I cried after watching Episode 1.
I heard it was bad, but cry?
They are all crying, on the way to the bank.
Is Steven weeping because Lucas is focing him to direct Indy 4?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!...what a phony POS. You gotta be kidding me! Is his picture next to "Dork" in the dictionary?
FMCDH(BITS)
Steve's afraid he's gonna lose at the box office when his "War of the World" comes out next month and "Star Wars" is still playing.
That's funny. I was crying hysterically during the first one. I couldn't wait until they got that kid off the screen.
People in Hollywood have a deeper sense of reality than the rest of us. If you doubt that, just ask President Martin Sheen.
That isn't saying much. The bar was not very high.
I thought Lucas originally wrote nine episodes, and the first one released in '77 was supposed to be episode III. Boy, is my memory terrible, or what?
Not a big accomplishment.
Spielberg shot many scenes for this film...more self promotion if you ask me.
It's the best of the last three episodes
Which is it, the first three or the LAST three??? Someone make their mind up.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Lucas is someone he's very jealous of.
Yea, let's all weep over a movie.
What about the millions of babies killed in this country every year? Do you think he'd weep at a screening of "Silent Scream"?
Sounds like Stevie is off his Prosac again...
imo
Vader turns to the side of the DNC right?
I cried after watching Episode 1.
Was it that bad?
Well it doesn't surprise me that Spielberg would cry at something like this. Spielberg and Lucas (and many film makers) share something in common: they have stories they want to tell. Sometimes the stories are developed by scriptwriters and urged upon them by the studios. Some stories they (Spielberg and Lucas) have carried within them for years. It matters not one whit if the general consensus is that the story told on film is superior, good, average, sub-standard or simply sucks.
The fact is that the director is telling the story. If people like the way the story is told, the movie will do well. But the fact is, the responsibility of the story belongs to the director who puts their name on the finished product. They have the right to tell the story any damn way they want, and we the public have the right to either patronize their creation or reject it. And as in all business, 'the bottom line' is the bottom line.
The success of Star Wars from a purely commercial perspective speaks for itself, the naysayers notwithstanding.
Star Wars is, at it's core a story of a boy (Anakin)who starts life with the deck stacked against him, is manipulated by others with ulterior motives, he subsequently makes wrong choices his entire life, and then at the end, when faced with the ultimate evil (the Emperor in the process of killing Luke, who is crying out for help to his father "Please!!!"), the boy-turned-man-turned-evil-machine-hybrid finally tries to set things right, by killing the Emperor knowing that it will cost him his own life. Luke lifts the helmet/mask from his father's head and says "I won't leave you here, I'll save you like you saved me" and Anakin, old, scarred, tired and gasping his last breath says "you already have Luke, you already have."
Now if that isn't one of the most tearjerking scenes, I don't know what is. It speaks to the triumph and tragedy that frequently co-exist in a life. It might be your life, it might be mine. Or someone we know. Or will never know. But it happens just that way.
Lucas has told his story, and he has told it well.
A grow man crying about imaginary characters in a SCI-FI Fantasy movie? I think Stevie fits Arnold's definition of a "Girlie Man"