Poll: Is George Lucas dead to you?

[kypsilon]

I think George needs less "Yes Men" and more "That's Stupid Mr. Lucas" guys in his corner. I won't buy the release, but mostly because it's on blu-ray and I haven't bothered to collect anything on blu-ray.

But if George feels the need to monkey with the originals again, he could always digitally remove the painful and unnecessary scene in Jabba's palace with the dance number that should never have been. Oh, and remove Hayden Christensen's force ghost at the end of Jedi.

 

[Odysseous2]

A better question would be:

Why does anyone care about George Lucas to start with?

Let's face it, he's a washed-up director, and he's clearly off his rocker. Sure, Star Wars was entertaining, but it wasn't prodigal. The movies aren't renowned for being good, so to speak. They're renowned for being cult classics -- a category reserved for movies that create legions of die-hard fans (e.g. A Rocky Horror Picture Show). Why did Star Wars garner so many fans? Because at the time of its creation, there were very few films that were built around nerd-culture. It was one of the very, very, VERY small pile of heavy science-fiction films available at the time, so naturally, it won the attention of that entire niche.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WERE GOOD MOVIES.

Why do people still care about Star Wars? Honestly. If we're going to drop to our knees and worship a director for creating a work of sci-fi genius, let it be Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Ridley Scott for Blade Runner or Alien. There's absolutely NO reason to be surprised that George Lucas is becoming stupider.

 

[GraveeKing]

I'm sorry but who?
Reading the first post tells me who's somewhat related to star-wars.... I ain't watched the new shiny whored out ones, so whatever. He'd not dead or whatever to me, I just don't know who the hell he is - dead or not.

 

[Romblen]

Not really, I like Star Wars, but I don't care about the extended universe, or the changes made to it, to me it's just a couple of movies I like. So adding NOOOOO! to one movie doesn't really affect how I feel about George Lucas.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Sorry, I got distracted by the word bacon and clicked on that, much more important I think.

Anyways, topic at hand, yes and no. No because he brought Star Wars and helped along, indirectly perhaps, the series to the Expanded Universe, so yay. And yes, because of the prequels and him constantly tinkering with Star Wars, leave them alone dammit!

 

[Monsterfurby]

George Lucas? Oh, that quirky fella who made three successful scifi movies in the late 70s and 80s. He's a nice fellow. Too bad his last movie was Indiana Jones in 1989.

Still, I love Star Wars. Wonder if they one day explain what those "clone wars" were about.

 

[violent_quiche]

Had to take the smoky flavoured option because if his artistic redundancy wasn't already proven by the prequels, this is hardly going to tip my opinion over the edge. I have happy childhood memories of the original and it's sequel, the rest was just dodgy fan fiction as far as I'm concerned. It's Lucas' sandbox, he can do what he wants with it.

Still, it must be said: retconning elements of his later, inferior creations into his beloved original for the sake of melodramatic symmetry is fucking dumb. As someone else pointed out, the tone of the scene changes from stoic conflict between Vader's loyalties and his better self, to a ridiculous soap-opera style epiphany.

Fortunately, I can overcome Lucas' egregious slight to my precious childhood memory by not buying it.

 

[Wing Dairu]

He died when that Clone Wars movie was made. Sure, the prequel trilogy was bad...but at LEAST they had been planned from the very beginning.
Nobody was asking for a two-hour CG cartoon...that was made to kick off a tv series of CG cartoons.

 

[Necro144]

Lucas has always been a figment of my imagination. He cannot die as he has never been technically alive.

 

[Floppertje]

well, the decline since the prequel trilogy has been steady... so he's probably decomposing.
I'd say it's time for him to just retire and let someone capable handle the franchise.

 

[Lim3]

Yes. He killed my child hood!

 

[Von Strimmer]

I have the perfect answer to this!!!


No. I still respect George Lucas for what he did and although I may not support his current view on Star Wars it's still a hell of a thing I am glad was created. It will never die!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Has he even directed anything that good since the original Star Wars movies.

Although I adore those films, I think he is massively overrated.

 

[octafish]

So here it goes: Is george lucas dead to you?
To me, he died today. I know I will seem like a troll but whatever, the changes to the original SW aren't something I am ok with so yeah, to me, he died back then and now he is a clone controlled by Spielberg.
So tell me escapists...

He was never alive. Lucas has always been a shitty director, it's only nostalgia that makes people think that he just now became one. They are films that went past their expiration date in about 1986.

Now lets forget about Star Wars before we hold the sci-fi genre back another 30 years, shall we?

Now now, American Graffiti is a decent film.

 

[silasbufu]

You can't spell George Lucas without Bacon.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

George who? I have know idea who you are talking about (insert sarcastic tone)

 

[marurder]

I think people are objecting because they see him as changing something that already worked. StarTrek adds to the universe and builds on it, StarWars is being reinvented every few years to milk a few more dollars. The original movie gave so much to work with, so many open questions that could be explained or not even needed to be explained. Now everything needs a clear answer or tied so tight that it has no fun value. And a lot of the new things are targeted towards young children, again, of course, for the money.
I mention StarTrek because it is also a long lasting SciFi series with movies. Although it started with a series THEN movies, while SW was the other way around. I have long since given up on George Lucas (not the SW franchise). But I would like to know if this is truly HIS idea and not some marketing exec.

 

[Findlebob]

He isnt dead, but i think he was replaced by alien's.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

YOU MEAN HE ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD?

Fuck, now I have to hire a new assassin. And kill the old one. With fire.

 

[Arina Love]

nope, i quite liked all star wars movies. Maybe because i don't really care about star wars "lore" and not invested in universe in first place, because i'm Trekkie.