Will you see "The People vs George Lucas"?

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Woem

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I will see both that documentary and Fanboys [http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/fanboys/].
 

Wargamer

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Flying-Emu said:
Why do people use mouth-breather like an insult? Unless you're some sort of lizard-man monstrosity that can respirate through your pores, you're a mouth breather too...
No, we're nose-breathers. Normal people breathe through the nose unless they really need to take in a lot of oxygen very quickly.

Breathing through your mouth when 'at rest' is something associated with the mentally handicapped. They are (literally) too retarded to breathe through their nose.
 

Wargamer

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hypothetical fact said:
He also helped rape Indiana Jones.
Tell me about it.

Lucas is a retard. You can tell which bits of [Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull] he was involved in because the CGI looks like it's out of the 1980s!

He was also determined that it had to involve space aliens.

He should never be allowed to do anything in film, television or any form of media ever again - give away his franchises to people who know how to make films.
 

Nurb

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Wargamer said:
He should never be allowed to do anything in film, television or any form of media ever again - give away his franchises to people who know how to make films.
Thats what he did for the first movies. He wrote the script and had great creative influence and final say in design, but he had editors, producers, and directots to put his vision on film, and it was amazing...

when he was allowed to do EVERYTHING we got NONE of the chemistry between actors. In fact, they got such good people for the parts and relationships because they had auditions include prospective actors reading from scripts to see how they interacted with one another. with the prequels they had pretty faces talking to a commitee and it produced "SAND IS COARSE. YOUR SKIN IS SOFT HURRF DURFY DERP" passing for romantic dialogue
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Being a writer myself, I've always felt a little bit of sympathy for George Lucas and his changes to the dubious canon he established in The Original Trilogy. With Fans desperately latching onto a single line of dialogue and the EU authors attatching endless amounts of significance to every little thing in the original 3 films it must be very difficult to see where his original intention with the story still resides.

I'm not defending his terrible plot decisions (Midichlorians, Gungans and other stupidity) or his intense special effects wankery, I'm defending his right to his story. He created it, he has a right to change it, and we are not in any position to tell him other wise, the story does not belong to us, it belongs to him. I really don't think there is anything wrong with Lucas wanting to smooth over inconsistancies between The Original Trilogy and The Prequel Trilogy.

If anything, George Lucas's biggest problem is his inability to "kill his darlings" and his head has grown so big that he thinks craziness like Gungans and bacterial force power are a good idea. He doesn't acknowledge that he's written a horrid script, or that he's very bad at dialogue. He doesn't let actors do what they do best and he won't let anyone tell him that he's "doing it wrong".

I can't help but wonder if all these people telling Lucas that he can't tell his story the way he wants has made him more resentful and more unwilling to take legitimate criticism in some of the more technical aspects of his storytelling. People tell him "Why did you make Anakin a kid in Episode 1, isn't he supposed to be an adult" instead of "Your dialogue was terrible and you made some bad pacing decisions." I just don't see this as the best form of criticism and Episodes 1-3 have bigger problems than some of their minor slights to your precious "canon".
 

dekkarax

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Warning! Warning! Unpleasable fanbase [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnpleasableFanbase] alert!

ahem, sorry about that. While I will admit the newer films he has done are not as good as the older ones; some people need to give George Lucas a break, film making is very difficult after all; it's like having an exquisite meal and then spitting on the chef because the next course was only average.
Nurb said:
GodotIsWaiting4U said:
"Fans are clingy complaining dipshits who never ever be grateful for any concession you make. The moment you shut out their shrill tremulous voices, the happier you'll be for it."
Yahtzee was talking about developers of games.
...While displaying a picture of the Spider man 3 poster.