Comment Re:Always the right ones, Lucas' decisions are? (Score 1) 315
Wow you are totally dead on and I would mod you up if I could.
The "greedo shoots first" mistake is perhaps one of the biggest in any movie that I can remember. I dare say movie history. Lucas is definitely dead wrong on this.
The quotes factor is another HUGE part of a great movie. When I think great movies I think great quotes. How many great quotes are there in ep-IV & ep-V? Too many to list. I can't think of a single line in ep-I through ep-III I would ever reference in day-to-day life or even paraphrase.
Empire was clearly a masterpiece, but why? "Luke, I am your father?" "I love you. I know." The great light-saber battle where it feels like Luke really has something on the line? Hoth? Yoda's first appearance? The real answer is: if anyone knew the answer they'd be a multi-billion-aire.
Since its very difficult to duplicate that level greatness, Lucas attempts a cookie-cutter in ep-VI and again in ep-I. In these, the sequences at climax follow the exact same pattern of Planet battle/space battle/sabre battle. Lucas just flips it around slightly where the good guys are losing the land battle until Annie blows the ship, miraculously turning the tide. As opposed to Han solo and company blowing the shield generator miraculously turning the tide in the ep-VI space battle. This cookie-cutter approach fails as it always does and should. The ewoks, a transparent marketing ploy, sucked just like jar-jar.
I guess even Godfather I & II had to have their Godfather III...
Like you I can still enjoy Empire (and New Hope) now and hopefully for a long time.
The "greedo shoots first" mistake is perhaps one of the biggest in any movie that I can remember. I dare say movie history. Lucas is definitely dead wrong on this.
The quotes factor is another HUGE part of a great movie. When I think great movies I think great quotes. How many great quotes are there in ep-IV & ep-V? Too many to list. I can't think of a single line in ep-I through ep-III I would ever reference in day-to-day life or even paraphrase.
Empire was clearly a masterpiece, but why? "Luke, I am your father?" "I love you. I know." The great light-saber battle where it feels like Luke really has something on the line? Hoth? Yoda's first appearance? The real answer is: if anyone knew the answer they'd be a multi-billion-aire.
Since its very difficult to duplicate that level greatness, Lucas attempts a cookie-cutter in ep-VI and again in ep-I. In these, the sequences at climax follow the exact same pattern of Planet battle/space battle/sabre battle. Lucas just flips it around slightly where the good guys are losing the land battle until Annie blows the ship, miraculously turning the tide. As opposed to Han solo and company blowing the shield generator miraculously turning the tide in the ep-VI space battle. This cookie-cutter approach fails as it always does and should. The ewoks, a transparent marketing ploy, sucked just like jar-jar.
I guess even Godfather I & II had to have their Godfather III...
Like you I can still enjoy Empire (and New Hope) now and hopefully for a long time.
