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George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
KefabiMe writes "George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."
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To receive the Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition in 2005, and the Super Extended Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition Platinum in 2014.
I didn't know trashing the trilogy was an achievement... go figure... fp?
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Award win you shall!
Yawn. Who cares? A lifetime achievement award for making a bunch of low-quality plot-recipe movies and becoming stinking rich as a result; and we have to give him an award?
I was unaware that giving birth to Jar-Jar Binks was considered as a "life achievement"...
Then again, everything depends on what you mean by "achievement".
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Where is Jar Jar's award!?!?!?!
All we need, now he'll think he's good and remaster Indian jones... and Indie wont shoot first.
I like muppets.
I can't wait until 20 years down the road, when he releases the DVD of the AFI program, replacing a 60 year old Lucas with a virile 20 year old version of himself. There will be space battles, too.
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that that award was for someone who continues to innovate and pursue new things, not someone who does something great and spends the next 20 years tinkering with minute details of said work.
For remastering dvd to show a puppet, now with more wrinkles!?
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... he didn't really get this award for creating the character known as Jar Jar Binks.
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Although I will say they have finally found a good character for his over-acting on Boston Legal.
This way to the egress...
The criteria stated that "the recipient should be one whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time." In 1993, AFI trustees extended the criteria to encompass individuals with active careers and work of significance yet to be accomplished. "
(From http://www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laasite/)
Despite the debacles that are the 'new' trilogy, no fan could watch the extras DVD that came with Star Wars and deny that it brought a lump to the throat to see how the film that defined space adventure for a generation was literally dragged kicking and screaming to the screen, all despite incredible odds, horrendous bad luck and dumbass studio execs through the sheer force of will and unshakable self belief that the story he was telling had to be told. Much as I really dont like how he conducts himself these days, no-one could say the man hasn't earned his place in history and in the hearts and minds of thirtysomethings globally. I can't hear the opening bars of the John Williams theme without getting chills down my spine and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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Having the dumb luck to stumble into the greatest movie franchise in history, Lucas has taken that little bit of luck and transformed it into his vision of a complete alternate universe. Had he been any other short-sighted director (Spielberg, I'm looking right at you and your last half of A.I.) the Star Wars trilogy would have simply ended with the dance of the Ewoks. However, Lucas was able to transform that complete story into a more complete story by going back and fixing and editing and putting in scenes that were originally not his vision in the first place. I hate to use the word visionary, but Lucas truly has a vision.
The problem is that most people cannot understand the mind of a visionary and it isn't until long after they fade into irrelevance that they truly become appreciated. So too it is with Lucas, I believe. Many people are so worried about their childhood memories that they cry wolf every time Lucas decides to change a scene. Nevermind the fact that the whole Star Wars universe makes more sense when the updated (Director's Cut, if you will) scenes are added to the films.
Lucas truly does deserve this award not only for what rich memories he brought to us when we were still kids, but also for the memories he gives kids of the future. When we look back in 20 years and reminisce about the Star Wars Nonology we will finally see why Greedo had to shoot first and why Jar Jar was crucial to the story of Anakin Skywalker.
to not only give birth to Jar-Jar Binks (ok folks, I don't really want to imagine it either), but to also make a shitload of money with it.
Kudos to Lucas for that achievement.
If he won't make a comment, I will.
WHY!?!
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No comment is also a comment...
According to MSN Encarta (hey, it was the first one I found on a google search) these are the past winners of the AFI Lifetime achievement award.
1973 John Ford
1974 James Cagney
1975 Orson Welles
1976 William Wyler
1977 Bette Davis
1978 Henry Fonda
1979 Alfred Hitchcock
1980 James Stewart
1981 Fred Astaire
1982 Frank Capra
1983 John Huston
1984 Lillian Gish
1985 Gene Kelly
1986 Billy Wilder
1987 Barbara Stanwyck
1988 Jack Lemmon
1989 Gregory Peck
1990 Sir David Lean
1991 Kirk Douglas
1992 Sidney Poitier
1993 Elizabeth Taylor
1994 Jack Nicholson
1995 Steven Spielberg
1996 Clint Eastwood
1997 Martin Scorsese
1998 Robert Wise
1999 Dustin Hoffman
2000 Harrison Ford
2001 Barbra Streisand
2002 Tom Hanks
2003 Robert De Niro
2004 Meryl Streep
There are some pretty serious names on that list. My point is, why now? The nostalgia for the first trilogy of films is good and all, but really, they were only 3 movies.
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Much as we all enjoy reading about how Lucus raped your childhood, his movies are probably only a small part of why he is getting this award. The man is directly responsible for much of the technology behind modern film making - nonlinear editing, sound post-production and reproduction, digital effects, virtual sets, virtual extras, and now he is a leading force in digital film. Not to mention the great strides he made in marketing and licensing :)
All these techniques were developed for his projects, and there is not a film made today that does not use them in some way.
He is certainly more deserving than 2001's winner - Barbra Streisand!
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Now he can quit.
I will make no other comment.
Now, isn't that a pretty clear comment?
...for besting luke skywalker in the whiny punk category
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i am longing for even more star wars movies?
when will the sequels (read: episode 7,8,9) finally apprear. he once even thought about a quadruple trilogy, so there is even room for episodes 10,11 and 12....
damn, the star wars universe is so great, only there are all these books and novels for the post-episode-6 era now, and i doubt it, that lucas gonna make movies out of the books of his "competitors" or fellow authors who got accepted into the vast star wars universe and expanded it even further...
although the timothy zahn books (also a trilogy) which take place after episode-6 in the star wars universe timeline and many other authors have added valuable material, stories and character so the star wars universe.
i could really make up my mind, if i would be in favor of lucas making completely new films (his ideas from the past, as he has originally planned 3time 3episodes) or if lucas (or somebody else) should take all these fine books and make some more and never-ending films and adaptations....
star wars would be the place/universe to live in.
afterall there is a famous saying:
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for Trey Parker and Matt Stone! They've managed to save at least one part of my childhood from senseless defilement. Where the fuck is their award?
I'm constantly surprised that George Lucas was lucid and creative enough to create American Graffiti... it's a film that has not only withstood the test of time, quite an achievement for what could have easily been just a nostalgia piece, but has the perfect balance of comedy and drama, and manages to develop many different storylines (most multi-threaded films tend to skimp on any sort of real character and story development and the crossover between storylines is often very poor).
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That's quite a successful run. Maybe not a "lifetime" of achievement, but a bunch of great and/or insanely popular movies in a short period of time.
It's unfortunate that the recent stuff sucks, but he's still got a pretty amazing record.
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"George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."
Oh, c'mon, don't like that. You'll get yours too, eventually!
1)He created original trilogy. Those movies are one of the best movies ever.
;)
2)He destroyed it with Special Edition.
3)Then he created three crappy prequels*. (worst movies ever).
And now the conclusion:
Thats helluva lot of determinination and hard work. He deserves it.
* I never saw episode iii, but judging from i and ii, I'm almost certanly right
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Getting millions of people to pay bucks to watch Jar-Jar _IS_ an achievement.
It's LotR in space. His luck is that he got there first, and managed to work out some of the important parts, lightsabers for instance. It was something from his youth or college (LotR), combined with something topical (our future in space), and told in a storytelling style familiar too him (serials).
I'm not dismissing his contribution, or insight, but Star Wars was as much a product of it's time as it was of Lucas's vision.
It really was his one great idea, and he managed to, with the help of Speilberg, recreate some of it in Indiana Jones, but Lucas has always been chasing another Star Wars, and it's pretty clear there is nothing genuine left in him.
... thats why you havent seen it yet.
it will be really sad to see the star wars universe grind to a halt when ep3 will be finally screening, cos unless lucas decides to change his mind, it seems that there wont be any more episodes (in contrast to his promis in the past decades, that his idea of starwars was a three or even four time trilogy).
but i want to have episodes 7-9 at least, best would be episodes 7-12 and even more....
please georgie-boy, will ya? thanks.
As always a story brings out the most short sighted posters, upset over the treatment of Star Wars.
Lets not forget that the award is not for Star Wars but for his achievements to the industry.
Lucas helped found ILM which helped get special effects to the what they are today. Skywalker Sound has contributed to hundreds of films. THX certification got cinemas, film and DVD production quality up.
And personally, I loved Howard the Duck...
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Yet perhaps not so much for the art of movies. Alas, because I enjoyed the original trilogy so much in my childhood.
He created one of the greatest (and first, I believe) movie merchandizing businesses in history. I would question whether there would be so many "Power Ranger Toys" or "Barney" tie-ins if the Star Wars franchise hadn't done been so successful.
He has continually expanded the frontier of digital effects in film-making, and although in recent years his studio's work has been eclipsed by other films (e.g., The Matrix, Shrek, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, etc.), I do believe that nevertheless he deserves credit for the push towards effective uses of digital imagery in cinema.
He has enhanced the audio experience in most large cinemas in operation today (at least in the US). I can't say how many times I've seen "THX-1138" digital surround sound by Dolby--that sound system was developed in conjunction with Lucas' team.
He was first to expand the idea of film sequels (and series) in modern cinema. Would we have had Die Hard, Die Harder were it not for Lucas? Would we have The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions were it not for Lucas? What about Star Trek the Movie I-IV? Back to the Future I-II? If the original trilogy had not been so popular with audiences, would subsequent sequels & series concepts have been developed other major film studios?
There may be other such achievements as well, but with the above I think there is a strong case that Lucas reshaped how the business of movies does it's business.
...the parts where he revolutionised film making (THX, Skywalker Sound, ILM, non-linear editing) and where he became the most successful independent film-maker of all time.
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I mean think about it:
1. Industrial Light and Magic essentially pioneered the modern age of cinematic special effects. They took "traditional" special effects to new levels of excellence and helped pioneer CGI effects for movies.
2. Pixar pioneered much of what computer animation can do, and under subsequent leadership of Steve Jobs the company has produced several blockbuster hit movies.
3. Lucas Sound helped develop the THX certification for high quality movie presentation in the theaters, and it has extended that certification to DVD mastering, too. A THX-certified DVD tends to have high-quality picture and sound on average.
Lifetime achievement for most money made while ignoring the fans who keep forking over more money no matter how much he insults them.
Sounds like an achievement to me.
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I wonder how much he dislikes American Graffity. I bet he totally hates it.
But I think he should win for giving us the beloved Lucasarts company... :)
Well, up until the screwed up, and then canceled Sam and Max 2 and Full Throttle.
was a good movie.
And enough about the special edition whining. Yes, he altered your ppreeeeciousssssss, and this somehow ruined your childhood. If your childhood memories were that fragile and inordinately foccused on a fluffy sci-fi flick, well, maybe they deserved a solid kick in the balls.
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Populair movies. POPULAIR.
he didnt make no freakkin schindlers list.
THX1138 was an excellent movie.
The distributors spat on it at the time.
Considering his subsequent work, I've always figured you want the definition of "embittered cynic" you look up George Lucas.
That's what the State Farm advertisement said when I checked the article. Christ, I couldn't have said it better, myself. it's time for Georgiepoo to retire. Sooner is better than later.
Halt the pathogen at it's source; don't just treat the symptoms.
That kind of monumental and over-composed style of music also gives me shakes. I guess that the music is OK, but I am very sick of it.
Boooooooooooo!
If you've not seen "PI", get it. B&W, deals with mathematics (naturally, but not on a level that will leave you scratchin' your head...well, you are reading /., so it shouldn't), and a great flick. The soundtrack, while not necessary is quite nice.
... as if millions of _real_, skilled directors cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...
It's like telling him, until now, you've done everything worthy in your life, please, leave StarWars alone. Don't touch it anymore!
DON'T PANIC
.. he invented the Internet!
What lifetime achievement? Achievement of brainwashing the masses with his despotic agenda? Sorry for a rant... I have already written about it. It will probably be modded down in no time, just because it is not a trendy thing to say here, but what the hell...
Isn't "Star Wars" good old fashioned sci-fi? Harmless fun? Some people call it "eye candy" -- a chance to drop back into childhood and punt your adult cares away for two hours, dwelling in a lavish universe where good and evil are vividly drawn, without all the inconvenient counterpoint distinctions that clutter daily life.
Got a problem? Cleave it with a light saber! Wouldn't you love -- just once in your life -- to dive a fast little ship into your worst enemy's stronghold and set off a chain reaction, blowing up the whole megillah from within its rotten core while you streak away to safety at the speed of light? (It's such a nifty notion that it happens in three out of four "Star Wars" flicks.)
One of the problems with so-called light entertainment today is that somehow, amid all the gaudy special effects, people tend to lose track of simple things, like story and meaning. They stop noticing the moral lessons the director is trying to push. Yet these things matter.
By now it's grown clear that George Lucas has an agenda, one that he takes very seriously. After four "Star Wars" films, alarm bells should have gone off, even among those who don't look for morals in movies. When the chief feature distinguishing "good" from "evil" is how pretty the characters are, it's a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look.
Just what bill of goods are we being sold, between the frames?
- Elites have an inherent right to arbitrary rule; common citizens needn't be consulted. They may only choose which elite to follow.
- "Good" elites should act on their subjective whims, without evidence, argument or accountability.
- Any amount of sin can be forgiven if you are important enough.
- True leaders are born. It's genetic. The right to rule is inherited.
- Justified human emotions can turn a good person evil.
That is just the beginning of a long list of "moral" lessons relentlessly pushed by "Star Wars." Lessons that starkly differentiate this saga from others that seem superficially similar, like "Star Trek." (We'll take a much closer look at some stark divergences between these two sci-fi universes below.)
Above all, I never cared for the whole Nietzschian Übermensch thing: the notion -- pervading a great many myths and legends -- that a good yarn has to be about demigods who are bigger, badder and better than normal folk by several orders of magnitude. It's an ancient storytelling tradition based on abiding contempt for the masses -- one that I find odious in the works of A.E. Van Vogt, E.E. Smith, L. Ron Hubbard and wherever you witness slanlike super-beings deciding the fate of billions without ever pausing to consider their wishes.
Wow, you say. If I feel that strongly about this, why just a week-long boycott? Why see the latest "Star Wars" film at all?
Because I am forced to admit that demigod tales resonate deeply in the human heart.
In "The Hero With a Thousand Faces," Joseph Campbell showed how a particular, rhythmic storytelling technique was used in almost every ancient and pre-modern culture, depicting protagonists and antagonists with certain consistent motives and character traits, a pattern that transcended boundaries of language and culture. In these classic tales, the hero begins reluctant, yet signs and portents foretell his pre-ordained greatness. He receives dire warnings and sage wisdom from a mentor, acquires quirky-but-faithful companions, faces a series of steepening crises, explores the pit of his own fears and emerges triumphant to bring some boon/talisman/victory home to his admiring tribe/people/nation.
By offering valuable insights into this revered storytelling tradition, Joseph Campbell did indeed shed light on common spiritua
Association of Fucking Idiots?
First a clarification. While I do think that plenty of evidence shows that George Lucas hates a civilization that's been very good to him... and that his storytelling faults are innumerable... this does not mean that I'm saying everything in the Star Wars universe is evil and perverse! (See below where I praise Luke Skywalker and especially Han Solo.) So many people would not flock to the films if there weren't many positive traits. The Campbellian and Enlightenment traditions can have considerable overlap -- despite their struggle at deeper levels. Among the better (though simpleminded) lessons that you do see in even the worst Star Wars films are -- "Mean people suck," "Be brave," "Be steadfast to your friends," "Try to stay calm," and "Keep on trying."
Indeed, I have never said we should eliminate Joseph Campbell-type myths from our storytelling heritage! When they are good, they rock. Anyway, they are deeply rooted inside us, for well or ill. I just think we ought to TRY to grow up a bit and appreciate other modes of fiction that are less cliched, formulaic, predictable, and obeissant to elites.
For the Campbellian myth can VERY easily go wrong, and turn into a nightmare. That's what has happened to George Lucas's particular vision, in which a "rebellion" is used to symbolize the legitimization of divine rule by demigods. And it's gotten worse the more seriously Lucas takes himself, from the idealism and simple hopefulness of Movie #1 (A New Hope) to the dismal futility of the recent Phantom Menace. (See point #1 below.) Over the long run, we're going to have to face these matters, so why not get down to it now?
For those of you just starting out, I do seriously recommend you go first to the two web sites posted at the top of this page. You'll be much better equipped to see why the points that follow (below) are relevant.
The most common email I received from Lucas defenders was to attack a single perceived flaw in the part of my article dealing with The Phantom Menace itself -- zeroing in on my complaint regarding the nature of the master scheme by Senator Palpatine... to use the crisis on his homeworld to manipulate his own rise to power. The people who raised this point avoided commenting on any of the major issues I raised -- e.g., Lucas's elitism, the "demigod mythos," or GL's openly expressed antipathy toward democratic western civilization. Instead, they cried "gotcha!" -- as if my failure to grasp Palpatine's scheme invalidates every other point I tried to raise.
My answer is simple. Of COURSE I saw that Palpatine was using the invasion of Naboo to engineer his accession as Chancellor, by getting his cousin, the Queen, to denouce the old (good) Chancellor. I just couldn't credit that the whole thing could be so stupid.
Consider these questions:
* If the queen's so influential, able to topple the head of a galaxy, why was she earlier unable to get any help from all these political allies she's calling upon?
* Um, so what's to keep the shamed-defeated Trade Federation guys from later on screaming "It was Palpatine! He MADE us doo eet!" The fact that the Sith Lord's eyes were in shadow? They really know nothing about a guy they've sworn fealty to and staked everything on? Some savvy traders!
* Palpatine is clearly concerned about being hunted down by the Jedi, right? Yet he draws their newly-roused attention right to his own home planet? He couldn't have used another?
* Oh, and why does he send Maul to kill Amidala and her escorts on Tatooine, when they are bringing her to the Senate to do exactly what he wants her to do? Does that make even marginal sense? (In fact, he'd send a space yacht to pick her up and escort her to the Senate in style, while keeping Darth Maul secret a while longer.) Now that we get right down to it, Palpatine WANTS Amidala to escape from Naboo. Or he should. If Lucas bothered to plot at all.
* Oh, the scheme is dumb about forty other ways. But above all, the "success" of Palpatine's plan makes t
AFI is just about the shittiest band out there.
And what is lucas getting a "lifetime achievement award" for? All he's really done is 50 versions of the same Star Wars movie (original, digitally enhanced, audio enhanced, remade, etc etc) plus ET. He really hasn't done much and what he has done has been half-assed crap like Star Wars (which I still feel is boring and ridiculous - it's not THAT great, guys - grow up).
... to get a lifetime achievement award if your constantly allowed to go back, digitially edit, and resubmit your life's work for approval until you get it write (or wrong i guess).
Do, or do not!
I delivered a much justified smackdown. Blow my thick, hard chubby before going back to masturbating over your fanboy altars.
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In Star Wars, Luke comes off as some petualant child who went to the sooky child school of acting. If was hard to get involved with his badly written character, and Han Solo come off as some sort of space hick. The only redeeming feature was a bra-less princess Laia.
Whilst watching the truly awful Return of the Jedi, I noticed that the characters seem to say all their actions and speak in pure exposition e.g. I'm going to go *there* and do *that*. This film is worse than pantomime.
Give George credit where credit is due, THX is great, the special effects are fab, but the acting, plot, and characters all stink.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Night of the Living Dead?
The rest are rehashing the same idiotic themes repeatedly.
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For f*cks sake grow up and stop moaning about the 'raping of your childhood'.
Beyond Star Wars, Lucas and his team have pioneered the fields of non-linear editing, optical and digital visual effects, computer generated imagery, sound editing/mixing/recording and many other fields that have contributed *directly* to the cinema.
THX sound systems for cinema and home. Skywalker Sound. Industrial Light + Magic. The Pixar computer.
Heck even Photoshop started there as 'Display', before becoming 'ImagePro' and then 'Photoshop' c/o Thomas Knoll.
I could go on, but I know I'll be buried under people doing their so called 'funny' and 'insightful' comments about Jar Jar and childhood-raping...
Sure, making three separate releases of the same movie, in three different ways, is an achievement. Sort of like the 'great victory' King Pyrrhus achieved.
Look, I hated Jar Jar's pratfals in the first movie as much as the next guy.
But in the second movie the stupidity had a point - he was an easy to use pawn, one of the weak minded people that is so easily manipulted by force powers. I was actually quite happy with how Jar Jar was used in teh second, even though I thought they went way overboard with the physical comedy in the first.
The whole *point* is that he's stupid, not that he's hated. He'll end up being hated (or pitied) because he's so stupid.
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Many of the editing techniques, and special effects done today are possible because of his drive and commentment.
you can say what you want about ther Star Wars series, but they did influence the industry. The way movie companies viewed sci-fi films after Star-Wars was a lot more seriously then before Star-Wars.
WOuld Alien as been as good if George hadn't proved there is a market for 'grity' sci-fi?
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THX1138
American Graffiti
Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Not bad.
American Graffiti in particular seems to be overlooked. It really captured a certain feeling of a time and place; was funny and engaging.
After Star Wars, he moved from directing to producing. That was the change. But everyone gets older. He deserves the achievement award.
I hate to use the word visionary, but Lucas truly has a vision.
So do people with malaria.
I think this achievement is more about its wallet than about its talent. The juges are Unitedstaters.
He'd stop making movies on par with the Cabage Patch Kids. I'm not worried about my childhood memories, I'd really like to see him make a movie with the imagination of an adult. These dumbed down Star Wars movies have been thinner then a childrens cartoon and all the while the real world has continued grow more complex. Give me a Star Wars with characters with flaws. Something to sink my teeth into.
Quack, quack.
that a place that alledgedly devoted to 'News for Nerds' would appriacte this a lot more.
1) Made Sci-fi movies Mainstream
2) Set ground work for technology to make better sci-fi movies
3) Created the most Kick ass Sci-fi movie of it's time.
4) Independant film maker
What's with the haters?
Quite frankly this 'it's big and worth a lot of money so lets hate it attitude has gotten old.' Except for Google. Speak bad about Google and you'll be moderated down to hell.
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I can't believe how two or three little changes can "destroy" a movie. I enjoyed the original saga, and even if Greedo shoots a split-second earlier, I think the restoration and improvements that have been made to image quality (e.g. lightsabres) are worth it.
I think George Lucas deserves an award!
Some kind of one way ticket to hell seems like a most deserving reward for his... efforts.
Does this mean that he can go fucking die already?
Lifetime Achievement Award for Sodomizing Our Memories? Star Wars *used* to be good.
this award is going to a person who made some
cheesy movies that made some serious money.
We judge him by how much money he made.
slashdot geeks, is star wars really worth
talking about anymore? Obviously todays news is
pretty sad, otherwsie i would skip this post.
I would rather watch a black and white charlie
chaplin film and see revolutinary special effects.
Not this guy 80 years later.
I feel so sorry for fanboys that grew up watching Episodes 4, 5, and 6 and thinking how "kewl" it was "A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away", but then grew up and think Episodes 1, 2, and 3 suck. I'm a fan of the 4, 5, and 6 (especially "Empire"), but you know, 1, 2, and 3 really are the same quality as 4 and 6... all 6 movies were made for 12 year old males, not the 30-year old geeks we are now.
What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.
That is by far the coolest quote I've found on slashdot. I think it really speaks for itself. Someday, I dream of cobbling together such an utterance into such a form.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
It's getting old... just like Lucas' beard... I wonder if he was born with it...
But seriously, he did a couple of good things.
- Gave us Indy and Young Indy and palmed it off to Spielberg to do something good with.
- Gave us Pixar and sold that off, which eventually ended up with Mr Jobs and a fantastic little animation movie studio.
Notice how everything he gets rid of turns to Gold
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If you take a moment to remove the tinfoil hat and take a look at what Lucas has done... I'd say he deserves it. His methods as far as hollywood politics alone revolutionized the industry of movie-making.
Beside that, he's led development of some of the best industry departments and standards out there. He was largely responsible for Pixar!
So before you're too quick to bash him for the obvious blunders he's had, at least have the fairness to recognize what he has really done well.
It's really quite an honour.
I've been deficating in books, on works of art,sculptures, scores of music, etc... for years! I didn't think anyone would actually appreciate my efforts.
Thank goodness there are awards for everything now'a'days... although, all of my mischief pales in comparison to Lucas (that f*#ker s*!ts on everything he can); he'll probably win it in a walk.
Oh well, there's always next year. I hear Bush will be nominated.
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...some of the events in his life will be altered so they more closely match the life George originally intended.
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
Years and years of producing films, not movies, and you want him judged for the last one that by all accounts was an honourable failure?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
You do what you can in your context and circumstances.
There are people for which waking up every morning and managing to lead an almost normal life is an achievment that easily overshadows anything Lucas has ever done, but that naturally is not highligted since achieving this does not touch as many people as a film maker.
So stop the patronizing, we may be doing more things that you are obviously denying people credit for.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
I pity the moderator who worships George Lucas. Geez, you act like I killed your father or something.