I was going to bring up the Terrence Stamp story because that is so indicative of what was wrong with the movies. Ever see the Star Wars auditions? They have different actors in different combinations and it shows why Lucas' new technique doesn't work. When one actor would read his lines intensely, the other actor would ramp up his intensity. When the same actor was with someone else who was reading more lowkey, his performance was more subdued as well. Seems fairly obvious, doesn't it? When actors are acting against a ping pong ball on a stick instead of other actors, the whole movie suffers. Even when actors were together, Lucas would take one actor from one take and another actor from a different take and combine them digitally. To do this, he couldn't have clashing performances so everyone had to act blandly.

I voted all sucked equally. Yeah, it was because of Lucas, but he wasn't an actor in the films.