generalfrevious said:
SilverWook said:
generalfrevious said:
SilverWook said:
Can't you wait until the movie is actually out before unleashing the gloom and doom?
Only ten more weeks to go...
Corporate art does not apply in this case. I don't need to see the film to know it won't be good, because TFA is not an artistic vision, it was designed as a product to make money for a corporation that already has too much money. Even the PT, misguided as it was, could be considered an artistic vision, albeit a terrible one.
Because Lucas never made a buck off of slapping Star Wars on everything in sight.
That's different; ANH wasn't some corporate product to exploit a recently acquired IP. It only became commercial because of a merchandising oversight, and didn't really kick into gear until ROTJ was released (Ewoks, remember them?). I agree, it went off the rails by the time the PT was released, but at least in the movies Lucas was trying to push the limits of CGI technology at the time. Where is Abrams's directorial vision in all this? He is just trying to copy the look of the OT and whitewash the failures of the PT. He can do nothing more than imitate the films of the past in order to exploit our nostalgia and sell more tickets; he is a monster that cares more about profits than art, and is contributing to the death of film as an art form. At least Lucas had some ambition, even though he lost his early talent along the way and became incompetent. In the end, I'd rather take an artistic failure than a good (but not great) blockbuster I won't care about a few months later.
Why can't JJ want to do both? Why can't he want to make money (which just about everyone on the planet wants) and tell a good story that redeems the Star Wars franchise at the same time? Also him being a monster who only cares about profit doesn't add up because he initially neglected to do TFA because he didn't want to be the guy who ruined Star Wars....I just don't get where you're coming from.