I found it quite interesting that initially Darth Media's reaction to KOTCS was positive (the critics who gave it a positive review credited it all to Spielberg, completely ignoring Lucas), but somewhere in there they did an about-face, and started mocking KOTCS, saying it was "empty" and "forgettable."
Then there was the controversy over the leaked Darabont script, aka "the best script ever written" or whatever. Lucas was immediately blamed for "all the cutesy, Jar-Jar-Binks-y parts" in KOTCS.
Then there was the episode of South Park in which a cartoon Lucas and cartoon Spielberg sexually assaulted a cartoon Indiana Jones, as a way of expressing the SP creators' disapproval of how Lucas and Spiel had "destroyed" Indy. "TV Guide" ran a poll asking if readers thought SP "had gone too far." And -- surprise! -- the poll results were overwhelmingly "No."
Amidst all that bitching and moaning from Darth Fanboy and DF's representatives in Darth Media, that KOTCS was a splendid box office success, in the U.S. and internationally, got completely ignored. But I guess that shouldn't be all that surprising; in 2005, Darth Media was too busy concocting reporting on the "box office slump" to give more than cursory notice to the record-setting box-office run of "Revenge of the Sith."
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Date: 2009-01-07 10:55 pm (UTC)I found it quite interesting that initially Darth Media's reaction to KOTCS was positive (the critics who gave it a positive review credited it all to Spielberg, completely ignoring Lucas), but somewhere in there they did an about-face, and started mocking KOTCS, saying it was "empty" and "forgettable."
Then there was the controversy over the leaked Darabont script, aka "the best script ever written" or whatever. Lucas was immediately blamed for "all the cutesy, Jar-Jar-Binks-y parts" in KOTCS.
Then there was the episode of South Park in which a cartoon Lucas and cartoon Spielberg sexually assaulted a cartoon Indiana Jones, as a way of expressing the SP creators' disapproval of how Lucas and Spiel had "destroyed" Indy. "TV Guide" ran a poll asking if readers thought SP "had gone too far." And -- surprise! -- the poll results were overwhelmingly "No."
Amidst all that bitching and moaning from Darth Fanboy and DF's representatives in Darth Media, that KOTCS was a splendid box office success, in the U.S. and internationally, got completely ignored. But I guess that shouldn't be all that surprising; in 2005, Darth Media was too busy
concoctingreporting on the "box office slump" to give more than cursory notice to the record-setting box-office run of "Revenge of the Sith."