George Lucas to make big announcement tomorrow!

I would be more welcoming to anything new in Star Wars as long as someone else OTHER than Lucas directs/writes for it.

I mean god, a Star Wars TV show would so awesome in concept, but it needs to be up to the standards of Firefly or something. I want well cheorgraphed light saber fights like the way Ryan VS Dorkman did, along with well written and developed story and characters.

Lucas did indeed created SW, which in turn inspired LOTR and various awesome geek fest media yada yada, but he's also the one who came up with alot of bad ideas (Jar Jar) and thanks to the success now has a holier-than-thou attitude. (He dismissed Sean Astin's initial praise and respect for him along with the "silly hobbit movies", and the "silly spider man" comment). Then of course the horrible writing for most of the prequels.

Not to mention that Episode 5 and 6 were directed by someone else, so in some form people are giving Lucas way too much credit than he deserves.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Didn't Clone Wars have minimal dialouge is more about action and tension? Its seemed similar to Samurai Jack in that regard that its more about the camera shots, art, fight scenes than it is about the dialouge.

Then again I only saw like, one short episode...

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I think that George Lucas has SOME good ideas and concepts, he's just horrible at executing them. He DID create the original Star Wars and all that....

That and his holier-than-thou attitude may contribute to wanting everything HIS way instead of having a team and be able to bounce off ideas with each other to make a good movie. When you believe yourself to be THAT good, you would want to reject everyone else's ideas.

Oh and the whole CGI stuff caused him to go overboard to just the visual representation and not the writing behind it. Its kinda like Square Enix with their hot hot graphics, but in their latest games have very little substance to back them up. People like Lucas are topo focused on the LOOK on the movie instead of telling a good story.

Its ironic though that he tries so hard to create a beautiful world through CGI, yet when I watch the prequels they look so fake it makes it look ugly. When I watched LOTR, the scenery was true natural beauty, where as SW prequels were like plastic trees or something. Trouble is he used CGI in every single shot, instead of trying to scout for places that CAN look the way he wanted, or build some goddamn sets. Unless you're going for a stylised look throughout the movie a'la 300 or Sin City, CGI should only be used for wide shots, major action sequences or things that don't exist in reality.

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Originally Posted by Monkey King

What wasn't? The pacing was bad, the dialogue was bad, the plotting was bad, and the acting was bad. Three out of four were directly Lucas' fault, and the fourth can probably be partially blamed on his poor direction as well.

I mean, the film features one of the clumsiest renditions of a romance ever, to the point that I'm surprised Lucas is actually married. That alone is enough to condemn the movie.

Ditto to all the above. Regarding the acting, he had a solid cast. Even Hayden Christensen is a fine actor who apparently surprised critics with the movie 'Shattered Glass'. He had people like Natalie Portman, Ewan Mcgregor and Christopher Lee. Only a incompetant director like Lucas can give them crappy direction. (Remember the old trilogy? "Faster, more intense" was his constant direction.) Not to mention it must have be REALLY hard to act infront of blue screen 99% of the time

While the cast of LOTR can sit on top of Edoras and FEEL the movie, the cast of Star Wars are playing pretend with a dungeon master who has no idea what the hell he's talking about, while surrounded by green.

Lucas needs to stop MAKING the movies and let someone ELSE take over.

So what is this big announcement?

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