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Too freaking funny. gotta love the whole household image, right down to the dog bowl with Chewbacca's name on it. LOL

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Ford's career must really be in the crapper if he's considering doing another Star Wars movie.

In the past he pretty much made it clear he wanted nothing to do with the franchise after Return of the Jedi.

He may not have wanted to feel like he was shoehorned into the prequels as a young Han. Being an older man and playing a more mature version of Han might be more appealing to him, ala Indiana Jones in '08.

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Attack and Menace are tied, but I put them in number order. Attack almost beat phantom. If it was not for the awesome duel between Qui-gon, Obi, and Darth, then it would have failed even more.


Sith is a good film. And how the fuck can you put menace before soth? Menace was a disgrace to the star wars franchise, and if it were not for the duel I mentioned up there, it would have probably fell behind the xmas special (although I have not even seen it ). My god dude, you're a stranger to me........

From the time Mace Windu and the Jedi go to arrest Palpatine to Anakin's betrayal and renaming, ROTS became bigger than just a sci-fi flick. That was about as good as drama gets.

And watching Anakin go on a padwan killing spree was pretty shocking, even to a veteran moviegoer like me.

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He may not have wanted to feel like he was shoehorned into the prequels as a young Han. Being an older man and playing a more mature version of Han might be more appealing to him, ala Indiana Jones in '08.

Well, he had said in interviews he felt he did all he could with that character.

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The problem with Han is that I don't see the advantage in showing an older version of him like I do Leia and Luke's characters.

Keeping in mind that these won't be BIG roles, there is a coolness in showing where Luke and Leia are "Now" that lends itself to the movie. Luke can be shown as an Obi-Wan/Yoda type, as the wise old master Jedi. Put a beard on the guy, have him presiding over some Jedi council meetings. Or have his Jedi son come to visit him on Tattooine where he's retired to Owen and Beru's old moisture farm. Leia can be shown as the chancellor of the republic, which shows how the democracy was restored after Palpatine's death. There's something that HELPS the movie with both of them in a number of ways.

WTF do they do with Han though? His whole thing was that he was this daring, swashbuckling yound smuggler. What is he now? Retired? A general? What about what he WAS in any way helps an episode VII? You can't just put him in the vest and white shirt again. How do you go forward without handling his character clumsily? I'm not saying by any means it can't be done or that I don't want him to appear, just that the answer isn't as obvious to me as it is Luke and Leia.

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I don't know if that's funny or scary as hell, either way it's damn funny

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Ha! That's priceless!

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And watching Anakin go on a padwan killing spree was pretty shocking, even to a veteran moviegoer like me.

For me, the Jedi keeping secrets from Anakin and his visions weren't enough to make him betray and murder his own kind into extinction. Anakin's turn to the dark side was poorly written and rushed.

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For me, the Jedi keeping secrets from Anakin and his visions weren't enough to make him betray and murder his own kind into extinction. Anakin's turn to the dark side was poorly written and rushed.

I've always been forced to assume that the Dark Side has some kind of subtle mind control going, because otherwise it seems like they'd never get any converts. Anakin was turned on fairly flimsy pretexts (especially given the magnitude of the actions he then undertook for his Master- if Palpatine wanted him to plant evidence or back up his lies somehow, maybe, but murdering children?), and Palpatine's efforts to turn Luke always looked laughable to me, if there wasn't some kind of invisible influence going on. I mean, seriously, every time it SEEMED like circumstances were leading Luke toward the Dark Side in his battle with Vader, the Emperor would basically short circuit the process by cackling some nonsense about, "Yes, yeeeeesssss, late the hate flow! Keep doing Dark Side stuff!" thus having the exact opposite effect. Stupid, stupid strategy unless those words were somehow backed by unseen influence.

Or maybe Palpatine is just an idiot, and he figured, "Well Anakin was so easy to turn. Surely his son will be no different. I bet I couldn't screw it up if I TRIED. Hmmm, let's test that..."

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Star Wars: Episode VII May Have Found Its Writer

Informed sources tell Vulture that Star Wars: Episode VII has found a leading candidate to write the film’s screenplay: Michael Arndt, the Pixar favorite who was nominated for an Oscar for Toy Story 3, won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, and wrote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which is currently shooting. Insiders confirm that Arndt has written a 40- to 50-page treatment for the film and is likely to be at least one of the writers when the Disney/Lucasfilm project begins shooting in 2014.
The merger between George Lucas’s brainchild and Disney, announced October 30, caught the town by surprise. And talent agents were similarly astonished to learn that Arndt had been at work on the treatment long before the deal was announced, catching them flat-footed and cutting off any chance they’d have to proffer their own many eager candidates for the coveted job.

Sources also tell Vulture that the studio’s brass want to bring back the three central characters of the original Star Wars: a much older Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. No deals are in place with any of the original actors, though our source did say it had high ambitions to sign up Mark Hamill, and EW recently reported that Harrison Ford was open to the idea of returning. We're told that Arndt's 40-something page treatment will soon be crossing the desks of top directors, including Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg (Lucasfilm’s co-chair, Kathleen Kennedy's former producing partner), and J.J. Abrams. Whether they’d be interested is unknown (Star Wars is a lot of baggage for an established director), but Disney wants to make sure they’ve at least tried the biggest names.

A representative for Arndt declined to comment, referring all calls to Kennedy, who did not return a call seeking comment at deadline. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman declined to comment, saying, "We have no news to report at this time."

The choice of Arndt to pen a treatment makes perfect sense, given both his prestige as a screenwriter and his close relationship with Disney’s equally secretive Pixar — he’s the screenwriter of the cheekily titled Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind for Up director Pete Docter, currently in preproduction — but there’s one more reason still that Arndt would be so appealing to Disney and Lucasfilm: He’s a Star Wars expert.

Since winning the Oscar for Sunshine, Arndt has lectured extensively on the art of storytelling at numerous writers’ retreats, like the Hawaii Writers Conference in Maui and the Austin Film Festival, always featuring a lengthy and detailed explanation of why the original Star Wars’ ending is so creatively satisfying.

At these talks, Arndt always tells attendees that Star Wars’ enduring appeal has to do with resolving its protagonists goals’ nearly simultaneously, at the climax of the movie. In the comments section of a discussion about a Star Wars talk Arndt gave at the Austin Film Festival in 2010, one attendee of the seminar notes, "Arndt stated that if a writer could resolve the story's arcs (internal, external, philosophical) immediately after the Moment of Despair at the climax, he or she would deliver the Insanely Great Ending and put the audience in a euphoric state. The faster it could happen, the better. By [Arndt’s] reckoning, George Lucas hit those three marks at the climax of Star Wars within a space of 22 seconds."

Indeed, in the third act of Star Wars, as Arndt explained to his young screenwriting Padawans at the 2009 Hawaii Writers Conference, its central characters' main goals all are met on pages 89 through 91 of the original Lucas script: At the crescendo of Star Wars, a spectral Obi Wan urges, “Use the Force, Luke,” and he does, thus reaching his inner goal (fighting self-doubt to become a hero). Han Solo reappears (meeting the philosophical goal of overcoming selfishness with altruism) to shoot down Darth Vader, which allows Luke to use the Force to mentally guide his shot and blow up the Death Star (outer goal and inner goals simultaneously met).

So while it remains to be seen whether Arndt will forge ahead with an entire script for Episode VII, clearly, as Vader might say, “The Force is strong with this one.”

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lolollollollol!

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Voted for ROTJ - it came out about a year before I was born, and ended up being the one I re-watched the most as a kid. Very fond memories of watching it on an old VHS my brothers recorded (along with Superman 1, and a making of Empire Strikes Back Special). I mean Return had:

• Leia in a gold bikini
• Luke in all black being a bad-ass
• The Rancor!
• Lando manning the Millennium Falcon
• Vader without his helmet

After that I'd have to go with Empire, A New Hope, Revenge of the Sith, Attack, and lastly Phantom Menace

I too prefer Lukes look in the last one. I never did go for that innocent white outfit and blue lightsaber, black outfit and green lightsaber is just so much better.

From the time Mace Windu and the Jedi go to arrest Palpatine to Anakin's betrayal and renaming, ROTS became bigger than just a sci-fi flick. That was about as good as drama gets.

And watching Anakin go on a padwan killing spree was pretty shocking, even to a veteran moviegoer like me.

Exactly, sith was more than a basic sci-fi. I love the drama and betrayal in it, and that duel between Obi and Anakin is just legend. It's my favourite scene in the entire franchise.