we have sat through three 3 hour lord of the rings movies, one star wars 3 hour movie would've been great even if some of the scenes would've brought the film an R rating or slowed down the pace of the film. The film should have been more important than the kiddies
The instant anyone asks for "R Rated Star Wars" is the minute they've lost touch with the films themselves. You can't say 'the film is more important than the kiddies' as the films were always intended FOR the kiddies. Even Episode III, with the gruesome immolation of Anakin--that fits pretty well with the old Aesop's fables and Grimm's fairytales sort of stuff that had darkness and violence in it. But to push that violence and darkness to the point where you exclude the very audience the movies were created for? That's way beyond shortsighted.