Al_B on 10/11/2012 at 01:17
Don't be obtuse. I have no issue with however much or little he's donating. I do have an issue with lazy reporting which equates "most" with "all" but I'm happy to be corrected if I've missed a press release which clarified the situation.
Vivian on 10/11/2012 at 01:59
I think its important to remember that star wars is fucking gay anyway and ralph mcquarrie is now dead so nothing even slightly cool will happen in star wars ever again so who cares? does it honestly matter who has their dick in the corpse?
heywood on 14/11/2012 at 07:15
To my amazement, Qantas had The People vs. George Lucas in their library so I watched it on the plane this weekend. It's pretty good if you haven't seen it, including a shedload of clips from fan works. I have to give him credit for not sending the lawyers after all the people making derived works.
It left me wondering whether Lucas even understands what made the original storyline so compelling. Seems like his focus is the filmmaking, particularly the technical aspects, and the story was just something he made up along the way to make the films hang together.
scumble on 14/11/2012 at 08:00
George Lucas is a producer more than a film-maker. Also a shrewd businessman. He isn't a very good script writer either. To me the only thing that makes episodes 1-3 hang together is John Williams' music (in fact Lucas has said as much), and 4-6 just had better character development.
It has to be said that he made a huge impact on film production in general, starting the ball rolling on modern special effects via ILM. Well, along with Steven Spielberg he pretty much invented the modern blockbuster action adventure film.
fett on 14/11/2012 at 12:58
Anyone who hasn't seen (
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/) THESE really should. Not only the most keen analysis of the SW/GL phenomenon, but good observations for any aspiring novel or screenwriter. The comedy is a bit dumb, but the actual content is brilliant. The conclusion is that, as heywood said, GL doesn't even really understand what went right in the first films.
SubJeff on 14/11/2012 at 15:59
I saw those a while ago. I wonder if Lucas has seen them? It really is amazing how dumb 1-3 are.
ZylonBane on 15/11/2012 at 21:05
The Red Letter analysis of Phantom Menace made me realize how much of that movie is spent in fucking conference rooms.
Well, "write what you know", they say.
Harvester on 21/11/2012 at 17:29
Simon Kinberg is NOT a good writer. That's it, it's gonna suck :mad:
EDIT: oh wait, Kasdan's also going to write. That's more promising.
