Posted on 12/02/2013 3:34:04 PM PST by EveningStar
Star Wars was Cowboys and Samurais fighting Nazis in Space. That 9 film thing was BS that Lucas spewed to make himself sound grandiose. The people around him at the time said he wasn’t thinking about anything more than one film. He didn’t even write Empire and Jedi.
Do you think is a Coincidence that the BEST Star Wars Move (The Empire Strikes Back) is the one that has the LEAST amount of Involvement from George Lucas?
Dead on. There's also the fact that the screenplay to TESB was co-written by Leigh Brackett, a Real Science Fiction Writer...something George Lucas most decidedly is not.
Coming on the heels of E.T. (1982), Lucas added Ewoks to ROTJ strictly for merchandising purposes.
There was one original line though from the film's original cut that has been deleted over the years that I really liked:
Han: "Oh great! We've been captured by Teddy Bears."
Disney — no need to explain why this is gobsmackingly horrible — announced that it was going to insult the collective intelligence, sensibility, and good taste of everyone in America and the English-speaking world by welcoming George Lucas to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and making another Star Wars trilogy.Seriously, they can't be much worse than Books I, II, and III. But he won't get another dime out of me. Thanks EveningStar.
I know! It makes absolutely NO SENSE!! Having Yoda shrug his shoulders and say, “Let’s go with it,” just bothered the heck out of me, and how many thought initially that the clones were someone the Jedi were fighting against from the beginning.
(I’m going to show my total nerdness) In the ESB novelisation, and in concepts, Boba Fett was a “Mandalorian Warrior” left over from the Clone Wars. I had thought he was a leftover clone, and that the Mandalorians were fighting the Old Republic. I could see a scenario where the Old Republic captures the cloning technology, and Palapatine advocates the use of it. The Jedi object to this, and Palpatine calls them traitors because they won’t use “any means” to save the Old Republic, thereby public opinion turns against them and they become enemies of the state.
Anyway, that’s what I thought, but... I guess (according to Lucas) I wouldn’t know a good movie if it bit me in the arse.
Satan has many roles and names. lol
Your version would have been better.
The clone army is basically a slave army made up of slaves who don’t even know they are slaves, conditioned to follow and never question orders according to that long-necked alien. If there was even a few lines about the ethics of using such an army as a completely desperate measure against the droids it would have been better. But all the Jedi moaning was about how bad war is in general, not that they had to use an army of brainwashed slave soldiers, at least that I can recall.
It’s funny that both sides used proxy armies who were grown/built and made to fight with no choice in the matter.
Freegards
Anybody that’s paid attention to how Disney has handled the Marvel Cinematic Universe is actually pretty pleased with them getting SW. They know how to do arcs over multiple movies, they’re willing to take on very expensive experiments that could fail, and they made a bunch of good movies. Also they’ve got access to better writers and directors than George, which is sad because because George was good prior to SW (American Graffiti is a great movie) but something about getting mired in that universe killed his talent.
I think he had ideas about what came before and what came after, and then said “yeah that’s 3 trilogies”. I’ve actually been read The Star Wars, the comics based on the original script when Luke was a Starkiller not a Skywalker. Very different, very interesting, might have actually been better. Hewed a lot closer to Hidden Fortress. I just wish George had done something not SW between SW and Empire, I think we as an audience missed out on a lot of good movies because he let himself get trapped in SW.
I was torn between cringing and laughing out loud at some of the worst dialog ever memorialized in film. It was Rocky Horror Picture Show in space. I'm trying to figure out how Disney could ruin it.
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