Wednesday, April 27, 2005
What the fuck? George Lucas had to force himself to write Episode III? He lacked "inspiration"?What a crock of shit!
Listen, this is the middle part of a story that has already been told! There are no surprises here, none. We already know that Anakin is going to become Vader. We already know that Amidala is going to give birth to twins. We already know that Obi-Wan and Anakin are going to fight it out, probably above a volcano. We already know that Vader's going to hunt down the Jedi, and that Obi-Wan and Yoda will escape.
This movie should have practically written itself!
What, did Lucas need inspiration in how to fuck up everyone's childhood memories? Did he need inspiration in how to include stoopid CGI characters that nobody liked? Was he not "feeling it" in trying to figure out how to include characters like Han Solo, in order to make his galaxy seem as small as a rural country town?
...oh, don't get me wrong. I'll see it. I have to. It's a compulsion, like buying Cake CDs just so that you don't have an incomplete collection. Argh.
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It sounds as though George Lucas is looking for an excuse when this movie tanks... His creative genius is not with the art of story telling anyway. Never was...... The story of Star Wars (part IV) is as simple in structure as say Memento, if played in reverse (from how it was shown in theaters). And Lucas had a lot of outside help with it!
His prowess lies with the special effects. And I mean BIG effects nut! Luckily for the viewer, he did not mess with putting the special effects before the story for his first two (part IV & V), until (I think) Return of the Jedi.
I concur - you're right this last part (which in my opinion should have been written out as parts I - III instead!) should have written itself. But I don't know how you couldn't miss how clear it is to see George Lucas no longer interested in this story! If he did, the idiot-savant wouldn't have only taken a quick look-see over his scribbled notes on initial back-story Star Wars! Obviously there wasn't enough he wrote back in '76, so now he himself got lost in it all..... Confused old man!
If he didn't have the reputation and money from his '77 blockbuster, he could not make it here in Hollywood today. The man should have done publicity to make a fan write the fuckin' prequels! (much like Project Greenlight.) At least, we would have a better character study on Anakin Skywalker!
And George has always had to get help with the freakishly simple dialogue! Good lord, man! Is he only talking to his CGI characters??! But I digress. Mr. Lucas is a one-hit wonder, who is waaaaaaaaay out of his element now. I can see he didn't have inspiration - if he was interested in it, purely interested in the story of it like most of us are - the crappy movies I - III would be a hell of a lot more fun for the world! Yet I think he is seriously flailing for help, and making lame-ass excuses before the world sees the last of Mr. Lucas and Star Wars.......
Don't believe me, ask my friend Jeremy Irons: www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/2438647
His prowess lies with the special effects. And I mean BIG effects nut! Luckily for the viewer, he did not mess with putting the special effects before the story for his first two (part IV & V), until (I think) Return of the Jedi.
I concur - you're right this last part (which in my opinion should have been written out as parts I - III instead!) should have written itself. But I don't know how you couldn't miss how clear it is to see George Lucas no longer interested in this story! If he did, the idiot-savant wouldn't have only taken a quick look-see over his scribbled notes on initial back-story Star Wars! Obviously there wasn't enough he wrote back in '76, so now he himself got lost in it all..... Confused old man!
If he didn't have the reputation and money from his '77 blockbuster, he could not make it here in Hollywood today. The man should have done publicity to make a fan write the fuckin' prequels! (much like Project Greenlight.) At least, we would have a better character study on Anakin Skywalker!
And George has always had to get help with the freakishly simple dialogue! Good lord, man! Is he only talking to his CGI characters??! But I digress. Mr. Lucas is a one-hit wonder, who is waaaaaaaaay out of his element now. I can see he didn't have inspiration - if he was interested in it, purely interested in the story of it like most of us are - the crappy movies I - III would be a hell of a lot more fun for the world! Yet I think he is seriously flailing for help, and making lame-ass excuses before the world sees the last of Mr. Lucas and Star Wars.......
Don't believe me, ask my friend Jeremy Irons: www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/2438647
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:: 4/28/2005 1:18 PM
:: 4/28/2005 1:18 PM
True. Lucas' specialty is (was?) visual. The Star Wars universe looks nothing like any previous sci-fi movie ever did. And, sadly, he probably had a lot of help with that, too, but he gets the credit (or takes the credit, at any rate).
All he had to do was connect the fuckin' dots, man. And even so, he managed the skip the one part of the backstory that fans wanted to see: the Clone Wars! All the Clone Wars take place between Ep. II and Ep. III!
I guess at least he had the foresight (or indifference, it doesn't really matter which since we benefit from it) to farm out the actual Clone Wars stories to Gennady Tartakovsky. I'll have to pony up for the Digital Versatile Discs for those.
I just read Kevin Smith's review and he liked it. Maybe that's just because Lucas had saved all the remaining stuff we wanted to see for this last shot and couldn't rationalize holding back. All that shit about "the Trade Federation" and Jango Fett was just filler to pad out the story to three movies. Argh.
Thanks, Anonymous, you're right. He doesn't care about the story. Problem is, I (and others) still do. So it's sad to see him piss all over us, in his mad rush to put it all behind him so he can go make "great movies nobody wants to see" (from his interview in this month's Wired) -- which means, what, exactly?
All he had to do was connect the fuckin' dots, man. And even so, he managed the skip the one part of the backstory that fans wanted to see: the Clone Wars! All the Clone Wars take place between Ep. II and Ep. III!
I guess at least he had the foresight (or indifference, it doesn't really matter which since we benefit from it) to farm out the actual Clone Wars stories to Gennady Tartakovsky. I'll have to pony up for the Digital Versatile Discs for those.
I just read Kevin Smith's review and he liked it. Maybe that's just because Lucas had saved all the remaining stuff we wanted to see for this last shot and couldn't rationalize holding back. All that shit about "the Trade Federation" and Jango Fett was just filler to pad out the story to three movies. Argh.
Thanks, Anonymous, you're right. He doesn't care about the story. Problem is, I (and others) still do. So it's sad to see him piss all over us, in his mad rush to put it all behind him so he can go make "great movies nobody wants to see" (from his interview in this month's Wired) -- which means, what, exactly?
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