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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 25, 2007, 03:47:35 pm ---Hmm, I'm inclinded to say that you lot who liked doom, it was cos you were a bit younger, but only half of you were. I can't explain the other half.
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OR they could have liked it for exactly the reasons that they gave ... you pretentious little fruitloop ... ::)
* CheffoJeffo runs downstairs to grab ToD from the media cabinet for some fiesty Shortround goodness!
Harry Potter:
--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on June 25, 2007, 12:02:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Harry Potter on June 23, 2007, 06:56:44 pm ---As far as being a writer he IS good.
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Episodes I-III would beg to differ. ;)
He actually wrote the story or treatments of the Indiana Jones Films - which is pretty much the outline of the film and its characters. The screenplays (I.E. Shooting Script) are all credited to other writers. Lucas can definitely come up with good ideas for movies, but most of his dialog just plain stinks.
Regardless, I've got my fingers crossed for one last good adventure with Dr. Jones.
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Eps I-III would have turned out better if they had better directors.
Just look at Eps 4-6.
My favourite has to be Empire *Harry ducks to avoid heavy objects being hurled in his directions and that was before I knew that Lucas didn't direct it.
Ep 4 just seemed way too stale for my liking and Ep6 had the damn Ewoks in it. :angry:
Zero_Hour:
Empire is also my fave of the series.
But it also demonstrates my point. Lucas didn't write the screenplay for Empire. :P
He wrote or co wrote the other 5 screenplays. Also, he didn't direct Jedi.
No director on the face of the earth could have made the dialog between Anakin and Padme palatable. And WTF was up with the Chewbacca cameo? But, I digress...
Arguably, he's directed 3 good films in his career.
THX 1138
American Graffiti
Star Wars
Those were all 30+ years ago.
So perhaps we're both right. :cheers:
koolmoecraig:
Temple of Doom and Gremlins were the movies that prompted the MPAA to come up with the PG-13 rating.
In case you were wondering.
It's pretty crazy to think that Temple of Doom with the level of violence and gore that it had was only rated PG.
shorthair:
Oh, it was the 80s so that was a long time in coming. They may've just used those as leverage.
Empire: I don't know why somoene in their 30s would necessarily disagree there. I mean, Star Wars was great...but Empire was mature, in all respects: the script, the effects, them music (more romantic but still quite chromatic).
Jedi: he didn't direct it but he had some influence. The remastered version has a musical in Jaba's. I saw a quick bit where he was saying he'd always thought that would be cool, but wasn't able to pull it off the first time round. We are all fortunate for that grace.
And, totally, wherever all that dross came from that is the first (though second) trilogy....well....
*I'm fruitay and ah taste goood.....
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