Comments on: George Lucas Says Studios “Don’t Have Any Imagination And Don’t Have Any Talent”

By: gerard kennelly

gerard kennelly — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

they don\’t have any imagination says the man who re released 3 movies then made another disappointing 3 then added so much CGi the whole thing looks like a cartoon

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

the only way to change the quality of studio films is to have the audience basically not go see their crap. but will enough people do that? no. so as long as people are willing to go see junk in mass droves, we will continue to get junk.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

I dont like the studios but are they really solely to blame? there are millions of people that go see their crap anyway. shouldnt we blame those idiots?

By: In Response to JD

In Response to JD — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Sure you can, "One from The Heart" and "Heaven\’s Gate"

By: hank

hank — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Lucas didn\’t make "millions upon millions thanks to the support of Hollywood studios" … seriously. Do some research before you write an article. The only studio movie Lucas ever made that made serious money was the first Star Wars. Every Star Wars film he made after, starting with The Empire Strikes Back was an independent production, completely financed by him. Fox was lucky enough to be given "distribution" rights to the films. He\’s been pretty independent for the duration of his career.

By: dennis

dennis — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

All this would be a lot more meaningful coming from someone who hasn\’t increasingly used his own vast resources to do almost nothing but find new ways to milk a lucrative franchise that was derivative and juvenile in the first place. And whose Star Wars "prequels" rate among the worst, most unnecessary sequel cash-ins of recent years. He not only helped create the monster he decries, he\’s STILL sustaining it.

By: A

Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Agree with JD – JAWS was actually an art movie. It wasn\’t intended to be a blockbuster, I just was.

By: D

Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

No sh!!t Sherlock, you got to take what George Lucas say nowadays with a grain of salt, this coming from the same guy that whored Star Wars out to Disney when he was already a billionaire.Talk that love for art crap somewhere else when it came time for you to do it you sold out for greed.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Has this guy made anything worthwile in the last 30 years.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

And yet, while I agree with Lucas about the dearth of imagination and risk taking within the studio system, he made the prequels with total creative control and an infinite supply of money and produced three of the worst examples of studio franchise blockbusters ever made. Just sayin\’.

By: T

Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

More and more, indieWIRE aggregated content feels like it was written by a college student with absolutely no awareness of anything beyond the world or history as learned through other web sites. It is depressing – both for those of us who used to enjoy reading here and also because the next generation is actually learning about film culture here. It\’s a sad state.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Indiana Jones was financed by Paramount, not 20th.

By: TMI

TMI — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

am I the only one who thinks people are going to get really \’over\’ the whole comic book movie assembly line coming out in the next five years?

By: Jonathan Cribbs

Jonathan Cribbs — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

The television renaissance gets a little bit – a LITTLE bit – too much credit. It truly is mostly genre fare. Some of it\’s exemplary like "True Detective," and some of it\’s transcendently brilliant like "The Sopranos" and "The Wire," but I see TV falling into the same trap as movies. Most of the risk-taking fails. (Christopher Guest\’s recent HBO show, for instance.) I\’d like to see more miniseries. Wake me up when Tarantino\’s miniseries airs on HBO. Or Mike Leigh does a 10-episode period piece drama. Or someone makes a movie crabbers struggling on the Chesapeake Bay. Then I\’ll go, "Geeze, these TV executives are going balls out."

By: xian

xian — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

i hate this neck beard

By: DR

DR — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

"audiences have voted about the kinds of movies they like to see."

Riiiiiight. Just like pigs chose what feed to eat.

By: T1Brit

T1Brit — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

How this writer could possibly attempt what they have just attempted is amazing. Instead of criticizing Lucas for biting the hand that fed him, perhaps the writer should consider just how bad it has got, that a man like Lucas should do so. If he says the Studios have been rendered artistically useless by the invasion of business wonks without creativity or talent, perhaps we should listen.

By: JSS

JSS — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

This author\’s argument might carry more weight if he did some actual research and fact checking. Fox paid for Star Wars, Lucas financed the other SW films. Paramount was the studio behind the Indiana Jones films. Another example of just how little modern net journalists care about being actual journalists and doing the job.

By: Giacomo Fabbrocino

Giacomo Fabbrocino — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

JAWS and STAR WARS are NOT shallow rubbish as the most part of nowadays\’ blockbusters!

By: JD

JD — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Ahem, correction: "You CAN\’T pinpoint two movies" ect ect.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Uh, no, JAWS and STAR WARS are NOT the reason studios "turned their attention away from more creative projects, to blockbuster tentpoles". That\’s a ludicrous simplification of a very complicated historical event. You can pinpoint two movies as the reason an entire industry changed.

By: Mark Jobson

Mark Jobson — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Lucas is, as always, 100% correct.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

From what Ive seen, TV programming is dominated by genre and trends, like vampires, zombies, etc… Hardly an outlet for the creativity that the Hollywood system stifles.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Maybe he\’s referring to the overwhelming amount of garbage that has long been produced by the studio system. Where producers routinely butcher director\’s vision under the mistaken assumption that they have a better idea of what constitutes good filmmaking. In retrospect, it\’s a miracle that A New Hope and Raiders of the Lost Ark appeared on screens in such good shape.

By: DonDonP1

DonDonP1 — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:13:25 +0000

Interesting. Wait, the four "Indiana Jones" movies were distributed by Paramount, not 20th.