I enjoyed the editing movie too, but don't think that's reason enough to say he's lucky to be successful at all. He's definitely no Tolkien, but Tolkien is no Lucas either. I doubt that Tolkien would have been able to write and film a successful sci fi trilogy in the late 70s.

Lucas was also never trying to be a Tolkien anyways. Star Wars is a very simple story, the thing that Lucas did was change the popular tropes to a sci fi setting and then execute the special effects. It's a very simple formula but he did it first. Sometimes you don't need to be the absolute best at something, you just need to be really at the two right things like Lucas was.

He followed the same concept again with Indiana Jones. Once again there's no amazing writing there, it's practically the same story each movie. This also doesn't even touch his special effects success.


Not defending the prequels or anything, but he's due a lot of credit for coming up with the idea to begin with and then executing it; even if there was a lot of help from others.

I'm assuming Midichlorians are not fundamental and they're made up of Whills the same way protons are made up of quarks.

I actually think the Darth JarJar thing was legit but the character was pulled off so terribly that Lucas realized there was no way he could make JarJar a major antagonist, which led to the 2nd movie being a giant waste of time where nothing happened

Lucas fame is more about what he did for special effects in movies than his story telling. ILM made a huge impact on movies.

THX did the sound for just about everything for over a decade, to boot.

Yeah, I guess you guys are right.

ILM and THX are probably his most important achievements/legacies.

Wife dragged me to solo and I participated in the next installment of a forgettable swu fan service

Future ‘A Star Wars Story’ Spinoffs on Hold at Lucasfilm

Seems a little knee-jerk, considering that R1 was well received and performed solidly.
Maybe they're gunshy about revisiting old characters now? It's a shame, because I would have enjoyed seeing MacGregor in an Obi-Wan spinoff.

Are they gonna put episodes X-XII on hold if IX sucks?

I agree, but otoh what story is there to tell? No one needs to see him beat Maul again.

Lucasfilm is so, so terrible at this movie business stuff. They've botched things so badly, including this move. Kennedy needs to be put out to pasture, and they need to put Feige's protege or someone like that in charge.

Lol. You really don't think there are any other Obi Wan stories to tell?

Get the director of Logan to remake High Noon on Tatooine

I'd be interested in them exploring the romantic angle been Obi-Wan and Jar Jar a little more. There was clearly unexplored chemistry there.

Not that it matters but what does Obiwan do in canon? (I have no idea how to correctly ask that question, but I think everyone will know what I mean.) I always imagined he was just sitting on Tattoine hiding out the whole time. It seems pretty strange for him to be running around doing jedi stuff.

Yeah he just hides out on Tatooine for 17 years, as far as we know. When he hears the name Obi-Wan in ANH he reacts like he hasnt heard it for that whole 17 years. Pretending that he actually had super exciting adventures would be pretty lame imo.

It's no "Lando with a robot", but it's an interesting love story nonetheless.

This. The High Noon idea would be pure fan service, albeit one I'd probably pay to see.

Last Jedi on Netflix. Hate watching it now.

I waited until today to watch The Last Jedi.

Having read this thread, I knew the plot and all the issues people have with the film. As a result, I got the film I expected.

Maybe 6/10?

It's a bit amazing to me that I don't look forward to new Star Wars movies since I was such a huge fan from '77 to '83.


However, I did recently listen to a couple audiobooks which were on YouTube. Tarkin and Kenobi are decent though unspectacular. Tarkin is basically "Tarkin and Darth Vader go on a mission to catch sabateours" and Kenobi is basically "Obi-wan meets some Tatooine locals and deals with stuff in his first couple months after exile".

I think I'll do the Darth Bane trilogy. Everyone seems to have a good opinion of those.

I agree 100%.

Would still watch though.

Rewatching Last Jedi didn't make me like that film any better, but did strangely increase my appreciation for Force Awakens.

It's stunning that nobody with any power in that company didn't see the problem fans would have with Luke's character development and ending and then not Harrison Ford playing Han Solo six months later.

It's not even that these were bad movies in a vacuum. The Last Jedi is a fine movie with different characters. Solo wasn't a bad movie either if kid wasn't playing a character named Han Solo.

Funny thing is, they might have been on the right path where previous actors could reprise roles as Obi-Wan and Boba Fett, age appropriately. Made well enough, these movies would probably be what they expect, but why does each movie have to be about a character individually? Movies about events (like Rogue One), which just happen to include some of these characters would seem more interesting because there's also a lack of drama associated with single character pre-OT stories. We know they're never in any real danger.

Billy Dee Williams Returning as Lando Calrissian in Episode IX

Gonna be great to see the whole gang back together again. Lando and.....oh, never mind.

Disney to Lando:

It really is incredible that the sequel trilogy has been made in a way so that there was no interaction between the old main characters of Luke, Han, and Leia. (except for a brief scene at the end of TLJ which wasn't really Luke)

That bizarre choice is a big part of why old fans don't like the new films.

Came here to post this.

Not only is there barely any new character development, but the old ones we do know and love don’t even talk to each other.

I’m honestly not sure if Disney could have ****ed this up worse.