George Lucas
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- jevad
You had to do it didn't you...you just had to fucking go there. Was it to spite us George...to have one last final laugh at our expense?
I am of course, talking about Jar-Jar...whose wonderfully retarded head I got to view in the final scenes of the movie, albeit for a few seconds...but long enough to ruin the whole fucking movie for me.
You utter, utter bastard.
- fatoe0
hahaha - took the words out of my head, i had the same feeling.
- ArtDirector0
Saw a recent interview of George Lucas. He looks like a fat pug now.
- mattyd0
the man is seriously delusional. i saw an interview on tv the other day with him where he was saying the scripts he wrote for the first two prequels were some of the best ever written...
- airey0
gotta give the man the cred for his early films and vision.
now he comes across in both interview and product as a self-indulgent twat with no ability to self diagnose his own work. how crap are these 3 films? that in itself is bareable under the thought "well i guess they're just films (not my thoughts)" but to actually believe they are any good or benchmarks for anything but high-budget screen filler is incredible?!?
all we need now is some more of those vomit coated nose-to-anus interviews with leonard maltin to top it all off.
- jevad0
" all we need now is some more of those vomit coated nose-to-anus interviews with leonard maltin to top it all off. "
bahahhahaa
- _salisae_0
i just watched a biography on him on a&e
you guys have no reason to complain
can we get some perspective here??
- randoman0
I like Lucas.
U have to figure that after EP 4-6 got the acclaim they did, his reality bent quite a bit. After all, the guys only human. He watched American life and culture nurture his dreams and these SW ideas appear all over the place.
I guess growing up this way led he to believe that if he thinks something is the best (EP 1 and 2) then they are. Who know's.
But I still think he's a great talent none the less. THX1138 was better than EP 1 and 2. Not one that likes to see movies redone, but I think THX would be real cool to remake.
I wonder if a day in the life of THX was similar to living under the rule of the Empire. I didnt see EP 3 yet, but I've always been curious as to what the average citizen living in the Death Star or under Imperial rule has to put up with.
Those storm troopers are probably just normal guys (u hear the way they talk right?). Get home from work, watch football, hang out with the wife. And you know they had Ipod's, sh*t I wouldent be surprised if the industrial designers at Apple had anything to do with designing their armor.
What I find fascinating is that you would think Lucas is all for the ideals expressed in the SW universe; peace, harmony, freedom...triump of good over evil, forgiveness, mercy, etc. The irony being the way his movies or franchise rather) seemingly represent the darker side of money, excess and greed that plagues America. trying to muscle records at the box office, mechendising the sh*t out of anything remotely starwars.
You would think with the amount of nobility that the films excude, there would be lot's of world charities sprung form the success and influence of the films; not so much a buy, sell, buy, sell mentality. When I think about Lucas I picture the cold interior of a shiny black drone like space port in the deathstar, than the glowing lantrens in a small villiage at twilight on Endor.
If you've read into the teachings that have influenced Lucas in his creation of SW universe (joseph Campbell) that you will begin to see that SW to lucas is a semi-religious undertaking.
- twooh0
To be honest, I'm more grateful to him, than any other director in Cinema history.
THX, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Willow, American Graffiti, etc.
He has established THX Sound, Lucasfilm, Lucasarts, all of which help boost our industry economically. I could have a job there doing 3D work for crying out loud.
The guy has done so much for us --be a little grateful won't ya?
- auricom0
oh i was so hoping jar jar was going to get a saber upside his head.
just think of how a small scene like that would have made the movie.
*spoiler alert*
what was up with the Qui Gon reference at the end?
- twooh0
"what was up with the Qui Gon reference at the end?"
I think it was there to refer back to how Obi-wan learns to communicate in the afterlife in Empire Strikes Back and ROTJ
- randoman0
twooh, no doubt. he was indeed a major contributor to technology, cinema, culture and in many ways would inspire our future (through the many brilliant people his movies inspired).
I guess some things are ironic in the end. Just like they are in Star Wars.
- Zeitgeist0
"I've always been curious as to what the average citizen living in the Death Star or under Imperial rule has to put up with."
- Dude - you're unemployed I'm guessing...
- _salisae_0
well put, randoman
- randoman0
"I've always been curious as to what the average citizen living in the Death Star or under Imperial rule has to put up with."
- Dude - you're unemployed I'm guessing...
Zeitgeist
(May 22 05, 20:19)-----
haha why? who hasn't wondered this? theres so much emphasis on our heros and villians. We see the people that are saved by the destruction of the Empire but we rarely see the citizens that lived on the other side.
Maybe it would be more difficult to show the Death Star blowing up because people would realize that a an entire civilization was destroyed.
U know, looking at the world today, Han Solo and the rebels would be deemed terrorists. Everyone under Imperial rule would pretty much look at them as scumbags, fanatics, etc. I'd like to see what the history books they had on the Death Star read like. I bet the situation looked a whole lot differnt than the movies we saw.
- jevad0
bloody hell you don't half talk a load of bollocks randoman
- antoine_1010
I hated all the love shit that was happening with Anikin and Padme, it made me feel sick. Im not there to see a love story god damn it!
Also the Droids at the start, how they had personalities and talked back to one another like children, I mean this stuff is just not needed. At one point I was wondering if maybe I was in the wrong movie ie: Robots instead of Star Wars.
And also some of the light saber fighting scenes took forever, i mean how much clashing of those sabers was he gonna show us, anyone with epilepcy should not see this movie and all the flashing may cause fits!
Other then that it was alright, 7 out of 10 I thought.
- jevad0
I must respectfully disagree - IMHO there shoul dhave been MORE light saber fights and for LONGER!
Anyone else get that gutted feeling when Obi and Yoda walk in the Jedi Temple to find all the Younglings dead? Horrible...
- randoman0
jevad bullocks!
what part didnt u understand?
- jevad0
I understood all of it...it was just rambling and non-sensical!
- randoman0
So your saying that you understand non-sense? :P
I'd just rather you challange things that you don't agree with rather than write them off as being pointless so quickly and easily.
U have a habit of doing this to many of my threads for some reason.
(waiting for this responce from Jevad: I write them off as being pointless becuase they are!).