Thanks, George, for dragging every sacred thing you've made through the mud.

Me to Lucas: Please stop ruining my memories now, kthx.

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Lucas, please stop making movies and APPEARING to ruin my memories.
Kthx.

Did he explain why he feels it is the worst one? I'd like to know how he stacks them up from best to worst actually. So if Empire is the worst which does he feel is the best?

This logic says that he considers the new trilogy a good one. Ow, my brain hurts just thinking about the possibility. Although I would love to have a taste of his drugs.

If it's out of context, then what's the context? Is there someone at the luncheon who said that his tone of voice or manner was clearly facetious?

Lucas is clearly complimenting Sid Ganis' publicity skills here. He's saying, "This guy is so good that took a movie nobody should have liked and made everyone like it." I don't know if he said it facetiously. (I hope he didn't; compliments are supposed to be sincere.)

The bit about Empire being the 'worst' movie is only incidental to the point of the statement, and we can't know exactly what Lucas meant by it unless we had access to a transcript of the speech. He might have said, right afterward, "Well, I loved Empire, but it had the worst happy ending ever." Or, he might have said, "God I hated Empire so [bleeping] much." Or, he might have said nothing at all about Empire, because the speech was about Sid Ganis and not Lucas' personal feelings on the Star Wars movies. In any case, the meaning of the statement is unclear without further information. Everyone assumes it means that Lucas hates the "best" movie, but we really don't have proof either way.

Anyway, I don't get why this anecdote is newsworthy. Sure, hate on Lucas for the abortions that were his "prequels", for his digital retconning of the original movies, and his reluctance to release high-quality versions of the original trilogy. But for something he said in an offhand compliment to his publicist? That seems like stretching it to me.

I took it more as a, "Why is he getting an award, his job for Empire wasn't that tough. It was the sequel to a hugely successful film." It's the kind of smart-ass remark I'd make to someone.

I don't think any of us need any more evidence to draw the conclusion that Lucas hasn't created anything worth watching in nearly 20 years (and I'm being VERY generous with Last Crusade). Why do we need this incident to confirm it? Leave the man be to make mediocre toy advertisements and burger deals. That's all he seems capable of nowadays.

Well he is working on a new Jones, and WW2 movie. After that he is going to do a star wars tv series that will run a 100 episodes. I'm hoping he rips off Firefly just a bit.

I swear, Star Wars fans are a bunch of battered girlfriends that continue to make excuses for that drunkass, abusive Lucas for stealing hours of their life and buckets of hard earned dough. Just leave him. He's not worth it.

My feelings about Lucas: Definitive proof that you can go into the negatives in terms of respecting someone you don't even know!

My god, Paleocon said something I agree with.

He said he'll change, and...and I believe him this time.

Saying not only do you think the new Star Wars TV show will be good, but even insinuating that it'll be a pseudo resurrection of Firefly? You've got some powerful fanboy delusion going on there.

My god, that's simply beautiful. Brizahd, calling you optimistic would be an understatement.

While his quote shouldn't be surprising, it just further confirms that his early success was a total accident, for all intents and purposes.