I went to a flea market last weekend with my wife and they had this 5ft by 7ft board of Leia sprawled out below Jabba in the infamous bikini and as we approached, my wife goes..."keep walking" lol...i about died
Is that rule still enforced here? I see a lot of political whining that goes entirely unaddressed in other threads.
I wouldn't be embarrassed to say that, I would be proud. I have no regrets.
agreed, but i think he's speaking in general...making a comparison(bad ideas are bad ideas no matter who comes up with them) but to both of your points, it is subjective...to a point. To me, a bad idea would be equivalent to lets say...forgetting that Leia never met Kenobi until ANH and yet having them meet prior in a series is a bad idea. If we are going to say mistakes are subjective and everything is subjective and there is no standard then i guess i can call the moon earth and someone else can call it the sun and therefore no one has a say and nothing is valid. Whether we like it or not, there is a standard. I like Mark Hamill' interview where he compared the fact the live action Transformers movies made so much money doesn't mean they were good. He is absolutely right with his comparison. No one is going to compare Transformers with Gone with the wind or Saving private Ryan based on which movie was better. The only thing i see that is subjective is that we like what we like...but i can admit there were bad ideas in movies i liked overall as well as movies i've despised overall like TLJ that i found some good ideas in it...even if i had to split hairs under a microscope...lol
Disney is responsible for everything it puts out as is the individual "talent" behind all that is released. Corporations/Studios are indeed responsible for the decisions and work of their employees. No one is pretending that Lucas would've been "gold" or perfect had he not sold but based on the OT and PT he would've likely done better than what we're getting from Disney.
Lucas would have made gold if not sold not because he's a genius and can't do wrong but because of US...the fans. Because of the succes of the OT and deservedly so, the same idea would apply to him as it does Disney. We gobble up anything Star Wars based on hope that it will be good. He would definitely make gold if not sold but that isn't a guarantee that it would be great. I'm with you on the PT...don't like it
I think we are mostly in agreement but when we are talking ownership we are saying "George" or "Disney". Now you are talking within the framework of ownership which is entirely a different discussion. I agree that the Prequels were not even close to the level of the OT. IMO, the ST (Disney owned) was abysmal. I don't entirely put the blame on Disney because it was George's fault for waiting WAY too long and not doing a Sequel Trilogy (if that was a planned thing) that was closer to 1983 where the actors were younger. He didn't do it...sold his baby to Disney. That's on him. To be completely fair, there has been few ideas that have ever piggy backed off the original that ever eclipsed it so it's a monumental task...which is why they should have never done any movies surrounding the OT and Disney should have left the Skywalkers and anything associated with them completely alone...move on. The best that they could do is contaminate it which they succeeded. Honestly, i wish i could change their minds but i can't and i'm sure there are plenty out there that think i'm a dope for saying move on.
Lucas is definitely more of an idea guy and that collaboration is where he shined the most. Between the OT and the PT and he seemed to become much more full of himself from the massive success of SW. There really is something to be said for the power of the starving artist to generate amazing content within forced limitations as well. I wish he had recognized the importance of other's input and limitations for the PT, could've been so much better. I wanted Anakin's story to be amazing (and was quite disappointed with it) because it was one of my favorite things to imagine when I was a kid. I remember that feeling sitting in the theater waiting for the TPM to start like it was yesterday. I thought my chest was going to explode from excitement.
And just imagine if these things were still up for imagination...it would be much better had they left it alone. It reminds me of legos...give me a bunch of legos when I was a kid and I actually had to use creativity and thought to make simple blocks into more complex structures. Now they give you the exact curves and shapes of how " they " want you to see it. What a shame. The OT is a completed story...not 1+1+1 = 3 stories but 1×1×1=1 story that will never be duplicated and it honestly needed no further explanation in my book. The rest should have been left up to imaginations from the fans.
Star Wars has had built in plot armor from the word go.And don't forget the biggest and dumbest of them all: "Hold your fire, there are no life forms. It must have short circuited."
If that can get a pass, everything else can
