Originally posted by: Fang Zei
Another thing I caught the fuller implication of this time around was how Titanic had not been released when Episode I started shooting, so when they're doing the pickups in Spring of '98 that's why George says "we're never going to beat Titanic" when Frank Oz asks him how well he thinks Episode I is going to do. Also, I didn't notice until this time that George was saying "More American Graffiti" and how it only made 2 cents (or something to that effect).
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Another thing I caught the fuller implication of this time around was how Titanic had not been released when Episode I started shooting, so when they're doing the pickups in Spring of '98 that's why George says "we're never going to beat Titanic" when Frank Oz asks him how well he thinks Episode I is going to do. Also, I didn't notice until this time that George was saying "More American Graffiti" and how it only made 2 cents (or something to that effect).
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Lucas also says to Oz, "You know you can ruin these things." in reference that a sequel or a prequel can totally ruin what has been done by its previous movies, and I think that is what we have been saying for years.
I think deep down Lucas knows the PT is pretty bad compared to the OT, but the movies made so much money, he is able to justify what he has done, cause most movie series that have bad sequels usually don't make ANY money, and it is the audience that dictates when the creator should stop. In the end, most SW fans were going to see the PT movies no matter how bad they were, cause we all wanted them to be great, and we all wanted them to fit nicely into a 6 movie saga, so in that respect the money the PT made is irrelevant, compared to what people think of them after it is all said in done.