pete1061 wrote:
I'm not even gonna bother with Episode VII, it will just be a cheap knock off engineered to sell lots of toys to kids.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Unfortunately, Disney these days has become a corporation more than a production house. There's a clear difference between their output of the Silver Age (the 90s), and what they're putting out now -
Pixar did most of the donkey work animation-wise beyond the 2000s and up until
Cars 2/Rattatouille, was arguably regarded as one of the best animation houses in the world, guaranteed Oscar-winners if you will. Now
Pixar itself is wearing thin (Toy Story 3 bucking the odds for reasons too long to go into here), and Disney are struggling to come up with a new
Pirates of the Carribean-esque franchise (Depp is quitting after the next one) Disney have turned to Marvel and now Star Wars. That isn't to say Disney won't make money off these - of course they will; they're market-savvy and very very powerful distribution-wise across the globe.
So we'll see what happens when
Episode 7 appears -- I'm just curious at what Harrison Ford is supposed to do in it; he fought tooth and nail to retain the character of Hans Solo (spelling?) but he must be what, 60 now? Curiouser and curiouser...
02 Dec 2013, 6:46 pm
