Clone Wars

[aelburr]

 Not to sound paranoid, but I was just polishing off a hearty rant about how George Lucas can kiss my ass, what with this insulting half-Disney-half-anime piece of crap he expects us to swallow as a feature film, just because he's too lazy to finish the series, but too greedy to walk away, when lj neatly crashed, sending me to desktop like nothing

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Why does George Lucas think that movie viewers are his bitch?

[mle292]

"you expect too much"

I agree, that's a line of shit.

For eight goddamn dollars and three hours of my time - which includes a solid forty minutes of captive audience advertisements, it had better be worth it.

Fuck that. For checking off a box on Netflix and two hours of my time, it had better be worth it.

I don't mind animation and I don't care if the special effects look like they were rejected from a 70's era BBC production. For the wheelbarrows full of money that it cost just to mail film canisters around the country, there should be a decent story in there somewhere.

I never defended any of those goddamn Episode I, II or III movies. A good writer is not anywhere near as expensive as those special effects were and a decent script doctor could have cleaned all of those up well enough that they didn't have to suck.

Re: Why does George Lucas think that movie viewers are his bitch?

[mle292]

And another thing...

Science Fiction and Fantasy is quickly becoming the genre where story doesn't matter, especially with the franchise movies.

It will stay that way until people refuse to pay for it.

[arturis]

Unlike you, I actually did expect good story and writing and acting from the new movies so that's when I hit my "fuck this noise" threshold. Welcome to the party.

Lately I've been entertained by the notion that there's no such thing as "canon" there's just a string of interesting stories. Who cares if there was a first Batman that made certain claims about the world? If Batman Year One is more interesting, I don't care how well it agrees with anything. It's a neat story. As far as I'm concerned, there were three Star Wars movies and some entertaining books. Did the Timothy Zahn books tell a definitive story of what happened next? Sure. Who has the right to say so? I do.