| The Ghost of RubangB said: First post nailed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI explains everything.
Basically, George Lucas doesn't know what he's doing. He's just not... a good filmmaker. Most of the good parts of the original trilogy weren't his ideas. For example, when Princess Leia says "I love you!" to Han Solo while he's getting frozen in carbonite, and Solo says "I know." That was Harrison Ford's idea. Darth Vader's super-iconic heavy breathing? That was James Earl Jones's idea. Most of the other good parts were lucky accidents due to the lack of a budget. AND A GREAT TEAM THAT HE LISTENED TO. Nowadays, George Lucas has money to do whatever he wants. He never has to brainstorm and find creative solutions to financial problems. He never has to rely on his team for good ideas. He can just film in front of a greenscreen and have 100% control over the stupid aliens that they CGI in there.
Lucas also ruins ALL his classics, not just Star Wars. Look at Indy 4. Look at E.T.! In the DVD he went back and changed the guns to walkie talkies! Why? That actually RUINS the suspense! "Oh no these guards with walkie talkies are chasing me down!" He wanted to make it less scary, ya know, for kids. He completely destroyed his greatest movie, THX-1138. That film was almost all white, on purpose. It was minimal beautiful arty sci-fi madness (the lack of a budget forced him to be super-creative and badass). For the DVD he added a bunch of digital robots, huge crowds of people (ruining the claustrophobic isolation of the original's atmosphere), aliens, tons of terminals and random sci-fi tech gear for no reason, and even weird monsters in the parking lot. None of that was in the original! One of the film professors at USC (I forget her name at the moment) taught George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola. She watched all three of them grow and mature as cinematic artists. In her words: all three are amazing editors and filmmakers. All three are just phenomenal at putting together a scene, masters of pacing, editing, atmosphere, and putting it all together. But only Coppola knows how to tell a story. BOOM! |
everybody makes good and bad movies,and i'm sure lots of actors/crew contribute to lots of films singling out lucas as a bad film maker is quite ludicrous,nothing wrong with entertaining people plot holes or not
you sound like you need to crawl out of your own arse and take some air
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