Lucas Screws Up Star Wars----AGAIN....

[ctc]

>I don't have that action figure yet!

New hat! NEW HHHHHHAAAAATTTTT!!!!!!!

It's interesting that Lucas is the dude who pretty much perfected what we know as movie marketing.... and now that angle has run amok.

Don C.

[MIB41]

As much as I cherish my memories of seeing Star Wars in 1977, George Lucas is not a great director. Had he gone on to do other things after Star Wars, then maybe I’d have respect for him as a director. But he only made TWO full-length films prior to Star Wars and post-Star Wars he did 100% of nothing until the prequels.

As others have mentioned, his great filmmaking significance is he created such an amazing, thought out world in Star Wars and did it in a way that showed respect to the genre in ways that other B-movie sci-fi films never came close to that he changed the game. He and Steven Spielberg helped kickstart the dying U.S. film industry. And if you have seen or enjoyed ANY science fiction on film or TV in the past 30+ years, you need to respect what George Lucas did.

But like I said, past that he has done squat. Every “new” Star Wars film is the same-old same-old at best, face-palmingly incompetent at worst.

And heck, I’m going to add another beloved geek creator to the fair comparison column against George Lucas here: Jim Henson. Look at what that guy did? He created so many characters, branched out a popular children’s TV show (Sesame Street) and created a vaudeville musical comedy puppet show that worked with The Muppet Show. And then he went on to create more and more and more cool stuff: Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal, etc… And look at Frank Oz who worked with him. Creates “Grover” and others, and then creates “Yoda” which is basically just Grover’s voice but a very distinct & new character.

What has George Lucas done in comparison? Especially with the prequels. The guy is a hack creator and director at this point. It doesn’t diminish the great stuff he created, but he’s phoning it in and cashing it in. Nothing more and nothing less.

How many different action figures of Chewbacca bending over in different positions does the world need?

I think Lucas understood he was destined to remain with the Star Wars franchise after he produced Howard the Duck... That movie speaks volumes for his mindset.

[jds1911a1]

What about the Holiday Special? It's on DVDAficionado as coming soon by 20th Century Fox

actually we can't lay that on Lucas that was the first and final time he let someone else have creative control over his characters. That one you can only say Shame on you George for letting someone else write it but that's contracry to what most are saying today. what a difference 30 years of self delusion can make

[MIB41]

I think once people understand he doesn't care, then you begin to figure out where the resentment lies. At some point someone should ask where did the 'artistic' expression stop and the 'capitalist' expression begin? Would he like it if his favorite films as a kid were constantly tinkered with? I would think not.

[Mego Milk]

Chewbaccaahhh!!!!!!

[jimsmegos]

Chewbaccaahhh!!!!!!

what a wookie!