Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I wonder why that same dynamic didn't help Blues Brothers 2000 at the box office.
Sure I will grant you opening week, even opening month those people went to see TPM on the merit of the classic trilogy.
But when it's still in dollar theaters when they re-release it for the Christmas holiday, you have to start to suspect that people were going back again and again because they actually liked -that- movie too.
It is patently ridiculous to state that Lucas did not have a crew of people working with him on the prequels. I don't even understand how you could say it. Sure it's not the same crew he had since the beginning, but there -was- a crew. It wasn't just "Lucas, some blue screens, crappy actors and some computers."
People -DID- get their point across to Lucas that they didn't like the way Jar-Jar was being done. Lucas simply didn't agree with them. Just as he didn't agree with Kurtz when he thought they shouldn't make Vader Luke's father.
I wonder why that same dynamic didn't help Blues Brothers 2000 at the box office.
Sure I will grant you opening week, even opening month those people went to see TPM on the merit of the classic trilogy.
But when it's still in dollar theaters when they re-release it for the Christmas holiday, you have to start to suspect that people were going back again and again because they actually liked -that- movie too.
It is patently ridiculous to state that Lucas did not have a crew of people working with him on the prequels. I don't even understand how you could say it. Sure it's not the same crew he had since the beginning, but there -was- a crew. It wasn't just "Lucas, some blue screens, crappy actors and some computers."
People -DID- get their point across to Lucas that they didn't like the way Jar-Jar was being done. Lucas simply didn't agree with them. Just as he didn't agree with Kurtz when he thought they shouldn't make Vader Luke's father.
Gomer, Lucas had so many fans for 3 PT movies cause he marketed as 'how Vader turns to the darkside' and that was a brilliant marketing ploy.
I know SO many friends who thought TPM & AOTC were pure shit, but said to me in May 2005, "I have to atleast see how Darth Vader turns." So they went to it, cause we were all such diehards fans we had to see how the story ended atleast one time. I don't know any other movie series where people would hang around to see the whole thing, does Matrix Revolutions ring a bell?
But in saying that there is a reason that TPM made the most of all PT movies, cause alot of those fans checked out in 1999:
TPM: 431 million
AOTC: 310 million
ROTS: 380 million
Hey, I was one of those fans who saw each PT movie twice, and now I don't ever think about them anymore, but because I was such a diehard OT fan I WANTED so bad to love them, I went back hoping I was wrong after my initial showing, I bought them on DVD HOPING they would match up 1-6, and now after trying and trying, I came to the realization, it wasn't me, the movies aren't that great and don't tie up with the OT that well, IMO.
You can throw out all the numbers you want, but every Friend I know saw all 3 PT movies, and EVERYONE of them thinks less of them now then they did from 99-05. In a sense, it was cool to go through the hype of SW again, but that is all it was for alot of fans, Hype.