it was too early… seriously, stop it Frank, you tend to be quite ridiculous when you don’t accept you’re wrong.
The Lumière brothers were too early: the first movie in history doesn’t look good by today’s standards !
Méliès was too early: it’s not even 24 fps !
etc.
=> innovation is never too early. I’m shocked to read such conservativ (reactionary) comments on a SW forum, really…
Lucas used a tech that was “more confortable” for him ? Yeah : Lucas is a control freak. All his life he wanted total control over his creation. He accepted a lower salary on the first SW in order to get more control over the final cut. He made of Episode V-VI-I-II-III the most successful INDEPENDANT movies ever ! Yeah: INDEPENDANT (he financed most of the beloved TESB himself !). He missed the point on several occasions, though (the PT has many continuity issues here and there), but it can’t be denied the guy had the same philosophy during his entire career (the failure of the PT has nothing to do with that: TPM is what SW77 could have been without the hard work he put in it and the people to give him advice on many things).
(and by the way, the prequels look good. I’ve rewatched a few AotC scenes on my 55 inch screen - not even the bluray but the kk650 regraded and quite compressed HDTV version - and it looks very good. Even CGI Yoda still looks very impressive for a 16 years old model - and I don’t think people are really able to see any difference between 2K and 4K anyway…).
Like I already said: we can be mad at Lucas for the SE, for the PT, for not letting us get high quality GOUT, for being a very lazy producer (most of what he produced is very bad… 2 Indiana Jones movies included), for destroying the careers of talented people (Marcia Lucas, Gary Kurtz…), etc. But we can’t argue the guy is one of the most important filmmakers of the past decades, like James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg.