just saw the half in bag. i guess I was wrong, lucas did go on his usual 'the studios are against me!' crap on that oprah show....and she fell for it - thinking this is the new color purple :(

and the apologists are spreading the talking points -"blacks finally have their john wayne movie!!" "its like those cool 40s movies, so it works that its intentionally bad!!!!"

good lord. To use a completely un-original cliche - the only color lucas gives a shit about is green.

some people are saying this is a surprise hit cuz it opened at #2 with $20 million. I don't think so. it was projected at $15 million by box office moj - so it exceeded that and I thought overall it would make 35-40 million. that still wouldn't recoup the costs (now Im hearing it cost $93 million)

however, there is one thing that still interests me...he insists EVERY SINGLE studio turned him down....does this include Dreamworks and his ol' buddy Steven?

was spielberg invited to a screening and turned lucas down?