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George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com)
RogueyWon writes: While many critics have responded positively to JJ Abrams's take on Star Wars, one particular industry figure seems rather less impressed. George Lucas has criticized the "retro" tone of The Force Awakens and lamented his own lack of involvement in it. Speaking to television talk-show host and journalist Charlie Rose, Lucas quipped that he had sold his "kids to the white slavers that take these things". "They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that,” he said. “They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway, but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do. And I don’t have the control to do that any more, and all I would do is muck everything up. And so I said, ‘OK, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way.’”
Yeah, why can't Disney be more forward-thinking like Lucas instead of just pandering to the moviegoers and giving them more of what they want?
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Translated to English:
I made three very good bottles of wine. So good people called me a visionary. My bottles were great.
Then I made three bad jars of wine. These jars were jarringly bad.
I sold my vineyard, great bottles and Jarring Jars and got lots of money.
Nobody considers me a visionary any longer because of the latter.
(Also have you ever tried discussing galactic treaties in a way that people want to hear about
it that doesn't sound like you helped write the internal revenue tax code and the trans-pacific partnership?)
Now I see that these new owners have made something good.
I think "Hey I could have done that!" I'm a visionary.
I think "Wait, I did, back in 1977, you know, before 30% of the planet was alive." Nobody knows I'm a visionary.
I think "I could have done it again." They would have recognized my genius again. Jar. Jar.
I forget about the jarring jars. I don't know where that came from anyway. I play with dolls way too much.
The grapes I would have picked are probably sour anyway.
- George Lucas
George, Your children were taken away from you because you were raping them. George, you sold them to other men, to be used.
Dear George Lucas, STFU. You FUBARed the originals through your idiotic "updates" and Episode 1 to 3 sucked so don't try to make it sound like you could have done anything better. Disney did a fantastic job...go away George.
Disney basically gave you the finger in a respectful way and did what they wanted (which is to market to the lowest common denominator who likes explosions and action). They don't care about telling a story. They want $$$$$$$$$$$..
Because Lucas only ever made fine art and only marketed Star Wars to the snobbiest of snobs. He also only did it for artistic integrity and never for the money which is why he's so poor and starving. All the merchandise, games, novels, etc. and constant movie rehashes were done purely for art and never so he could rake in another couple of billion dollars. Damn that Disney for turning Star Wars into a money-making machine rather than keeping it pure and only for art! *rolls eyes*
I thought he JARJARed them, and isn't that one step beyond FUBARing? Maybe you were being kind...
Thirty four characters live here.
Slashot can't quite decide whether they hate Lucas of The Force Awakens worse.
I used to use temporary variables named fu and bar in double for loops. I just changed them to jar and jar respectively, and it really JarJared things up.