Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4bn, new Star Wars movie in 2015

[Eddie Teach]

Has it been long enough since the prequels that a whole new generation's childhood will be raped?

Like I asked before, why would they develop such a strong attachment to the prequels in the first place?

[Neil]

Somebody ban Martinus. Too much is just too much.

Delusions of taste and adequacy are par for the course with him.  What you're feeling now is how Minsky felt when Martinus was talking about how he loved adulterate his wine.

[Ideologue]

How did this pass anti-trust muster?  Disney owning the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises turns it into an even bigger powerhouse than it was before.

Could you even, theoretically, have a monopoly on fictional shit?  Even if you owned every ownable property in the world, more properties are always going to be invented by others and that's before figuring in the insurpassable number of properties in the public domain.

[Ed Anger]

I better get a box set of the originals untouched by Lucas' later faggotry.

[Ideologue]

Harrison Ford drank from the Holy Grail.  He's totally up for another few adventures.  Fuck you you blasphemous idiot.

It doesn't work once you cross the seal.  They explain this, and the guy that's been there for 700 years probably knows (in fact, it only seems to retard aging even within the bounds God apparently set for it, or maybe the knight's just been starving to death over the centuries since I didn't see a greenhouse anywhere).  In any event, the Grail is by far the most useless of all the relics Jones goes after in the movies.  At least you could cook something or heat up a bath with the sankara stones.  I'd be pretty pissed once I found out, and I imagine the Joneses were, but they don't deal with this fallout in the film because they're just happy to be alive and to have sorted out their estrangement.

[CountDeMoney]

Stupid ass Last Crusade.

[sbr]

Stupid ass Last Crusade.

It was better than wyatt earp.

[CountDeMoney]

You lie.

[sbr]

I've never seen either movie.

[Ed Anger]

I've never seen either movie.

WTF

[CountDeMoney]

I've never seen either movie.

WTF

Bullshitting about shit we know nothing about is a time-honored Languish tradition, man.

[Eddie Teach]

Bullshitting about shit we know nothing about is a time-honored Languish tradition, man.

Sure, but how could a man over 30 have missed Last Crusade? 

[sbr]

Was last crusade the one with connery and the holy grail?  I did see that a long time agobut just barely I wasn't paying attention.

[Grey Fox]

Somebody ban Martinus. Too much is just too much.

Delusions of taste and adequacy are par for the course with him.  What you're feeling now is how Minsky felt when Martinus was talking about how he loved adulterate his wine.

He also likes to pretend he doesn't ever feel any Nostalgia. Must be a communist thing.

[Malthus]

Why would kids care about it? They've grown up with several franchises with much better effects than the originals and all-around better than the prequels.

Still, Star Wars are the very definition of overrated to me. I did not dislike the movies, but I didn't find them that good either. Just another take on the "hero's journey", only with weird aliens. I thought Star Trek was better.

Besides, what I find perplexing is people who watched and liked the movies as kids, and now seem to care about new movies of the same franchise being made for kids that they do not like. Why is that relevant? I liked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid but I couldn't care less if they now made a new series about them that was crappy.

I know you are trolling the fanboys a bit  , but you do have a point - and it isn't limited to Star Wars. In general, the adult public is not willing to draw any boundaries any more between what they liked as kids, and what they continue to like as adults - to the point where the biggest thing in movies is sequels and "reboots" of stuff people in earlier decades would have considered, basically, kid's stuff - like comic book superheros. Nowadays. it mostly isn't kids going to see that stuff, but adults.

Hopefully this process will stop with stuff boys liked as adolescents, or we can look forward in the future to reboots of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Broadway Musical. 

Not that I dislike stuff like Star Wars and comic superheros (when well done). It's just a bit odd, is all.