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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2229693" data-attributes="member: 8863">I think this is really much ado about nothing. First of all, this is likely the last Star Wars movie Lucas will ever make, and he made with his own money.  It doesn't really matter one way or other if it's financially successful.  Lucas wanted to make it to complete the story, and he's done that.  That's really the purpose behind the movie.  Also, many of the fans, even the Lousy Lucas Bashers (great card mockup, Jezter) will see the movie regardless of how much they complain about the last 2 (or 3) movies, because they want to know how things happen.Second, I think there's two groups of people who see the movies.  First are the parents with kids, who drag along their kids to watch the movie because they think it's a kiddie movie with all the toy tie ins and so on.  They'll take the kids to see the movie once and that's it.   Some of these people are the ones who are doing whining about the PG-13 rating.  The way Lucas says they're whining seems to indicate they think it's going to degenerate into some sort of hardcore snuff film or something.  Utterly brainless.  In terms of violence and "scary images", it can't be much worse than the Lord of the Rings movies were.  I'd say all the other Star Wars films are rated PG because Lucas didn't need them to be more violent than that, and because thdey were heroic in nature, rather than making deliberate choice to turn evil, as anyone who knows anything about Star Wars knows this film will portray.The other group of people who will go to the movies are the fans.  These are the diehards who will camp out for several weeks to get tickets, attent the movie dressed as Darth Vader, Boba Fett, or stormtroopers, etc.  They're not even going to notice the rating, And unlike the parents, they'll probably see the movie at least a half dozen times or so over the summer.  Unless the film is something longtimes fans will utterly hate (and I sort of doubt that), I'm sure the fans will produce a pretty large number of ticket sales.</blockquote>

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