The Prequels, on the other hand, are his vision all the way through. On a personal level, he cares about the Prequel timeline more than the Original Trilogy, I think, which have been "tainted" by other people.

I haven't seen eps 2 and 3 and dont plan to. Ep 1 was enough for me to walk away.

I don't like teen flicks, but I don't come into a chat for teen flicks and spout garbage about how much I dislike them and make it a point not to watch them. That's what losers do.

I agree that Lucas seemed to promise a lot for the prequels, and I was over-hyped too, especially after having such a love for the original trilogy, but it's not the first time that my wishes have been washed out with the tide, and won't be the last.

If I kept crying about how awful it was to be victimized and just sit at home feeling sorry for myself, I wouldn't have discovered the beauty of the world outside.

Lucas isn't writing all of the dialog, losers, so come back when you have your head out of your ass and actually take some time to find out a little something about what you're bitching about.

It's almost like people say, "Oh, look! there's an article about Lucas or Star Wars. Let's go bash it, so we can think that we're being cool."

I can't wait to see the 90min feature on the big screen. I hope Lucas knocks it out of the park. I can hardly wait until the live-action TV show comes out, too.

Having said all that we haven't really seen them move/emote for more than a few seconds yet.

I actually like the designs - to me it's more like a Slavic puppet-take on Genndy's (or to be totally accurate Paul Rudish's) style. But I think they went too overboard with the texturing - it's diluting the lines.

And yes, the 2d designs were better still.

You can make the advances with the peachfuzz and bloodvessels in the eyes all you like, but why you'd want to try (then fail and put it in the film anyway) what in retrospect is probably the holy grail in terms of difficulty, is beyond me. Stop playing BAD videogames there son. It's making you think Beowulf was successful (did enjoy the story, dead characters aside) with its animated corpses! ;) BTW.

"Way ahead" eh? Way to miss the point. Are you actually trying to argue Lucas/his companies are incapable of that level of 'realism'? Like I said before, Davy Jones/Pirates, but he's not aiming for that. If DJ's not totally convincing to you I'd argue it's absolutely as convincing as Beowulf. If he wanted that for the cartoon he'd just get ILM proper to do it rather than Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore. It's a conscious aesthetic decision silly, didn't you read the article? Did you forget there's another Star Wars television show that will be live action (although how alive the actors will look is up for debate these days)? It makes sense to go stylised. "Way ahead"! I guess you think the pinnacle of CG is photorealism like all those other wrongheaded (and young) types. CG can do more than that and it's too bad people like you keep paying for stuff like Beowulf and FF rather than showing the suits we want to see imagery that's not strangled by those myopic constraints. Fair enough? BTW notice I'm not saying any of this will be good or that Lucas isn't crazy these days, I'm just addressing your technical argument.

And don't shout. I may be a lot older than you, but I'm not deaf y'know!

Adult movies huh? So the hilarious/ludicrous scene with the naked Beowulf that was so like Austin Powers (can't remember the film that did that originally but I think it was French, or bloody should have been even if it wasn't) with the artful framing/coving up his wobbly bits was 'adult'?! Did they at least just do the bloody scene straight in the 'unrated'/director's cut? The fact that you hold it up as an adult movie either says you come from the same stunted viewpoint where kids' movies are de rigueur for animated movies and we should give one extra points every time one doesn't talk down to this audience. Or that you think violence counts for something being 'adult'. Thematically it's not exactly brain melting, is it? Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it to but at least try to stick with an argument. I can't tell if your rationale is technical or aesthetic or tonal. As far as the 'adult movies' thing goes, use actual realism as your barometer. If the same movie was filmed live action, maybe you'd see there was nothing that intellectually mindblowing or absorbing about it, considering corruption is the core moral dilemma.

And you really shouldn't use Revolutions as a paragon of realism. Stop confusing context with execution. A bunch of old boats going down a plughole is never going to look 'real' and is about as pointless as example as using the old wobbly rubber Yoda (yes I love it too but stay with me here sunshine) as a beacon of realism over the cg one. Why have you shifted from arguing the photorealism of characters and how visually convincing they are to stylised vistas? Not to mention SOUND now? WTF dude? Stop with the ADHD and try to focus! Talk about shifting sands!

At least we can agree they shoulda brought back Tartakovsky. And Rudish who designed that stuff.

But that would mean money, and I have friends who were offered LESS to work on Ep3 in the same roles they had on Ep2. That tells you where LFL is coming from. And I think half the thing here is that Lucas has a MAJOR dog-in-the-manger (look it up youngster) thing going on and is narky we all thought Genndy's stuff was more fun than the new movies. Somehow I still have hopes for the liveaction series though. Don't ask why because that's one I'm not going to even try to argue!

I sure hope for your sake you're (see what I did there?!) not American or English because you'd be a walking cliché with the most unoriginal putdown ever. I say this because I think you meant to say 'your' instead or 'our' country. If I'm wrong and you're an Aussie like me then (stay away from me and) I think you meant convict not illegal alien.

Now, did I leave anything out? Oh yes. Wagging your finger at me about Beowulf. Ironic considering after the gaffe about the story being a higher achievement than the book (when you said story did you mean film?), quickly followed by lording it over me for presumably not having read it when even ignorant old me knows there's a character named Grendel in it. Is Grandel his cousin or something? What else? Oh yeah. "Shouting is when you use an exclamation point". Funny but I've been under the impression that shouting means shouting and an exclamation point is so named because it marks an exclamation! See? Just like that! To be fair, it's entirely possible that every time you yourself make an exclamation you're shouting while you do it. I prefer to just modulate my voice. Maybe you're that underage guy at the bar trying to be popular. Or drunk. While beating people over the head with a dictionary without having opened the thing yourself.

One of these days we're going to have to introduce you to the infantile but amusing concept of "pwned". At least now I understand why you have such a literal understanding of subjective things and keep arguing apples-to-oranges comparisons. Good luck with your continuing education Stormy. I hope your English teacher doesn't see this.

All of a sudden I want a sequel to Masters of Teras Kasi (with character mods or whatever you call 'em)...

And a thieving bastard.

She had a bad case of crabs though...