Abort, Retry, Fail?
See, here's what bothers me.
There are certain venues where we can't back out of. Or at least, not yet.
I've watched and read a lot of FAQs and critiques and suggestions and freakouts about the Star Wars Prequels.
Some great ones....
Red Letter Media has a 70 minute video review/critique Here, which is really well done, when it doesn't wander grossly off topic.
Death Star PR recently posted an FAQ that tries very hard to be really funny, but doesn't really pull it off....but I can't find it. Their site is not so easy to navigate...
And then I saw this video on Topless Robot... Where a guy gives 12 minute explanation of how Episode 1 might not have been so god awful, with only a handful of changes.
In case you've been living under a rock for a while, most people did not enjoy the Star Wars Prequels. They all completely fail in nearly every single storytelling and movie making concept. For example, who is the protagonist in episode one? And who is the antagonist? And are those two ever in direct or even acceptably indirect conflict? No.
What's my point? Well it's simple. George Lucas could, if he wanted to, hold a press conference tomorrow. He could say that he'd decided to do an entirely new approach to the prequels. To re-do them, from scratch. He'll write new stories, hire writers to work on them, hire a new batch of directors and a brand new cast. He'll stay on as producer and oversee the project. And this new trilogy of films could be called the Alternate Universe prequels. He could throw catch phrases at them, like "Re-imagining", "re-booting" or whatever.
He could do all that. And we'd see them. We'd see them by the thousands. A lot of people would go see them twice. And George Lucas would make a boatload of money.
Everybody wins.
But that won't happen.
Because that would requite one, very simple thing.
It would require admitting that George Lucas made 3 bad movies. That his standing prequels really aren't all that good. That he, personally, isn't a very good director and certainly not good with people and actors.
And that simply won't happen.
Not that it can't. The art world is replete with people admitting that their efforts on a certain project weren't great. Metallica redid their album entitled "Load". Bryan Singer admits that Superman Returns kind of lost it's way. William Inge rewrote his play Picnic because he wasn't really happy with it.
That's it. It's that simple. Someone has to step up and say "Hey, sorry about that. Let me give it another go."
There are certain venues where we can't back out of. Or at least, not yet.
I've watched and read a lot of FAQs and critiques and suggestions and freakouts about the Star Wars Prequels.
Some great ones....
Red Letter Media has a 70 minute video review/critique Here, which is really well done, when it doesn't wander grossly off topic.
Death Star PR recently posted an FAQ that tries very hard to be really funny, but doesn't really pull it off....but I can't find it. Their site is not so easy to navigate...
And then I saw this video on Topless Robot... Where a guy gives 12 minute explanation of how Episode 1 might not have been so god awful, with only a handful of changes.
In case you've been living under a rock for a while, most people did not enjoy the Star Wars Prequels. They all completely fail in nearly every single storytelling and movie making concept. For example, who is the protagonist in episode one? And who is the antagonist? And are those two ever in direct or even acceptably indirect conflict? No.
What's my point? Well it's simple. George Lucas could, if he wanted to, hold a press conference tomorrow. He could say that he'd decided to do an entirely new approach to the prequels. To re-do them, from scratch. He'll write new stories, hire writers to work on them, hire a new batch of directors and a brand new cast. He'll stay on as producer and oversee the project. And this new trilogy of films could be called the Alternate Universe prequels. He could throw catch phrases at them, like "Re-imagining", "re-booting" or whatever.
He could do all that. And we'd see them. We'd see them by the thousands. A lot of people would go see them twice. And George Lucas would make a boatload of money.
Everybody wins.
But that won't happen.
Because that would requite one, very simple thing.
It would require admitting that George Lucas made 3 bad movies. That his standing prequels really aren't all that good. That he, personally, isn't a very good director and certainly not good with people and actors.
And that simply won't happen.
Not that it can't. The art world is replete with people admitting that their efforts on a certain project weren't great. Metallica redid their album entitled "Load". Bryan Singer admits that Superman Returns kind of lost it's way. William Inge rewrote his play Picnic because he wasn't really happy with it.
That's it. It's that simple. Someone has to step up and say "Hey, sorry about that. Let me give it another go."