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Sketches Released of New Star Wars Museum
An anonymous reader writes Chicago has some great museums, but none have architecture that excite me as much as the renderings (read "storyboards, not blueprints," but they're also called "plans," which I hope means they're pretty accurate) of George Lucas's Star Wars museum. Technically, it's the "George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art," but we know what he means, and these pictures only make the point clearer. Says the Associated Press story, "The Beijing-based principal designer, Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, released the first sketches Tuesday. The seven-story museum will be located between Soldier Field and McCormick Place on Lake Michigan. It's expected to cost about $400 million. Ma has said it's the most important project of his career to date."
Star Wars has been dead for 30 years.
Lucas had ONE great film in his entire career (Star Wars). The 2 worthy sequels were handled primarily by other people, and everything else he's involved himself in has been utter trash.
The same is true of Ridley Scott. Responsible for 1 great film (Alien) and attached to 1 (Blade Runner) that was great despite him fumbling about repeatedly and causing it to be a commercial failure and canonical mess.
As for James Cameron, he had 3 great films (Terminator, Terminator 2, and The Abyss), with a couple good films (Aliens and True Lies). He went full retard with Titanic and it, along with everything has has since or will put out, is shit shit shit.
While we're at it I'll say that Peter Jackson had 0 great movies. His Lord of the Rings adaptations are long and fucking boring (just like the books, but that's beside the point). While I enjoyed the first film the first time through (none of this uber-extended horseshit), the second 2 were simply unbearable. I tries again with the 2 Hobbit films and shit was worse. At least LotR had a mildly interesting plot and actors were acting with each other present. The Hobbit films are just showpieces for shitty 3D, and shitty 48 fps first, to the point where Ian McKellan broke down crying, wanting to quit the films because he was acting in a green box staring a postage stamp sized picture of the other actors eyes. (For the framerate, he should have gone with 60 so it could display on TVs properly, be reduced to 30 for BluRay and be displayed on TVs properly, etc. - all major theaters capably of 48 fps digital projection would have handled 60.) And of course, Avatar was shit shit shit. And we're getting 3 more of them! King Kong was good. Too long, as usual, but good (not great). Surprisingly, Jack Black did his role justice and wasn't a complete clown, as I expected.