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“I’m retiring. I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.” Aside from a possible fifth Indiana Jones movie, which is more or less handled by software these days, Lucas says he plans to follow his friend Francis Ford Coppola’s example and instead focus on making “more personal” films described as “small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses”—and most importantly, away from jerks who don’t like what he did with Star Wars.

“Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” Lucas grumbles of Star Wars fans, comparing their pleas to stop changing everything about the films they like to the dictatorial demands of the studios, as they both rob him of the important freedom to alter his past work to fit his every passing whim.

If you missed the Daily Show interview you also missed a great moment where we found out that the impetus for him making Red Tails was to inspire black teens and that he is the first to make a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen.

If that's true...

And thus I wept a single tear of joy.

It's about damn time.

YAY!

“more personal” films described as “small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses”

Star Wars Holiday Special 2?

:( A sad day indeed... I look forward to his art-film career!

chaos0xomega wrote::( A sad day indeed...

What? Drink and be merry, friend! 'Tis a joyous occasion!

hmm. I liked the prequals.
And the last indie, actually. Sure it was LOLWTF at times but it was still a damn good film.

Haters gonna hate I guess. I actually enjoy his work (though Crystal Skull was TERRIBAD simply because of Shia Labeouf), even Howard the Duck ROFLROFLROFL

Now we are going to miss out on gems like this

I liked the prequals and the new Indiana Jones movie, I have had a million people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I am to young to have seen Star Wars in Theaters, and the Indiana Jones in theaters.

But you know what? I like what I like.

Yay! Much rejoicing 'tis jolly day brings! The Dark Lord has fallen!

Alexzandvar wrote:I liked the prequals and the new Indiana Jones movie, I have had a million people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I am to young to have seen Star Wars in Theaters, and the Indiana Jones in theaters.

But you know what? I like what I like.

You're right, with his amazing script writing skills, the world will be depraved of these gems:

Anakin: "You are so... beautiful."
Padmé: "It's only because I'm so in love."
Anakin: "No, it's because I'm so in love with you."
Padmé: "So love has blinded you?"
Anakin: "Well, that's not exactly what I meant."
Padmé: "But it's probably true."

and

"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you—I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do? I will do anything you ask."

Cryage wrote:

Alexzandvar wrote:I liked the prequals and the new Indiana Jones movie, I have had a million people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I am to young to have seen Star Wars in Theaters, and the Indiana Jones in theaters.

But you know what? I like what I like.

You're right, with his amazing script writing skills, the world will be depraved of these gems:

Anakin: "You are so... beautiful."
Padmé: "It's only because I'm so in love."
Anakin: "No, it's because I'm so in love with you."
Padmé: "So love has blinded you?"
Anakin: "Well, that's not exactly what I meant."
Padmé: "But it's probably true."

and

"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you—I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do? I will do anything you ask."

'shudder'

Hey George, I hope the door doesn't hit your ass on the way out.

Rot in hell GL.

Ahtman wrote: Tuskegee Airmen.

...

Well George. Thanks for confirming you're the idiot we all know you've always been.

No further comment.

Cryage wrote:

"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you—I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do? I will do anything you ask."

Are we sure this isn't from one of the Twilight movies?

Also, don't be hatin' on Willow, dammit.

Finally.

biccat wrote:

Cryage wrote:

"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you—I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do? I will do anything you ask."

Are we sure this isn't from one of the Twilight movies?

Also, don't be hatin' on Willow, dammit.

Haha, it's from Attack of the clones

Hearing those lines come out of actors mouths seriously made me cringe on how hard lucas made us try and care about that love story...

The love story was a pathetic attempt at explaining their relationship, although it was totally unnecessary in AotC, because the third movie really did it for me in that department.

In the third, I could tell that they really loved each other, as opposed to the childish nonsense in the second. Plus, with anakin turning all 'sinister' and what-not, it really made it.

I just bought the original trilogy on blu ray and omg they blow episodes 1-3 out of the fething galaxy. From the way the shots are set up to the acting and dialog, everything is just more magical and not some CGI snooze fest. Same thing goes for the Indiana Jones movies. KOTCS was done by the numbers.

Samus_aran115 wrote:The love story was a pathetic attempt at explaining their relationship, although it was totally unnecessary in AotC, because the third movie really did it for me in that department.

In the third, I could tell that they really loved each other, as opposed to the childish nonsense in the second. Plus, with anakin turning all 'sinister' and what-not, it really made it.

Anakin turns evil so stupidly fast.

dogma wrote:

“more personal” films described as “small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses”

Star Wars Holiday Special 2?

Life Day!

So I sent this to my fiancee at work. Her response was priceless.

What a cry baby.

I don't mind all of the changes he has made to the Star Wars movies - in some cases, I think he improved the movie. For example, the Ewoks had eye blinking added to them when it was redone. Things like that are OK with me since it enhanced the movie without actually altering it. I also am OK with stuff like adding more aliens to the cantina scene.

Things that dramatically alter how the characters are perceived - Greedo shooting first - those are the real problem. But we all know that, so I'm being redundant.

Add fethface from the prequels to RotJ as Lukes father instead of the original actor, feth why not put ewan macgraegor to replace Alec guiness.

Ouze wrote:
Things that dramatically alter how the characters are perceived - Greedo shooting first - those are the real problem. But we all know that, so I'm being redundant.

I don't mind the scene where Jabba replaced his underling.

I consider this to be a victory for all those whose childhood that man raped.

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Meh. The prequels were bad movies, but they'd done and can't be undone. Crystal Skull was also pretty lame, and sunk the other Lucas franchise that had goodwill left in it.

So really, what's left for Lucas to do in the world of big budget movies for nerds? He couldn't

I like his claim he's going to go do personal, arthouse films now. A bit like Michael Bay claiming the same thing in the wake of Transformers II. As if an arthouse film was just the bit with the actors, but none of the hassle about lining up CGI production schedules. It worked for Coppola, because even with his big budget films he was dealing with serious issues, and telling the story through fully developed characters.

I mean, I love what Lucas did in the early part of his career, with Star Wars and Indiana Jones, his flair for serial storytelling worked well there, but let's be honest, even in his best movies where the dialogue worked and the characters came to life it was rarely because of him.