i know the 'it' of which you speak. there is a certain magic to these movies that is beyond nostalgia. everything in it still pretty much better/cooler than any movie to date: the ships, the weapons, the events, the music, the scenery, and just the massive scope alone. beyond that, i think that Lucas set something in to motion and it was luckily, taken off his hands by people who were commited to making awesome movies with all the tools they had availible to them at that time, something which, as we now know, Lucas hardly knows anything about.