THE CELLULOID MENACE

Perhaps George Lucas is still haunted by the reception received by 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' but it looks like he's getting his excuses in pretty early for the upcoming 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', claiming that fans tend to expect too much from a long-awaited franchise film and that he's not in this business to make money anyway.

This is the attitude that made the leaden dialogue and cod-philosophy of 'The Phantom Menace' such a jaw-dropping waste of time, so hopefully as producer Lucas won't be able to spread his anti-Midas hands all over the latest Indiana Jones.

"We came back to do ('Indy') because we wanted to have fun. It's not going to make much money for us in the end. We all have some money... It would make a lot of money if you weren't rich. But we're not doing it for the money."

Nothing to do with money then, which is a refreshing attitude from a man rich enough to stuff swans into his neck like a pelican and keep them there just above the tie-line.

"When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming. And it's not. But if you went back and looked at the other movies, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up… When people approach the new ('Indiana Jones'), much like they did with 'Phantom Menace,' they have a tendency to be a little harder on it.

You're not going to get a lot of accolades doing a movie like this. All you can do is lose."

Especially if you put Jar Jar fucking Binks in it. So in a nutshell, 'If you like it, I'm great. If you don't, you expected too much. Either way, I get paid.'