What is wrong with Lucas?
#1
Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:00 PM
I've put up several theories as to what it may be. Personally I think he's an idiot who just got very lucky with the original movies because of great people who helped him. What about you guys?
#2
Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:10 PM
#3
Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:51 PM
sick of the superirity of SW... decided to destroy it so that we would have no other resolve but to start watching star trek!!!
hmmmmm....
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#4
Posted 22 September 2004 - 09:34 PM
#5
Posted 22 September 2004 - 10:58 PM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
#6
Posted 23 September 2004 - 12:25 AM
Basically if you are in such a state you don't even think that you have the right to f.. other people's feeling. In such states, you don't even perceive other people as people but, as Jariten nicely put in in another thread, as TOOLS for various purposes (usually for plumping your bank account).
I can't belive Jariten who seems nice enough chap to me extenuates such corrupt practises.
#8
Posted 23 September 2004 - 02:17 AM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
#11
Posted 23 September 2004 - 01:08 PM
Fast forward ahead to the mid 90's, and thanks largely in part to Zahn's novels, Star Wars becomes part of pop culture again. And all Lucas saw was dollar signs. What we've seen since 1997 on is a result of Star Wars becoming popular again. Lucas milking it for every cent it's worth, and then some. Quantity over quality, and as long as he's making mega bucks over it, it won't stop. No matter how crappy his work has become
This post has been edited by Michel Orla: 23 September 2004 - 01:09 PM
#12
Posted 24 September 2004 - 03:09 AM
#13
Posted 24 September 2004 - 06:58 AM
Also, Michel Orla, welcome to the forum. GiveMeTheOriginalsDammit, welcome again (although I think I said Hi already in another thread).
Michel, I think you're right on the mark with the money (and Return of the Jedi too - welcome fellow Return of the Jedi hater )... there is a large problem with the blind loyalists, isn't there?
I understand wanting to get as much as you can out of something you love... I remember buying lots of Star Wars books, collecting Star Wars toys and buying the Star Wars video games. But there comes a point when you have to realise these things are no longer Star Wars.
Like with the Star Wars novels, you start to realise that apart from Timothy Zahn and a select few others, most of these things are awful and every time Kevin J. Anderson pens a novel, the Extended Universe gets a hundred times worse.
With the Star Wars movies, it's the same. But some people just can't seem to seperate the product from the name. I'd say to these people, when you watch the prequels (for example), forget the fact that they are titled Star Wars. THEN see what you think of them.
#14
Posted 24 September 2004 - 08:19 AM
You make a very valid point by stating:
Like with the Star Wars novels, you start to realise that apart from Timothy Zahn and a select few others, most of these things are awful and every time Kevin J. Anderson pens a novel, the Extended Universe gets a hundred times worse.
Now I was always of the frame of mind that the movies were canon and anything that happened outside of that particular medium was not part of the continuity of the Star Wars universe regardless of how good it was. (Timothy Zahn is definately one of the good ones, and although I hate to admit it I did like The Courtship of Princess Leia, whose author escapes me at this moment.) This was the case until I saw those damn preqeuls! There is no way I can accept these as an actual part of the Star Wars universe! The only thing that they share is the name and the soundtrack. I wish there was a way to just erase those first two preqeuls, perhaps a move much akin to the TV show "Dallas" where some character wakes up and says "Thank God it was all just a dream." I guess I suffer from what a lot of people on this board suffer from, wanting to love star wars again. I think that a lot of the loyalist fail to realize it's not that we wanted to hate the new star wars, but that we wanted to love it and embrace it as we did the originals. However They just can't seem to grasp that just because it shares the name, it doesn't mean it will automatically be a good film. For those of you who do love the new films, do you really think these movies are superior to the originals? Just curious.
#15
Posted 24 September 2004 - 08:29 AM
BTW, welcome to Michel Orla and Give Me The Originals Dammit.
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