Defamer
George Lucas is still traumatized by the sullen faces of Star Wars fans who filed out of the first preview screenings of The Phantom Menace, and, spotting its jittery director standing by the exit, spit, "You ruined Christmas, my childhood, and Life Day!" before whipping their crumpled comments cards at his head. So it's not terribly surprising to learn that the producer of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is taking a far more tempered, "Hey, Indy fans: Let's just try to remember this is just a movie...and the originals weren't even that great to begin with!"-approach to his latest revisiting of a devoutly worshiped franchise:
"When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming," Lucas says.
"And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up." [...]"When people approach the new ('Indiana Jones'), much like they did with 'Phantom Menace,' they have a tendency to be a little harder on it," he says. "You're not going to get a lot of accolades doing a movie like this. All you can do is lose." [...]
Lucas says that doesn't hold much sway for him, Spielberg and Harrison Ford.
"We came back to do ('Indy') because we wanted to have fun," he says. "It's not going to make much money for us in the end. We all have some money. ... It would make a lot of money if you weren't rich. But we're not doing it for the money."
True, when you're worth $3 billion, another $50 million give or take is hardly going to make or break you. That fanboy-fuck-you-fortune allows Lucas and his collaborators the luxury of perhaps getting a tiny bit experimental with supposdly sacred texts; it's only once you let go of preconceived notions like "justifiable sequels" and "good movies," and allow yourself to truly respond to your creative instinct to, say, add a patois-spouting duck-ape or Mexican Rerun into the mix, that cinematic alchemy can truly occur.
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I don't care whether the new Indy movie blows or now, I say string the fuck up by his absurdly swollen jowls and be done with it.
Jar Jar Binks, indeed. Death is too good for him.
Someone needs to drain George's neck before it swallows his body whole.
No, George. Both of those original trilogies were watchable as well as enjoyable. Your Star Wars prequels were neither.
You mean there are people who didn't tone down their enthusiasm for a film that shouldn't have been made even five years ago when they first discussed it? Or when Spielberg and Lucas fought over the script, the amount of CGI, and the last donut at the craft services table?
life day...i love you, seth.
sadly, emperor palpalucas doesn't see anything wrong with the the 'first' three. like nothing. and most of the minions on the ranch agree. i guess the kool aid at the cafeteria is quite strong.
Yousa tinkin yousa people gonna be disappointed?
How wude.
Fortunately for you, George, your buddy Steven was on board this time -- and he only fucks up the last 5 minutes of his movies, instead of the first 95 like you do.
It sounds like someone still can't see his own contributions to the debacle that was the Star Wars prequels. Be a little more defensive, George!
That said, I've been skeptical about the fourth Indy movie from the time they said they had a script, and I'm still not convinced it's a good idea. There are some moments in the preview that look like they might be good, and it does look like Harrison Ford has regained some level of motion in his facial muscles. But still, I've got a bad feeling about this.
Since Lucas is trying to downplay the excitement level of the new Indy movie and they don't really need the money, why not doing something revolutionary and NOT charge any money to see it?
That way people will walk in and out and not feel like they got taken, except perhaps for the price of the popcorn, soda and other junk they buy at the stand.
@el smrtmnky: He gave them the blue milk.
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