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.
Just fuck off you little prick. You're never ever going to listen to reason, and just glorify Lucas and and his films ot no end, even when reason punches you in the face. You cannot see anything bad about Lucas at all, and it makes you the most annoying little troll I've ever met. Yes, people went to phantom menace, lots of people. Why? Everyone loved the originals. Almost everyone who had seen the films in the twenty year gap loved them, and those who didn't would still go see a new one just to go with the hype. Millions and millions of people saw the original, and most of those millions would go to see the new one. Casual fans would wait until after the first month, and people who has only seen one of the original films or just thought the advertising was good would go later. That itself explains why it was in theaters so long.
And CO had a good point too. Fans wanted to believe it was a good movie, and went over and over again, but in the end, they were just deluding themselves. Go-Mer, I know that you always block this out, but this is TRUE. PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE THE PREQUELS. THE GENERAL PUBLIC DISLIKES THE PREQUELS. PEOPLE WENT OUT OF CURIOSITY AND A DESIRE TO SEE THE SERIES COMPLETED, NO MATTER HOW BAD IT WAS. It's like reading a bad book. It sucks hard, but you want to find out how it ends. So you read to the end. ALL THE FILMS HAD GOING FOR THEM WAS CRAPPY CGI AND LIAM NEESON, WHO IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE PREQUELS WHO GAVE A GOOD PREFORMENCE. Hell, casting Neeson in TPM probably got lots of new people to come. PEOPLE DID NOT GO BECAUSE IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE. PERIOD. END OF STORY. FUCK OFF GOMER.