But promoting her work is part of her job. Is it part of yours?

But promoting her work is part of her job. Is it part of yours?

Yes, but point taken. Not nearly to the same extent. I haven't seen it, but my BF made me laugh, hard, when he pointed this out:

Imagine you're looking for a good place to live. What goes on your list of desirable features? In our world, the list probably looks like:

affordable
nice neighborhood
good landlord

and so on.

In George Lucas's world it looks like:

Must be made entirely out of lava.

Yes, there's a planet that seems to be mostly lava, and people have buildings set up on top of the lava (well, technically they're set up on volcanic rock, but there's still lava all around them).

But it gets dumber.

Obi-Wan and Darth Vader have a fight on top of a bridge over the lava. While they're fighting, a lava eruption lands on the bridge. It destroys the bridge. The bridge's getting destroyed causes the whole building to fall into the lava.

Now, here's the thing. You'd think the people who made this building--y'know, the one entirely surrounded by flowing, bubbling lava--would make it impervious to the lava. Maybe they can't. But in that case, this is, like, the 56th time this has happened to their building. Which, really, shame on them.

Actually, IRT whitefont: Earlier we see the buildings have energy shields on them that protects them from the lava. There's a shot pre-fight where we see lava dripping onto the roof of a building causing a shield to spark. When Obi-Wan and Anakin are fighting in the control room, they knock out the controls for the shield generator.

Ford famously improv-ed the riposte "I know" to Leia's declaration of love.

I've heard that she was so stoned she kept messing up the scene, and "I know" came out of his irritation at that fact.

Though I think I like the scene better if that isn't true.

So wishing I could've seen a more usual SLJ..."When you wanna lightsaber every motherfucker in the room...you really shouldn't. This force thing is all spiritual and shit."

I love this line.

I also like Natalie Portman, generally. I think she should meet me for dinner somewhere, and we can discuss how bad the Star Wars movies are over filet mignon and a nice cabernet.

I also like Natalie Portman, generally. I think she should meet me for dinner somewhere, and we can discuss how bad the Star Wars movies are over filet mignon and a nice cabernet.

I'm sorry, but you dropped way down on her dinner companion list because you're still crying about her haircut.

So I dropped from, what, 27 millionth to 28 millionth?

Y'all are easy, men. Not for me, mind you. To me you are like dialogue or character for Lucas. But you're easy about boring little Natalie Portman. But, thanks.

So I dropped from, what, 27 millionth to 28 millionth?

Way, way lower. They ran out of numbers and had to express it with an abstract symbol.

But you're easy about boring little Natalie Portman.

She's not boring. She's very interesting to look upon.

Oh yes, my respect for Portman is almost entirely physical. But I do like the fact that she insisted on going to college and also was an active, vocal supporter of the Kerry campaign. Plus, she actually sounds fairly interesting in a way I would never really want to date in her interviews.

Of course, she turned down the role of Lolita (and panned the story as disgusting, which is true but doesn't make it any less great) after accepting the role of Matilda in Léon, which annoys me a bit, but I suppose twelve-year-olds don't necessarily have the best judgment about what qualifies as scary morally and what doesn't.

Keira Knightley is hotter. But I think I'd rather meet NP. And I'd rather meet Alyson Hannigan than either of them, and she's both married and too old for me.