"Flop your movie will too if nothing more than gooey love story. Hmmpphh!"
Posted on 05/04/2005 7:14:23 AM PDT by dead
Prior to Episode 1 Pepsi gave Lucasfilm roughly 2 billion for the marketing rights for the all the prequel films.
That's certainly one way to look at it but on the other hand I still find the original a good movie with very basic themes that are ageless. While there was advanced film technology in it they weren't really the story.
It seemed like each subsequent movie the film technology became more of the focus and thus they lost their "charm".
So I still watch the original from time to time (I have the first three on Laserdisc), I think the story has held up well like a good John Ford movie and unlike the rest.
I always felt this would be the most difficult one to make.
The Jedi are destroyed. The Republic is taken over by Evil.
But I'm still hoping for something good. This could have been the best series ever.
you obviously don't know much about star wars fans. or the movie industry. How can you possibly say that two films grossing in the hundreds of millions of dollars, several successful video games, and multiple best selling books equates to his idea "biting him in the arse"?
The first 3 were OK ('cept for everyone waving Buh Bye at the end).
But the pre-quels have been downright insulting! Vapid, kiddish, juvenile with the most wooden acting ever.
He should have quit after the first film.
He got caught up in his fame and his radical politically correct ideas.
As the Beetles said long ago ignorant Americans will buy just about any kind of stupid S#!t that can be put on the market.
Michael Jackson is jealous.
Every good myth/legend/fairy tale is about people. Their passions, dreams, hopes, struggles, achievements, failures, motivations. The central players in Phantom Menace were, to be blunt, imbecilic cartoons. The characters portrayed by human actors were bloodless caricatures, barely and badly inked parodies of humanity.
Viewers of the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV) could identify with robust personalities: the young Luke Skywalker, frustrated bumpkin. Han Solo, harried smuggler on the run. Phantom Menace offered no like points of empathy.
“Industrial light and magic” pyrotechnics have prospered during the last 20 years. Unfortunately, George Lucas’s personal growth did not keep pace. The befuddled bureaucrat and the little guy with big assignment of 1978 show more humanity, make more sense, and are more believable, than the AD 2000 George Lucas. It’s a shame when an artist is upstaged by creations like C3P0 and R2D2!
As “the force” moves to the fore in his movies and life, Lucas leaves humanity behind. Alas. With blasphemous depravity, Lucas offers us a virgin-born prince of darkness. Merry Christmas, fans.
I've read the script. There's not much to the "gooey love story". It is a dark, tragic tale.
Evil will always triumph over good... because good is stupid! LOL
WRONG! It was A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
"He should have quit after the first film. "
Billions of dollars in gross revenue have been generated by the Star Wars industry and you think he should have quit after the first movie?
Speaking of light sabers, I watched Ep IV on DVD the other day.
The Obi-Wan/Vader duel there is LAME compared with, say, the Obi-Wan/Maul duel in Ep I.
< /fanboy >
Where is the Simpson's Comic Guy? I want to see him with a caption "Worst...episode..ever!" Stat!
I have no idea what you're going for there.
You got something against chewy??
Damn, I wish one of my ideas would bite me on the arse like that.
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