his head is a thumb

Cut him some slack. The guy is 71, and who knows what that is in human years?

If there's a heaven I hope that Kurosawa and Lucas are on some Maury Povich show where they debate who Star Wars' Father was. Also what "other things?" Also nice shoes Charlie!

I see it more as a big toe, but perhaps I'm just splitting hairs....

Sure, but (and I'm refraining from auto-1 this time because this interview is classic shit) Lucas could list 8 or 10 ways that they fucked it up and he'd be right, if hypocritical. I skimmed through just enough of this interview to know that he has a problem with the storytelling, and I think that's fucking classic.

Not only did Lucas shit on his own doorstep, he also sat on his balls for 15 years or so. He could have made all 9 movies himself if he wasn't such a semi-competent storyteller who's amazing with/amazed by pushing the technological envelope.


Thank you, Mr. Lucas, for all you have wrought. Movies are so much richer now that the VFX is the story. Thank your buddy Steven for me, too, for his genius in cramming more emotion into a movie than anyone thought one could contain. Glad you two won. Spectacle, emotion, what else is there?

He called Disney, the people who gave him .4 billion for his franchise, white slavers.

WHITE SLAVERS. If he hadn't stopped himself there he might have made a rape joke.

Also, this man has no idea what 'space opera' or 'soap opera' mean. Someone once told him they liked Star Wars because it was about the generational family drama, not just the spaceships, and he's trying to recapture that person's ideas but can't.

*the grown ups are an after thought as far as the movie's plot is concerned. They need those adult's sweet, sweet cash. You can't always count on the nag factor from kids, though it is powerful.

You know you can buy Hello Kitty branded motor oil? I betcha there's Star Wars branded motor oil out there somewhere.

And, if anyone's curious, yes I liked the movie. It made me smile. The relationship between Finn and Rey was sweet.

A simple rule of thumb is: movies for adults do not involve magic teens, talking animals, or a wisecracking smuggler with a heart of gold.

Saying "DUH! Star Wars is for kids" is a pretty retarded comment.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, White Fang, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Little Prince, Where the Wild things Are and Dr Seuss' books are also for children. Something for children can be interesting and well written. The original Star Wars films had a very good, evocative story arc set in a mysterious, fictional universe, with a dash of Taoist philosophy/spirituality mixed in, it all blended into a whole that had a strong staying power in the imagination of people.

Which is why, despite not being a Star Wars nerd and not having rewatched the originals periodically (like many people do) I can clearly remember what the story was about and the events and characters from the original movies, while I have absolutely no recollection of what the Flash Gordon movie was about, or as a matter of fact, why I can't remember what happened in the Star Wars prequels (despite the fact that I saw those only a few years ago, rather than a few decades).

It does seem that clumsy attempts at dialogue aren't limited to his screenplays.

the White Slavers comment made me roll my eyes rather far into the top of my head

The joke here is that there WAS an American Graffiti 2.

He still made a boatload of money on the prequels, which is astounding given how bad they are.

People were taking their kids to see them and, everyone was like "OH! STAR WARZ IS BACK I HAS TO SEEZ IT!" then, after the dust settled, they went "Surely the second one can't be as bad as the first" and then by the time the third one came around it was a mixture of "let's finish of this shit pile" and "I WANT TO SEE THE MOMENT HUGGIEKINS TURNS INTO DERP VADORZ!" which was hilariously bungled and probably counts as the biggest metaphorical photocopy of a cock ever put to film.

Did you say "needs more underwear fart"?

I could swear that's what I heard.

I agree. It's for the kids and kids at heart. And then to sell shit loads of stuff to those same kids. But still... Wu-Tang is for the children.

Paramount and CBS seem to think so.. or at least that it will kick enough ass to be worth subduing in court. They're fine with fanfic but the second it is fanfic with a reasonable budget they lose their minds.

Fuck 'em if they can't write a script, fan films have been carrying Star Trek for fifteen years now and will probably have to for fifteen more.

Actually, let me take that back. By what I have read, people are being told by CBS that CBS intends to spend 2016 suing ALL creators of Star Trek fan media (from film to paint shop pro pics) for damages.

I may have just abruptly stopped being a Star Trek fan. Fuck Star Trek.

Wait, does that include porn? Please tell me you're kidding, because I don't want to be sued.

Also, lol @ the age-old "tough copyright laws are needed, because tough copyright laws promote creativity" argument. Way to go, CBS.

They've got to be ready for the new Trek series in 2017. Time to starve the market, I suppose.