Because Star Wars: I Need To License More Characters Was Too Wordy
In keeping with my recent bashing of George Lucas, I thought I’d offer my two-cents on his latest whoring of the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars: Clone Wars. What began as an innocent TV show suddenly became a feature length release.
Why? Well because if there is a remote possibility to monetize it, Lucas will exploit it just as the U.S. Government did to the Native Americans when we evicted them from their ancestral lands in exchange for trinkets & fire water.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars expands the stories first explored during Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series from way back in 2003. The latest trailer was unfurled late last week and there is something off about the look of this movie/series.
With each “expansion” of the Star Wars Universe, George Lucas turns his once venerable franchise into the cinematic version of the Rolling Stones … the longer they stick around the shittier they get.
Star Wars: Clone Wars hits theaters on August 15th, 2008. I won’t see you there.
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I’m totally excited for this because A. I like clones and B. It’s not written by George Lucas. This has a lot of potential to be awesome on the fact that the previous cartoon effort was great. I know it’s not popular to like anything “new” from Star Wars, but damn it I like a lot of the Clone Wars stuff.
Plus it gives me more clone trooper figures to buy.
Paul I didn’t event consider your second point. Perhaps the reason why I do enjoy the original Clone Wars so much is that Lucas did not write them. I’m in the camp that believes that while he may have creative vision, his execution at times has been lackluster.
I expect this’ll be good because Lucas has little to do with it. Other than collecting a check. But his last 3 films were like cartoons. And the cartoons, comics and books are far superior to the movies. All the general public sees is the further “cartoonization” of what were supposed to be a modern take on classic hero types. What a waste.
I hate to comment again on an old post, but re-reading this made me think again that George Lucas is a GREAT producer. The problem lies when he wants to do everything else. If he were to just say, “Hey, I got this idea where blah blah blah” and then fund it and then a director takes over and edits out all the dumb shit, then it might work better.