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skyjedi2005 said:

If you have seen Hayden's screen test he is better there than he was in the movies, which says to me that George Lucas cannot direct actors and Hayden is not the best talent out there.

The casting was as far as i know Anakin in episode 1: Jake Lloyd gave the best screen test

I think that screen tests are not the final word. There are many film starred by actor who were not the first option for their roles, even changed them after start filming. So casting directors... no relevance at all.

The thing is... that George Lucas has no actor-directing skills enough. He thinks that his job is directing the film and acting is the actors' job. If they are pro and he tells them what to say and what to do, they will do their best. But that's not the way it works.

Vaderisnothayden said:

Was that the thing in which he says Jar Jar is the key to the whole film?

I think it's in the same documentary. I remember Lucas describing TPM as a "War&Peace" film (lol). The best moment: when Lucas argues "i made More American Graffiti and grossed ten cents".

And one ver interesting moment: just before that, if my memory doesn't fail, Lucas is not convinced with TPM. Rick McCallum argues too exposition on the beggining of the film (!!) Nothing about the things that really sucked. At lest that documentary was true, and very good (the best thing in TPM DVD and PT trilogy DVDs indeed). It's interesting too thar AOTC and overall ROTS had the least amount of extras ever in the trilogy, and everyone seemed unmasked publicity.

Well, there is a point when we benne gesserit cannot reach.

Special Editions lame scenes (Jabba on ANH, jedi rock !!!! on ROTJ...), PT extreme lameness, Young Indy, even Clone Wars animated series... ok. They are genuine shit.

But how can you put Indy IV in the same league?? It's not Raiders, but it's a good film anyway. It seems to me that after having seen so much crap from Lucas, some people need to feel that everything he touches is 100% pure shit.

The question is: Indy IV had different producers, a decent writer and good direction. That's precisely what is needed in any Star Wars future stuff. No Rick McCallum. No Lucas screenplays. Lucas stories are not bad. Every story on PT, with a decent screenwriter developing them would make an A-class film and could even inspire good acting. But in the end, screenplays evolved to shit, and no director can make a decent film with shit scripts.

Anyway, the only thing I needed to know if i would buy with the live action shows is that Rick McCallum is on the boat. If that is true, that boat will sink for sure.

Hi!

I have recently seen these fan edits by Kerr, i don’t know if there is an old fan edit better than this on Lord of The Rings but i think they are awesome. Six films, six books, very few flow problems in my opinion. The last one is Book V, and I’m waiting for VI, but i think all the heavy points are done and very well resolved. Maybe not all of them, only 99%.

It’s a strange experience, some good scenes from theatrical and extended are gone but in the end, it makes a lot more sense in this way and it’s far more faithfull to the writings, even cinematically it’s far better for me.

Does anybody seen this?

I agree 100% with Vaderisnothayden

Never our fault, if TPM (wich was at least had "decent moments" in spirit) or AOTC or ROTS would have been any good, i would love the films, no matter some changes in the universe or the tone of the films. But they are 100%-genuine-crap.

In fact, honest thinking:

"Little Ani" is clearly retarded.

But Anakin from AOTC (that ride on the vegetarian ball-cow) and ROTS ("My Empire!!!!" lol) is far worse. I mean, how would the Council upgrade him? It would have been better (for the films) if they put him in the street, forbidden access to the temple, and that lead him to hating Jedi, etc.

It was very easy to make some decent movies. Not as good as OT, but... even these days, years after PT, it's hard to believe. It took effort to do the things that bad, i agree with that.

Vaderisnothayden said:

When did Rick McCallum join?

Rick McCallum joined Lucasfilm producing The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, wich I see like the first failure, then produced Radioland Murders (!!!) , and after that Star Wars SE and Prequels.

In fact, all the real shit from Lucasfilm xD

Vaderisnothayden said:

Well, in effect Lucas tried to kick the orignals out of the canon by making the SEs to replace them and, seeing as the originals are the definition of Star Wars canon (by being the real Star Wars -canon is ultimately about what's the real thing), that basically had the effect of kicking the SEs and all Lucas's later work out of the canon.

 Even then I still had hopes of Episode 3 turning it around, and I sort of enjoyed that at first (mainly because of Ian McDiarmid) before getting tired of it.  

I never had much hopes for ROTS. After seeing AOTC I knew ROTS was going to be absolute shite and that Lucas had lost the ability to do good star wars. But ROTS suprised me, because it was significantly worse than even I expected. It was so uninvolving that I had trouble staying awake during it.

 

 

It's very clear for me that Lucasfilm entered a downfall path since producer Rick McCallum entered in the company.