Re: Star Wars: Orthodox or Heterodox?
In reply to facemaker329 (msg # 10):
The fact is, Disney movies DO detract from the original. Pixar isn't Disney (though they sort of are they aren't, so they don't count anyway). Consider, Disney may own SOME of the rights to Marvel, but each franchise within is not owned by Disney. Spiderman and Ghost Rider movie rights belong to Sony, X-Men belong to Fox, Disney? All the characters that aren't affiliated with Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, X-Men, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four.
So yes, that leaves them with the Avengers, but consider that if you were to compare the Avengers to the comic version, they're vastly different, meaning Disney's hand changed them from their original greatness. Yes they were still good, but a good movie doesn't need to change a franchise. Why else is this important? It forces Fox and Sony to keep pumping out movies to keep movie rights so they don't defect back to Disney. Now with Disney owning the ever humungous Star Wars franchise, Fox and Sony will want to clench tighter to what they have.
Am I saying they're going to make a bad Star Wars movie? Not necessarily. Am I saying they will make Fox and Sony make bad movies with their respective franchises? Not necessarily. But consider, Fox and Sony have made bad movies out of their franchises (Spiderman 2 and Fantastic Four come to mind). Disney's agenda is to get the rest of the Marvel universe back to make money, which makes sense, that's a lot of movie money. To do this, they have to keep the pressure on Fox and Sony. That means they'll both want to pump tons of dollars into movies, which often means less 'creative engineering' and more 'CG ALL the things' (like Green Lantern's outfit... *shutter*).