DannyJC13

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Looper was an interesting and very tightly written sci-fi flick, and he's further shown his excellent directing skills on some of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
Looper is one of my favourite films, Brick is also a great movie. His work on Breaking Bad was also amazing, but most people hate his first episode, "Fly".
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Svip

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Having watched Star Trek and Star Trek into the Darkness, it seems largely to be a script thing than directional.
Visually, there are a lot of neat little moments both to old Star Trek fans and to other keen observers. Unfortunately, the plot itself is basically just some space adventure, where the Star Trek name is badly applied. They feel like Star Wars films. And that gives me hope.
It's clear that Paramount was trying to save a crappy script by getting a good director on the films. Disney isn't messing about with the script writers either.
The direction gets the Star Trek characters right, even when working against a shitty script. I am confident JJ will deliver.
Also, to answer your question: Why change director? Well, Disney pretty much stated that when they decided to do three new films. They wanted a different director for each of them. The idea is to release VII in 2015, VIII in 2016 and IX in 2017. At least, that's what I read. They wanted to pump them out like Hobbit films.
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Tachyon

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I'm. Just. Dying!
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DrThunder88

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That's pretty funny, but, in retrospect, I'm actually a bit amazed that the scene in Empire where Han unloads at Vader didn't have a quick cut of Boba Fett shooting at Han first. It would have been so much easier to integrate. Ultimately, it would have been far more damaging to Han's character than the Greedo debacle, though, so maybe it wasn't an oversight.
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DrThunder88

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Cool! How did you happen to come across it?
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Tachyon

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Well, there was this fellow on the corner selling guaranteed genuine movie props...
Actually, this was in the Icons of Science Fiction wing of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, through which Aslate and I were wandering on Monday.
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Tachyon

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If I understand correctly, they used to be two separate museums sharing the same (oddly-shaped) building. Given that so many geeks were visiting both, they connected them physically and combined the admission fees to streamline the logistics. Combined to a near ludicrous level, in my opinion, but it is convenient.
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DrThunder88

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Did the whole slavery thing ever get abolished in the prequels? I can't remember, and I admittedly skipped good portions of the ends of Episodes II and III. I don't know why I was thinking of this, but it occurred to me that the entire actual trilogy might have had slavery in it and I just never realized it.
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DrThunder88

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I'm not reading all that expanded universe hokum. Someone summarize the canon-relevant bits in one sentence or image macro.
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Did the whole slavery thing ever get abolished in the prequels? I can't remember, and I admittedly skipped good portions of the ends of Episodes II and III.
Acording to the few we see in episodes I and II slavery is banned in the republic... but Tatooine is not a world under the republic .. its Hutt territory.. also states that the republic , at least at that point didnt cared much for distant worlds .. specially under certain organizations control.. Hutts use slavery.. so there are slaves in Tatooine.. after the raise of the empire and not using EU sources is anyone's guess .. at no point in the original trilogy slaves are mentioned or seen
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Svip

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What! Wasn't Leia a slave for a short bit?
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DrThunder88

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But Jabba was a crime worm who fed people to cosmic monstrosities. I imagine slaveholding was one of the least of his many grievous transgressions. It just seems like slavery as a widespread, economic institution would not be viable in an area whose major industries include spaceport services, crime, podraces, scavenging, and moisture farms. And it's especially hard to understand with the presence of droids. If it was the case that droids could not function on Tatooine because of all the sand, that'd be one thing, but there are droids all over the place. I get that the Hutts hold slaves, but it makes sense as a tool for demonstrating their domination and for their own titillation. For anyone who is trying to derive money from their slaves, it makes little sense. I guess they could be kept as prostitutes, which is feasible but makes things a bit creepy.
The whole aspect of non-gold bikini slavery actually leads me to think that George Lucas either forgot why he put it in the story or just saw it as a cheap way of establishing Anakin as an underdog. Why not start his fall with the Emperor putting Anakin in charge of the Outer Rim to clean up the slavers? That would be both a good segue into the whole power/corruption thing and might give him a good excuse to start hiding his identity. At least being a vassal of the Emperor in an official capacity would make everyone calling him "Lord" a bit more sensible. Also, the freeing of a large body of able-bodied males who are grateful to the Emperor (and can't shoot) could be used to explain the proliferation of Stormtroopers available to him instead of the phony-baloney cloney nonsense.
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Otis P Jivefunk

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So, has Harrison Ford's ankle been fixed yet?...
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