[avg_freeper]

"George Lucas, who produced six Star Wars movies, self-funding a large portion of their sequels' expensive budgets with his own money"

It also helps for your movies to not suck.

[Yossarian]

"George Lucas, who produced six Star Wars movies, self-funding a large portion of their sequels' expensive budgets with his own money"

It also helps for your movies to not suck.

Yeah, no doubt. If Ronald D. Moore would put out a 2 hour Battlestar Galactica episode in super-HD to the theaters every 2 weeks - like a serial - I'd show up for that regularly.

BSG: the best show on any screen size right now.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

---It also helps for your movies to not suck.---

Truer words were seldom spoken.

[ClearBlueSky]

AMEN!
$125 million on a film with a script so lame and juvenile that it wouldn't make a good Saturday morning cartoon isn't 'cost effectiveness', its stupidity.
The SCRIPT is the movie. Decent acting helps too. Talented actors can save a thin script, but even Olivier couldn't make a hit of laughable writing.
Visuals are important. Audiences want something wonderful to look at, yes, but if the writing and acting are bad a $200 million dollar movie is like a beautifully decorated cardboard cake. Deceiving and empty.

[Paleo Conservative]

It also helps for your movies to not suck.

But the three "prequel" Star Wars movies did suck.

[najida]

LOL!
there are probably no movies worse than those three Lucas Prequels.

11 year olds wrote the dialogue....5 year olds were called in to write the romance scenes. Damn, it's so bad I laugh until I cry everytime!

[MAWG]

Big Cinema died with David Lean.