03-21-2005, 10:45 PM
I'm not a big huge Star Wars geek - I've seen episodes IV to VI multiple times and enjoyed them - but even in my view, with no huge glossy-eyed Star Wars hopes going into them, I and II were pretty horrible movies. III is shaping up to be a train wreck of epic proportions. It's really kinda weird how Lucas seemingly either just doesn't give a flying #$%& about his fans or is so deluded that he actually thinks he is doing something positive for the Star Wars universe.
Either way, someone really, really needed to slap some sense into him when he first decided, "You know what, I think we should hire all these crappy actors and - just for #$%&s and giggles - throw in a character named 'Jar Jar Binks'." There's a reason that even great authors have editors.
In any case, Hollywood in general seems to be taking a nose dive at the moment. Check out this review of the Jurassic Park 4 second draft (scroll about 1/4th of the way down). I know that the first three Jurassic Parks weren't that great, and I'm of the opinion that Spielberg is very overrated, but for chrissake that's his "mother of all ideas"? The movie industry is doomed between that and Episode III being "Titantic in space".
Only Sin City keeps my faith alive. Oh where art though, Sin City?
Either way, someone really, really needed to slap some sense into him when he first decided, "You know what, I think we should hire all these crappy actors and - just for #$%&s and giggles - throw in a character named 'Jar Jar Binks'." There's a reason that even great authors have editors.
In any case, Hollywood in general seems to be taking a nose dive at the moment. Check out this review of the Jurassic Park 4 second draft (scroll about 1/4th of the way down). I know that the first three Jurassic Parks weren't that great, and I'm of the opinion that Spielberg is very overrated, but for chrissake that's his "mother of all ideas"? The movie industry is doomed between that and Episode III being "Titantic in space".
Only Sin City keeps my faith alive. Oh where art though, Sin City?
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London