Wise words from other fans

First, The Lard Biscuit weighs in on ROTS (don't worry, he's positive):

http://www.lardbiscuit.com/lard/letgo.html

He brought up a great point about spoilers and fans who walk into the movie expecting it to conform with stuff they've read/heard beforehand. He also mentions the Behind the Scenes book...I haven't read it yet but I can tell you this book is totally counterintuitive to Hollywood's promotional machine. The studios, producers, directors, and actors all want you to think their films are pure inspirational brilliance coming straight from God or the muses onto the set and the script. Francis Ford Coppola broke that mold years ago with his brutally honest documentary about making Apocalypse Now. George Lucas is being also being counterintuitive by letting us know just how hard it is to come up with this stuff and to have to work with a zillion people to make a movie. You come up with great ideas and you come up with dumb ones that, if you are wise, you discard. Remember the post about bad fan fics I've written? I could also walk you through some of the wretched ideas and tortured dialogue in my early drafts of many of my good stories too. The creative process is 99% percent having no idea what to write next and struggling over ideas you are trying to get to work. The difference is Lucas admits it, the other guys don't.

And, from the padmeanakin community, this gem of a post:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/padmeanakin/143504.html