The Star Wars series’ chief visual influence are 1950s samurai movies and chief narrative influence are 1930s space opera serials. I can’t abide by this idea that the films weren’t self-consciously retro in the 70s, weren’t even more so in the 00’s, and aren’t still today. They’ve always operated within a visual…

I’ve no bloody idea why Lucas thought it was a good idea to use it, but white slavery is a term with an even older etymology than that. It usually refers to the Barbary pirates who raided and carried off well over a million poor, working-class people living on the coast of the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula…

I assume he’s getting disciplined because someone contacted him about a job and his response was to send sexually explicit messages.

The basic elements of the prequels are amazing, actually.

Right. Fisher kept fucking up the dialogue with Tarkin (“Ah, Governor Tarkin, I should have known I’d find you holding Vader’s leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board...the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”) due to being high. She recounts as…

He’s also full a shit a lot of the time. As someone who’s been following his public pronouncements for more than 30 years, I can tell you that he frequently changes his story about:

He was involved but Empire was mostly Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan to my memory. (Although Brackett died after the first rough draft so there were a lot of changes from that.)

It tends to refer to trafficking for forced prostitution.

I think he’s an incredibly self-absorbed, out of touch man. I think he spent decades being praised for his creation and he doesn’t know how to readjust to life after the prequels when that is just no longer the case.

I think it’s all ego. He thinks it was his flashy effects that were the sole reason why the first trilogy was so succesful. And not because the directors knew how to get the most out of the actors and the story was good. If Lucas’s ego had been beaten down, and a real director had been in charge of 1, 2 and 3 with…

It's amazing to me how oblivious he seems to the fact that the prequels are awful and almost universally hated. They just aren't good movies George, shut the fuck up.

You and I have watched very different Dave Chappelle comedy specials.

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks/make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such/mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/they never stay home and they’re always alone/even with someone they love.

Fuck you, Old Navy.

John Adams: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.”

Sheesh man, I’m not a Deadstan, but pardon Diana if she isn’t immediately ready to trust every last resume detail from an Internet commenter named MILF Hunter. I mean, at least tack on Esquire, heh.

Can someone please let Mr Reynolds know that all chaps are ass-less. That’s why they are chaps. If they had asses they’d be pants.

We are immigrants in the US. Yes, we have citizenship and we are sent to fight in American wars but our idiosincracies, our language, our culture, our music, our religion, our souls are all Latin. It’s neither right nor wrong, it’s just fact. I will agree with you in that being a “territory”, a colony, is a fucked up…

Man, I look at women cross-eyes all the time! Guess I better cool it.

Haha, this is great Kinja!