mkeithddc wrote:Dorkman wrote:I just understood that Artoo was basically going "Oh, yeah, totally. Dagobah. That sounds like a great and not at all crazy plan. Golly, that's a long way off, and you've had a long day. Why don't you let me fly and just take a nap or something?" With the full intention of basically commandeering the X-Wing, going to the rendezvous, and maybe getting 2-1B to check Luke's brain again.
Even the droid that can't talk has subtext in this movie. Goddammit Hollywood, this is how you do it.
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Ya, I think your reading too much into that one.
And another thin, not to start a war or anything, but your comment above about how Lucas
says he didnt like ESB and how the prequels sucked and how George just doesnt know how
Star Wars should be made,
well I just have to say this. It is his idea, his brainchild. If he wants to make movies that all the original
fans seem to hate, that is his perogative. I personally like the prequels just as much as the original
movies, I like all 6 of them equally, they tell a story, regardless of how bad or good the casting might
be or script was, it was still a good story and it is fine IMO.
I can watch a movie and if there is something that doesnt work or fit, minor stuff, I can just
imagine it the way I felt it should be, so I dont get disapointed with it.
Not that there isnt times with movies were I want to yell at the screen, lol
1. I hardly think he's reading too much into it. Luke's clearly answering a request to put the ship on autopilot, and Artoo is clearly nervous about the whole endeavor. Perfectly reasonable of Dorkman to make that inference, and rather clever too, I thought.
2. Doesn't matter if it's his brainchild—the original trilogy is what it is because he was forced to compromise and let other people show him what the best choices to make were. No one is saying it's not his prerogative to make the films he wants to make, we're just saying it's unfortunate that those films kinda suck.
3. "No matter how bad the script was, it's still a good story"? Seems kinda contradictory (though I'll concede there can occasionally be a good story buried beneath awful dialogue). And in any event, it wasn't a good story—as pointed out in the FIYH commentaries time and again, there is no compelling character motivation, an excess of illogical decisions, and no real emotion at all. Also, a bad script is hardly "minor stuff". And your saying that "you can imagine the way it should be, so you aren't disappointed" is precisely the reason that you should be disappointed. What it should have been wasn't what we got, which can only mean that we got what it shouldn't have been. And I don't see how you can say that and still insist it's not bad filmmaking.
He'll be missed.