[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Lucas’s wife Marcia (who edited the original trilogy) left him for a younger man right after Return of The Jedi. I think this explains why his attitude went to shit.[/quote]
He was the Miles Dyson of CGI blockbuster movies: Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Phantom Menace…[/quote]
Sorry you lost me. T2 and Jurassic Park were good movies, well written, acted and directed. People put their hearts into them and you can tell. Phantom Menace was not. Lucas’s attitude is basically fuck it, I can wipe my ass on a few pages of 8.5 x 11 and people will pay to see it. Cynical, jaded, and broken hearted.
I get it that he and Speilburg created the blockbuster phenomenon, but some good movies were made in the 80’s and 90’s.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Lucas’s wife Marcia (who edited the original trilogy) left him for a younger man right after Return of The Jedi. I think this explains why his attitude went to shit.[/quote]
He was the Miles Dyson of CGI blockbuster movies: Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Phantom Menace…[/quote]
Sorry you lost me. T2 and Jurassic Park were good movies, well written, acted and directed. People put their hearts into them and you can tell. Phantom Menace was not. [/quote]
Bingo. Jurassic Park and T2 were great movies that used CGI to tell the story. I threw Phantom Menace in there because that’s where it started to go wrong and there’s less than a decade between the three. You got the gist of my post by spotting the odd one out…I won’t go as far as to say Episode 1 was ground zero for your latter-day bloated CGI-fests, but it certainly opened the floodgates.
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Lucas’s attitude is basically fuck it, I can wipe my ass on a few pages of 8.5 x 11 and people will pay to see it. Cynical, jaded, and broken hearted.
I get it that he and Speilburg created the blockbuster phenomenon, but some good movies were made in the 80’s and 90’s. [/quote]
The other side of that is that he became completely invested in pushing the envelope of technology than telling a good story. It seems his time and energy was devoted to perfecting virtual sets and digital recording.
He once said that he was waiting for technology to catch up to film the prequels. Maybe he should have waited a while longer instead of trying to force it (no pun intended). Similar thing happened to Robert Zemeckis with his forays into motion -capture. His movies started to flop and he went back to live-action.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Lucas’s wife Marcia (who edited the original trilogy) left him for a younger man right after Return of The Jedi. I think this explains why his attitude went to shit.[/quote]
He was the Miles Dyson of CGI blockbuster movies: Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Phantom Menace…[/quote]
Sorry you lost me. T2 and Jurassic Park were good movies, well written, acted and directed. People put their hearts into them and you can tell. Phantom Menace was not. Lucas’s attitude is basically fuck it, I can wipe my ass on a few pages of 8.5 x 11 and people will pay to see it. Cynical, jaded, and broken hearted.
I get it that he and Speilburg created the blockbuster phenomenon, but some good movies were made in the 80’s and 90’s.[/quote]
Thats what gets my panties in a twist.
Hundreds of millions for special effects but he could not shell out 5 million to hire a first class screenwriter.