Filmdoom On George Lucas

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Love him or hate him, you have to admit, the world would be a shittier place without the first three Star Wars movies. I personally don't hate George Lucas, I just think he's an arrogant moron who needs to stop whining about his "vision" and start listening to the fans.

He has licensed his vision up the ass, which has produced so many awesomely cool things that he had zero part in developing, yet he doesn't care that the three Star Wars movies he created recently are almost universally reviled as nigh unwatchable by late-20-to-30-something fans that grew up Star Wars and made him richer than Baby Jesus.

Books (I haven't read any of them, but there's been a million and have a huge following) have expanded George's original vision and made it much more awesome than he could have managed on his own. They've greatly expanded the canon, while staying true to the original movies, and yet not once were midichlorians ever mentioned.

(He apparently had the bright idea about midichlorians in 1977, but never got around to letting anyone else in on it until he made Phantom Menace. Way to go, George. Maybe if you hadn't been so stingy and let one of the thousands of books, comics, toy packages, cartoons, TV specials, breakfast cereals or video games know what the force was supposed to be sometime in the last 32 years, people might not think midichlorians are so fucking stupid.)

All of the first/third person shooter and role-playing Star Wars video games are fun as shit. I still have my copy of Jedi Academy that I load up on my computer and play all the way through once in a while. Same deal with Jedi Outcast and both of the Knights of the Old Republic games on Xbox. Again, wildly popular, billions of fans, still going strong, in fact a MMOPRG based on the Knights of the Old Republic is being made right now and a regular Star Wars MMORPG has been popular for several years and yet George Lucas didn't have fuckall to do with the stories or new characters created for any of that stuff.

I can go on and on, but my point is this: Aside from the new trilogy, the only thing George Lucas has actually written by himself was the first Star Wars. He helped write Jedi, didn't do shit for Empire (which is probably why it continues to be the fan favorite of the trilogy) and he had nothing to do with the vast majority of writing that has made the Star Wars Universe what it is today, and as popular as it is today.

So I find it mind boggling that, after writing one (admittedly amazing) movie, and letting better writers perfect his fucking vision for three decades, he decided he could do it better than anyone else. Even after everyone (who matters) hated the shit out of Phantom Menace, even after hiring the worst child actor ever TO BE DARTH GODDAMN VADER and creating the most hated movie character ever conceived for the most underwhelming, nonsensical, boring (yeah, I fucking said it) Star Wars movie... he decided it was a great idea to write and direct the other two as well. And why? Because if you think those movies suck, you just "don't understand" his "vision". And because he's the most arrogant assclown ever in history ever. Rather than realize he might ruin it for everyone unless he lets comptetent canon-following writers take over, he decides he knows better than everyone else, no matter what anybody else (i.e. Star Wars fans) says.

Thanks for inventing it, Mr. Lucas, but please stop fucking up my Star Wars. It's got nothing to do with you anymore, you crazy old bastard.