fuck you george lucas.

[BarackTheVote]

47. People are funny

As a life long Star Wars fan, I'm perfectly okay with this! Disney has made some fantastic films in the last decade, including the Pirates movies and, of course, The Avengers. There are only positive signs coming from the Marvel acquisition, so right now, I doubt there's any company that will respect the integrity of the franchise as much as Disney.

And Lucas has shaped the history of filmmaking more than almost any other individual since the advent of color cinematography. ILM revolutionized motion control cameras (which was the real breakthrough of the original trilogy as far as special effects go); they were pioneers of computer generated imaging, and have claim to the first photo-realistic CG characters; Skywalker Sound and THX were pioneers in digital sound. Lucas also helped create Pixar, and some of the first nonlinear digital editing systems. Lucas' influence on the art of filmmaking is unbelievable for one man; he will go down as the Leonardo of the medium.

Now, I want you to think about how much money special effects cost. And post-production audio sweetening, and how much Lucas Licensing pulls in annually, and how much gross box office Star Wars has generated, and how much has come from Laserdisk, VHS, DVD, and BluRay sales... 4 billion dollars? Seems cheap to me.