We are so screwed.

[kellinator]

George Lucas is describing Revenge of the Sith as "Titanic in space."

I already want my nine bucks back, and I haven't even spent it yet.

(using this icon because Peter Jackson pwns George Lucas)

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

"Titanic in Space." Wow. That is an ODD boast.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I guess he means that he's going for the tragically doomed love triangle bit. Only with the woman dead this time. As if WE ALL DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THAT, GEORGE.

Gee, I wonder if that Anakin boy's gonna make it out okay? Take bets?

*thwaps Lucas*
*thwaps self in advance for seeing the movie, as I am a sheep*

[shes-not-there.livejournal.com]

*thwaps self in advance for seeing the movie, as I am a sheep*

*trailer comes on right before Robots*

Me: *cussing a blue streak* rassafrasa muthafuka Lucas...

*after the trailer*

Me: *cussing harder*

Friend: Why are you so upset?

Me: I'm getting sodomised by a franchise!

[penguinicity.livejournal.com]

Oh c'mon. You know you're dying to hear R2-D2 squeak "I'm flying! I'm flying!" as C-3PO holds him up on the nose of an imperial destroyer.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I think I'm all set to not see this one. Which is a hell of an accomplishment for Lucas. He managed to take me from, well, I was 8 when star wars came out, to I don't intend to give him any more money. I convinced the planetarium director in my college to host a very long star wars marathon in the planetarium with stagazing between films, back when I was in college. Now I won't go see the next one. He had his chance with episode 2. The only redeeming feature of that movie was Natalie Portman looking hot.

[lyneidas.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the scenes of her looking hot had s much of the most horribly painful dialogue that even watching her on mute is not an option. I would say Yoda kicking butt was pretty decent, but it's not worth sitting through the rest of the crap to get to that.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

By the time she was looking hot, the blood flowing out of my ears had pretty much muted the dialog past being a concern. Actually, I disliked yoda kicking butt. It looked cool and all, but it didn't fit with yoda.

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!!!!!! It's nice to hear someone else say it for a change.

Argh

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

As a long-time fan who was in the theatre in May of 1977, all I can say is that I just want it to be over.

[lula-fortune.livejournal.com]

See, there's a reason I've only seen Episode 1 (of the new ones- the old ones RULE, of course). I've managed to avoid seeing Episode 2 completely because I fear it may kill me.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

As annoyed by Lucas as I am... the article writer infuriated me..

Everyone who has seen the original "Star Wars" knows Mace is right. That film opens in a dark, oppressive age a couple of decades after the action of "Revenge of the Sith"...

um... Luke is like 17/18... so it's UNDER 20 years... that's not a couple decades the dumb jerk.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

I get bored by the silliest things!

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

BOTHERED... damn it. :)

[lyneidas.livejournal.com]

I want my money back for episodes 1 and 2, plus I want him to pay for me to get counseling for him reminding me of Jar Jar every time I see one of the marketing things. I swear, he must have that smarmy icon of all racial stereotypes on subliminal or something.

[bossieboots.livejournal.com]

Near...


Far...


WhereEVER you are...

[canciona.livejournal.com]

Titanic in space, hmm? So...just as overrated and annoying, but without all the Oscars?

because Peter Jackson pwns George Lucas

You took the words right outta my mouth.

[pokeyturtle.livejournal.com]

i'll see it anyway 'cause i'm a masochist.

[raistlinbrown.livejournal.com]

*only Star Wars loyalist left in the entire world keeping his mouth shut*

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god. I managed to not see Titanic.

T and I are all "should we see it in the theater?" "Dunno. It'll suck. A lot." "Yeah, but it's Star Wars. Kinda." "Star Wars lite." Either one of us say these things interchangably.

T hates going to the movies. He hates the people and (he says) the sticky floors. Plus it is harder for him to hear in the theater cause he's almost totally deaf in one ear. (Hey, kids, don't spend a concert next to the speaker on stage, mmmkay?) But it is Star Wars. Kinda. If you reallllly stretch it.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Titanic in space, because, like Titanic, you already know what happens in the end. Duh??


= )

[whorlwind.livejournal.com]

Let's see.. titanic.. alot of hopes and dreams rested with it, it cost far too much to make, was a miserable failure due to megalomaniacal egos.
Yeah, that seems about right..
oh wait you meant the movie titanic? no, sorry george, I actually liked that movie.

[harleen.livejournal.com]

I am going to see it only because Hayden looks really hot in the trailer.

yes, I am pathetic.

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

What is this pwning you speak of?

[copycatjsh.livejournal.com]

My biggest wonder here, is how does JarJar die? If he dies when someone shoves a lightsabre up his ass, that'd be worth 9 bux right there!

If not, then well, I'll still end up seeing it anyway, just won't be as pleased.

-jsh

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Eh. The trailer looks hot.

-hx

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Followup: George Lucas could film two hours of him fucking a scale model of the Death Star and it'd STILL be the highest-grossing film of the year.

-HX

[raistlinbrown.livejournal.com]

Spiderman did manage to outgross Attack of the Clones in 2002. The audience apparently learned its lesson from Phantom Menace. Unless it's just an absolutely incredible movie and surprises everyone, I'm predicting that at least one of the following trumps Revenge of the Sith in 2005: Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, or War of the Worlds.

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Eh. BB could tank. People will watch the first hour, which is all Bruce Wayne learning to fight and shit, and be like WHERE THE FUCK IS BATMAN? Harry Potter's a contender. War of the Worlds, Top 10 but not number one.

-HX, I don't think people are quite ready for movies where everything gets destroyed in graphic slow motion again...

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Peter Jackson knows that the three most important aspects of a movie, of any kind, are acting, acting, and ACTING!

I mean, for cryin' out loud! Hayden Christiansen made me shriek with pain every time he opened his mouth, and Lucas kept him for the third movie! Natalie Portman, who is a good actress when she has something to work with, was cast adrift! Even Ewan McGregor, even LIAM FUCKING NEESON, had trouble delivering! Why? Because the directing was for shit, that is why. The director did not, and does not, care about acting or actors at all. Lucas has said on many occasions that if he could, he would make movies without actors. No, Lucas has his hardon for special effects, the flashier the better. What's that? Realism? Fitting with the story? Who cares!

I would say PJ owns Lucas' ass, but I don't think he'd want it.

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Honestly the only possible reason I would see it in the theaters would be because I was dragged along at the spontaneous utterance of "well, we could see Revenge Of The Sith," while we were already there and something else we wanted to see was sold out…for some truly odd reason. Otherwise I'll probably have to sit through it once it comes out on DVD because someone bought it, or when it comes out on the movie channels because it'll just happen to be on while I'm at someone's house.


Other than that, no. *shakes head with as little effort as possible*

Just no.

[teague.livejournal.com]

One night dprescott and I were chatting on Yahoo, and the subject of the latest Star Wars, and LotR came up, and I came up with a theory of a most insidious nature. See...anyone who's looked into what Peter Jackson was doing *befor* LotR knows that the last thing you could call him was A list. I mean...The Frighteners? Oh, my God...Meet the Feebles. And suddenly someone is throwing millions of dollars at him to make this epic movie, with great actors and lush settings. How does the creator of Dead Alive, arguably one of the most horrible horror movies in the world, get *that*? At first we posed that he had truely sold his soul to Satan...But no. Here it is. George Lucas didn't want to finish Star Wars. He *wanted* to create this epic movie that would be greater in most every way from his first Trilogy. Wanted it badly enough that even if he was never known for it, he'd be happy. So he found this basicly no name director with a mediocre experience and offers him the chance of a lifetime. Yes, friends and neighbors, Lucas body switched with Peter Jackson. It's the only explaination that makes any sense. Jackson is creating the new Star Wars episodes, and Lucas is proud that people are saying how great LotR is.

[raistlinbrown.livejournal.com]

I like that theory. :- )

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

How does the creator of Dead Alive, arguably one of the most horrible horror movies in the world,

Are you fucking high?

-hx

[teague.livejournal.com]

No, I'm fucking Brian, my husband.

Come oooon! Come ooon! Dead Alive was hilarious because it was sooo bad. Just like the original Evil Dead movies.

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Then you're BOTH insane. Dead Alive was goddamn wonderful.

-HX

[orfeo517.livejournal.com]

When he says it's like Titanic, does he mean the ship or the movie? Either way, we're screwed.

[captain-bob.livejournal.com]

He means the movie. I expect the ship!

[orfeo517.livejournal.com]

Well said! I've been thoroughly disappointed by Lucas since 1983, and I'm thinking that Episode 3 will be the arsenic-laden topping on the badly-made cake. I remember hearing about Irvin Kershner (the director of The Empire Strikes Back) complaining about Episode 1. He wasn't too happy with it, from what I understand. He said Lucas should have called him. I agree.

[orfeo517.livejournal.com]

Well said! I've been thoroughly disappointed by Lucas since 1983, and I'm thinking that Episode 3 will be the arsenic-laden topping on the badly-made cake. I remember hearing about Irvin Kershner (the director of The Empire Strikes Back) complaining about Episode 1. He wasn't too happy with it, from what I understand. He said Lucas should have called him. I agree.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

And my childhood slowly crumbles away...