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You Aught To Remember: Nuking The Fridge

By The Daily Dish
Nov 28 2009, 5:49 AM ET

Matt Sigl sends George Lucas a cease-and-desist letter:

It has come to our attention that your actions over the past decade in the production of the films Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode 3: Return of the Sith (hereafter referred to as "Star Bores") as well as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (hereafter referred to as "Grandpa Jones") infringes upon the rights of millions of moviegoers to preserve their childhood memories unscathed. This is a clear violation of your contract with the public to create films worthy of the legacy that you, yourself, began in 1977. Your recent actions have been grossly negligent, displaying a complete lack of regard for taste and artistic merit. Star Bores and Grandpa Jones represent a failure to satisfy the duty of care mandated for a filmmaker of your status. A partial list of the infringing acts are enumerated herein:

View Sigl's list here. Trey and Matt's admonition of Lucas was a little less subtle:



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