Lucas soon abandoned the idea of bringing in talented directors when Kirshner went off script on Empire. Lucas was always a corporate whore. He just never admitted it.

His dad owned a very successful business that he wanted George to take over. Lucas didn't want to be a businessman but an artist. Of course after the success of Star Wars, a businessman is exactly what Lucas became and didn't direct another film for 20 years.

I will say that the further Wes Anderson's films get into their own little worlds, the better they are. Otherwise they come off as quirky people being quirky for the sake of being quirky.

This. It's a combo of getting someone competent on the cheap.

There's no way a real human being came up with "$150 million dollar Bible movie directed by Darren Aronofsky" as an organic thought.

Yeah! How dare Disney take Star Wars and just whore it out for millions of dollars through merchandising. George Lucas would have never allowed such a shameful act to happen to his films.

One day you'll run into a monkey in trouble. Then you'll know what to do.

WITH SMILEY FACES!

If you're going to be a 'one', might as well be a drunk one.

The wordplay being witty wasn't really the point of that joke.

Damn, that's what went wrong. I put them over my Chaka Khan points.

I thought it was the less successful precursor to the DOOP.

Poodles?

The people who believe those claims are the real borons. AmIright?! Huh!? High-five? No one?

But… it's… it's 'organic'.

Well, she has one of those healing stickers on; so it's more likely a 'She'll fall for anything' situation.

The original movie actually had several plots, as did the prequel series. They pretty much to grouped together all the clichés of the summer camp movie genre and hit them one by one. I think any problem people may have with the prequels is that the longer run time drew those joke plots out longer than the movie did.

I wouldn't say it's specifically about Jimmy. We've been given clues that it started after his wife left him. Now he's cut off both Jimmy and Howard. Howard was driven away just like Rebecca, and Chuck cast Jimmy out to keep the power there. The sickness seemed to be an excuse for Chuck's isolation outside the fact…

Cats are damn smart/manipulative that way. They will try different kinds of meows (different volumes, pitches, durations, etc.) until they find the one you react to and then continue using that one from then on out.

Or a dog?