"The People Vs. George Lucas" documentary... — Page 10

I just finished watching this documentary. Although I'm personally tired of all that's been done to Star Wars over the years, I enjoyed it overall and shared the feelings of many of the interviewees. Unlike the "battered wife" analogy, however, I've walked out the door and left for good.

I don't know that I'm as forgiving in the end as the doco suggests fans should be. It'd be nice to one day have quality Original Trilogy movies and then I'd be having my own ROTJ-like Ewok celebration. But that day is not now or soon.

Back to the doco... I'm not sure why there was so much time spent on the Raiders of the Lost Ark fan remake. The section dealt with fan films, but the Raiders bit seemed out of place. This is about Star Wars.

I also agree with the comment here about the DVD "bonus" discs getting such a brief mention, as it's one of the most FFFUUU! moments from Lucasfilm to original fans in recent times. Including the Holiday Special kind of makes up for that though ;)

I would have liked to have heard a bit more from Gary Kurtz too.

I give this documentary a B.

Yeah, the only part of the documentary I totally disagreed with was the ending. "We love you George, we still love you. blah blah blah"

George can eat a bag of dicks at this point.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

avoidz said:

Back to the doco... I'm not sure why there was so much time spent on the Raiders of the Lost Ark fan remake. The section dealt with fan films, but the Raiders bit seemed out of place. This is about Star Wars.

I thought it was about George Lucas... wasn't it?

Yes, but it felt to me like the Raiders part went on a bit too long.

Harmy said:

I don't know, I just watched it the other day and while I liked some parts, I have a feeling that it doesn't help our cause at all, because I think that to an outsider, it really makes us look like whiny fanboys.

Because instead of showing someone calmly stating what the problem is and why we're so upset about it, it shows a bunch of nerds ranting very loudly about Han shooting first.

Totally agree. Overall I thought it sucked, and looked like so many campy docos out there, you see on late night TV on topics few people care about.

There was about 10 mins of footage all up I thought was quite good.  I realise a lot of the approach was so that it would be entertaining and not boring, but sadly in the end it makes the entire idea of what we're trying to say a complete joke, and not a serious discussion point.

I still can't believe the PT morons defending those horrible movies in the documentary. It just defies all logic and sense. They must be so desperate to like any new Star Wars.

Seeing the short clip of George with his new box of pencils and sitting down to think of ideas makes me sad.

At the risk of coming out of this with a the impression of a brown nose, Jay's contribution while short summed up my feelings on the SEs the most.

It was however frustrating to see Ady's efforts represented by a shot of a few less rodents than the 2004SE.

It made out that his words translated into actions of minor significance.

I also like Neil Gaiman's take (I'd have no problem with George doing whatever he liked as long as the films I already liked were available for me to pay to see).

Long story short Lucas's insistence on repressing the original versions of the films created the majority of the problems with his fan base.

The PT and Indy 4 wouldn't have created as much of an fowl stench if the gummy old farts like me could watch a nice clean copy of the versions we originally saw without bending the law.

It's the cascade of dick moves that has put George in this position, not just one or two 'less than best' creative decisions. 

Bingowings said:

Long story short

OK - one of things that annoyed the f***ing hell out me was that the makers of this documentary put a fake “Pieta” in the background when they were interviewing one guy (who spoke multiple times). In case you don’t know, the Pieta is a famous statue (made by Michelangelo) of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus’ dead body after it was crucified. The f***kers who made this documentary had a little miniature Pieta in the background. The head of Mary was cut off, and was replaced by a yellow ball with a happy face. WTF was that? Are they purposely trying to insult my religion for no reason? This documentary is about Star Wars. Why would they add something so offensive for no reason?

As for the documentary itself - I agreed with everything said about the new Trilogy and the remakes. Let's face it - the greatness of the original was a fluke. Lucas had nothing to do with it. Harrison Ford and his great acting/improvising had more to do it with it then Lucas did.  

I watched this quite recently, it was quite enjoyable although I thought the most interesting interviews (i.e. Kurtz and Prowse) weren't long enough and the least interesting ones (some dude dressed as Boba Fett? wut?) had way too much screen time.

Also it was cool to get the perspective from Indy fans, as most publications tend to focus entirely on George's relationship with Star Wars fans and neglect Indy fans completely. I'm sure the inevitable RLM review of Crystal Skull will fix that, though.

Judge said:

I thought the most interesting interviews (i.e. Kurtz and Prowse) weren't long enough and the least interesting ones (some dude dressed as Boba Fett? wut?) had way too much screen time.