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George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by michael on from the your-father-can-never-be-turned-from-the-Dark-Side dept.

KefabiMe writes "George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."

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  1. Lucas Also Plans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To receive the Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition in 2005, and the Super Extended Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition Platinum in 2014.

    1. Re:Lucas Also Plans by feidaykin · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yeah, in a recent interview, Lucas said:

      "I was only about 40% happy with the original award. There were things we just couldn't do when I first got it. The new award, I am 95% happy with. The fans of the awards may take some issue with it, but the award is for me, not them."

      Spoiling the joke by explaining it here: The 40% figure is what Lucas said about how happy he was with the original Star Wars when it was finished in 1977. He then went on to say he was 95% happy with Episode I. Which proves that the less happy he is with a film, the more happy everyone else is... ;)

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  2. Its not over! by bigwayne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until 20 years down the road, when he releases the DVD of the AFI program, replacing a 60 year old Lucas with a virile 20 year old version of himself. There will be space battles, too.

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  3. Re:past winners by fallen1 · · Score: 5, Funny
    2000 Harrison Ford

    YES! At least Han _won_ first and Lucas can't change it. ;-)

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  4. Re:Hmmmm... by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's an immense achievement. Jar-Jar was so bad that it made the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft.

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  5. Re:woohoo by ibentmywookie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indian Jones? What are they outsourcing fucking movie actors now?

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  6. Re:Good by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wrong, now he has confirmation he needs to pursue episodes VII, VIII, and IX. No, as a lifetime achievement award winner, no one will question his decision to rework the triology so that Han Solo's name is actually Beau, and in episode VII we learn that Beau and Luke are cousins, and Han's long lost father returns, Uncle Jessie. The empire is defeated, but pockets of control remain throughout the galaxy, especially on the planet of Hazzard. Here Beau and Luke, the newly named Dukes of Hazzard, are sent to eliminate the remaining emperial forces. Lando, will of course have taken the Millenium Falcon, but that's ok because Beau will reveal that he has been working on a supped up ship, named after one of the great hearo's of the rebel resistance, the General Lee. Finally the Star Wars vision, the Lucas vision, can be realized.

    Oh... and I've heard in episode VIII Beau and Luke will run into a group of wrongly accused ex-rebel fighters, named Murdoch, Hannibal, Face, and B.A. Barachus. I pity the fool who misses this movie!

    And finally, we might see N-Sync do a cameo in the movie (that would be awesome d00d).