the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

STAR WARS 3-D: THEY FLY @ U FACE

Especially that scene with the shapeshifter assassin and Obi-Wan is hanging onto that flying droid and Anakin is chasing after them. You know that scene is just going to be five minutes of shit and wacky aliens in flying clown cars careering towards you constantly.

I hope we'll be able to smell Watto's burps.

And Jabba's farts!

George Lucas does not exist - he never did. He is manage by a robo-star in manner of #2536. He will soon introduce something for you - THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR

can this be the thread where we just recycle complaints from red letter media? because seriously why did the shape-shifting assassin need to hide its face with a veil.

If the assassin was shape-shifting why didnt it just become Padame and kill itself?

The senate chamber will look pretty dope, tho.

truu dat!

This pretty much sums up the prequels:

http://i.imgur.com/95WpR.gif

By the way, the Red Letter Media guy's Star Trek reviews are hilarious, maybe better than the SW ones (depending on whether or not you're a Trek fan)

Lucas now forced to shill for PC World, just to make a bit of money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjTBHEnj04

(actually it's quite well made, and feels old school Star Wars-y. I like the scene wipes, or whatever they're called. Despite that, it still somehow leaves a bad taste)

That's going to be in the 3D version of ANH. The inside of the Jawa transport is going to look like a branch of PC World.

Totally always wished they had made Star Wars graphic adventures back in the day. Those two based on Indiana Jones were great. The Fate Of Atlantis was 1000x better than the new movie too....

http://www.redlettermedia.com/sith.html

the episode 3 review is finally up... 2 hours long!

but it just flies by!

Yes, it does. Pretty good, but not as good as the ep 2 review. Really like how he pointed out certain things that were spoiled because of the over-reliance on green screen, like Obi-Wan's non-reaction at a four-armed robot unsheathing multiple lightsabers right in front of his face. Also the bit about how unimaginatively the talking scenes were shot.

Yeah I thought that bit was pretty illuminating.

I had a dream last night that Peter Jackson decided to do Lucas-style re-releases of all the LOTR movies that included new footage of new characters, a corsair played by Nic Cage in an eyepatch and an evil witch played by Andie McDowell.

a corsair played by Nic Cage in an eyepatch

I would watch a film about this.

I think that Star Wars III review (review!?) is tremendous - it took me an age to watch but then really made me think. Real insight, comparative analysis and a passion for the original pictures, as well as laughs and some OTT maybe self-publicizing digressions.

i like this series. baby han solol!

but i think the original trilogy films have a lot of shit in them too. i don't like he holds them up as great filmmaking.

"evil witch played by Andie McDowell"

there's this movie with a bond girl who looks just like andie mcdowell playing some flying witch called her majesty's secret elements or something like that.

is there really a baby Han Solo in the prequels? how did that work

its a joke in the video shakey

"even ray charles could see that coming... and he doesn't know anything about Star Wars!"

LOL @ that one!

love when he asks 'is it something that should've been done' about a story element and then answers with the clip of vader screaming NOOOOOO

I think what's great about these is how much it digs past the superficial reasons I thought these movies sucked and really gets into the mechanics of it - - - it's like a master's course in the ways and means of dullness. The discussion of the limitations created by green screen and the incredibly lazy blocking is soooooooooooo OTM.

Totally agree, the amazing thing is they make you realize that the movies are even worse than you had previously thought. It illuminates The sheer totality of their crapness

it isn't specifically a focal point of the video, but it reminded me of how drama-free a giant war between soulless, faceless clones and robots is. Couldn't they have made one side humans? Couldn't they have made the robots fearsome?

Yeah really, the sheer lameness of what "the clone wars" turned out to be is a big problem, the EPIC BACKDROP for the character story is totally devoid of any interest whatsoever.

Dude who does RedLetterMedia really should get his own TV show. In the vein of MST3K, maybe.

is this one as rapey as the others? there isn't really anything for me to do at work but you know if it is p rapey i won't get away with watching it.

no

the key is he's not just a star wars fanboy whose childhood has been crushed by lucas's foibles - he also understands script and story, and how they work, and that lucas's skills in these areas have painfully eroded between trilogies.

The funny thing is that after the first two prequels, which were total shit, the third one at the time seemed tolerable. But this epic takedown reveals just how wrong I was.

and that lucas's skills in these areas have painfully eroded between trilogies.

Lucas' script and story skills really not so prevalent in the first trilogy, tbh

the first star wars tells a pretty compelling story

yeah and Lucas didn't write the other two (at least, not by himself)

this is super interesting but i think the guy is just cacked out by now. there is only so many ways to say that lucas sucks at story telling, his cgi, fight scenes and lack of acting (not the same as bad acting), stilted dialogue, bad plot points etc.

If you read the first Star Wars draft, it's dreadful, totally lacking in charm, structure, characters, emotion, plausibility. The second draft is not much better, or the third... and then somehow he nails it. So I don't think his skills have painfully eroded, I think he just got lucky once (and had enough momentum or enough of the rest of the story already crafted to carry the sequels).

gary kurtz tends to get a lot of credit for reigning in lucas' worst impulses on the first two movies

if only general kurtz had as much influence on post-first two movies on lucas.

the quotes from Lucas' drafts of the Star Wars script in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls are HILARIOUS

Especially to Australians. "The Bogan! The Bogan!"

The Obi-Wan riding the giant lizard moment is what tipped me off.

Also, I love how he builds up all this evidence that Lucas basically wrote this shit in a weekend and didn't bother to even re-watch the original trilogy. It's really so haphazard the way he tries to connect everything. Anakin needlessly going back to save that one clone to prove he's a good guy. Obi-Wan constantly referring to these other fun and exciting offscreen adventures they have together where they save each others lives. Then how they put young Anakin in at the end of ROTJ and now Luke somehow knows how Anakin looked when he was 25 rather than the man he actually saw.

all those repeated clips of lucas at the ranch with all the sycophants clapping and smiling whenever he said anything were super creepy and really illuminating.

Also, yeah, lots of sitting on couches in those prequels.

i wonder who would win the super creepy sycophant ranch contest between george lucas and david lynch.