If George thinks fans went into Phantom Menace WANTING it to be a bad film, he's nuts. We all spent years looking forward to the film and wanted it be be as good as possible. The fans who disliked Menace were VERY dissapointed. Had we gone in looking for the film to suck, we wouldn't have been dissapointed at all!!!!

I hate George's defense of his films when he says the critics hated all of his films. First of all EVERY film gets some bad reviews. Titanic and Forrest Gump got a huge number of terrible reviews and went on to win Best picture! Somehow all the Oscar nods SW got went over his head. Not to mention Empire got plenty of rave reviews even back in 1980 (Pauline Kael, one of the toughest critics ever said Empire was the only good SW movie!) and once Jedi came out, Empire's critical acclaim grew and grew. However, notice that even after Sith as come out, the critics and fans have remained pretty consistant on their views of Menace and Clones.

George may think he's in a power struggle with the current fans, but the lack of respect he shows for the "older" fans is at times a disgrace. After all, if it weren't for the hundreds of millions who bought movie tickets back in 1977 for his film, there would be no sequels, no special editions, no ILM, no Skywalker Ranch, and no prequels.