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Verd1234 said:
"It's not my genre," the director explained. "It's my best friend George's genre."
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http://movies.yahoo.com/news/steven-spielberg-not-direct-star-wars-movie-145726563.html

Spielberg says that he has no interest in directing the Star Wars movies.

It's interesting that he says that it is not his genre as he did direct E.T and Close encounters of the third kind. He has also directed action stuff like Indiana Jones...
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E.T and Close Encounters are sci-fi. Star Wars is fantasy.
 
'Space Opera' is apparently a more appropriate genre
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I would say Star Trek or Mass Effect are more like Space Opera, as in very advanced technology that can be handwaved via technobabble. Star Wars has outright magic (midclorians aside, or however you spell it), and so is just fantasy, like 40K for example.
 
FearMonkey said:
Hassknecht said:
Buxbaum666 said:
I say we call it science fantasy.
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Nah, that would imply that it has science in it.
Futuristic fantasy.
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It does have science in it. It has lasers and hyperspace and stuff.
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There's no underlying science. Some idiots thought they had to conjure up some stupid numbers and figures afterwards to show those pesky Trekkies that a Star Destroyer can easily defeat the Federation of Planets, but that doesn't make it any more scientific.
Star Wars is pure fantasy, why pretend it's science fiction when it does its thing very well? If you call it science fiction, it must be held to science fiction standards, and then it will lose very, very badly.
 
Hassknecht said:
FearMonkey said:
Hassknecht said:
Buxbaum666 said:
I say we call it science fantasy.
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Nah, that would imply that it has science in it.
Futuristic fantasy.
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It does have science in it. It has lasers and hyperspace and stuff.
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There's no underlying science. Some idiots thought they had to conjure up some stupid numbers and figures afterwards to show those pesky Trekkies that a Star Destroyer can easily defeat the Federation of Planets, but that doesn't make it any more scientific.
Star Wars is pure fantasy, why pretend it's science fiction when it does its thing very well? If you call it science fiction, it must be held to science fiction standards, and then it will lose very, very badly.
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I don't call it science fiction. I call it science fantasy.
 
Hassknecht said:
FearMonkey said:
Hassknecht said:
Buxbaum666 said:
I say we call it science fantasy.
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Nah, that would imply that it has science in it.
Futuristic fantasy.
Click to expand...
It does have science in it. It has lasers and hyperspace and stuff.
Click to expand...
There's no underlying science. Some idiots thought they had to conjure up some stupid numbers and figures afterwards to show those pesky Trekkies that a Star Destroyer can easily defeat the Federation of Planets, but that doesn't make it any more scientific.
Star Wars is pure fantasy, why pretend it's science fiction when it does its thing very well? If you call it science fiction, it must be held to science fiction standards, and then it will lose very, very badly.
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I've read a lot of stories that were called sci-fi that were even less plausible than SW.
 
Star Wars was always seen as a fairy tale in space.

And if there is something Disney is doing a lot, then its fairy tales.
 
I don't know what to make of Joe Johnston. On one hand, I liked Captain America but it had it's faults. The guy did do Jumanji as well and that was okay. What do you guys think?
 
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