Being a fan of the original trilogy of Star Wars films, I was excited to hear that Lucas, creator of our beloved SW universe, was making three prequels to get us to Episode IV. Then the movies were actually released and all my excitement was lost. Moreover, I believe this is the consensus of the entire generation of “original” Star Wars fans. What was George Lucas thinking? Midichlorians. Jar Jar Binks. These were awful ideas. In my opinion, Clones wasn’t too bad, but when I watch it I fast forward through all the scenes with Padme and Anakin. Those scenes are useless and should have been left on the cutting room floor.
Christopher Bahn has a commentary on MSNBC.com today that puts the thoughts of many Star Wars fans in writing. Fire Lucas and actually hire a good writing and directing team in an attempt to save Episode III from film oblivion. Also get rid of Christensen and Portman. Some great quotes from the article:
“Fire Hayden Christensen, whose single emotive capacity is sullen petulance, and whose attempts to put on the magisterial rage that must become Darth Vader’s hallmark instead sound like a tenth-grader whose dad won’t let him borrow the car.”
“While you’re at it get rid of Natalie Portman, who as Queen Amidala has all the regal presence of a mallrat shopping at her local Fashion Bug.”
The first two movies did some stuff oh so right. Pod Racing was very cool (despite the 10-year-old protagonist). Darth Maul. Jango Fett and Obi Wan duking it out. The Jedi doing battle. And to top it off Samuel L. Jackson with a purple light saber. But more was oh so wrong. I really hope Lucas, the creator of our beloved Star Wars Universe, is able to step aside and let some new talent take his vision and perfect it, before Anakin throws a tempter tantrum because Obi Wan won’t let him drive the speeder and destroys the known universe. This is how Bahn suggests that Lucas hand over creative control of his vision:
“It might be difficult to convince Lucas to go along with it, but if necessary Lucas could probably be tricked by telling him that Joseph Campbell is waiting with a documentary crew to massage Lucas’ ego by interviewing him about his wonderful mythic imagination. When Lucas shows up, knock him out, encase him in a block of frozen carbonite and put him out of the way somewhere until the movie is out in theaters.”
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