The People vs. George Lucas features a lot of laugh-out-loud commentary from sci-fi fans, critics and everyday people who offer perspectives on why the second Star Wars trilogy doesn't come anywhere to measuring up to the first.
Watch the trailer for The People vs. George Lucas at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoc3roT81nU
Many of the Star Wars fanboys (and girls) came to the conclusion that the first Star Wars trilogy may have been more inspired, since creator George Lucas was young and hungry when he made it. But they also realized that the reason why the first Star Wars trilogy was so awe-inspiring is because when they saw it, they were children, when everything seemed larger than life.
In the documentary, one fanboy describes the anticipation he felt when it was announced in the late '90s that a new Star Wars movie would soon be released, and the enormous sense of disappointment he felt when he finally got to see 1999's The Phantom Menace.
The fanboy said he became increasingly irritated not only by the fact that the movie wasn't as good as he'd hoped it would be, but that the children around him in the movie theater didn't seem to realize that it "sucked," as he put it.
While I'm a Star Wars fan and grew up watching the movies like most of my Generation X peers, I'm not as rabid a fan of the Force as the people featured in The People vs. George Lucas.
I was, however, a huge fan of '80s movies about young people pursuing dreams in the arts, like Purple Rain, Krush Groove and Flashdance.
And when I recently saw the Broadway musical adaptation of Flashdance, I felt the same sense of irritation and violation that The People vs. George Lucas commentators did: that something special from my childhood was being desecrated. Some cultural touchstones are classics and shouldn't be tampered with.
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