Lord of the Rings by George Lucas

Post by **BrianIsSmilingAtYou** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:30 am

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Post by **MithLuin** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:22 pm

Oh, that is great!!

I'm very thankful Lucas didn't do LotR, for the record

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But if he did, we might have seen Aragorn with a lightsaber

This one is also funny, but language warning.

It's just some guy kibbitzing while the movie plays in the background, but he's funnier than most of the people I've watched the movies with

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:59 pm

Gee, they were really putting down George Lucas. At the same time, if you read between the lines a little, it seemed like they were also taking shots at Peter Jackson.

Thanks for sharing, Brian.

Post by **MithLuin** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:04 pm

It's over the top, but those are the standard fan complaints about Lucas - that he does everything by computers, throws out the stuff the fans love, and inserts hated ideas like 9-year-old Anakin and Jar-Jar.

I did not see it as PJ-bashing at all, really...though I guess fans have complained about what he did to the story as well.

Post by **vison** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:19 pm

Loved it.

Thanx.

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:47 am

So it looks like Lucas will have another opportunity to work his magic at making money:

'Star Wars' creator readies 'Clone Wars'

It basically has all the main characters" such as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucas said, but the stars who played them in the movies won't voice them for the TV show.

"There's nobody famous," Lucas told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:59 am

Yeah, those actor types are all interchangeable anyway.

Or I suppose in time they'll be able to simply synthesize the desired voice, and paste it on top of another actor providing intonation and emphasis.

This is something I think PJ got absolutely right—he put his actors in real settings insofar as possible, with clothing and weapons and equipment that felt real to the actors—and even more important, they acted together whenever it could possibly be managed.

Lucas cast some very fine actors who gave the flattest performances of their careers, and I think that's owing to the amount of time they spent standing alone in front of a green screen instead of, say, squelching through real mud with their real colleagues.

And I say this as someone whose life was changed by Star Wars and who still loves the story and most or all of most of the films.[/i]

Post by **Rowanberry** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:37 am

Thanks for posting that, Brian!

I'm really grateful that Lucas didn't do the LOTR...

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:45 am

It would have been a much different movie.

Can you imagine the Mearas as a speeder bikes??

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:53 am

I did not see it as PJ-bashing at all, really...though I guess fans have complained about what he did to the story as well.

Mith you spent how many years on TORC? You fans have complained?

Post by **MithLuin** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:25 pm

Hey, I knew that was an understatement

. I was one of the fans who complained, after all

. But this was clearly a spoof of the documentaries that came with the DVD release of the original trilogy, so...I figured it was safe to say it was Lucas-bashing.