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I can picture a Lucas version of Hungry Hungry Hip...

2008-07-07T13:36:00.000-06:00

I can picture a Lucas version of Hungry Hungry Hippos. Instead of hippos you'd have George Lucases. And instead of little marbles, you'd have everything that was ever good about this world.

I love that game, "Things to put in Lucas' mouth"!...

2008-07-07T13:14:00.000-06:00

I love that game, "Things to put in Lucas' mouth"!

Oh wait. I'm thinking about Hungry Hungry Hippos.

schmutzie - Well, woot.kilowatthour - Oh, it is.de...

2008-07-07T11:52:00.000-06:00

schmutzie - Well, woot.

kilowatthour - Oh, it is.

deron - I've been waiting for someone to point out that I put a Roddenberry in Lucas' mouth.

Would Lucas really love someone like an Imzadi? I'...

2008-07-07T10:42:00.000-06:00

Would Lucas really love someone like an Imzadi? I'm pretty sure Roddenberry would have, but Lucas?

I guess Lucas does look a little like a shorter, fatter Riker. And Speilberg-- no, never mind.

dude. i am 100% certain this is how that movie cam...

2008-07-04T13:02:00.000-06:00

dude. i am 100% certain this is how that movie came about.

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2008-07-04T00:21:00.000-06:00

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Barbara - The vine-swinging Shia was pretty funny,...

2008-07-03T18:15:00.000-06:00

Barbara - The vine-swinging Shia was pretty funny, but not as funny as the bit with sword-fighting Shia getting thwacked repeatedly in the crotch. That was crotch-thwacking gold, destined to be the lead exhibit at the International Museum of Crotch Thwackery.

By the time Shia was swinging with the faux-monkey...

2008-07-03T18:07:00.000-06:00

By the time Shia was swinging with the faux-monkeys, my teeth were ground to nubbins. Such utter shite. My eight-year-old kid kept chirping, "This is so cool!" and I could only pat his arm in mute horror. When we got to the part where the water filled in to hide where the space ship had been, I garroted myself with the straw from my $12 megasoda.

pa who brought the goat in - Really? I was the goa...

2008-07-03T16:07:00.000-06:00

pa who brought the goat in - Really? I was the goat. I remember you. You were nice and you smelled like an old tin can, which is my favourite.

becca - That hardly surprises me. And yes, that movie really bit.

lotus07 - Like I said, I was the goat. I got to hear the whole thing.

A friend of mine sent me a copy of Frank Darabont's script for the movie, some of which actually survived on screen. The script feels more like an Indiana Jones movie than the actual movie ever did. Unfortunately the fridge is still in that script.

I'd like to know what happened to the man who made THX 1138. I think he built a George Lucas bot that killed him in his sleep and now runs his empire. Or maybe he's got Lucas trapped in a basement, a scrawny revenant of a man making brilliant claymation films on a Super 8. Someone should send in The Goonies to rescue him.

Do you have the ONE Hobbit ring that lets you beco...

2008-07-03T15:39:00.001-06:00

Do you have the ONE Hobbit ring that lets you become invisible so you can listen in on these conversations? I am sure this is all 100% accurage since I am positive that this is what Geroge and Steven talk about on a daily basis.

George wanted to be an avante garde film maker in the mode of THX1138 and Apocolypse Now, but he obvious got seduced by the Dark Side after making American Graffiti and the First Star Wars.

ROFLMAO (as much as I hate that expression, that's...

2008-07-03T15:39:00.000-06:00

ROFLMAO (as much as I hate that expression, that's what I feel like doing now)

The movie SO SUCKED

(And I have a friend who works at LucasArts and when Mr Lucas comes to the office they are not supposed to address him or even make eye contact because he hates being bothered by the little people - unless they look tasty I ghuess)

As the PA who brought the goat in, I can confirm t...

2008-07-03T14:42:00.000-06:00

As the PA who brought the goat in, I can confirm that this really happened.

'sir' - Mostly the film just bewildered me. It fel...

2008-07-03T09:37:00.000-06:00

'sir' - Mostly the film just bewildered me. It felt incoherent and padded out with action, stumbling from one setpiece to the next. The whole thing struck me as a child's interpretation of how a movie should work - Communists! Fighting Aztecs! Aliens! Big ants! Waterfalls! Yeats quotations! Wait, that last one doesn't work.

Now that I think about it, they should have had the alien bursting out of John Hurt's stomach.

kat! - Exactly. Some movies give you something, others take from you. This one robbed us of a portion of our souls.

This movie made my life a little bit worse. Thank...

2008-07-03T08:18:00.000-06:00

This movie made my life a little bit worse. Thanks again George Lucas.

Yeah, pretty much. The movie didn't destroy my ch...

2008-07-03T08:06:00.000-06:00

Yeah, pretty much. The movie didn't destroy my childlike love of the Indiana Jones movies, but it sure as hell won't be sharing a spot next to them on my shelf, either.

I gave it a resounding 'meh' for a review, but mostly because the music was spot-on. Well done, John Williams!