"Yousa mean weesa gonna FAIL?"
Posted on 05/04/2005 7:14:23 AM PDT by dead
Ask George Lucas about his hopes for the closing instalment of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith, and he replies that he expects it to fail.
In an interview with TIME magazine, Lucas says that like everyone who makes movies, he is "always convinced the next one will be a flop".
"So right now I’m thinking it probably won’t make any money and will be considered a failure."
But in spite of his fears, he concedes he is very satisfied with the final product. "I think it turned out as well as I could have hoped, and at the same time I'm very glad that I finished it."
Others may be less glad the saga has finally come to an end. In the first published review of Revenge of the Sith, filmmaker, Kevin Smith described the film as "so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching 'Othello' or 'Hamlet'".
"This is the 'Star Wars' prequel the haters have been bitching for since 'Menace' came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying," added the maker of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl.
Despite the staunch enthusiasm of fans of the original Star Wars, Lucas said he never really entertained the fact that there would ever be more than one film. "I expected it to take me a year, year and a half to make, and then I expected to move on to other things."
Lucas considers the Star Wars storytelling format very stylised, and "very much in opposition to what my natural inclinations are".
He now hopes to explore more abstract forms of filmmaking that interested him in his days at film school. "It's vaguely in the land of music videos, I guess, but I don't even know how to describe them. I know they won't be mainstream movies. I'm sure they'll be just as criticized as Star Wars films are," he said.
Lucas also has a hankering to work in television principally to shift away from doing anything that may considered "important". He said television offered the chance to do "really great work" without all of the "megillah" that surrounds film.
Revenge of the Sith is being released around the world on May 19.
Well, that's what he gets for making his films unintelligent tripe designed only to appeal to the 7-10 age group. Those movies went seriously downhill after the original Star Wars movie.
"Yousa mean weesa gonna FAIL?"
I slept through most of TPM, and didn't even bother with the second one. And I'm not very excited about the third one either, Star Wars is so 70s.
Maybe we'll finally see what a Mitichlorian looks like. < |:/~
-J.J.B.
I'm not sure...
This one looks like it will make up for episodes 1 & 2...
It may be the biggest Star Wars movie yet....
ROFLMAO
Does this mean more stuff like Howard the Duck?
Hey, it happens to everyone eventually.
Or so I'm told.
The second movie was a little better, but very confusing.
I keep on wondering why I have not liked the second installment as much as the original trilogy. I think it lacks quality.
I agree! In casual conversations I've had with folks of all ages and walks of life - there is A LOT of anticiaption built up for this.
This will be a Star Wars summer
LUcas made the last few movies a kiddie cartoon.
Just give the people what they want, the torture and slow death of Jarjar.
Tells someone who cares.
Well, that's what he gets for making his films unintelligent tripe designed only to appeal to the 7-10 age group. Those movies went seriously downhill after the original Star Wars movie.
I’m in the minority who thought the original was a total bore too. It was a kid’s fairytale movie.
I watched the first of the new trilogy on DVD and was actually yelling at it to end for the final half hour. There wasn't one character that I gave even a little bit of a crap about. The lead kid was reading his lines. Worst actor ever.
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