Comments on: Lucasphobia http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mds http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90198 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:13:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90198 I’m not interested in doing media tie-ins, personally,

Oh, crud.

[Deletes carefully-crafted business plan for Colonial Union lunchboxes]

I too praise Lucas for all the progess he has wrought with movie special effects. Then again, as I see fewer and fewer films that don’t rely on virtual trickery, I curse Lucas for all the progress he has wrought with movie special effects. Mark my words, the day that Tron II: World of Warcraft comes out with Errol Flynn in the lead role, and the script and soundtrack composed by a computer, is the day the name of Lucas truly becomes anathema.

]]> By: Jackie M. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90196 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:31:28 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90196 I kind of liked Willow, too. But that was a decade ago, so who knows if I still do?

Do you think it’s possible for somebody to mess up Sam & Max after the fact?

]]> By: Matt Arnold http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90193 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:34:48 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90193 LucasArts is a videogame house whose output I admire, particularly Grim Fandango (which I wish would be made into an animated movie one day)

What, you too? I wonder, in addition to you, me, “Stephen G”, and “ern”, how many of us there are. Tim Shafer is a creative genius the likes of which are rarely seen. I want to create a marionnette remake of Grim Fandango.

]]> By: ern http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90185 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:40:11 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90185 Dang, Grim Fandango. Now that was one amazing game, with great characters and writing. I’ll never forget the scene when Manny swings his scythe through the flowers and finds Salvador’s skull…

Probably one of the best written video games ever–and better than most animated movies I’ve seen.

]]> By: Kevin Downing http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90176 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:25:01 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90176 Funny – as I’m reading this, the “Imperial March” comes on my iPod. Lucas can even control my music selection!!

]]> By: Armchair Anarchist http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90171 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:00:06 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90171

… not-entertainment …

How about ‘untertainment’?

Having just Googled it, I can’t claim it as my own neologism, but it seems quite appropriate for discussions such as this…

]]> By: Jeremy Henty http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90168 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:57:28 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90168 Colbert should have just sighed, pulled out a gun and shot him. That would have been funny.

]]> By: A.R.Yngve http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90165 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:45:08 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90165 Man, I laughed like a child at the Lucas-Colbert lightsaber duel. It’s a Mensch who does a fun thing like that, whatever you may think of his “prequel” films.
:)

Actually, I think THX1138 is underrated. It’s my favorite George Lucas film. Now, if he made good on his promise to go back to making “small movies”…

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90161 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:36:18 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90161 Joelfinkle:

“Perhaps he was on the verge of optioning Old Man’s War.”

Heh. I doubt that very much, if for no other reason that my agent would have, you know, told me about it.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90163 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:36:18 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/12/lucasphobia/#comment-90163 Joelfinkle:

“Perhaps he was on the verge of optioning Old Man’s War.”

Heh. I doubt that very much, if for no other reason that my agent would have, you know, told me about it.

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