and then this: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-George-Lucas-Is-the/134942
The exhilarating eight-minute battle over Coruscant that opens Revenge of the Sith (2005), with its dense cloud of stately destroyers, swooping starfighters, and fiendish buzz droids, cuts optical pathways that are as graceful and abstract as the weightless skeins in a drip painting by Jackson Pollock. An ILM technician calls Lucas a “great master-weaver,” guiding and gathering the fine stitching of his army of gifted fabricators.
the exhilarating eight-minute battle? exhilarating? i don’t think so.