Dave Caolo

The once mighty Star Wars galaxy has become a parody of itself, largely in part to shamelss, incessant merchandising. I can’t respect a franchise that’s so obviously used as a cash grab.

The folks at Spyglass must have the same goal for Star Trek movie as their marketing eruption gets underway. I’m sure I’ll be completely turned off by May.

The folks at Ain’t It Cool News were forced to remove their negative reivew of The Clone Wars by Lucasfilm, but Valleywag has reprinted it. Hop over and read it while you can.

It’s the most viciously negative review I’ve ever read, and confirms my beliefs about Lucas and Star Wars. The guy doesn’t know how to make good movies.

He exhausted all of his talent on A New Hope. Empire and Jedi weren’t directed by Lucas, and were decent. The three most recent films — plus the Lucas-enhanced versions of the originals — were big budget showcases for his non-talent.

According to Ain’t It Cool, Lucas adopted the animation style of Genndy’s Clone Wars mini series and nothing else. The soul and edge that made the mini series work have been replaced with mindless battles (and lots of them), stupid jokes that would annoy a 5-year-old and characters “…worse than Jar-Jar” (hint: Jabba’s son is named “Stinky.” Do the math).

Star Wars is dead. I mean dead. The shameless marketing and mindless films are the bastardization of the entire franchise. Screw it.