the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

makes me wonder who will carry on George's legacy of endlessly remaking Star Wars after he's gone

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with our luck the new 3-D Star Wars will have 3-D hookers

this is roxxxy, she will escort you to your seat

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/01/worlds-first-sex-robot.jpg

Whoa -- Lucas is inserting Justice Kennedy into his new 3-D sploogefest?

i meant 3-D jawa hookers

oh that's not creepy at all

if I were Karen O I would be constantly looking over my sholder for that dude

lolz Alfred you are WAY too into the supreme court

with our luck the new 3-D Star Wars will have 3-D hookers?

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/Star%20Wars%20Girls_-40-1.jpg

is that the droid i'm looking for or are you just happy to see me?

“George cannot leave it alone,” said the unnamed source. “He is salivating at the opportunity to play with it again. This time the Death Star is really going to explode all over the audience and leave them gasping.”

still roffling at freudian PR

will this settle the debate once and for all of who shot first

good god that sex doll looks like an old friend of mine. creepy!

"old friend"

hahaha

The sex doll's on the left, latebloomer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jan/28/star-wars-george-lucas-avatar

I don't understand how the success of Avatar is a demonstration of how 1977 Star Wars can be made 3D. They had to invent new cameras and shit for Avatar; is GL planning on reshooting the entire series again or something?

If not, I'm trying to think of how you could make it all 3D. In at least the first 3 films I think you could pull of a 2.5D. Certainly the effects shots would be doable and in most shots you could simply cut out the actors and backgrounds and have them on separate planes. He could even re-create in 3D CGI all the backgrounds in the original series and place the actors over those, also ala 2.5D, but a true 3D experience derived from 2D would be impossible.

Not even with all of Lucas's money.

is GL planning on reshooting the entire series again or something?

don't give him any ideas

in fact, please take away all the ideas he has now and lock them in a box and then set that box on fire and throw the ashes into the ocean

There's talk of 3d Raiders and Titanic too. I don't get how it works, either. I guess you could take the 2d images and then just guess at their 3d shape? Seems like it would end up wonky.

has to be said despite everything, 3-D Raiders = yum!

I would rather him gussy up his old bullshit instead of making new abominations.

But for chronic tinkerer Lucas, old bullshit becomes new abominations.

Sorry to be the one to break this to you, then:

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE60R19C20100128

In short: he's making a 3D CGI musical about fairies

Anyone see the 3D Toy Story re-releases? They're meant to look pretty good although not as good as dedicated 3D.

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Threepio-and-Vader.jpg

this picture makes me sad that there was never actually a direct encounter between the droids and Vader ("you seem familiar to me puny mechanoid..."). i consider this a crime on GL's part.

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

I found that because I got the idea today to try my hand at 3d-izing a Star Wars scene in order to get net notoriety/maybe a job and wanted to see if someone had already done so. I suppose the method was similar to this:

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/creative-cow-magazine-nosferatu-becomes-orlok-the-vampire-in-3d

That sounds like a lot of work! Is there any way to automate it a little?

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/laugh-it-up-fuzzball-lucas-plans-star-wars-comedy-series/

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Mon-Cal stand up: "OK, so these two Niemoidians walk into a bar. The first one says to the barman..."

No Bea Arthur, no credibility.

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to be fair to ewan tho what would you do if you were cast as OBI WAN FUCKING KENOBI and you show up to the set the first day and find out you have to do a scene opposite the kid from jingle all the way and stepin fechit inside a blue room?

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So OTM, and so sad. Would love to see someone get at this in an interview w/ him.

Watching Ewan McGregor in The Men Who Stare at Goats is pretty good--he gets to play the whole movie not knowing what the fuck a jedi is.

for several years i actually haven't been sure if i'd even bothered to see the last of the prequels, until i watched one of the youtubes up there and, yes, i suppose i've seen it. that's the one that ends with the whole frankenstein's monster bit right?

you know, i haven't dwelt upon it because i don't really give a shit about star wars, but these movies are truly terrible on just about every level, aren't they? the hubris of lucas to write these things himself....

actually they are terrible but not, to me anyway, even memorably terrible. i mean aside from that frankenstein's monster bit i can't recall a single thing from any of the prequels except maybe jar jar and the jew alien from the first one.

90 minute review of Episode 2 from the guy who did the 70 minute Phantom Menace review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA

Clones is the only somewhat terrible one.

But then, Star Wars was never that great in the first place.

see, what i like about these reviews is that they point out the prequels were actually demonstrably terrible cinema - in terms of plot and story and acting - in a way that the original star wars movies, whatever you thought of them and their impact on hollywood, never were.

Agreed, altho I was a bit disappointed with the Clones review for getting even MORE bogged down in the "look, the narrator is a creepy serial killer" gimmick.

absolutely - fast forwarded thru those bits. in need of a fan edit...

Also how GL took the magic from the first films and tried to recreate it with all the subtly of an assembly line robot. Lousy plot and pacing aside, he manages to take everything magical about Star Wars and explain it, dumb it down, and mass-produce it until it's on the screen every 5 minutes and you no longer care. I like how the recent Clones Wars review goes into ruining light sabers in this way. Also the bit where he's comparing Yoda's Zen Master discussions of the force from "Empire" to all the Jedi basically acting like irrational Michael Bay characters in the new ones is so OTM.

All one needs to do is look at that footage of them making the prequels. Everyone looks miserable and terrified.

"Watching Ewan McGregor in The Men Who Stare at Goats is pretty good"
I can't put my finger on what's wrong with this movie, because how can you go wrong with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges going gonzo? But this movie is somehow just as lifeless as the prequels.

what was wrong is they had a boring narrator who can't master an american accent tell us a goofy story involving charismatic actors rather than let us see it for ourselves. removing ewan wouldn't have necessarily made it more inspired, but it would have at least gotten closer to something worthwhile.

part of why i haven't seen that Ghost Writer is a real "fool me once, shame on you" vibe involving movies where Ewan uncovers the secrets of more entertaining performers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bvuhPyq8Q&feature=player_embedded

not very remarkable...until you realize who's doing the voice over

holy shit is that harrison ford

indeed it is

Kind of a great trailer either way - - - just pitch it as the continuing adventures of your favorite characters. I'd have gone!

i just love how the voiceover seems so typical until you realize it's ford and then the sneering sarcastic tone comes through