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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 11/06/2006 : 06:35:29 AM
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From the IMDb....
"Director George Lucas wants to quit filmmaking to concentrate on more lucrative TV projects. The Star Wars creator says making movies is too risky nowadays, because the average cost of shooting and marketing a blockbuster is now $200 million, so he's steering his production company Lucasfilm towards TV and low-budget movies. Lucas also believes internet downloading is set to shake up the film industry, reports Empire magazine. He reveals, "We don't want to make movies, we're getting into television. The feature film thing is too expensive and it's too risky. For that same $200 million I can make 50 to 60 two-hour movies." He adds, "I don't think anyone's going to be in the (movie-going habit) anymore. Everything is going to be a matter of choice. I think that's going to be a huge revolution in the medium." However, Lucas isn't giving up his film career just yet - he's currently working on Red Tails, a low-budget film about America's first black military airmen, and the fourth Indiana Jones movie."
It's been said before, but it bears repeatin': Mr. Lucas, you're one of the primary REASONS movie budgets have gone so far out of control in recent years!
I listened to the commentary on the DVD for Star Wars, and it's amazing how Lucas (1) no longer has a clue what made his little space opera so good, and (2) thinks his audience has less short-term memory than Leonard in Memento, stating things that directly contradict stuff he said in the late 70's and early 80's.
Lucas was a gifted director thirty years ago, but that person is long gone now. It's just as well he's getting out of movies; personally, I won't miss him. |
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2006 : 5:27:44 PM
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He can leave, so long as he leaves his moolah behind. Give me 20mil and i can make a Godzilla flick that will pay!
Marvin the Paranoid Android to Buzz Lightyear "Too infinity and beyond-i've been there, its rubbish!"
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2006 : 9:28:46 PM
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A little more opining on our boy George. (No, not THAT Boy George!)
Who else out there has seen the video for Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy"? How many of you laughed, but felt uncomfortable since the video hit a little too close to home? I know I'm not the only one.
The reason I mention this is the one scene where Al buys a bootleg copy of The Star Wars Holiday Special. The fact that Lucas has tried to quash any memory of this damn thing says something about him.
Imagine this. Lucas releases the Holiday Special, including retrospective interviews and a commentary track. Do the whole thing tongue-in-cheek (maybe have Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher — the cast members who can laugh at themselves — do the commentary MST3K style), and let the audience know Lucas is in on the gag.
This wouldn't hurt Lucas's reputation at all; in fact, it'd help him. It would show people that Lucas's ego is healthy enough to admit when he's screwed up, and his sense of humor is such that he can let himelf be the butt of a joke.
The problem is, I don't think either of these apply to George Lucas, at least not anymore. He takes himself way too seriously now, and that is why we'll never see a legit release of the special. |
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 10:21:15 AM
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I had never even heard of the Holiday Special until just a few years ago. Well, as a geek, that meant I immediately had to see it. But rather than buy it from some shady character in a back alley, I just pulled it off a P2P somewhere (I have to do a lot of that, here in Japan).
I'll say this for the special, it certainly is bad, but it's the sheer how did this ever get made?-ness of it that actually makes it worth owning. If it weren't for the fact that it's Star Wars, it would really be just another in a long line of bad seventies TV anthology specials. But because it is, it's priceless.
The animated Boba Fett story in the middle is really cool though. |
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