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http://www.georgelucasusenetarchive.com/Default.asp?article=1999-10-18&title=George-urges-fans-to-destroy-his-critics
I call upon you, the dense core, to shout down all those who criticize me. Only a bloodbath of revenge will now satisfy me. Only a holocaust of bloodletting will restore me to calm. Only the maddening butchery as grotesque and insane as a thousand wars will sate my bloodlust. Only a horrifying, senseless monsoon of blood and an unholy avalanche of carnage can satisfy my perverted desires. (Please skin Robert Ebert alive first.)
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/boiling-point-why-does-george-lucas-hate-star-wars-fans-and-history.php
You know what the worst part of all this is? In a few years, some kids are going to watch the Star Wars movies for the first time, having heard about how instrumental they were, how popular they were, and how amazing they were and this kid is going to watch these Blu-rays and say to himself “What’s the big fucking deal?” at best and “Wow these kind of suck” at worst. The films have been chopped and glued and amended like some piece of shit Toyota that refuses to die, rather than being tended to like a classic Corvette. The movies we loved are dying, bit by bit, sound by sound, scene by scene.
Fuck you, George Lucas. I loved you once. Now all you do is push me past my boiling point.
http://acertainpointofview.net/?p=965
What the hateboys want to DO is ruin other fans’ good time.
http://io9.com/5881828/phantom-menace-3d-trailer-robs-star-wars-of-its-last-shred-of-dignity
Not surprisingly, George Lucas is courting the only audience he can: little kids. In this ridiculous trailer, a narrator desperately tries to Honey Badger his way into making this movie kid-friendly. Can't wait until the kids get a load of Qui-Gon Jinn's hilarious Trade Federation banter! Watch this trailer, and weep for future generations.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/L/Lucas_George/1999/05/10/759965.html
"It's only a movie. Get a life."
These were the first words out of Lucas' mouth when he took the podium at his press conference at the Regency Hotel yesterday.
http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/culture/force/index.html
Here, at this first screening of "Star Wars," a group of writers, directors, and executives, all with ambitions to make more or less artistically accomplished Hollywood films, were confronting the template of the future--the film that would in one way or another determine everyone's career. Not surprisingly, almost every one of them hated it. Polite applause in the screening room, no cheers--a "real sweaty-palm time," Jay Cocks, who was also there, said. It's possible that, just this once, before the tsunami of marketing and megatude closed over "Star Wars" forever, these people were seeing the movie for what it really was--a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality. In other words, a bad movie.