And TFA is so much better that it blew away all those figures in like a week. So, um...yeah.

You really want to weep: Leonardo DiCaprio was asked to play Anakin during pre-production of Phantom Menace and said no.

The DVD sales were 99% for the kids who liked JarJar and pissed-off-flying-squirrel Yoda. It had nothing to do with them being good, re-watchable movies for grown ups.

To be fair to Lucas, he asked Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis to direct the prequels but they all insisted that SW was his baby and he should do them. Whether he wanted one of them to direct all three or all three to direct one each, I don’t know, but it’s interesting to wonder what might have been…

Goddamn, do I love Han Solo!

I don’t want Lando to be forgotten either and I will have the biggest squeegasm ever if he pops up in Episode VIII. I’d love it if we found out that Lando retrieved Luke’s lightsaber from Bespin and gave it to Maz for safekeeping after Luke vanished.

Nobody is pretending that TFA is Schindler’s List, okay. What it is is a fucking great Star Wars movie. One notch below ESB and ANH and that’s about it. The fact that it’s based on ANH is a feature, not a bug. If you went in expecting something wholly original, that’s on you. The three trilogies paralleling each other…

Pretty much. He is firmly convinced that the prequels are sheer brilliance, the best of Star Wars but that critics and fans weren’t smart to “get it”. As such, he now resents Disney and Abrams for “pandering to the stupids” for giving them a movie that’s fast, fun, and energetic instead of 7 hours of trade talks,…

So has ESB’s director Irvin Kershner, who loved the change.

Yup. Martha Lucas absolutely saved A New Hope in the editing room. The original cut with Lucas’s editor was a disaster. That’s why Irvin Kershner shot Empire Strikes Back in such a way that there weren’t enough master shots for the editor to cut the movie in any way other than the way he wanted.

If that’s the root of all this, then that’s Lucas’s own fault. I’m grateful to him for birthing the saga but how on Earth could anyone be naive enough think that Disney would pay $4 billion for Star Wars in the service of “art”? Give my a break, nobody is that fucking stupid. Disney is all about making money and they…

Yeah, but any good director would’ve brought in a script doctor until the scripts worked. The actual story outlines for the prequels aren’t bad, although I think they started with Anakin being too young. But there was a lot of material there that a good writer could weave a good script out of.

That $900+ million is only the revenue that the NCAA itself makes from media contracts. The member conferences and schools make far more in ticket sales, their own cut of radio and TV contracts, alumni contributions, student fees allocated to athletics, and government aide. College athletics generates more than $11…

Technically, perhaps, but Disney is also a master of marketing. They know that those canon books, cartoons, and comics are tie-ins and ways to make money off the small percentage of fans who can’t get enough. They also know that most people who see Star Wars movies, especially internationally, don’t know or care about…

It has nothing to do with an open mind. It’s simpy the knowledge that the EU is irrelevant to 99% of all the people seeing the movies. As such, while they’ve used certain elements of the EU (and only ones that were very obvious extensions of the saga anyway) those elements have been significantly changed to make them…

Not enough, but not none. It’s not an absolutely verboten subject matter like damn near anything remotely negative is in Japan.

The prospect of a ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ movie is almost too amazing to contemplate. Pine and Urban could totally nail it but who could pull off Edith?

Hamill and Fisher were perfect in their SW roles but were never strong, versatile film actors. They worked in SW and that was that. Both are great with voice work and Fisher is a wonderful writer but neither had the talent, versatility, or on-screen charisma that Ford did.

No one who liked TFA has to make any excuses for anything. There is nothing wrong with the first movie of a trilogy asking more questions than it answers. In fact, that’s how it’s supposed to work. I’m sorry that you expected every single thing to be explained to you immediately but that would be a really bad way to…

Same. The worst part was that they had Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mark Hamill and THAT is what they do with them?!