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Post #553120

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Johnny Ringo
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29-Nov-2011, 8:43 PM

The people vs George Lucas - I found it to be quite disappointing. Despite good reviews I found it to be quite boring in places, maybe I just don't connect with a lot of these people.

A lot of stuff isn't really explained as well as it could be either. It just feels like a bit of a jumbled mess sometimes - like flicking channels or something.

For a Documentary about GL, they spend very little time with people who personally know the man or worked with him - people with genuine insight.

in the end there are some good points brought up but some of them are dismissed far too quickly and others linger for far too long. 

there were two points that i thought were interesting and both of them show the worst of Star Wars fandom. Not really the angle you want when you're trying to portray the other side as the 'bad guy'.

1 ) Adywan mentions fan reactions to Revisited and receiving death threats [for attempting to undo the horrible changes that the fans hate] and then it just cheerfully cuts away to something else. 

That example of fan attitude could fill out a documentary of its own.

2 ) The hype leading up to TPM and fan excitement. Some fans when asked even refused to except the possibility that it might suck. The closed mindedness of some of them is almost depressing.