C'mon, Lucas just made 6 movies based on a sci-fi reboot of samurai movies. It's not like he created a world or something and then destroyed ... Oh, wait.
Poll: Is George Lucas dead to you?
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I hate that the original 3 keep getting their tits milked for all of the fanboy revenue, instead of leaving the movie, A MOVIE! Just the fact he keeps changing, adding, revising and then milk sucking some more is irritating, FOCUS ON A DIFFERENT, NEW IDEA FOR ONCE, ME' BOY!
Edit: Not dead, just I stopped caring, until he makes a new sci-fi movie, he'll be one of my favorite directors for a bit, but he hasn't, has he?
Edit: Not dead, just I stopped caring, until he makes a new sci-fi movie, he'll be one of my favorite directors for a bit, but he hasn't, has he?
Could you calm down a little, just calm and think. I guess I must be the type of person hating that George keeps wasting talent on what is already, a close lined, perfect story, when he could be making more sci-fi movies for a newer generation. What he produces doesn't mean he works on them, if hes director, and its not a good film, its the directors fault, also, Indiana Jones 4 was good when not compared to the originals. Also, Spielberg is only working on a horse movie from what I know, and never touched the Transformers or Battle LA.easternflame said:
Yeah, pretty much. I'm going to ignore it and carry on with my daily life, just like if it hadn't come out in the first place.Dead Raen said:
On the other hand, though, it would be nice to have a higher quality release of the movies in their original form I grew up with than the Laserdisc version or the fan "restorations" of the more recent (and kind of crappy, in some ways) non-special edition DVDs. Oh well. I'll live.
If I had a time machine, the only thing I'd use it for is to go back in time to the weeks after Jedi's success, and erase him. Think of a world with no "Special CGI Editions". WIth no Greedo shooting first. Where the words Hayden, Christiansen, and Midichlorians never ever came to the public conciousness.
I'm going to dig up my John Lennon CDs and start work on my Flux Capacitor.
I'm going to dig up my John Lennon CDs and start work on my Flux Capacitor.
Uhmmm...from what I've heard, he kinda did...when he made the first revision, he destroyed the original source material so no one would be able to recreate the original version. Also, everyone who didn't bought a copy of the movies before revision #x won't be able to buy the #x-1 version, because George will propably make the shops return all the old copies they didn't sold so he can dispose of them...Randomeaninglessword said:
One more thing...how many other directors do you know who update their 30+ years old movies with completely pointless stuff that does nothing but destroy the very sparse amounts of dignity their franchise had? I don't say he's not allowed to...it's just one of The Things That Movie Directors Shouldn't Do With Their Old Movies. Star Wars was already in pretty sh*tty situation when it comes to the fanbase...
Let's use an analogy.
Imagine a book. Now, imagine that the author rereleases the book every time he thinks, that he skipped a line, or that some word would fit some certain sentence better than the one already in place, or that the scenes in one of the chapters should be in reverse order. And then burns every copy of the old book he had, claiming thet they could as well never exist. That's pretty much what George is doing with the original trilogy of Star Wars.
Only my opinion though...
I think George needs less "Yes Men" and more "That's Stupid Mr. Lucas" guys in his corner. I won't buy the release, but mostly because it's on blu-ray and I haven't bothered to collect anything on blu-ray.
But if George feels the need to monkey with the originals again, he could always digitally remove the painful and unnecessary scene in Jabba's palace with the dance number that should never have been. Oh, and remove Hayden Christensen's force ghost at the end of Jedi.
But if George feels the need to monkey with the originals again, he could always digitally remove the painful and unnecessary scene in Jabba's palace with the dance number that should never have been. Oh, and remove Hayden Christensen's force ghost at the end of Jedi.
A better question would be:
Why does anyone care about George Lucas to start with?
Let's face it, he's a washed-up director, and he's clearly off his rocker. Sure, Star Wars was entertaining, but it wasn't prodigal. The movies aren't renowned for being good, so to speak. They're renowned for being cult classics -- a category reserved for movies that create legions of die-hard fans (e.g. A Rocky Horror Picture Show). Why did Star Wars garner so many fans? Because at the time of its creation, there were very few films that were built around nerd-culture. It was one of the very, very, VERY small pile of heavy science-fiction films available at the time, so naturally, it won the attention of that entire niche.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE GOOD MOVIES.
Why do people still care about Star Wars? Honestly. If we're going to drop to our knees and worship a director for creating a work of sci-fi genius, let it be Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Ridley Scott for Blade Runner or Alien. There's absolutely NO reason to be surprised that George Lucas is becoming stupider.
Why does anyone care about George Lucas to start with?
Let's face it, he's a washed-up director, and he's clearly off his rocker. Sure, Star Wars was entertaining, but it wasn't prodigal. The movies aren't renowned for being good, so to speak. They're renowned for being cult classics -- a category reserved for movies that create legions of die-hard fans (e.g. A Rocky Horror Picture Show). Why did Star Wars garner so many fans? Because at the time of its creation, there were very few films that were built around nerd-culture. It was one of the very, very, VERY small pile of heavy science-fiction films available at the time, so naturally, it won the attention of that entire niche.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE GOOD MOVIES.
Why do people still care about Star Wars? Honestly. If we're going to drop to our knees and worship a director for creating a work of sci-fi genius, let it be Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Ridley Scott for Blade Runner or Alien. There's absolutely NO reason to be surprised that George Lucas is becoming stupider.
I'm sorry but who?
Reading the first post tells me who's somewhat related to star-wars.... I ain't watched the new shiny whored out ones, so whatever. He'd not dead or whatever to me, I just don't know who the hell he is - dead or not.
Reading the first post tells me who's somewhat related to star-wars.... I ain't watched the new shiny whored out ones, so whatever. He'd not dead or whatever to me, I just don't know who the hell he is - dead or not.
Sorry, I got distracted by the word bacon and clicked on that, much more important I think.
Anyways, topic at hand, yes and no. No because he brought Star Wars and helped along, indirectly perhaps, the series to the Expanded Universe, so yay. And yes, because of the prequels and him constantly tinkering with Star Wars, leave them alone dammit!
Anyways, topic at hand, yes and no. No because he brought Star Wars and helped along, indirectly perhaps, the series to the Expanded Universe, so yay. And yes, because of the prequels and him constantly tinkering with Star Wars, leave them alone dammit!
George Lucas? Oh, that quirky fella who made three successful scifi movies in the late 70s and 80s. He's a nice fellow. Too bad his last movie was Indiana Jones in 1989.
Still, I love Star Wars. Wonder if they one day explain what those "clone wars" were about.
Still, I love Star Wars. Wonder if they one day explain what those "clone wars" were about.
Had to take the smoky flavoured option because if his artistic redundancy wasn't already proven by the prequels, this is hardly going to tip my opinion over the edge. I have happy childhood memories of the original and it's sequel, the rest was just dodgy fan fiction as far as I'm concerned. It's Lucas' sandbox, he can do what he wants with it.
Still, it must be said: retconning elements of his later, inferior creations into his beloved original for the sake of melodramatic symmetry is fucking dumb. As someone else pointed out, the tone of the scene changes from stoic conflict between Vader's loyalties and his better self, to a ridiculous soap-opera style epiphany.
Fortunately, I can overcome Lucas' egregious slight to my precious childhood memory by not buying it.
Still, it must be said: retconning elements of his later, inferior creations into his beloved original for the sake of melodramatic symmetry is fucking dumb. As someone else pointed out, the tone of the scene changes from stoic conflict between Vader's loyalties and his better self, to a ridiculous soap-opera style epiphany.
Fortunately, I can overcome Lucas' egregious slight to my precious childhood memory by not buying it.
He died when that Clone Wars movie was made. Sure, the prequel trilogy was bad...but at LEAST they had been planned from the very beginning.
Nobody was asking for a two-hour CG cartoon...that was made to kick off a tv series of CG cartoons.
Nobody was asking for a two-hour CG cartoon...that was made to kick off a tv series of CG cartoons.
well, the decline since the prequel trilogy has been steady... so he's probably decomposing.
I'd say it's time for him to just retire and let someone capable handle the franchise.
I'd say it's time for him to just retire and let someone capable handle the franchise.
I have the perfect answer to this!!!
No. I still respect George Lucas for what he did and although I may not support his current view on Star Wars it's still a hell of a thing I am glad was created. It will never die!
No. I still respect George Lucas for what he did and although I may not support his current view on Star Wars it's still a hell of a thing I am glad was created. It will never die!