George Lucas' opinion of TFA

[Jake]

was decidedly negative.

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Some real gems in the first few lines. Even the very first one.

George Lucas has criticized the latest installment of “Star Wars,” the series he created, in an interview with Charlie Rose, describing the film as too “retro” for his taste and jokingly comparing the Walt Disney Company , which bought the rights to the franchise in 2012, to “white slavers” who had bought his children.

But he was harsh in criticizing the film industry for focusing on profit over storytelling.

 

[Eccles]

I'm getting the feeling he's lost his brain child a long time ago. It ran away.

 

[Fen Vel]

They knew what sold, he did not. They knew how to make an interesting movie as an experience rather than a series of ideas that while interesting, did not form a good narrative. Given how he acts about even his own work, nothing they could ever have done would have been good enough.

His greatest ally has always been limitation by external factors, without that, he just thinks too big.

 

[Galavant]

But he was harsh in criticizing the film industry for focusing on profit over storytelling.

Oh really.

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

What kind of corporate sellout and marketing spin man would make decisions in a film based on profit? Now if you'll excuse, I'm going to shoehorn Boba Fett and his dad and his ship in my prequel trilogy and cast Samuel Jackson as an emotionless and dull as bread jedi, as any true piece of art would have the integrity to do.

 

[Marcus]

And I'm going to give Jackson a purple lightsaber because he asked if purple existed, not because it was a plot point planned beforehand. And I'm going to add Jar Jar because he has a point to the story and is not a token for 8 year olds. These are artistic and story telling choices!

 

[Phil]

Both want profits, but Disney is smart about it while George is not.

Georgie Boy created a beautiful thing and he is an excellent story maker, but he needed someone else to tell said stories he made. But he should have known he probably wouldn't be needed once he handed the rights to Disney. It baffles me because it seems he can't see that people enjoyed this more then his last three Star Wars films.

 

[The Derp of Hooves]

Silly people will always be silly... 'nuff said

 

[Loco]

And now for an opinion from the man who brought you Jar Jar Binks...

 

[Brandon Rhea]

He apologized for one of his remarks (the horrendous "white slavers" comment) and said that he said all of this before he saw the movie. He said he liked the movie and was proud of what JJ and Kennedy had done. Whether that's true, who knows, but he backpedalled big time.

 

[Jake]

Somebody with a little more common sense probably reminded him that it was a terrible idea (press-wise) for him to publicly criticize the newest addition to his own saga. Not to mention that the white slavers comment was as heinous as it was... incredibly ridiculous.

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

Somebody with a little more common sense probably reminded him that it was a terrible idea (press-wise) for him to publicly criticize the newest addition to his own saga. Not to mention that the white slavers comment was as heinous as it was... incredibly ridiculous.

You'd think the man who made Gungans, and who had to endure more then a decade of criticism over them and their culture, would know that invoking anything of the civil war period in a statement probably wasn't the best idea.

 

[Braden]

He had wrote stories for like another six films and as soon as Disney brought it they through them all out of the window and started again. So i think he is just a little bit bitter.

Though as @Brandon Rhea said he has retracted most of his statement.

 

[Mr.BossMan]

So that's what George Lucas looks like.

 

[Tsunami]

And I'm going to give Jackson a purple lightsaber because he asked if purple existed, not because it was a plot point planned beforehand. And I'm going to add Jar Jar because he has a point to the story and is not a token for 8 year olds. These are artistic and story telling choices!

Jar Jar is the Sith Lord.

 

[Thump]

I'm with him on this one. Did I enjoy the movie? Not really. It was basically a remake of episode IV. But without the character development and with a lot more ohhh ahhh an emo badguy and some humor. Will I watch the next one? Yup. On Dvd.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Episode I was also a remake of Episode IV.

And Episode II was a remake of Episode V in a lot of ways.

Episode VII had a TON of character development as well as the introduction of one of the best Star Wars character in years (Rey), so the idea that it lacked in character development is pretty silly.

 

[Phil]

No character development? There was quite a bit.

We watched Rey go from a scavanger just surviving to taking down an unstable dark side user in Lightsaber combat with no formal training in Lightsabers or The Force.

We also see Finn go from FN-2187 turn into a Hero he really was all along.

Han Solo also had some good development with both Rey and Finn, as well as Chewbacca and Leia, before and after his death. This was as much his and Chewie's movie as it was Rey and Finn's. And don't even get me started on that "Kylo is an emo" thing...

 

[Brandon Rhea]

"Why won't anyone notice me? WHAAAAA! Why won't people realize how awesome I am? WHAAAAA! Why are these people trying to take away my power? WHAAAAA!"

That's not emo. That's a dudebro on the internet who thinks he's entitled to be awesome. He's every angry douchey teenaged kid who thinks the world is against him and he's owed everything. Only he's 30, and a real piece of shit.

I find that compelling as a character. I especially hope he had a perfectly lovely childhood and that Han and Leia were great parents. Kylo is more interesting to me as petty evil, rather than scorned evil.

 

[Thump]

No character development? There was quite a bit.

We watched Rey go from a scavanger just surviving to taking down an unstable dark side user in Lightsaber combat with no formal training in Lightsabers or The Force.

We also see Finn go from FN-2187 turn into a Hero he really was all along.

Han Solo also had some good development with both Rey and Finn, as well as Chewbacca and Leia, before and after his death. This was as much his and Chewie's movie as it was Rey and Finn's. And don't even get me started on that "Kylo is an emo" thing...

Character development requires a bit more than this happens that happens and now we're here. That's what happens with Rey. There was no real connection with why she was changing what was changing her. Yeah. We can tell from the bit of backstory we got that she wanted more from her life. But even accounting for the influence of the force, there was nothing really to take her from wanting nothing to do with the lightsaber to proposed badass. Take Han's development from IV in through V. Note the difference.

I get why they had Ben's character the way he is. I just didn't like it.

And don't get me started on the lightsaber. No it didn't call to anyone. Dude went through like forty of em in I II and III. And Luke had it handed to him. Then there's the Hollywood "just go with it" on how it was there waiting on her.