Do you think we owe George Lucas an apology?

[CROM]

George Lucas sold his franchise....his baby...one of the most storied, if not the most storied Sci-Fi universe in the history of film because of his feelings being hurt over the reaction to the Prequels. George Lucas is a bytch. Some will say...”It was 4 Billion Dollars, Breh!” I get that....but he was already a billionaire before he sold it. He’s a whiny bytch that didn’t recognize the need to have someone else direct his film ideas...as he did with Empire (STILL the undisputed best of the series). I’m not apologizing for anything. This is his own fault.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

Prequels are garbage

 

[semicko82]

George Lucas sold his franchise....his baby...one of the most storied, if not the most storied Sci-Fi universe in the history of film because of his feelings being hurt over the reaction to the Prequels. George Lucas is a bytch. Some will say...”It was 4 Billion Dollars, Breh!” I get that....but he was already a billionaire before he sold it. He’s a whiny bytch that didn’t recognize the need to have someone else direct his film ideas...as he did with Empire (STILL the undisputed best of the series). I’m not apologizing for anything. This is his own fault.

He never cared about the integrity of the stories, I remember on one of those behind the scenes documentaries he was mentioning the if The Phantom Menace would out gross Titanic. It was all about selling toys and making money

 

[nieman]

George Lucas sold his franchise....his baby...one of the most storied, if not the most storied Sci-Fi universe in the history of film because of his feelings being hurt over the reaction to the Prequels. George Lucas is a bytch. Some will say...”It was 4 Billion Dollars, Breh!” I get that....but he was already a billionaire before he sold it. He’s a whiny bytch that didn’t recognize the need to have someone else direct his film ideas...as he did with Empire (STILL the undisputed best of the series). I’m not apologizing for anything. This is his own fault.

He didn't sell it because of that. He sold it because he was getting older (they all were), he got the creative itch for dropping the final trilogy, but didn't really have to energy to put in all of that work for it. I do think he feared some backlash, but that was mostly gone by then and people had long warmed up to the PT. He called Mark Hamill, Carrie, Spielberg, a few others and told them he was ready to start it up, like 3 years before Disney even came in.

If you look logically, he sold it to the ONLY company that had the dough, savvy and the resources to finish his trilogy. He also sold it with his outline for the final trilogy, AND had already placed his successor in charge BEFORE the sell. He didn't want the Mouse to replace people he trusted. All I can think of is that he believed that lady would protect his baby. BUT she turned out to be a suit, and Iger reneged on his outline.

 

[FaTaL]

He didn’t have to sell

 

[Danktoker94]

Naw we not doing this. Yes the prequels had continuity and vision but they were still garbage. Even this movement to make episode 3 good is not happening. 1 and 2 are hands down still the worst of the series. Rise is tied with Sith for third place depending on future viewing of 9

Explain to me what made the prequels garbage in curious to know cuz u said some stupid shyt off rip bout revenge of the sith being tied with skywalker so I'm curious to your logic on this one buddy ?

 

[Starboy52]

Story was much better in the Prequels. You were actually somewhat invested in the outcome of each character and at the very least we got memorable quotes and new characters and Clone Wars out of them.

Name one net positive the sequels have outside of being slightly better dialogue wise

 

[The G.O.D II]

Explain to me what made the prequels garbage in curious to know cuz u said some stupid shyt off rip bout revenge of the sith being tied with skywalker so I'm curious to your logic on this one buddy ?

Boring long exposition with space politics, horrific dialogue, bad cgi, trash villains and hero’s, wooden acting. Sith isn’t good. People just look fondly on it because it’s finally the movie where anakin finally flipped but that shyt was still trash

 

[mastermind]

George Lucas is owed nothing

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

no. they knew CGI would age poorly and they still opted for it

 

[ThirdAct]

Nah he isn't owed an apology. He was lazy as hell in making his own movies, bad green screen everywhere and didn't give a fukk at all about even directing his own actors.

He still gets props for creating all this though, his impact is undeniable even with all the wrong turns.

 

[semicko82]

Story was much better in the Prequels. You were actually somewhat invested in the outcome of each character and at the very least we got memorable quotes and new characters and Clone Wars out of them.

Name one net positive the sequels have outside of being slightly better dialogue wise

Acting is way better in the sequel movies that's for damn sure

 

[Silver Surfer]

They say Lucas didnt even come to the premier

 

[Days of Future Piff]

Its really not that bad.

 

[blankstairz]

George is a visionary genius.

Creative characters, creative worlds, concepts, stories, etc. Beautifully shot sequences and set locations. George was that cat.

People like that don't come along every day.

His flaw was dialogue. And sometimes fleshing out his great ideas on screen. And George the businessman with merchandising got ahead of George the writer when it came to his stories at times.

All in all, George was a good dude. He grew bitter from some of the critique of his prequels. This was his baby, so he took it to heart. He was old and it was time to cash out. He had enough.

I think that is why JJ played it so safe with TFA and ROS. If George wasn't safe, then nobody is safe if you don't come correct. JJ didn't take any chances, and was just going to placate the fanbase with rehashes. Rian Johnson was oblivious to this, and he got that work for TLJ.


George,a creative talent, gave the keys to a non-creative, executive in Kathleen Kennedy. That wasn't going to work. Business and creative sensibilities are often like oil and water.

Kathleen Kennedy is all business. She thinks like a major studio executive, and it shows. Knows nothing about creativity. That is why the new Trilogy is all over the place.

Rogue One was fire though.