Aw geez, not this @#$@ again

[lazypadawan]

With New!Trek upon us, the ugliest rivalry since the Yankees and the Red Sox could flare up again. First to light a fire and throw in some kerosene is our old buddy Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the flick. Pegg is famously a PT basher but now he thinks SW has no integrity!! From an interview with New York Timeout's website:

Star Trek, in the end, seems to have won the war, because it maintained its integrity, and now the effects are catching up as well. So you sort of get your Star Trek cake and eat it, too. I'm sure Star Wars fans around the world will want to kill me for saying that, and see me as a traitor, because I've always been a very outspoken fan of Star Wars, but I've never been publicly keen on the new ones.

It makes you want to look up at the ceiling and yell, "KHAAAAAAN!!!" Integrity? WTF is he talking about? Lucas made the movies he wanted to make, not kowtowing to fanboy nation or movie critics or internet dweebs. That's integrity.

Please tell me again why do people at Lucasfilm suck up to this guy?

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[may-child.livejournal.com]

As if I didn't loathe Pegg enough already.

No integrity? WTF is he talking about? One of the main bitchings from the stupid bashers was that Lucas "made the movies he wanted to make, not caring that the fans wanted to see Anakin at 17 in Episode 1 and for the Clone Wars to be the background for all three movies and for Anakin to be as pure as the new driven snow, but also dark and angry and practically Vader from the outset, and for the movies to be about Obi Wan and Anakin's adventures, blah blah blah."

In a truly bizarre article about the release of "Return of the King"

*waits for choirs of heavenly angels to die down at the mention of the Holiest of Holies*

*waits*

*waits*

*16 hours later* Oh to heck with it.

In a "New York Times" article about the premiere of the Third Movie in the Most Perfect, Holy, Life-Changing, Edifyingly Sublime Trilogy Ever Made, they quoted some woman in the audience who put down the LOTR book she was reading and started talking about...George Lucas?!? She said that while Lucas "just sits in front of a computer all day long, Peter Jackson..."

*shoos away choirs of heavenly angels; I'm sick of them appearing when His Holy Name is mentioned and having to wait 16 hours for them to shut up*

"...understands how to make these movies because he's a fan of the story and he cares about what fans think."

Recently, there was a letter in TV Guide in response to a CW article in which it said something akin to, "George is making these stories for himself." The letter sneered, "No wonder he hasn't put out anything decent since 1980."

Simon Pegg can go f**k himself. And I wish LFL would quit kissing his stupid ass.

[(Anonymous)]

She said that while Lucas "just sits in front of a computer all day long, Peter Jackson..."

Made sure that each and every effects shot in LOTR was completely practical, as Saint Peter would have nothing to do with the "laziness" of CGI. This principle also applies to his King Kong remake.

"Star Trek, in the end, seems to have won the war, because it maintained its integrity, and now the effects are catching up as well"

Remember kids, CGI in the SW Prequels = lazy filmmaking with no integrity
CGI in everything else = OMG SO F**KING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and Mr. Pegg? Go ahead and keep pissing on modern SW; I'm sure you'll get that job writing for the T.V. series. And another thing - why oh why do so many hardcore bashers have such a martyr complex? "Well, I know people will HATE and ATTACK me for saying this, but my opinion simply MUST be heard, as unpopular as I know it will be..." Of course, these are the same people who will claim that everyone hates the prequels, and only a "small, cult audience" actually considers them good movies....

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

You nailed it on the martyr complex. Those poor persecuted bashers.