SilverWook said:
I've associated Lucas with Star Wars ever since I saw the making of doc on tv back in the day.
eiyosus said:
Lucas was always associated with Star Wars (at least from the early 80's). Even as a little kid I knew who he was.
Okay I was wrong. *shrug* It was anecdotal anyway. At that time I just didn't care that much about reading the credits of movies (curiously I've always read the credits of tv shows... odd.). My friends at that time also didn't care that much for reading the credits either. We just liked the movie. . .
Anyway some of my initial point still stands. His constant assertions of "I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it." Yet at the same saying stuff like "Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie." Of course saying those two things are going to keep him remembered. It's contradictory and controversial. I mean if it is "just a movie" as he says, allowing alternate high quality versions to exist simultaneously should be no problem...
I don't know maybe I'm wrong again... I don't care I just needed to vent a little. Reading these interviews just gets me annoyed at the guy who's literally a billionaire, weight gain aside seems to be healthy, and has plenty of die-hard fans. He decides to use interviews to deliberately piss off a portion of his fan base that is mainly telling him about a product we want to buy from him. Oh wait I forgot, it so hard for him because people on the internet are "yelling" at him. Ah geeze, how could I have made such a horrible miscalculation of misfortune that George Lucas is in? Wow you know George, I'll make a deal with you. If you read this you give me 200 million dollars and I'll be your internet defender!!! How about it???
Seriously though I don't know why I even bother reading more interviews with George Lucas. Might be scant hope of the OT being released restored and everything... I don't know seems like a fantasy at this point. It's almost as though you need to deconstruct the english language to make a scientific study of which words are most agreeable to the George Lucas guy. Then fashion them into a pattern where he will finally agree to release the Original Original Trilogy restored. I doubt such a combination exists though...
