Star Wars!

Originally Posted by Vaginal Assault

Lucas had one good idea in his life that turned into a phenomenon, something that occurred only because other people took that good idea, honed it, and turned it into something remarkable. Other people made Star Wars great, Lucas only cashed in on it and took all creative credit.

Then, god-like Lucas made I - III. Nobody challanged his bad ideas. Nobody was willing to stick their necks out and say, "Well, this is a really shitty idea, George." Nobody had the guts, or rather, nobody had the desire to be fired. These movies hit theaters and subsequently ruined the franchise.

These new movies, however, will be interesting. Taking a step back, Lucas is only acting as creative consultant and, hopefully, will be put on a leash. As producer, he ruined Indiana Jones IV, but as creative consultant? I'm hoping the parent company will be brave enough to keep Lucas in check and let skilled writers, directors, and producers do what they do.

I'm not holding my breath, but I'll be happy to see something really cool, something like 2009 Star Trek, a new style and a new set of hands.

It's like I found the source of every uninformed opinion on the Internet!

The prequels are certainly meh, by and large. They are not "rape my childhood" bullshit. That's just the Internet agreeing on something and frankly, Lucas could've made Citizen Kane and the Internet would still be disappointed because of dumb preconceived notions. "But there's no Z-95 Headhunters" the interest cries, wiping tears all over their Return Of The Jedi comforters.

I know you're being factious about Indiana Jones IV but it goes to say Lucas didn't do anything you suggested. Spielberg and the writer and Harrison Ford all walked in willingly to that film. Lucas produced. After he had final say on the script, he had no control over anything else and even then, Ford and Spielberg agreed to do that script so the blame is just as much theirs.

(And that 2009 Star Trek movie was a Star Trek movie in name only. If you liked that, you've pretty much surrendered to bad taste and dubious public opinion. One imagines that same person selling matches and bits of string on a street corner, patting their chest reflexively with a gimp arm if they enjoy the photoshop flares and bad writing on that trash.)

Lucas sold his company because, lets be honest, he has no reason not to after the way we, the public, treated him for over a decade. He may be a man out of touch with people, but he was pretty much making movies people wanted to see in 1979; the rest of us got cynical in the meanwhile.

Jam it back in, in the dark.