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Oh, THAT’S Why The Prequels Sucked!: George Lucas Strikes Back
I lol'd. Maybe even rofl'd. I don't know, I forgot what all Internet abbreviations actually mean. Except the ones I make up, like PLBB (Penis-Loving Butt Butter).
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June 1st, 2011 - 21:56
Shocking ending ! made me RTFM lol (enigmatic abbreviation!)
June 2nd, 2011 - 00:03
Wow, that Leia is really close. Really really close. Where are they hiding the time machine in order to get 1980s Carrie Fisher?
June 2nd, 2011 - 01:11
This explains everything!!! Lmao!
June 2nd, 2011 - 16:59
Jar-Jar exploding in a ball of firey hate! I have satisfaction
June 3rd, 2011 - 07:40
Go Georgie go…..and remember: Do or do not. There is no try. Btw: you should have looked for Wedge Antilles on your local Air Force Base….some additional air support might come in handy.
btw: I think I lol’d the hardest at the “Old Boy” and Brett Favre References :D
June 4th, 2011 - 11:20
The Iliad is not as epic as this clip.
The reasons why the prequels pale in comparison to the originals are that the first movies were based on the Akira Kurosawa films and that Lucas was influenced by the works of Joseph Campbell.
Many of Kurosawa’s films were adapted into Western films. “A fisful of dollars” was based on “Yojimbo” and “Star Wars: A New Hope” took many pointers from “Kakushi toride no san akunin(The Hidden Fortress”)
Yet, Kurosawa was heavily influenced by western concepts. In fact, “Yojimbo” was largely based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett titled “Red Harvest”.
Joseph Campbell was the premier mythology scholar of the Twentieth Century. By observing reoccurring tropes within all cultures Campbell synthesized a pan-mythological frame work known as the Monomyth. Lucas borrowed from this concept, drawing upon age old myths and arranging them in a science fiction context. In Exemplia, check this clip and replace Devil and initiate with Luke and Vader:
Thus, without these two factors to aid him in his work Lucas just couldn’t reproduce the legendary quality of the first trilogy.
June 5th, 2011 - 10:09
I too was over-joyed at seeing Oldboy jokes. Also the Shawshank Redemption. It is appropriate that they have George Lucas crawling through a river of shit considering that is what it felt like to watch those prequels.
Personally, I think he just got too full of himself. He forgot that he is good at making movies but terrible at writing scripts. Does the name “Lawrence Kasdan” ring a bell Georgie-boy?