Sunday, May 13, 2007

Sure George

From IMDB:

'Spider-Man 3' Is "Silly," Says Lucas

George Lucas has joined the major newspaper critics in their negative appraisal of Spider-Man 3. In an interview with FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman, Lucas said, "It's a silly movie. ... There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there?" Over the weekend, Spider-Man 3 surged ahead of Lucas's Star Wars' episode Revenge of the Sith to take the record for the biggest weekend box-office record. Star Wars was also criticized as being "silly," Lucas noted. "But it wasn't." He also disclosed that he is working on at least two other Star Wars movies for television. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters. They will be other people of that milieu."

Also: some of the reviews for the Lindsay Lohan/Jane Fonda "film" Georgia Rule almost make me want to see it. Selected highlights:

"Do not take your mom to Georgia Rule unless she's Roseanne Barr. You may expect a three-generational chick flick, but what you get is a child-rape comedy."

"The subject matter is grim, the relationships are gnarled, the worldview is bleak, and, at any given moment, you suspect someone’s going to be hit with a pie."

"On Golden Pond with fellatio jokes and whimsical incest melodrama and Fonda playing her dad (who, more and more, she eerily resembles)."

"Combines battleship actresses of the Steel Magnolias variety, fall-down-go-boom comedy that was obsolete in the '30s, Lindsay Lohan's cleavage and intergenerational fondling just for kicks."

"The most insensitive comedy ever about alcoholism or the softest drama ever about child molestation."

"Lohan stalks around in short low-cut outfits and tries to seduce everything with a penis, from a missionary to her boss to her stepfather. Sound like fun for the whole family?"

Sure does!

5 comments:

yoggoth said...

Well that settles it. If George Lucas says his movies weren't silly it must be true.

That Lindsay Lohan movie does sound like fun.

Anonymous said...

I haven't seen Spidey yet, but it wouldn't be the first time a 'silly' move made oodles of cash at the box office. (Does anyone remember Titanic?)
As for the Lohan movie. Why spend the ten bucks watching a movie like that, when she does the same stuff in real life and you can watch it for free on the entertainment magazine shows every night?
Either way gentlemen; let's stop talking about movies for a little while and start making them!

Little Earl said...

Yeah. Making. Movies. Us.

Maybe tomorrow night.

Anonymous said...

Ambition at it's finest.

Anonymous said...

Well I may not be making silly, billion dollar movies yet, but at least I'm filming.