LOL!
People are taking this whole thing way too seriously. It reminds me of the woman in a video magazine, when the talk was that Spielberg was going to take ET out of release for a while, said that he didn’t have the right to do that.
It is a commodity. Nothing more. Some of us get entertainment out of it, some (e.g. my wife) think it’s all stupid. It will go the way of the Bob Hope Bing Crosby “Road to” movies eventually. I like some. I don’t like others. This last one is one of my top three. Up there with episodes 4 and 5 (the first two releases) and really closed the loop well. And some of those episodes were absolute garbage. Their only redeeming quality being good special affects, which has not held me for decades.
“If you like your original story idea, you can keep your original story idea”.
This would go over a lot better if Lucas’ own prequel trilogy hadn’t been such a disaster. Maybe the Lucas sequel trilogy wouldn’t have tried so hard to cater to girls who couldn’t care less about Star Wars in the first place, but it would have just been a different kind of bad. It’s still notable that the best Star Wars movie - The Empire Strikes Back - wasn’t directed by Lucas.
George has some nerve crying “betrayal” when he sold out for $4B.
He should have stopped with the first three and it would have been legendary just right there. Everything else since then has been a disappointment and tarnished the name.
That’s what selling the property means, George.
If I had known Star Wars was going to turn out like this, I would have rooted for The Empire.
I thought these latest Star Wars were too dull and p.c. to finish watching. I don’t think I missed anything special.
George, buddy, once you sell a thing it’s no longer yours.
Lucas can still rest on his laurels for HOWARD THE DUCK.
p-u!
He sold it. They bought it. End of story.
George came from an era of lefty filmmaker that was smart enough to leave their left wing tripe off the screen and/or the cutting room floor. He sold to a group that had no such scruples. Story telling to them takes a backseat to pushing an agenda.
Saw the new movies and yes, they were trash. The new one is an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle on a bad story that served an agenda. As a result one was left leaving the theatre wondering, “did I really need to see any other Star Wars movie in order to watch that?” It was like a story de novo.
The other movies were fun. This was just painful. It was the equivalent of a Sci-Fi channel popcorn flick with cameos.
as bad as Lucas can be, I would be very interested in hearing about his original vision.
Translation:
Why would we want to follow a proven money making movie plan when we could re-write it so that we can feel better about ourselves..
“In Iger’s new memoir...”
It can’t be that new because this info all came out I think over six months ago.
Let's start with the Jedi going from the "good guys" to creepy people who snatch VERY young children from their families and indoctrinate them into a weird cult where there "are no absolutes" (are you absolutely sure of that) and you may not form any emotional ties to anyone outside the order.
They went from being The Knights of the Round Table to Mamelukes in one swift move.
There has been a lot of news about this, but I haven’t seen anything about what Lucas’ outlines were. I’d be interested in comparing them to what Disney came up with, which, frankly, has been underwhelming.
Hey George, when you whore your creative “baby” out for $4 billion, you don’t really get the right to complain about how it’s treated.
Maybe George Lucas should get together with President Donald J. Trump and build a new movie franchise called, er um, uh, uh,
“Space Force”.
Sorry, I could not resist.