Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[Cook]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Yeah, yeah.... because Im sure we will all be extreme hotties when we are her age and have gone throgh what she has. Does she look bad? Yeah. So do most as they age and their cells oxidize and die off. Just saying.

Did everyone expect her to look like she did in ROTJ which was about...ohhh.... almost 30 years ago.

Nope. This is the movies specifically fantasy, and I'd rather not see some of my favorite characters as geriatrics who've let themselves go. A Leia who looks like life has rode her hard and put her up wet is not my idea of awesome. Plus, not for one second do I think the rebel fighter Leia in the OT would ever let herself look like this. It kind of kills the mystique of the whole thing.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by drichter33

except as minor cast re-union, i really have no need to see any of their old bloated selves in a new movie. Nostalgia is cool, but Fisher is as bloated as Jabba, or at least the 6-tit having dancing girl, and Hammills crater face looks like the surface of the moon. Ford has aged gracefully, but showing it.

Utterly charming.

However, I do agree that I don't see them in major parts. Just move on with it already.

GL did an excellent job with the casting in the PT.

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Yeah, yeah.... because Im sure we will all be extreme hotties when we are her age and have gone throgh what she has. Does she look bad? Yeah. So do most as they age and their cells oxidize and die off. Just saying.
Did everyone expect her to look like she did in ROTJ which was about...ohhh.... almost 30 years ago.

Which reminds me: This year is the 30th anniversary of ROTJ!!!!!!

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

GL did an excellent job with the casting in the PT.

This is a joke right?

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

This is a joke right?

This is a joke, right?

[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

This is a joke right?

While I won't say it was perfect casting, I will say he did cast Ewan McGregor well as Obi-Wan, Liam Neeson was great as Qui-Gon, and even though Natalie Portman was particularly wooden, I liked her as Padme. So there was some decent casting throughout, but nothing like the original trilogy.

[Cook]

Hayden and Jake were the only really awful casting in the PT, but considering they played the central character that is a pretty bad **** up.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Yeah, yeah.... because Im sure we will all be extreme hotties when we are her age and have gone throgh what she has. Does she look bad? Yeah. So do most as they age and their cells oxidize and die off. Just saying.

Did everyone expect her to look like she did in ROTJ which was about...ohhh.... almost 30 years ago.

I'm fedexing you a chill pill There are plenty of good looking actresses in their 50s. Just because you get old doesn't mean you need to punt.

[mrr1]

I don't see what people are getting uppity about.

Princess Leia is going to be an old woman in this movie, and Carrie Fisher fits the part.

She'll probably crash diet a bit before shooting, dress in lots of "royal"-looking robes, wear a wig with some spacey hairdo, and play her part of "Old Leia" perfectly fine.

[Cook]

Originally Posted by mrr1

I don't see what people are getting uppity about.

Princess Leia is going to be an old woman in this movie, and Carrie Fisher fits the part.

She'll probably crash diet a bit before shooting, dress in lots of "royal"-looking robes, wear a wig with some spacey hairdo, and play her part of "Old Leia" perfectly fine.

Old is not synonimous with letting one's self go.

[mrr1]

Originally Posted by Cook

Old is not synonimous with letting one's self go.

I know.

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Cook

Old is not synonimous with letting one's self go.

True and if we are to believe that she followed in Luke's footsteps and trained as a Jedi, one would expect her to be at least SOMEWHAT fit for her age. I mean, Christopher Lee was in his 80's when he played Dooku and he still looked rather good for his age.

[rickah88]

So when did this thread turn into an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine?

[stvn1974]

Can't they just CGI Fisher's head on Christina Hendrich's body?

[Cook]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Can't they just CGI Fisher's head on Christina Hendrich's body?

[rollinwith26s]

You are disgusting for belittling a woman of that age for her looks. She can be in the movie regardless as far as I'm concerned.

[Pounder]

Originally Posted by rollinwith26s

You are disgusting for belittling a woman of that age for her looks. She can be in the movie regardless as far as I'm concerned.

I think is just that she's hard to look at that is throwing people off.

[Cook]

Originally Posted by rollinwith26s

You are disgusting for belittling a woman of that age for her looks. She can be in the movie regardless as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care how she looks in real life. Feel free to do whatever you want with your body as far as I'm concerned. But in a film you are playing a character, and Leia being a Jedi would not have let herself go like that. Especially in a culture that advanced. A double chin and worn out body from life of coke addiction isn't Leia. It's just Carrie Fisher. Seeing these characters in this type of shape is not a dream come true it is a nightmare. No one wants to see their heros turn into this.

[mrr1]

Why would we assume that Leia is a Jedi?

[roguescribner]

Originally Posted by mrr1

Why would we assume that Leia is a Jedi?

+1

Remember when they announced the new movies would NOT be based on the EU? Okay.

The only thing they're concerning themselves with is the previous films. And nothing in the previous films said Leia would become a Jedi.

[Cook]

Originally Posted by mrr1

Why would we assume that Leia is a Jedi?

You're joking right? "No, there is another." "Your sister.... If you will not turn. Perhaps she will." She is a Skywalker and Force sensitive and Lucas always intended Luke's sister to be a Jedi. The sequel trilogy was originally intended to be about Luke's sister becoming a Jedi. This was before Leia was made the sister. I mean I guess they could change it, but smart money is on her being a jedi. Lei being a Jedi was Lucas's idea not the EU authors.


And with Lucas being involved in the story meetings it is even more likely.

Even so, he’s attended story meetings for the new film, adjudicating the physical laws and attributes of the Star Wars universe. “I mostly say, ‘You can’t do this. You can do that,’ ” Lucas says. “You know, ‘The cars don’t have wheels. They fly with antigravity.’ There’s a million little pieces. Or I can say, ‘He doesn’t have the power to do that, or he has to do this.’ I know all that stuff.”

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/geor...ar-warskind-of

As far as Luke, Han, and Leia is concerned Lucas has probably told them where they are and who they are at this point in the story.