$650 Million? Big Stinking Deal! AOTC box office figs
#1
Posted 12 November 2004 - 10:49 AM
$650 million is a success on paper. That does not always translate to quality, friends, and that's all I'm concerned about.
#2
Posted 12 November 2004 - 05:19 PM
Did you know that George Lucas planned to open "Star Wars Stores" and was attempting to sell rights merchandising before he filmed even one frame of Star Wars A New Hope?
Source: Charles Lippincott, former vice president of Lucasfilm in Unauthorized Star Wars Story, now available on Video.
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#3
Posted 12 November 2004 - 05:24 PM
John Milius says at one point that he thought George Lucas was going to get into making pornography because it was less stressful and more lucrative than working in the Hollywood system.
Source: Easy Riders Raging Bulls, now available on video.
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#4
Posted 12 November 2004 - 05:27 PM
"I'm going to make five times as much money as Francis on these science-fiction toys and I won't have to make 'The Godfather,'" he boasted to cult filmmaker John Milius. "I've made what I consider the most conventional kind of movie I can possibly make."
Source: "Skywalking" The Life and Films of George Lucas, available at libraries everywhere.
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#5
Posted 12 November 2004 - 05:34 PM
"I'm going to go from complete success to complete failure," he told me, without a wink or a smile. On the contrary, Lucas said he anticipates utter rejection from his fans once Star Wars concludes.
Source: Roger Friedman, Fox News
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#6
Posted 12 November 2004 - 05:51 PM
"What I didn't tell George was that I couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me."
--Alec Guinness
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#7
Posted 12 November 2004 - 07:04 PM
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#8
Posted 12 November 2004 - 09:42 PM
Dude, you've gone from complete success to complete failure the moment you released the first prequel! Any TRUE Star Wars fan knows that.
Sadfly, I was no longer a fan after the second movie and I considered myself totally detached from sci-fi at the moment. Maybe one day a good sci-fi movie that has a decent appeal to me will come out and I'll finally have something to hold instead of SW.
#9
Posted 12 November 2004 - 10:07 PM
Make your own. Write a book. Make a comic. It'll be fun.
I agree full-heartedly with what Sagacity said. Financial success is no indication of quality. The only thing it can tell you is how popular it is, how well marketed it was or how expensive the tickets were. And anyone who tries to argue the merits of a film by its popularity won't win with me.
Sagacity's example of The Titanic is the best example of this. It won thirteen Oscars (or something like that) and was the highest grossing film of all time. It was also a shit movie.
So Sagacity, I feel the same way when people try to defend the prequels or the new DVDs by bringing up the amount of money they raked in. I'm only interested in whether the movies are good or bad.
And Hannibal, mate - those fun facts were fantastic.
#10
Posted 13 November 2004 - 02:17 AM
"I said to George; 'You can type this shit, but you can't say it.' and it's still true." - Harrison Ford
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#11
Posted 13 November 2004 - 11:14 AM
And Titanic may be the worst movie to ever win Best Picture. Funny about TPM coming in second all time at the box office. Lucas said in Entertainment Weekly he didn't expect Episode One to do good in the box office because it was about a kid. So not only did he realize it was stupid centering the film around a kid, but more proof he's a liar. Or really stupid. Episode One might have been the most anticipated movie in history, how could it not do good in the box office.
#12
Posted 13 November 2004 - 12:48 PM
Gaaaaahhh.
TITANIC is pretty bad, but not the worst film to win Best Picture. BRAVEHEART was a little bit worse. I'm not sure where that honour should go, but off the top of my head I'd say maybe AMERICAN BEAUTY.
#13
Posted 13 November 2004 - 01:24 PM
it was a financial success. wether it was an artistic success or not is something totally different of course. I will say this though
come on now, if that was the case, Ep2 wouldve ended up like Gigli, or even Van Helsing.
that simply just doesnt account for the amount of mone that the film made. not even close. The fact is that, good or bad, AotC was an incredibly popular film.
cant argue with that.
#14
Posted 13 November 2004 - 02:17 PM
Oh I'll be doing that, no need to worry about it. I've been thinking up of a sci-fi story that's more or less been evolving in my head ever since 1997. It looks pretty good to me, but I don't know if I'll ever put it down on paper.
Also I want to get done with the story I'm writing now... or at least finish a few more chapters before cancelling it. I haven't written a complete novel in more than two years, can you believe that? I always start writing a story... only to cancel it a few chapters later. Why is this so? I do not really know.
Hey, I made a rhyme