OT: An Open Letter To George Lucas

[Jarena]

Renegade 13 said:

I know, I know, a moronic point to make, but I'm tired and felt like typing something.

Haha, I thought that was the point - it wuld take more energy for a planet to make itself square or for water to flow uphill because of gravity.

[RonGianti]

I would have been with you, except that EPIII blew me away. I and II were disappointing, but III was awesome. To each his own I guess...

[Renegade 13]

Jarena said:
Haha, I thought that was the point - it wuld take more energy for a planet to make itself square or for water to flow uphill because of gravity.

You are indeed correct...that'll teach me to type while tired

[NullAshton]

Yeah, Episode III was awesome. Episode I and II... eh, II has too much mushy love stuff. I was okay, but the ending battle kind of sucked.

[Atrocities]

EP III had very bad timing issues. Little things that just annoyed me too no end. The flow and timing was off and bits of it seemed contrived and way too unimaginative for my tastes. Overall the movie is better than EP I or II but falls way way short of EP VI. EP IV was the best, V was awsome, VI was ok but better than EP I.

[NullAshton]

It connected episodes I-II, and episodes IV through VI. Plus that battle at the end was really, really cool.

And IV is better than V? Come on! V had the hoth battle, and of course the "I am your father!" stuff. Plus Luke gets jedi training, gets a lightsaber, and the lightsaber battle in Episode V was much better than IV. Plus the escape from Bespin was cool.

[Captain Kwok]

I really like the visuals of Star Wars and all the ships and stuff, but the actual movies themselves have always been less than stellar by other merits like acting or dialogue etc.

[RonGianti]

The thing that George Lucas accomplished, which is rarely (and unfairly) not mentioned is that he was really the first person to write and direct a SciFi movie that tried to treat its story seriously, instead of the 3 decades of "look what I can do!" and "ohhh, a shiney spaceship!".

His dialog is lacking, but the story is really good and imaginative. What else has spawned so many spin off books, cartoons and video games? Maybe its not Great, but its the Greatest there is.

[Captain Kwok]

Another thing to consider is how much money he has put back into developing new technologies for the industry, which has certainly improved the movie-going experience for all.

[gregebowman]

As someone who saw the original SW trilogy in the theatres, I can certainly sympathize with Fanboy's sentiment. Lucas lost whatever creative urges he had a long time ago. After waiting 16 years from ROTJ to Menace, i was disappointed. Maybe if he had hooked up with Gary Kurtz again, maybe a halfway decent plot would have come up. Instead, he did what most modern directors of films do, rely on special effects to carry the plot. Unfortunately, it didn't work in TPM. At least he heard some fans and toned down Jar Jar for the rest of the trilogy. And he should have gotten Lawrence Kasdan (?) to write the love scenes, since he did such a great job of it in Empire Strkes Back. Also, he should have reread his notes before he wrote the screenplay for Revenge, since there were a couple of continuity errors. Unless people on Tattooine age more rapidly than elsewhere, there should have been another 10 year gap between episodes III and IV.