Teh agony.
Saturday, December 19th, 2009 @ 2:21 pm | We'll post whatever we goddamned want to
I’ve been nursing my health care reform indigestion the past couple days, but for 70 minutes I was happy again.
-jb
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. – Oscar Wilde
I’ve been nursing my health care reform indigestion the past couple days, but for 70 minutes I was happy again.
-jb
December 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Watching “The Phantom Menace” was the only time I have ever fell asleep in a theater and now I know the mechanics behind producing the worst movie ever made.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
What I can’t understand is how George Lucas, within a very short span, went from writing the script to American Graffiti to writing the clumsy, clunky dialogue of Star Wars.
December 19th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
He was writing what he knew. I guess cruising the strip back in the fifties summed up his youth. The rest of his life was devoted to keeping midget actors working.
December 19th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Maybe Michael Bay should direct the next Star Wars? It may be George’s script but at least Bay would blow stuff up and help deliver more believable dialogue.
December 20th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Writing what he knew probably explains the success of “Raiders” also, but if you look at his filmography he didnt direct anything between SW 4 and SW 1. He became a rich man selling SW action figures.
December 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
He’s a flannel clad toy salesman.
December 20th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Well, he was a good producer who let other people refine his good but general ideas in the original trilogy. He had his initial vision, and he was young and hungry for it. Star Wars defined that universe and the characters we’d grow to love. He provided story outlines or treatments and other guys wrote the screenplays and directed the films.
I dunno, I can think of a few geniuses who have fallen to lower heights in life (me). But that’s a poor barometer. Among the ranks of great men, Lucas has fallen. His taste buds had grown bland and he hadn’t had any drama in his life in twenty years. He was richer than god and adulated like one among Star Wars fans. We revered him and then learned what happens when you revere individual human beings. As the revered Mozzer would say, “Truly, truly disappointed.”
On the other hand, I saw Avatar in 3D last night. It’s the movie they invented “ZOMFG!!!” for.
December 20th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I can’t tell if you’re joking or if you really liked Avatar.
Aside from the special effects the movie wasn’t that good. Particularly, the character development wasn’t there. Aside from that it was an amazing tech demo by James Cameron. I had such high hopes for it too.
December 20th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I loved it. So much I was several times nearly moved to tears by the beauty of it.
December 20th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
@Scott:
The Indy films got progressively worse, though, if you remember. Did you see Crystal Skull? It was unwatchable. It made the ham-fisted Last Crusade look like a work of genius.
December 20th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Yes, we can’t forget Lucas for Indy’s complete bastardization, but he didn’t write or direct that one. Yet somehow it felt totally Lucas-ed. All original inspiration was gone, just the imitation of that inspiration…and relentless CGI for the sake of CGI. And not a lick of sense regarding the actual story, which never required Indy’s participation. If he’d been nuked in the opening sequence, the Russians still would have been brain-melted and wiped out.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:55 am
Jeremy is right, by their nature sequels always degenerate, but when you hit on a title that can generate some DVD sales they could really give a shit if it has any entertainment value. Did we really need a Die Hard or Lethal Weapon 2, 3 or 4?