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T Tiki-bot Member Joined: Jun 24, 2002 Posts: 1345	T Tiki-bot Posted posted on Mon, May 23, 2005 5:18 PM On 2005-05-23 15:21, BarkerBird wrote: Heck, with the kind of money this film's making, why WOULDN'T you be a Lucas yes-man?!!? Believe me, most of his "yes-men" see never see any of that money. Lucas is notorious for under-paying most employees. One that always shocks me is an old work-mate who moved out of Northern California but was hired back as a freelancer to do storyboards for Ep.1. Lucas really wanted him to do the work, but wouldn't pay his airfare or accomodations while he was there and barely paid over minimum wage. My friend didn't take the "offer". I wouldn't be surprised if he sells ILM. They were priming Lucasarts (games division) to sell it back in the mid 90s, but it never worked out because they couldn't agree on access to the SW & Indy licenses. That company is worth about ten cents without those licenses, and potential buyers knew it. SPOILERS* As for the new movie, it didn't suck as mightily as the last 2, but it still kinda sucked. There were fun little bits here and there, but overall it's a sloppy mess of a movie. Less bad dialog than the last 2, but too many locations that had nothing to do with anything and WAY too many ship landings and take-offs. There had to be, like, a dozen of them or more. Pointless battle on Wookiee planet. The acting actually got a little better this time around, and Vader's personal story arc was actually fairly well laid out and nearly believeable. The space battles were a big confusing, pointless mess, and the light-sabre duels were dull & uninspired. It was "dark" as they promised, I'll give 'em that. Only in a sci-fi fantasy movie could you ever get a PG-13 rating for implying the brutal slaughter of children and showing a man with his limbs cut off rolling & crying in agony as his flesh is burned off! I realize you could nit-pick all kinds of plot, character and techy stuff from all of the movies, but if a movie fails to force your suspension of disbelief (as SW IV & V did, imho), then it has failed. This new one is mildly entertaining in isolated spots, but I never bought into it at all.

On 2005-05-23 15:21, BarkerBird wrote:
Heck, with the kind of money this film's making, why WOULDN'T you be a Lucas yes-man?!!?

Believe me, most of his "yes-men" see never see any of that money. Lucas is notorious for under-paying most employees. One that always shocks me is an old work-mate who moved out of Northern California but was hired back as a freelancer to do storyboards for Ep.1. Lucas really wanted him to do the work, but wouldn't pay his airfare or accomodations while he was there and barely paid over minimum wage. My friend didn't take the "offer".

I wouldn't be surprised if he sells ILM. They were priming Lucasarts (games division) to sell it back in the mid 90s, but it never worked out because they couldn't agree on access to the SW & Indy licenses. That company is worth about ten cents without those licenses, and potential buyers knew it.

SPOILERS*

As for the new movie, it didn't suck as mightily as the last 2, but it still kinda sucked. There were fun little bits here and there, but overall it's a sloppy mess of a movie. Less bad dialog than the last 2, but too many locations that had nothing to do with anything and WAY too many ship landings and take-offs. There had to be, like, a dozen of them or more. Pointless battle on Wookiee planet. The acting actually got a little better this time around, and Vader's personal story arc was actually fairly well laid out and nearly believeable.

The space battles were a big confusing, pointless mess, and the light-sabre duels were dull & uninspired. It was "dark" as they promised, I'll give 'em that. Only in a sci-fi fantasy movie could you ever get a PG-13 rating for implying the brutal slaughter of children and showing a man with his limbs cut off rolling & crying in agony as his flesh is burned off!

I realize you could nit-pick all kinds of plot, character and techy stuff from all of the movies, but if a movie fails to force your suspension of disbelief (as SW IV & V did, imho), then it has failed. This new one is mildly entertaining in isolated spots, but I never bought into it at all.

Post #161018 by Tiki-bot on Mon, May 23, 2005 5:18 PM