Why do I get the feeling this is what Lucas would have done next, if Disney hadn't bought him out?

Why do I get the feeling this is what Lucas would have done next, if Disney hadn't bought him out?

Because you know he's a monster.

It's true what they say: "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

P.S. I was talking about Lucas, but i guess it applies to Anakin to.

Reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist.

"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick" = lmao.

Why do I get the feeling this is what Lucas would have done next, if Disney hadn't bought him out?

Because you know he's a monster.

George Lucas is awesome.

He never took legal copyright action against any fan films, homemade products anything like that and let the fandom explode because of it.

He could have said Star Wars was done and left it at that, but he sold it to Disney so they could keep making movies. He knew the fans didn't like what he was doing anymore so he figured someone else could keep giving us Star Wars instead.

He also donate almost all of the money he got from Disney to charity.

He's also building affordable housing in his 'rich people valley' to bug his wealthy neighbors.

he may not have made the choices we wanted for the films, but he's not a monster.

Why do I get the feeling this is what Lucas would have done next, if Disney hadn't bought him out?

Because you know he's a monster.

George Lucas is awesome.

He never took legal copyright action against any fan films, homemade products anything like that and let the fandom explode because of it.

He could have said Star Wars was done and left it at that, but he sold it to Disney so they could keep making movies. He knew the fans didn't like what he was doing anymore so he figured someone else could keep giving us Star Wars instead.

He also donate almost all of the money he got from Disney to charity.

He's also building affordable housing in his 'rich people valley' to bug his wealthy neighbors.

he may not have made the choices we wanted for the films, but he's not a monster.

Do we have the original films remastered on blue ray? No because evil old Lucas is a spitefilled curmudgeon who can't accept his films were terrible and was determined to force the prequels on us.

He is set on ruining the good work his younger self did.

I think it's actually that at some point he thought the target audience for Star Wars is younger than it is. Or he wanted it to be appropriate for all audiences, or something along those lines. The changes he made are the changes my niece liked when she was 3, but which now at age 7 she realizes are a bit childish, and which she will find annoying by the time she turns 10.

Wow, watching that just reminded me how bad Phantom Menace really was. Jake Lloyd comes across as unconvincing in the role, but good child actors are extremely rare and I don't think ANYBODY could have pulled off such atrocious dialogue (only Jar-Jar's was worse). Bad directing and editing probably didn't help either.

Jake gets a lot of derision for making Episode 1 a hot mess, but it's noteworthy that even the more established actors struggled to make Lucas' dialogue tolerable. Hayden Christiansen is a legitmately good actor, but his Anakin still comes off as a whining, snivelling, punk. In my opinion, Ian McDiarmid and Christopher Lee are the only actors in the prequels that really gave excellent performances, everybody else comes off a little (or a lot!) wooden.

Poor Jake... everybody else had careers that survived, but his career was torpedoed by that role.

Had a great response lined up about Lucas' over-reliance on CGI, but then hit post having forgotten to log in.

In essence, the human brain is very good at picking out 'inhuman' traits in other things. CGI just can't replicate the imperfections of human movement. If I swing a sword and it passes inches in front of your face, there's going to be a reflexive movement and probably a momentary look of panic at the close call. When stuff like that is absent, the brain notices it and you're not as drawn into the moment.

Then there's just plain sloppy stuff like when they just cut and dragged Obi Wan when the debris fell on him during the final fight with Count Dooku. ILM could have done much better with that and SHOULD have done so.

Why do I get the feeling this is what Lucas would have done next, if Disney hadn't bought him out?

Because you know he's a monster.

George Lucas is awesome.

He never took legal copyright action against any fan films, homemade products anything like that and let the fandom explode because of it.

He could have said Star Wars was done and left it at that, but he sold it to Disney so they could keep making movies. He knew the fans didn't like what he was doing anymore so he figured someone else could keep giving us Star Wars instead.

He also donate almost all of the money he got from Disney to charity.

He's also building affordable housing in his 'rich people valley' to bug his wealthy neighbors.

he may not have made the choices we wanted for the films, but he's not a monster.

Do we have the original films remastered on blue ray? No because evil old Lucas is a spitefilled curmudgeon who can't accept his films were terrible and was determined to force the prequels on us.

He is set on ruining the good work his younger self did.

Hitler is a monster. Mao Tse Tung is a monster. Joseph Stalin is a monster.

George Lucas is a misguided artist at worst and a pretty cool philanthropist at best, and calling him a monster is an amazingly shallow disservice to a man who has done a lot to improve peoples' lives, either through genuine philanthropy or by giving us one of the most incredible movie sagas ever created. Get off your high horse and quit ragging on the man.

Best part about that video aside from the hilarious dialogue?

Wedge destroys the Death Star! Winning!

I think it was actually Vader himself.

I like this better than emo Vader.

Also, I don't think that Lucas is a monster by any degree, I think he had 20+ years of being held as being one of the best sci-fi writers and directors of all time and he was given a huge budget and unlimited license to make the next trilogy. Fox originally had him on a tight leash with some pocket change for special effects and I believe that this pressure made him reign in a lot of his fanciful ideas.

The original trilogy struck gold with the actors and his writing was rather constrained due to Fox and the producers keeping him on a short leash. I think that Lucas' true writing style came out in Howard the Duck, the Holiday Special, the Endor movies, and eventually the prequels. Compare this style with the IMMENSE amounts of EU content based of the original trilogy and you can see how hard core fan expectations might have been dashed.

Lucas has been held up so high by the fandom that even with excellent actors and a tight plot you'd still get a great amount of backlash from the new movies. They took Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Yoda, and the Emperor and made them less than the powerful sages of good and evil that they were in IV-VI. As the video above directly shows, it's very difficult to see the Dark Lord of the Sith yelling 'yippee'.

So conceptions were shattered, but the movie still made a huge stack of money. The religiously devout fandom has tried to reconcile the reality of Lucas' newer creations to their own preconceived truths (which was all for nothing after the introduction of 'Legends'). Lucas' image flew too close to the sun and could do nothing but be tarnished because there was no higher place to go to.