Originally posted by: Anchorhead
I agree fully. The Empire Strikes Back was already showing that Lucas had no real story to tell after Star Wars. I saw Return Of The Jedi at theaters on opening day and again about 14 years later. I disliked it both times. Lucas way over-thinks things and continues to provide answers to questions no one has asked. To me, the real fluke in all of this is the 1977 version of Star Wars. Look at what a mess he's made of it now that he's really put his mind to it.
Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
I still maintain Lucas hasn't done anything good with Star Wars starting with the release of ROTJ. Hell, I'd almost go so far as to say ESB was the real fluke and the future of Star Wars was presented to us on CBS in November 1978. Everything since that time, with the exception of Empire has been junk.
Neil
I still maintain Lucas hasn't done anything good with Star Wars starting with the release of ROTJ. Hell, I'd almost go so far as to say ESB was the real fluke and the future of Star Wars was presented to us on CBS in November 1978. Everything since that time, with the exception of Empire has been junk.
Neil
I agree fully. The Empire Strikes Back was already showing that Lucas had no real story to tell after Star Wars. I saw Return Of The Jedi at theaters on opening day and again about 14 years later. I disliked it both times. Lucas way over-thinks things and continues to provide answers to questions no one has asked. To me, the real fluke in all of this is the 1977 version of Star Wars. Look at what a mess he's made of it now that he's really put his mind to it.
It all makes perfect sense if you consider the possibility that there never was a larger Star Wars back story to begin with. Just a draft of screenplay for ANH.
There is an (unwritten?) Hollywood rule that a succesfull movie 'must' have a sequel. When ANH was released and broke box office records around the globe, THAT was the moment where a new script had to be developed for a sequel we now know as ESB.
Besides, Lucas' admits to having serious doubts about the father-son releationship between Vader and Luke at the time of writing the screenplay for ROTJ in an official 1983 "Making Of ..." documentary I have on VHS. This exposes his version of The Making Of A Saga for what it is: a lie.
But, as always, if you repeat or re-hash your version of the story often and loud enough, everybody is going to believe it to be the truth. Even the person who made it up ...