[J m HofMarN]

Lets have a thread where we can throw together half baked excuses for the prequels. Excuses for their poor quality, for the continuity errors, and for their very existence. They can be nonsense or actual stuff that Lucas might/has said. I'll go first.

They were trying to do something worse than the holiday special.

[J m HofMarN]

Hey check it out one of the google ads, www.excusemaster.com was actually relevant. It generated a great letter to send GL as to why I wont be going to see his prequels. (after some editing)

May 15 2005

Dear George Lucas

The reasons as to why I will never attend another of your lousy prequels ever again are many and varied.

I could of course describe in vast detail the conglomeration of reasons as to why your prequelss are so appallingly dull. However, I certainly do not want to be seen as rubbing salt into the open wound of your colourless social life.

Suffice to say, the circumstances surrounding my decision to place an embargo upon your future moviess proves this course of action to be entirely justifiable.

Anyway, to keep things short and sweet, the main reasons are as follows:

There are much better things to occupy oneself with during an evening than to stand around listening to excruciatingly bad music, sipping tepid non-alcoholic fruit punch.

Then there's that weirdo guy. What's his name again? You know, the guy who looks about 35 but still has incredibly bad acne. I mean, what is that all about? I certainly don't enjoy standing around listening to him rabbit on and on and on about seagulls going to Moscow or some such mindless drivel. Who is that guy anyway and why is he always at your parties?

The punch. I've got to mention the punch again. That god awful insipid concoction that could double up as furniture polish.... or fly spray. That's enough to put off even the most adamant of party goers. It's enough to make a person weep with regret.

And why is it that there is never any more than exactly 1 CD playing at your parties? Over and over and over again. I mean I love 20 Great Polka Hits along with the best of them, but a little variety would not go astray.

Raffle tickets. What's with the books and books of raffle tickets? Every time I go to one of your parties I end up coming away with a book of fifty raffle tickets in each pocket. I mean, I'd love a to win a Grill Meister BBQ set, but I never do. Twelve hundred books of tickets later and not a thing. Zip. Enough with the raffle tickets already.

No doubt you can appreciate my situation and will not take these comments to heart. I trust that I will not be receiving future invitations to any of your deplorable films.

Yours sincerely,

Lumpy Sleezebaggano

[Helena]

I've actually seen gushers say that 'so and so was supposed to be bad' (the romance, the dialogue etc.) on numerous occasions. How this is supposed to count as an 'excuse' simply boggles my mind. If you make a deliberately bad film you can't complain when people criticise it, can you?

[Paladin]

How did you get it to make you an excuse about George Lucas? I didn't have that option...

[Lord Aquaman]

How's this for an excuse -

The problem isn't the film, it's the audience. We're using an aesthetic that belongs to a different era in filmmaking.

I seem to remember George Lucas said something like that about the prequels, that he wanted to use a different filmmaking aesthetic (the crappy kind) and that WE the audience are the problem, not his craptacular storyline and poor directing.

[Michel Orla]

Actually, I find Im not as hard on gushers as I use to be. Most are in their late teens, early twenties. They've grown up on the big budget Hollywood movies of the past 10 years, the ones that put special effects ahead of good dialogue and interesting characters. They don't know what great movies are. Even if they've seen the OT, they didn't grow up in the time when those movies and other great ones during the late 70's, early 80's captured our imaginations because they had so many good things going for them. We know it could've been better, but most gushers don't realize that. Unfortunately, as dissapointing as the PT are, they're just a sign of the times.

[CowboyCurtis]

The nice thing is, there are some gems among the teens and 20-ers, because even here there are some who see the fault in the PT's, and that is a ray of hope for me.

I have no doubt that the PT's will get the comeuppance they deserve. In time, people will say, "did you see the prequels?", and they'll reply, "The what?"

It's just a shame the OOT will be brought down with it.

[ernesttomlinson]

Good excuses? Hm.

"The prequels have kick-ass fight scenes! Seeing Yoda with a lightsabre and bouncing and spinning around like an overinflated basketball on coke - and then letting Dooku get away anyway - that just made my day, my week, my year!"

"At least they were better than MATRIX REVOLUTIONS."

"Lucas is an artiste! He doesn't care about critics and whether a bunch of fanboys hate him. He makes his movies for himself. Admire his artistic integrity! And buy the action figures and LEGO sets while you're at it!"

[HK 47]

And the most common one: "He had this planned all along..." and slightly less common "He predicted that he would alienate the OT fans since they're adults now..."

I would honestly respect him so much more if he just would admit that the PT is disappointing, to say the least. But no, the fault obviously lies with us...

It is times like this I vividly remember how I felt when I first saw Jar Jars dive and the R2-D2 award ceremony in TPM and I understand that I am not mistaken in my convictions.

This post has been edited by HK 47: 23 April 2005 - 04:04 PM

[Just your average movie goer]

"Lucas is an artiste! He doesn't care about critics and whether a bunch of fanboys hate him. He makes his movies for himself. Admire his artistic integrity! And buy the action figures and LEGO sets while you're at it!"

Mate, that one was BRILLIANT!

[Despondent]

  Mate, that one was BRILLIANT!

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Yeah, well you're just jealous because Lucas did it and not YOU.

In the spirit of the thread.

[J m HofMarN]

Paladin- I used the "not going to party" thing and replaced "party" with prequels. If you put the persons last name as "george lucas" it addresses it to george lucas.

Everyone- great stuff, I'll put in a few when I'm not so busy.