Honestly....

Posted by Fedora from ? (24.116.205.230) on Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:08pm :

In Reply to: Indiana Jones the the Lost Marbles Theory. posted by Rundquist from adsl-63-201-187-189.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (63.201.187.189) on Friday, October 18, 2002 at 5:07pm :

: Many people on the internet are of the opinion that George Lucas has lost his "creative edge" or whatever you want to call what originally drew you to his movies. In my opinion, 99.99% of all artists go down hill in their later years. This doesn't bother me, I accept it without any problem. I'd rather that an artist have a long varied career than to burn out in their prime, like James Dean for instance. I had this discussion last night with fellow Indy fans. Another point that was brought up was that Lucas doesn't have any collaborators around him anymore that can successfully reel him in creatively, so to speak. The analogy of the Beatles was brought up as well, the point being that each Beatle as solo artists did not have the others to use as "filters" and therefore could never really release complete albums that were on the same level as the Beatle stuff. This brings me to my main point. Paul McCartney releases new albums every few years that I personally am not that interested in. Every time that he does, it doesn't diminish my appreciation of Beatle records or Beatle solo stuff that I do like. I'm glad that Paul is still out there doing what he loves. Why do some of you get so bent out of shape about the new Indy movie?

....I think that these folks are nothing more than armchair quarterbacks. These folks would never, never, ever be pleased with ANYTHING that Lucas were to do. Period. I personally know folks that say that Eric Clapton totally lost his musical creativity after Cream broke up. They even have the audacity to maintain his guitar playing peaked at that same time. Balderdash!! I am a guitar player, 30 years worth, and I am here to tell you that only non guitar players or idiots could ever say this. Anyone who plays, knows damn well what a great guitar player he really is. I lump our nay sayers into this same group. Everytime that I read a negative Lucas post, I just think, here it goes again. I can assure you that his name will live long after his death. You can't say the same thing about his commentators. Fedora

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Re: Honestly.... - KyleS 0:04am 10/19/2002

Me too... - IndyCoil 2:51pm 10/19/2002

Nicely stated everyone! - Man With Cool Hat 10:21pm 10/20/2002

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: : Many people on the internet are of the opinion that George Lucas has lost his "creative edge" or whatever you want to call what originally drew you to his movies. In my opinion, 99.99% of all artists go down hill in their later years. This doesn't bother me, I accept it without any problem. I'd rather that an artist have a long varied career than to burn out in their prime, like James Dean for instance. I had this discussion last night with fellow Indy fans. Another point that was brought up was that Lucas doesn't have any collaborators around him anymore that can successfully reel him in creatively, so to speak. The analogy of the Beatles was brought up as well, the point being that each Beatle as solo artists did not have the others to use as "filters" and therefore could never really release complete albums that were on the same level as the Beatle stuff. This brings me to my main point. Paul McCartney releases new albums every few years that I personally am not that interested in. Every time that he does, it doesn't diminish my appreciation of Beatle records or Beatle solo stuff that I do like. I'm glad that Paul is still out there doing what he loves. Why do some of you get so bent out of shape about the new Indy movie? : ....I think that these folks are nothing more than armchair quarterbacks. These folks would never, never, ever be pleased with ANYTHING that Lucas were to do. Period. I personally know folks that say that Eric Clapton totally lost his musical creativity after Cream broke up. They even have the audacity to maintain his guitar playing peaked at that same time. Balderdash!! I am a guitar player, 30 years worth, and I am here to tell you that only non guitar players or idiots could ever say this. Anyone who plays, knows damn well what a great guitar player he really is. I lump our nay sayers into this same group. Everytime that I read a negative Lucas post, I just think, here it goes again. I can assure you that his name will live long after his death. You can't say the same thing about his commentators. Fedora

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