@walking_carpet:

Yeah, as far as I can tell Lucas and Scorsese are mainly like friends-of-friends. They didn't go to school together or anything since they were at opposite ends of the country, but they both got famous and started making films at the same time, they crossed paths with some frequency, and they had a lot of mutual friends, namely Coppola and Brian DePalma, so they would always be at the same parties and ceremonies. And, of course, Marcia was Scorsese's editor for most of the 70s, which probably cemented any kind of bond more than anything, even if it brought some level of unspoken tension.

But it's more a professional relationship than a personal friendship. Most people Lucas is linked to are like this, Coppola being the one exception. Even with Spielberg, they were never super close, they just work together. It's not like Spielberg ever visits the Ranch just for a beer with Lucas so they can shoot the shit, it's always for a rough-cut-screening or a script meeting or something. I think rather it's just a case of having a circle of trusted colleagues and when you start getting older you start appreciating these people who have been with you in life through all the years and ups and downs, so even though Lucas and Scorsese were never friends and had totally different lifestyles, there is a certain bond there if anything through sheer time. But yeah, I wouldn't say they are particularly close, they just run in the same social circle and have been around each other a long time.

zombie84 said:

You know what's scary? George Lucas considered putting Young Han Solo in Episode III so seriously that he was featured in a draft of the script! And they did concept art!

WTF!! Somehow the retardedness of it all just dawned on me. What the hell went through his head? It says a lot about how Lucas thinks these days.

zombie84 said:

Even with Spielberg, they were never super close, they just work together. It's not like Spielberg ever visits the Ranch just for a beer with Lucas so they can shoot the shit, it's always for a rough-cut-screening or a script meeting or something...

Spielberg would say otherwise:

On his friendship (described as "best friends") with George Lucas,

SS: George doesn't do text or email ever, I've never received a text or email from George and he's never received one from me. He's a phoner you know, it's all over the telephone or it's in person. So it's either eyes on or it's a telephone call, but it's never texting...You know, you get a phone call and it's like here, (Spielberg slips into George Lucas impression) "Hey Steve. (laughter) What are you doing?" "Oh I'm just sort of sitting around working George, making ten pictures a year as a producer, what are you doing?" "Oh. I don't know." (laughter)...The thing with George, when George and I get on the telephone, I have to clear my morning or my afternoon because we talk for a long long time. The only person I've ever talked to at the length I talk to George, believe it or not, was Stanley Kubrick, back when we were friends in the 80s, but George, you know, we talk about everything, we talk about movies, his projects, my projects, we talk about our families and our friendship and it's an enduring friendship. I met George when he premiered THX at the Royce Hall UCLA/USC Film Festival in 1967 I think it was, so we've known each other for a long time.

I'd say there very close for friends who live in different cities

Frank Oz is going to tread the boards I notice.

corellian77 said:

xhonzi said:

Yoda must be some kind of galactic match maker... 

Actual lol :)  Made me visualize Yoda hosting the Dating Game:

Love the suit, somehow very fitting.

Maybe the PT should have featured a pre-80s Yoda this way?

Blue Milk Special.
here's another one.

Here's one for you from the great Shaft Windu over at Blu-ray.com

Nitpicking takes the fun out of what is on the surface a fun-adventure movie. You will always find what you take with you in movies. If you somehow dislike these movies you will always look for and find inconsistencies. You will be even happy to find them and gloat about them because it proves your initial feeling right. But what is to be gained by tearing movies apart in that way. You could do it with every movie by the way... "What is a moisture farmer?" It is never explained in A New Hope! "How did the Empire find the rebels on Hoth?" It was never explained how they managed that! It's just negativity and gains you nothing!

Blu-ray.com has either some of the most impressive trolls or the most stupid people I've ever met on the internet.

It's best to take those posts with a lump of salt.

georgec said:

Blu-ray.com has either some of the most impressive trolls or the most stupid people I've ever met on the internet.

It's best to take those posts with a lump of salt.

Stupid.  Trolls are usually smart.

Yes...  YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

My dad finally agreed with the OT.com rules about piracy.  I read him "Notes on Piracy," and said it would be okay if I already owned the movies to download the preservations.  I don't know if he had a change of heart, or I misinterpreted him earlier, or anything else.  Whatever the case, he's letting me get a preservation.

Now, the thing is, do I need to own the GOUT DVDs to get a preservation, or is the '95 Faces VHS enough?  And, with the HD Despecialized Edition ruled out due to the fact that I need those awful Blu-Rays to get them, could I get DJ's V3?

TV's Frink said:

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xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

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TheBoost said:

doubleofive said:
I can't believe they put the "First Catch of the Day" guy on there. He had no discernible character traits.

I think that's the joke.