George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

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

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Yeah but...

[mstefanus]

I will make no other comment

No comment is also a comment...

Re:The man deserves it

[Dunkelzahn]

I think Revenge of the Sith is going to change alot of people's views of the Prequels and the Original Trilogy, in a good way. Judging from various leaks, spoilers, and Hyperspace tidbits, I think Revenge of the Sith will be the best of the prequels, and will be more than worthwhile.

As for Jar-Jar - we're supposed to hate him. He's the dumb bitch who hands the Republic over to Palpatine on a silver platter, so...

Re:and maybe next year...

[sgant]

Yeah, actually I think he fits in well on "Boston Legal"...even though it's "LA Law" meet's "The Practice" meet's "Ally McBeal" (which is no shocker since they were all David E. Kelly productions (Kelly took over "LA Law" at the end btw)).

Re:It's a tremendous achievement

[ScrewMaster]

In that case Bill Gates would have been winning it every year, hands down. But since Bill Gates' lifetime achievement can be summed up in one word: "Windows", the statue or whatever goes to Lucas instead.

Re:This is embarassing

[inkswamp]

Give it up. I've tried modding some of the outright flamebaitery where posters call Lucas every filthy word in the book and every time I do it, I get meta-modded as "unfair." There is a massive amount of anti-Star Wars venom on Slashdot (hell, this post will likely get modded as "troll" at some point too.)

Some folks around here have taken to hating Lucas with a sort of religious zeal and nothing you can say will change that. I grew up with Star Wars as a massive component of my life, and I think the new versions of the films kick the old versions' asses up and down the street a half-dozen times. But some people around here disagree and won't tolerate opposing points of view. Frankly, I think it's a little unhealthy to get so wrapped up in this stuff that you allow it to affect your emotions and judgment to that extent.

HarveyBirddman, if you want to engage in more mature and meaningful discourse about the films, go to The Force.net and try out their fan forums. Much more respectful and knowledgeable and level-headed group there and it's not as Lucas-worshipping as you might at first assume (plenty of valid critiques of Lucas there without the emotional outpouring and the wailing about ruined childhoods.)

Honestly, I don't know why Slashdot insists that this stuff should be posted here anymore. Clearly, the Slashdot crowd and the Star Wars fan do not overlap much nowadays.

you would think

[geekoid]

that a place that alledgedly devoted to 'News for Nerds' would appriacte this a lot more.

1) Made Sci-fi movies Mainstream
2) Set ground work for technology to make better sci-fi movies
3) Created the most Kick ass Sci-fi movie of it's time.
4) Independant film maker

What's with the haters?
Quite frankly this 'it's big and worth a lot of money so lets hate it attitude has gotten old.' Except for Google. Speak bad about Google and you'll be moderated down to hell.

Re:I will.

[Junior J. Junior III]

Hint: They give "Lifetime achievement" awards when they think it's time for you to stop making movies.

Hint 2: This award is being given to him BEFORE the theatrical release of Episode III.

Therefore, I think this Lifetime Award idea has a lot of merit to it...