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                            An anagram of The Force Awakens is forsaken ewe chat, which nicely sums up the dialogue of the first six films.

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                              #15
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                              The anagram's not far off "Nae fecken Ewoks", as well.

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                                Hot Faeces Wanker

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                                  Reed John wrote: The problem was the wooden acting, poor directing, and bad dialogue. Not the overall plot.
                                  Try as I might, I still can't fathom out the plot of The Phantom Menace.

                                  What's the Trade Federation exactly? Is it like the European Union? Why does it have an army? Do Jedi Knights specialise in tax disputes as well as lightsaber duels?

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                                    evilC wrote

                                    Hot Faeces Wanker

                                    Well that's another keyboard ruined.

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                                      Stumpy Pepys wrote:
                                      Originally posted by Reed John
                                      The problem was the wooden acting, poor directing, and bad dialogue. Not the overall plot.
                                      Try as I might, I still can't fathom out the plot of The Phantom Menace.

                                      What's the Trade Federation exactly? Is it like the European Union? Why does it have an army? Do Jedi Knights specialise in tax disputes as well as lightsaber duels?
                                      I think it was either like a Merchant Guild or the Hanseatic League, which did defend themselves. Or maybe it's more like the British East India or South African Companies, which had their own quasi-private military.

                                      I don't think the exact details of the Alliance's charter, or lack thereof, is critical to the plot.

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                                        Reed John wrote: I think it was either like a Merchant Guild or the Hanseatic League, which did defend themselves. Or maybe it's more like the British East India or South African Companies, which had their own quasi-private military.

                                        I don't think the exact details of the Alliance's charter, or lack thereof, is critical to the plot.
                                        That sums up my problem with The Phantom Menace pretty well.

                                        In Star Wars, Darth Vader and the Empire were just evil fascists who had to be defeated.

                                        When you have to deal with concepts akin to merchant guilds, joint-stock companies and trading alliances, you know you're watching a clunker.

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                                          No, like I said, it gives the overall story more of an arc. If the villains are just stock baddies, where's the gravity? Where's the, ahem, menace?

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                                            #22
                                            BOARDOFEDUCATIONISASPOILERCUNT!

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                                              #23
                                              Who with the what now?

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                                                #24
                                                Is there going to be an explanation?

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                                                  #25
                                                  There was I thinking this was a recent thread.

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