Sometimes less is more…

You said it. It’s funny how most good movies have somewhat limited budgets, and the multi-million dollar productions are usually really bad. Why is that?

Perhaps Lucas is aiming for the dizzying accolades given to Uwe Boll?

Ah, but the difference is that Uwe makes horrible movies on purpose. He is funding them in Germany via private investors. The German law then allows him to write off 100% of the investment as a tax deduction, but only if the movie losses money. Boll probably gets to pocket the change and creates a safe way to move large amounts of money for his investors. It’s all shady as hell. Oh, and notice how he is primarily interested in popular video game franchises - and he always secures the rights to future adaptations. Meaning that if someone wants to make a real adaptation at a later time, or if the game company wants to take back the movie rights he can sell at premium.

George Lucas is a different case though. He actually produced few good movies, but then at some point he forgot how to do it. It seems that the bigger the budget he has, the worse movie he produces.

Chuck Norris is now a columnist

Chuck Norris doesn’t write columns. He roundhouse kicks the keyboard and a well thought out article is automatically sent to his publisher.

I think a lot of people are holding it up to their childhood memories of how cool the earlier ones were when they were kids.

Well, I watched these movies many, many times. The way I felt about them as a kid, changed on subsequent viewings. The point was that while the early Lucas movies did have spectacular (for that time) special effects, they also had an engaging story, and this sense of mystery, and adventure. The had that specific feel to them that made us all fall in love with them.

The new installments don’t have that. There are complete departures from the old model, re-made to suit whatever the fuck Lucas things is cool these days.

Oh, and there is another strange pattern here - he always seems to lose it around the third movie and then it all goes downhill from there.

What was the last movie you saw that you would call great? Or even good?

I saw Memento the other day. It was good. Not perfect, but good. There are good movies out there. So it’s not like Hollywood is churning out total shit all the time. But it seems that all the major blockbusters with big budgets are turning out horrible these days.