'The People Vs. George Lucas' Makes The SXSW!

Wow, and I thought only fanatic fan boys hated George. Guess not!

This from Deadline.com:

"A year ago, when I ran the teaser for The People vs George Lucas, comments flooded in both pro and con about this documentary. And the pic itself intrigues me because it features so many Industry types talking about Lucas in a negative way as they debate his legacy. (Like calling him the "anti-Christ" and "evil genius of marketing"....) Now the film has been selected for the Spotlight Premiere section at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin next month."

Can't wait to see this in it's entirety!

As this depiction of George Lucas is exactly what George Lucas did not want to become, maybe it will push Lucas into actually making a solid decision regarding one of his upcoming projects? The only thing wrong with potential is that it has not been done yet. It seems as though George Lucas has turned into Darth Vader in his old age.

jman1977
2/4/2010
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45 Comments

	GEORGE@ Just get your butt or LUCAS FILM in gear an make that damn TV series we've been waiting 3 or 4 years for lol! [frick] STAR TREK 'cept the new movie! : P LEEE777 - 2/4/2010, 1:13 PM
	What's so bad about george lucas? Shaman - 2/4/2010, 1:13 PM
	lol wierd I think the man has problems. That's for sure, but saying he's the antichrist is kinda silly. This is what happens to somebody who is surrounded by nothing but yesmen for 30 years. He's on some kind of ego trip that shields him from reality. SixSixteen - 2/4/2010, 1:16 PM
	So what? he gave into the whoring out his licence. Big deal I got some [frick]ing awesome childhood toys and movies out of it. My son keeps eyeballing my Millennium falcon, AT -AT, snows peeders etc... When he is a bit older, he too is going to love em. TheJester - 2/4/2010, 1:24 PM
	he is completely out of touch w/ reality. hes actually talked himself into the fact that the original film was meant for kids in order to justify the phantom menace. its really disturbing. deathmetalbrian - 2/4/2010, 1:48 PM
	well... i mean "Jedi" is now officially considered a religion in the UK somewhere. Soooo.... in a sense he's turning people away from God? Pyche - 2/4/2010, 1:49 PM
	He can't be the antichrist, he played a part in Beverly Hills Cop 3 for Christ's sake! Shaman - 2/4/2010, 1:51 PM
	Are you telling me BHC 3 wasn't the work of Satan? lol antz1104 - 2/4/2010, 1:57 PM
	When I watch this trailer, it seems like it is going to be a ploy to call on Lucas to continue on with the series, as well as to act as some sort of a confessional of both positive and negative thoughts about the man. Didn't seem to me that this doc will be all about the haters of Lucas or anything. Speaking of hating on Lucas, Episode 3 seriously kicked some a$$. Loved it. It was reviewed more favorably than Jedi, by the way. People have a strange memory in regards to the OT. They act as though George completely failed with the prequels. If you measure the prequels by the OT, Lucas most certainly did not fail. All the flaws that were present in the Prequels, were present in the OT, except Episodes 1 & 2 have a heck a lot more of those flaws. I can understand being sore about it, but I really think Lucas succeeded at expanding on the Star Wars universe successfully, and for me, was all I ever hoped for in the first place. In review of Episode 3, Roger Ebert wrote, "George Lucas has achieved what few artists do; he has created and populated a world of his own." Lucasberg - 2/4/2010, 1:58 PM
	episodes I and II = epic fail dude. and i've never been a big fan of jedi. could have ended after the rescue of han solo as far as i'm concerned. i'll give you ep. III but to be perfectly honest i like season 2 of clone wars way better. the dynamic between the characters is actually funny instead of, i dunno, terrible at best? deathmetalbrian - 2/4/2010, 2:02 PM
	People are retarded! What's next, The People v.s Peter Jackson? Freaking fanatics! CaptainProg - 2/4/2010, 2:09 PM
	I will fully agree that 1 & 2 are laden with a far greater abundance of flaws than any of the other films. Especially TPM. Hate the cartoon series, completely could care less about it. My point though, was that the punctuation of ROTS did not earn the kind of nerdy passionate disdain I hear from the dork community all the time. Just want credit where credit is due. Be mad at the acting in 1 & 2, and even some of the story or characters, BUT!, Episode 3 deserves its title as Star Wars. Also, even the worst Star Wars film ever made was less manipulative and forced than that stupid, corny and predictable, Avatard, and everybody is treating that like the second coming or something, so go figure Lucasberg - 2/4/2010, 2:20 PM
	@ Lee what did u say about Star Trek! :) Spock - 2/4/2010, 2:26 PM
	i love how so many talk like they know Lucas personally. seriously, you people don't know whats going through the guy's mind. CorndogBurglar - 2/4/2010, 2:38 PM
	I just can't bring myself to care about Star trek, don't know why. I will tell you one thing though, the original films (first 4 or so) were far better than that paint by numbers new one they just released. I know I'm in the minority here but the newest one barely peaked my interest, barely. Why was everybody so excited about it? Lucasberg - 2/4/2010, 2:41 PM
	all of those people are gay ass nerds lol that need to grow up . luffycapri - 2/4/2010, 3:03 PM
	JESTER @ Very cool man! SPOCK @ Oops!! ; D Hey i liked that ENTERPRISE series and the Q & BORG episodes in NEXT GEN, are we cool lol?? ; P LEEE777 - 2/4/2010, 3:39 PM
	Nice try at a save Leee@! But most Trek fans do not like Enterprise cuz it screwed with the timeline too much! At least I feel that way! @Spock, LET'S GET A ROPE!!! LOL DDD - 2/4/2010, 3:53 PM
	Ridiculous, what jealousy can lead to... Inohaku - 2/4/2010, 4:18 PM
	I can't wait for this, also the new Live Action Star Wars TV Series. luv1138 - 2/4/2010, 4:42 PM
	This is very harsh. Too harsh. They are bashing him because they don't like the last three films? These people aren't men, they're kids! airbeyonder18 - 2/4/2010, 4:50 PM
	Personally I'm only a fan of the original episodes. I happen to agree with Lucasberg that Avaturd is really nothing to marvel at, outside of the special effects. But to say episode 3 was good? Really? I waited 20 yrs to see what a bad ass Vader was in his formative yrs only to see him cowardly and in cold blood kill little Jedi children? He was supposed to be the most powerful (besides Master Yoda) and the only other Jedi he fought against and lost was Obi Wan (no, him killing Mace Windu definitely does not count). What about the fact that I waited the entire movie waiting to see him the suit, only to have it be the last 2 mins of the movie. HUGE disappointment!!! McLovin - 2/4/2010, 4:51 PM
	I thought ep 3 was right up there with the originals. The tone it had should of been incorporated by ep 1, with the badass-ery getting better to ep 3. I think Lucas finally went of the merry go round of sanity when he made that HORRIBLE clone wars movie and the following show. Granted, season 2 is good but the only bearable ones from the first were few and far between, usually involving kick ass clones. But to make a new product off the old one and market it to little kids? C'mon. LAME. antz1104 - 2/4/2010, 5:35 PM
	No comment. Really, I can't comment anymore on Star Wars. I'm done with it until Lucas makes some adjustments. Phinehas - 2/4/2010, 6:19 PM
	@Lucasberg Amen. I also feel bad for George Lucas, I mean to me it looked like he was the victim of Having to many yesmen. Like in the 70 min TPM review "Film making is a collaborative process." I feel that he did not have the people behind him to criticize his ideas, and because he really felt like he had to live up to the hype that was put on the prequels, he tried to hard to give a compelling original story with characters you love. I mean it didn't come out that way, but at least i can live my life knowing that Lucas at least tried. Star Trek and Avatar while being decent films, they were just a testament to cool graphics plus mediocre story equals box office gold. Newbe - 2/4/2010, 7:25 PM
	George Lucas has been both a blessing for film, and a pox on it. On one hand, you have a man with vision and the know how to make it happen. Filming (special effects) techniques had to be invented to get what he wanted from in his head down on celluloid, and machinery was invented to record it. He influenced a generation of writers, filmmakers and actors with his original three Star Wars films and they continue to do so to this day. The fact that people hate him so much for Episode I, II, and III is only because they love IV, V and VI so much and feel he didn't deliver the same magic he could have, that he sold out. I kind of feel this way too. I saw Star Wars IV in the theater when it came out in '77 and I was floored. Movies like that simply didn't exist except in one's imagination. A lot of people also resent Lucas for what they know he is capable of, yet for god knows whatever reason, refuses to produce, especially with the advances in filmography and F/X. On the other hand, I personally dislike his refusal to hand the franchise to someone capable of creating something amazing in that universe. I don't know what he's so afraid of, but I would happily pay the $10 admission to watch Heir To The Empire directed by Ridley Scott and starring Daniel Day Lewis as Thrawn. I think his ego is simply forbidding anyone from doing a better job than he can with his own property. I also believe in my heart he stopped making movies to tell good stories and started making movies to sell licenses. He's a billionaire, and the one thing rich people love more than anything, is more money. If he really cared for new stories and amazing adventures, he'd hand it off to someone that loves the franchise and has material to write. I don't think he raped my childhood, but he certainly hasn't done Star Wars a service. I barely consider the last three films a part of Star Wars, they are so far from the originals. Lucas, hand it off already. You're done. gtrman - 2/4/2010, 7:29 PM
	They. Are. MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For crying out loud! Raped my childhood? If you base whether or not your childhood was meaningful upon how much you enjoyed a space movie than I'd say you had no childhood. I really wish that some of these people would go out and live already. Read a book, enjoy nature, hug a loved one, kiss a girl, kiss a boy, WHATEVER! Someday you are going to DIE! Hopefully that day is a long way off and when it comes you will have realized that Star Wars are just silly movies and George Lucas is just a guy. gibbyblaylock - 2/4/2010, 8:20 PM
	Anybody think a Knights of The Old republic movie would be a good idea? just produced by lucas not directed? just putting that out their. KheshireKat - 2/4/2010, 8:48 PM
	EP IV: Unique take on sci-fi. "Wizard of Oz" meets the Samurai tradition, in outer space. Effects all done with real hand-made items. EP V: Just... awesome. EP VI: Badly-directed. Many great moments but half of the actors look like they're playing charicatures of their characters instead of the genuinely playing. And my word... couldn't someone step up and say, "You can see the zippers on these Ewoks!" EP I: Plenty of neat ideas. BAD script. BAD Midichlorians... easy way out for Jedi power level explanation. Nice underwater city. Idiotic Gungans. Better for small children. EP II: Much better CGI than EP I. Better script... but badly-acted. DVD shows that he cut ALL of the scenes that established any real connection between Anakin and Padme. EP III: Better action. Was almost like watching the original movie... until Anakin learns who Palpatine is... at which point the whole thing becomes rushed and cheesy. And if Lucas was even half as good a writer as he is an imagineer he would have found a way to retain the Luke/Leia/Vader surprise. ORIGINAL TRILOGY BETTER. PREQUELS NOT WELL-DEVELOPED BUT MOSTLY TOLERABLE... MORE ENJOYABLE FOR A YOUNG GENERATION OF FANS. Lucas once said Special Effects existed to support a good story. While making the prequels, he said Star Wars are special effects movies, driven by action. That's the difference between the two trilogies. In the first he was trying to create a story. In the second he was making money. sethasa - 2/4/2010, 9:38 PM
	What was wrong with Howard the Duck? Jimdlux - 2/4/2010, 9:46 PM
	"What was wrong with Howard the Duck? " Now, thats funny! DogsOfWar - 2/4/2010, 10:11 PM
	If we're ragging on the Star Wars Prequals here, I have to say the biggest problem was George's editing/direction of the actors. Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ewan MacGregor, etc.- many of the actors in these films were top notch, but they ALL- ALL- come off as cardboard. Once is a fluke, twice is correlation, more than thrice is causation. Either all these good/great actors "happened" to all start being really emotionless- or, more likely, the painful dialogue, George giving them really bad direction, and editing it up so he got only cardboard cuts (which apparently he loves) makes everyone's performances bad. What little good acting there is- mainly in Episode III- is in spite of George's script and direction, not because of it. But to call him the antichrist is ridiculous. Anyone who would be a talking head in a movie like this is massive nerd. Seriously, look at them all- they don't look like people in normal documentaries...:) DannyRand401 - 2/5/2010, 12:58 AM
	DannyRand-- He's of the M. Night school of wooden acting. Betty - 2/5/2010, 2:38 AM
	I blame hayden "mannequin skywalker" christenson, the twat! wards - 2/5/2010, 4:44 AM
	lol @ Wards SixSixteen - 2/5/2010, 6:53 AM
	Mannquin Skywalker!!! BOUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!! antz1104- Touché ;) Shaman - 2/5/2010, 7:01 AM
	lmao @ Luffy..."Bunch of gay ass nerds need to grow up"...right beneath, [frick]ing Naruto vid! Anyway, all the raped my childhood stuff is a bit extreme, but I will never forgive the fat bearded twat for what he did with those prequels. Ep 3 was the best of em, but still full of miserable, piss poor acting and dialog. It speaks volumes that the greatest Star Wars movie made wasn't directed by him. RorMachine - 2/5/2010, 9:56 AM
	Ror- Which one was that? Shaman - 2/5/2010, 1:58 PM
	Empire And Ror just about summed up everything that needed saying. Unless Darth Mulder can step in with an "Old Hog Neck" reference HAHHAHAHAhhAHAHahhahaHahhahaHahhahh BillyBlack - 2/5/2010, 3:56 PM
	Well... I guess he didn't direct Jedi either... I just assumed he meant Empire :) CAUTION! SERIOUS VULGARITY TO FOLLOW They both have very valid points actually. BillyBlack - 2/5/2010, 4:08 PM
	Episode 3 had SOME moments of bad acting/dialogue. But much of it was still good, and some of it was even great. Ian Mcdermand (probably not how you spell his name) as the Emperor, delivered great acting through and through. Ewan as Obi-Wan was solid, and Hayden as Anakin had some decent stuff as well. Also, Yoda came across as, well...Yoda, which is an achievement that ought not be ignored either. Additionally, it should be stated that, the dialogue in the OT was always riddled with bizarre/wierdly-bad conversations and off-beat performances the same as found in 3. My friends and I used to quote and make fun of its cheese dialogue all the time before the prequels existed. The fact that people expected deeper dialogue and characters than was given in 3 tells me that they expected something not Star Wars. I can understand the griping about the first 2 Episodes but, the third? Just seems like they must be blinded by nostalgia to not see clearly that the originals possessed the same flaws. Whats more, these gripes are coming from the same people that praise to heck that formulaic, obvious, manipulative, LAME-O storytelling that is Avatar. Honestly, Avatar brings far less to the table than say, ummm... Titanic did- an admittedly over-rated movie of corniness. Avatar was like, the most predictable movie ever made. How about Watchmen? Zack Snyder sucks! But still, so many want to defend that movie too. The Watchmen movie forces its view, its characters, and its drama on the viewer instead of allowing these elements to breathe and exist on the canvass. Thus the movie does not allow the viewer to observe and experience the movie for themselves. Even the animated motion comic was far more alive than that dead live action Watchmen because; its drama, characters, and story are all told so as to allow the viewer to consider and respond to them as they feel fit. Snyder forces his story, characters and drama with over indulgent slo-mo constantly and bland character development (because in his films, all he seems to care about, are visuals). Essentially, The Watchmen movie is 300 (a feature length trailer, not a movie) with better writing. The better writing only exists because of Moore's writing, not Snyder's directing. After the first third of the movie, the writing is almost entirely suffocated by Snyder's style. My point is that, it seems like people were so mad at Lucas for the huge flaws present in the first 2 prequels so much so that, they were unwilling to see that he really achieved something worthy with 3, something Star Wars. And it just amazes me that so many, accept some real poop as quality all the same. The measuring rod for films then, is peoples expectations, not legitimate analysis of them most of the time. Lucasberg - 2/6/2010, 2:49 AM
	Longest post ever. Lucasberg - 2/6/2010, 2:49 AM
	@Lucasberg I agree with most of what you have said, however i would have to disagree with your view on Watchmen. Now I'm not saying its the greatest movie i have ever seen but i will say that it is a pretty good movie. He stuck to the general source material which is hard especially among some comic book based movies. The movie's style I believe helped create the Watchmen environment. It allowed me to get into the movie. In fact most of the movie was taken almost panel for panel from the graphic novel. I don't want to turn this into a Watchmen conversation but i will just end this with saying if Zack Snyder tried to do anything else different(besides the ending) with watchmen i bet people would be just as angry if not more angry than some of them are now. Newbe - 2/7/2010, 12:13 PM
	@ Newbe I can see your point. I feel I should just point out however, that a movie has to be a lot more than the visuals. Unfortunately, these are all Snyder seems to care about if you ask me. There is some good stuff in the movie where everything (the mood, visuals, music, characters/actors, story, dialogue, etc) all works together well. The comedian and Manhattan were well presented, I will give him that. Everything else though, just felt too heavy handed. It almost felt like Zack Snyder walked out onto the camera himself and said like, "Here is Rorshach, hes my favorite, you're supposed to like him. And here is Hot chick and Owl guy. I don't really care about them though, they're boring.... unless they're like having sex or punching things. And don't forget about Ozymandias-whatever. Gonna wanna remember him, hes a big one. Thats why hes so mysterious" In other words, a lot of things felt so friggin generalized, under-developed and lacking subtlety. The one thing that wasn't generalized was the visuals, which is what makes me mad at Snyder. He should do music videos, not movies. I know he stuck to the material for the most part but that still does not mean he interpreted good art into, well.....good art. Even though Snyder stuck to the general story ideas, he failed to develop the characters that Moore had made us love and remember so well. So then, I guess I should clarify my "Snyder sucks" comment. Well, I don't think his motives fail. Just maybe his abilities. Lucasberg - 2/9/2010, 12:15 AM
	"Avatar was like, the most predictable movie ever made." Seriously Lucasberg? More so than Titanic? Did you not see the iceberg coming? The boat sinking catch you off guard? BillyBlack - 2/16/2010, 4:44 PM

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