Sure he's probably gotten greedy over the years, and yeah, a lot of the franchise stuff is junk but what other director/artist/writer of the current era has had the willpower, vision and skill to create such a strangely complex and powerful vision? Star Wars is a major work of crazy art that fits its time period incredibly well.

It is an unparalleled phenomenon if you really think about it. If you don't believe me, check out "American Graffiti" to see the same thing in micro-scale. Lucas was and still is a master of zeitgeist. He's not a normal movie maker or visual artist, he's (sorta like William Gibson, Ray Bradbury(especially), Isaac Asimov, Orson Welles, etc) a folklorist of mass culture.

Oh yeah and in addition to Star Wars he also created Indiana Jones which everyone always seems to forget.

mr4fingers

Jeff-Minor

And to be truthful, Herbert stole just as much from Muslim, Japanese, and European texts as Lucas stole from the things BASED on said texts.

Falconfire

Master Aramil

codydog

Not the SW prequel turds though. It's not because they're for kids and I'm not a kid anymore, it's because they are bad films and I haven't started liking bad films all of a sudden.

lukeoneil47

My take: wonder if any of these people really ever liked SW, I mean, so much spit wasted for a movie. Never heard of diminishing returns?
Grow up (or join the u.k. jedis ...).

MarlboroTestMonkey7

your movies don't suck. you made some great kids movies and it's unfortunate that many fans that enjoyed the originals when they saw them the first time in middle or high school are unable or unwilling to accept the fact that they enjoyed them because they were kids movies. you made a series of prequels that were widely successful in that same age group and not surprisingly abhorred by the teenagers of yesteryear that simply grew out of them. some people make kids movies that transcend age, you don't, and rabid fans would be far better adjusted if they would just accept that and move on.

tetracycloide

BohlBERG

The third worse thing is people with no sense of humor who hate Jar-Jar and the "Little Fuzzies" AKA Ewoks. Jar Jar was Gabby Hayes, you know? Comic relief? Comic? Never mind.

codydog

Would it be too difficult to hire some writers that have a proven track record (selling books perhaps)to write for you? The movies can look great, but the lines those poor actors have to read are soooo pathetic. George, you are not a good writer, you are a concept man.

Jeff-Minor

besides , it's lucas's franchise , he can do whatever the hell he wants to do with it .

antimatty

Everything else was just sort of meh. Not even Christopher Lee or the novelty of having Samuel L Jackson play a bad-ass Jedi Master could save those films.

Lizfu

MKrick

TheAlmanac

That's not to say he won't change his mind again in 2115, of course.

Dunc

rbb

ArtHeist

Cacafuego

WickedGlee

Tiwa

I think there's a lot to like in the prequels, yes. I also like Spongebob Squarepants, despite the fact that I am not its target audience.

BaronVasDeferens

Dunc

Dunc

moncapitaine

I don't see it that way. We dwell too much on the positives and what things could have been, so we're let down and then get bitter. Who knew that the first sequel to Star Wars was going to be BETTER?

GenXCub

gods-n-clods

Then again, it's a sad fact that people will always dwell more on negatives.

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san_marino

Capn_Marrrrk

Mathmos

demonwolf

Angryrider