Lucas rips Whedon?

POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Friday, February 10, 2006 13:13
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RKLENSETH

Sunday, February 5, 2006 3:53 AM

According to posts I've been reading at IMdB, George Lucas ripped on Serenity and Firefly and Whedon calling them bargain bin trash. The posters provide no link but said it was in an interview featured on www.supershadow.com.

Does anyone know if this is true? Has anyone actually seen this article or interview?

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SMOOF

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:05 AM

Jar-Jar Binks?

SNAP

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:08 AM

Dear Mr. Lucas, I love all your movies. I was wondering if you have ever seen the movie Serenity written and directed by Joss Whedon? Many critics compare it to the Star Wars Prequels and how much better it is. "It is the best sci-fi movie I've seen since The Empire Strikes Back." I was wondering how you felt about the movie, did you like it?

George Lucas: The best way to judge how could science fiction films are is to examine their box-office earnings. Serenity took in a weak $ 25 million dollars in North America. Revenge of the Sith crushed this figure with earnings toppling over $ 380 million dollars. Hence, Star Wars is fifteen times more popular that the hack work produced by Whedon.

All of Whedon’s TV shows can be found in the bargain basement bin for DVD’s. Buffy - The Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Angel can be bought for $ 10 bucks for the entire season run. Anti-popular is the way I describe it. All and all, Serenity is just another piece of crap in the wall. That will surely drive you insane.

umm... asshole.

SNAP

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:08 AM

Found here BTW:

http://www.supershadows.com/george_lucas/interview/15.html

RKLENSETH

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:15 AM

Thanks.

Wow, that is pretty harsh especially coming from the man who wrote Episodes 1 through 3.

Is this interview actually credible? It looks made up to me. Like someone was writing it from pure fiction rather than an actual interview. I don't want to brand someone with something they didn't even said.

But if Lucas did say this well then...We'll have to do something about that.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SMOOF

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:17 AM

Honestly, I USED to enjoy the first three SW. But I've really had a distaste for it since all of the marketing hype and whatnot. It's become a huge name that's slapped around (Burger King) to make millions.

After reading that, I knew I already hated Lucas, but now I hate him even more. Lucas wouldn't know good writing, character development and intelligent dialog if it slapped him in the face.

George Lucas

I will no longer be purchasing anything with your name attached to it--you're dead to me, please burn in hell, now and forever more.

Find my words harsh? What can I say? I'm a prick, espessially when someone insults something I hold dear and they compair it to the drivel that they enjoy.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by rklenseth:
According to posts I've been reading at IMdB, George Lucas ripped on Serenity and Firefly and Whedon calling them bargain bin trash.

If that is true are we supposed to look on that as a good thing or a bad thing?

Serenity was hailed as what the Star Wars trilogy was and Episodes I-III weren't. (Obviously this is on a level deeper than such superficial things as aliens.) And along those lines the original Trilogy, when compared to modern day movies, is bargain bin trash.

What destroyed the prequels, in my opinion, was that they tried so hard to be flashy, they lost everything, when they went for impressive effects over characters. But the characters were all that ever mattered, when you grabbed a cast of unknowns and gave them a good story it was greatness, but that was a long time ago, Lucas lost touch with that.

Give me the bargain bin trash I say, at least it's real, it doesn't have enough of a budget not to be.

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If Lucas didn't really say it ignore this.

CALONRIEL

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:18 AM

I think this particular part of the interview absolutely HAS to be a hack or crack job. In other words, it looks to me as though that particular answer may have been hacked by someone. It just doesn't match the tone of all the other answers he gave.

Especially the typos ( " . . . The best way to judge how COULD science fiction films are . . . " )?

I really don't see how there's any way that Lucas actually said these words.

CALONRIEL

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:21 AM

Actually, on second thought, I think the ENTIRE interview is fake. I think it's someone's attempt at uber-sarcasm as a form of humor.

I'll take Serenity any day over Star Wars and I can't stand those three prequels, but to be fair -- there's no way that's Lucas speaking.

SNAP

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:27 AM

Looks fake

check out:

http://www.petitiononline.com/5551313/petition.htm

google reveals even more

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