you are missing the point completely, dark age.....you say you want this film to be dark?.....to be a deep, satisfying, non-commercial experience?.....to take risks, and not be a kid's film or some sub-schwarzenegger piece of junk?.....you should be cheering.....go and watch terminator 3 instead then.....this is the lucas i've been hoping was secretly hidden under all the chins and jar-jar toys all along....."failure" is not referring to making bad films, he's talking about making good films that might not be accepted by an audience reared on crap like wild
wild west and independence day.....i love new lucas.....oh yes.....
Yep original poster misquoted lucas.
I agree with those that spotted that this will be his last LARGE SCALE motion picture and that he wants to do small independent movies. He has worked hard and that the STARWARS motion pictures was a Detour, a 30 year detour he took to finish his vision and that if he makes independent movies and nobody likes them then he has earned the right to fail. He wants to get back to the small films because that is what he enjoyed the most.
What gets me all worked up is that he said this was the last film ever for starwars. He also said if anyone approached him to do a part 7 to this he would turn it down.
All in all kiddies this is the last installment and supposed to be the best out of all six parts! Because the movie will deliver an emotional tragedy that most can relate to.
I love lucas and I think his critics are way to hard on him. He has done the films his way and by all means he is right. Its his vision not mine yours and anyone elses. I just wish Chewi would rip the head off of Jar Jar, but of course that would take up too much important writing time to get into the script so its not that important of a deal. But, maybe they can do a Fatal Death Match between the two! Id love to see that!
This just goes to show how people inturpret shows and what is said.
He said he has made enough money that he could fail the rest of his life.
He did not avoid the question with the critics being hard on him he took it straight on. He said he doesn't care what the critics think there will always be some loser out there that does not like his movies, he is making the movies to finish his story and he has said it before if he can get a group of people in a theater and enjoy the film then he has done his job.
I think what the main problem is that people have forgotten what the movies are for, ENTERTAINMENT. All the STAR WARS movies are highly entertaining and hats off to lucas for bringing us this wonderful story.
Geez, this is starting to sound alot like religion. Misquote things to fit your own personal belief, regardless of the facts. Lucas WAS talking about future films when he said he had earned the right to fail. And these are his movies. If he wanted Ep 3 to focus on nothing but Jar Jar he has every right. We of course have the right not to like it but that does not negate the fact taht he is teh director, producer & financer of the film and can do what he likes with it. That said, I have yet to see anything regarding this movie that looks like any type of disappointment.
He is giving the normal fans what they want, a good scifi fantasy story, if you like the originals you should like the prequals, it is just some of the idiots out there that can't see it for what it is (pure fun and entertainment) and that the way the stories are told are identical in all 6 films, there are no plot gaps or missed info.
Re: Lucas is a jerk
Originally posted by DarkAge
Did anyone see that recent 60 Miutes interview? He was basically saying how he's making Episode III for his own enjoyment only, that he has "earned the right to fail" and doesn't care what anyone else thinks of Ep 3.
Not true at all. He said he was making these movies "the way he wanted to make them" not neccessarily the way other people think it should be made. And never once did I hear him say he didn't care what anyone else thinks, he said he wasn't concerned, and that all the critics haven't like the previous movies, so they probably aren't going to like this one either. That's what GL was getting at.
Well in my oppinion without us lucas would have nothing, so i believe he does have the responsablity to please mainly the fans that have been so supportive and given him the ablity to "Fail the rest of his life", And i think he could be reasonably pleased wile giving everyone what we want.Lucas isn´t responsable for anything to us. He doesnt owe us something. HIS movies. He pays for them himself.
Lucas gave us three film back in the 70´s and we enjoyed them. Yes, without us, he wouldn´t be as rich as he is. He hit the jackpot with the classic triology and these new films.. I see them as a gift! I am very happy Lucas decieded to do them.
These are lucas films, his vision, his ideas. Not ours. If we want, we can go and see them, if we dont want to, we dont go and see them. Thats up to us. He does HIS movies the way he wants to do them and we can choose if we want to see them or not.
He wants to get back to the small films because that is what he enjoyed the most.Actually, he´ll do Indiana Jones 4 first 😉 I love the Indiana Jones triology too, so antoher gift from Lucas 😄
I wish people would stop critic Lucas. A lot of people are only focusing on the negative stuffs rather then the good things. Episode l and ll can never measure up to the classic triology but they are still good! Why critic when we can enjoy them?
Sure, everybody can´t like everything, but if you dont like what Lucas is doing now, just dont go and see his movies? Is that so hard? I dont like Scream movies, but you dont see me going around bashing the producers for making 3movies?
Either you like it or you don´t. If you don´t, keep to yourself and let the others that enjoyed the movies, enjoy them 🙂
To me, Lucas is brilliant! He has allways done what he wanted to do, and so far, I like what I see. I owe him so much for making these movies. They keep me occupied 😛