Considering the amount of detail, effort and thought he put into his movies he might be the greatest filmmaker of all time
Considering the amount of detail...
he is. the amount of people who try to ape him is evidence of that
He has done more damage to film preservation than any other artist.
Fuck him
The only director whose movies are being discussed actively for 50+ years.
He is both great director and writer.
Tolkien of movies.
Blocks your path
stanley kubrick made movies, lucas created culture
muh presevation
KEK. the special editions ARE THE MOVIES. cope and seethe
no but he struck gold with the OT and it will be as long-lasting as shakespeare
Where are all the indie movies he was supposed to make after selling star slop to the house of mouse?
the special editions are not made star wars the cultural phenomenon it is. nor did the prequels. not did the EU. nor did videogames or comics. it all goes back to the original three movies
everyone else is coping
Here's your art house movie bro
if you go back in time and switch the special editions out with the "originals" it would have the exact same success
It's all about lightsabers and Darth Vader. Nothing else is relevant
star wars would have been fringe bazinga nerd shit like firefly if it weren't for the prequels
and still it was the originals that created star wars as a global franchise. all the credit goes to these movies in that edition
Yeah and if I went back in time and convinced your mom to get an abortion the results would have been the same.
no
lol
lmao even
Anon, it remained bazinga shit even after the prequels. It was the normification of the internet which made "nerd" shit mainstream in the 2010's which created this new pop-culture dynamic
It was the normification of the internet which made "nerd" shit mainstream in the 2010
actually happened with world of warcraft in 2005 which lead to the creation of the big bang theory in 2007
Hey OP, and any other "fans" that constantly suck off George Lucas, I have a question for you guys. Why the fuck do you only bring up Star Wars? You guys never bring up any other films he has produced. You guys will actively defend those atrocious prequels but you can't even bother to bring up American Graffiti, THX 1138, or Indiana Jone? Then you guys are completely silent about his other shit movies like Red Tails, Howard the Duck, or Strange Magic. So what gives? It's not just because you're a bunch of baiting faggots with canned responses to get people angry is it?
why don't you?
Completely not even remotely true
You can still watch the old editions can't you? George Lucas didn't break peoples houses and steal your laserdisc copies did he?
no argument
I bring up THX 1138 all the fucking time, what are you talking about?
Makes films unobtainable
Why don't you just watch your busted vhs tapes?
What retardation is this?
films are an ephemeral, transient medium. when we switched to DVDs, it was a given the 'DVD version' would be the complete edition: the theatrical release was more like a beta (missing scenes, unfinished VFX, and so on).
you have not seen The Phantom Menace: Theatrical Edition since 1999. why aren't fans up in arms about that? why is THX-1138 Grindhouse Edition necessary, where's the uproar? oh right, it's not your favouritest Star Wars evar, he is a cultural tyrant!!!1
Let me guess, the prequels were actually well-received and a bunch of faggots on youtube "gaslighted" us that we always thought they were shit right?
popularly, yes. critically, no.
critics also didn't like Hook or The Mummy. both fun adventure kinos. TPM mogs them both, at least when it comes to sheer spectacle.
so which discord do you prequelfags come from
What's up with his neck? It's like it's trying to swallow his head and his only defense is a finely manicured chinstrap, lol.
Im that anon and how did you get that from my posts? Someone fucking with your meds?
i came from the #starwars channel on the Undermine IRC network, before Anon Babble ever took off.
we're not all children, anon. i know that's a comforting idea. it really is as simple as: we like these films.
I AM SO SORRY GEORGE
YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
The prequels were garbage. Everyone hated them. The critics, the box office, everyone did. They were good material for video games and that's about it. Before "le prequel memes" blew up it was well understood that they were a decent enough storyline botched by a horrible execution.
unobtainable
It's a nearly five decade old film, not the holy grail.
Just torrent it lol.
Indiana Jone
Probably because more people associate Spielberg with it than Lucas.
He's a lot better than Disney, but that doesn't make him a genius, joe blow could make better Star Wars content that Disney.
there a people on this thread who still haven't apologised
Come on anons, it's time to realise you were wrong and do the adult thing like this enlightened fellow.
The only consistent thing about the Lucas schizo here is his obsession with pic related. Everything else is superfluous.
Maybe wouldve gone that way by now but it wasnt merely fringe bazinga shit closer to when the originals were released it was just for kids mostly
Not fringe at all it was just for younger audiences, all thats changed is its more acceptable to be a consoomer fan of franchises like it well into adulthood
you have not seen The Phantom Menace: Theatrical Edition since 1999
Quick point: there's a 35mm scan of that floating around too. Obviously it's not as in high demand but it's out there if you want to see it (honestly I think it's paced a little bit better)
Weird because Irven Kershner and Rick directing episodes 5 and 6 doesn't stop people from only associating those films with Lucas.
i did in a post after yours (after ignoring yours)
i would also like a release of THX-1138 with the censored scenes intact, but without the CGI, yes. what is your point anon? i would also like them to recover the lost audio to Spartacus if they can (the dub is atrocious)
Nah I've seen plenty of people try to pin all of Empire's good qualities on Kershner's direction (and to be fair - yeah, certain things he did with the actors and improvising on set did help that movie stand out. Also the lighting but that was more Peter Suschitzky than Kersh.) But Lucas was the co-writer on Empire and came up with all the stuff. And he was heavily involved in pre-production and basically took over during post-production and editing - like if any one person's the auteur of Empire it's still Lucas even though he wasn't on set as much.
Meanwhile because some people don't like Jedi as much they act like Richard Marquand didn't actually direct it and Lucas really ghost directed it but that's Star Wars fans making shit up on the internet because they didn't like something as per usual.
thanks for the heads up. is it on Myspleen?
He might've taken Mike Stoklasa's critique too personally. Selling his creation to the mouse was the most cynical fuck you he could've done.
I have no idea, sorry. I've only seen the clips. Apparently it's a Czech print so the occasional alien subtitles are in foreign. Last time I checked (which was a year or two ago so it might've changed since) it was a bit harder to find than 4K77 et al. The clips I've seen look great though, check it out:
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Nah here's the thing: George Lucas BARELY uses the internet. It was well documented in the late 2000s that the guy just hadn't joined the internet age. And good for him honestly - I think more big name creatives should avoid internet criticism (I mean Jesus Christ, look what happened to Rowling when she got addicted to twitter.) There's a really good chance Lucas has never even seen the Plinkett reviews.
Reading Bob Iger's semi-revealing while also being kinda whitewashed autobiography the reason why Lucas sold was because he was about to turn 70 and close to retiring with no heir to the company he spent his whole life building. None of his kids wanted to run Lucasfilm and he had hundreds of employees under him, some of which had been with him since the first Star Wars. It's that simple really
(I mean Jesus Christ, look what happened to Rowling when she got addicted to twitter)
She just calls trannies names.
He got a copy of the hero with a thousand faces and went on the exact path that Joseph Campbell laid out for him. And openly admits it
Fair point - I'm just saying she seems legit addicted to twitter
implying the jocks didnt love star wars in the 80s
this is some real zoomer revision thread going on here
You could argue it was just a new hope that did that. Gave Lucas enough money to buy back the rights and make the other 2 movies as indy flicks
Fun fact, the audio clip at the beginning of Nine Inch Nails' downward spiral is of the beating scene from THX 1138
it did yes. but ESB and ROTJ didnt squander its status but elevate it
compare game of thrones
They sure damn tried to with the Ewoks
lucas created culture
Yeah culture of merchandise and manchildren
Can we have a comfy THX thread guys? The theatrical cut (taken from the laserdisc I presume) is up on internet archive right now:
archive.org
Cool movie, I get why it wasn't a hit but it's really stylish. Also it's so prophetic that Lucas's first film starts off with bunch of clips from old Buck Rodgers serials considering what he'd end up spending most of his career doing
I actually liked Howard the Duck in spite of furfaggotry. People are always focused on Lea Thompson fucking a duck puppet, but they forget about the paedophile sticking his tongue in a power socket. Loved that shit as a kid:
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Bad guy is so off the fucking chain in this film, and it's awesome.
And let me take this opportunity to say fuck you to the shitty attempt at the same thing in the Green Lantern movie:
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it's fucking insane to me that creatives are on Twitter. it's not some PR guy like on MySpace or whoever ran their official websites: it's Rian Johnson actually talking about RLM. so he's seen the videos, there is actually a non-zero chance they've had indirect creative input. just some fucking YouTube guys. imagine if your 2003 blog changed a single line of George Lucas's Star Wars: that's the equivalence here.
good on Lucas, honestly. despite being a 'tech guy' in other ways. reminds me of how Alan Moore is supposedly this offline hermit too, just in his country home somewhere reading books and comics all day.
What evidence do you have to support that?
reminds me of how Alan Moore is supposedly this offline hermit too, just in his country home somewhere reading books and comics all day.
Well he's also spent his time digging out a series of cave tunnels underneath his house in Northhampton in order to pratice witchcraft in as well. You're forgetting Alan Moore is quite mad - but in a really fun way
Heir to the empire and later Shadows of the Empire proved you're retarded statement wrong