I just want to step in for a second and say that I'm really glad my thread has gotten off the ground like this. It didn't really get off the ground in exactly the way I planned, but... I'm glad to see I've inadvertantly started a discussion here. This is the newb in me showing, but the last threads I've started didn't really go anywhere, so I'm still excited about this.

And I've been meaning to get involved, but my knowledge doesn't really rival The Bizzle's, so I haven't been wanting to reply simply with, "Yeah, I agree!" because there's really no point to it. So this is really the best I can do on this topic. And I do agree. It's wrong to deify Gary Kurtz just because the movies he produced happened to be (arguably) the best two Star Wars movies. You might as well say that the Key Grip is responsible for the overall quality of a movie. I know that's going a bit too far to the other side, but you get the point.