I’m of two minds on the Maul thing. I think bringing him back was a dumb idea and I’d never have done it if I was a showrunner, but once they’d done it they did go on to do some genuinely interesting things with him.
Wasn’t it Geroge’s idea?
Most of that show came from George’s ideas.
But that’s the key: they’re just his ideas. Not his writing or direction.
And? It was asked if it was his idea and the answer is “yes, most of that show came from George’s ideas”. Let’s not bash someone for the sake of bashing. And I don’t even think he’s a bad director.
Really?
Working with actors is one of the most (if not the most) important jobs for a director, and he can’t do it. He hates doing it and it shows on screen. He can’t make bad actors better, he makes marginal actors bad, and he makes great actors average.
I don’t think he makes actors’ performances worse. He just allows the actors to have their own interpretations. Naturally that works sometimes and doesn’t work lots of times.
He’s just not a actor’s director. But, for example, cinematography and editing in all 6 Lucas films, for me, are better than in the 3 movies we’ve had since he’s out.And for the record, I think we had some wooden acting in TLJ, mostly by Ridley and Boyega.
Cinematography… ehhhh
George has a great eye, really he does have a great eye for good images. But he can’t move a camera to save his life.
I disagree. THX 1138 and American Graffiti have some beautiful cinematography, just like the original Star Wars.
Of course he got pretty lazy in the prequels and adopted the ‘2 angles 1 couch’ method in the prequels, but you have some really beautiful images in the prequels.
First of all, a lot of the beauty of the images should really be attributed to the actual cinematographers (and VFX/SPFX artists and production designers) more so than Lucas.
Second, yeah, the cinematography in his first three films are good. Like I said, he has a good eye, even in the prequels. But I don’t think cinematography is necessarily the original Star Wars’s strongest suit (not saying it’s bad). I can’t agree at all that episodes I-VI have better cinematography. In fact, I think TLJ might be the best of all the films in this regard. And if not TLJ, then definitely ESB, but George had nothing to do with the cinematography in that.