MichaelH said:
Soundwave said:
Let me just add to my last post because I think it warrants adding on to ...
George Lucas post-Star Wars is the same guy that
- Thought Howard the Duck was a great idea.
- Thought an Indiana Jones movie with aliens was a great idea. Even though Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg did not like the idea, he forced them into it.
- Thought making Natalie Portman into a Christmas tree with the voice a male bodybuilder was a good idea for Episode I.
- Thought having Han shoot first and inserting that horribly bad CGI dance number in the Jedi was a great idea.
- Thought Jar Jar was the central component to Episode I. Thought that would make audiences laugh.
- Thought making Mace Windu the dullest character in the universe was a good idea.
- Thought having Darth Maul have few lines was a good idea. In fact we know he actually CUT lines from Darth Maul from what was in the shooting script.
- Thought Anakin's "romantic lines" in Episode II would make women swoon.
Lets be honest. Lucas lost his shit a long time ago. Probably after his divorce ... dude was never the same after that, it devastated him so much so that he couldn't direct for another 16 years.
What does it tell you when Kathleen Kennedy (producer of some of the most successful films of ALL time) was willing to delay a new Star Wars by several months and push the release date of the film into WINTER, by throwing out Lucas ideas and going with someone else instead?
JJ Abrams is certainly not perfect, but did it occur to some of you that Lucas' ideas for this sequel trilogy may very well have been *shit*? Because he has a track record of *shit* decisions since the 1980s ended.
The only difference is now, someone finally called him out on his shit, by throwing out his Episode VII treatment and going in a different direction. Episode VII was *always* going to be burdened by having to follow up the shit prequels and all of the damage Lucas did to his brand, that's why it had to be an homage to the OT and re-center the franchise by bringing it back to what made it popular in the first place ... which contrary to popular belief wasn't lightsaber fights.
What's so "cool" about Mace Windu? There's is NO fucking character there. Sam Jackson has never been so BLAND in his whole life, a lot of his line readings were mind-numbingly bad ("A Sith ... Lord? Is this an Anchorman joke? I'm ... Ron ... Burgandy?). Oh but he had a PURPLE lightsaber. Whoopity doo, what a amazing, original character.
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Wow, I can see you're a huge fan of George Lucas. Did he kill your puppy?
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Actually I have a lot of respect for George Lucas. What he did with the original trilogy, and American Grafitti, Indiana Jones, was great but on top of that he's genuinely a very, very nice man with great principals. Even *now* when I listen to him speak about storytelling, he is right about most of what he says (ie: Star Wars is a space/soap opera, not about spaceships and what not).
But there's just a disconnect between that and the films he makes today. I think he just lost his touch a long time ago, which is kind of sad, but storytelling/film directing may well be a limited talent, much like a great athlete loses his skill over time. We've seen many directors simply "lose it" as times goes on, so it's not just George Lucas that this has happened to.
Even Spielberg today, while still a good filmmaker, I mean how often do you get the feeling that he could make a Raiders of the Lost Ark or Jaws today? Those days are long gone.
