Originally posted by: Cable-X1

The PT isn't all bad though. It does have the magic in parts, but overall they fail on many levels. That leads me to believe that Star Wars was never all Lucas. It was him, Kurtz, Kirschner, Kasdan, the actors, etc.

Yeah, I was just watching "Empire of Dreams" and you can see the group effort that went into it. Lucas is a fine filmmaker, but like all good filmmakers, you need help in making a great movie. Without a group effort, you might as well never make it. There was no "group effort" on the PT. Lucas did almost everything, and then a handful of people went and made everything with CGI.

Now, this may be off topic, but I've also noticed that in Empire of Dreams, when you look at George Lucas on the set, he looks like the kind of guy who makes great films. But when you look at him in interviews from today, he looks like a big idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. Steve Speilberg has always looked like the kind of guy who makes great films. Nothing's changed. But what changed with George? I think I know the answer.

When the 20th anniversary of Star Wars came up, Lucas realized he never had moved on to other things, and that made him feel "insecure." His other friends he'd gratuated with (Speilberg, DePalma, Scorcese, Coppola) had all made dozens of great films, and still were. This insecurity made him change his films and re-release them to make sure people remembered who he was and that he made great films. He made the PT for the same reason, and you can see the insecurity in the special editions and the PT, especially in the PT. It never has a focus, it's just a lot of stuff that tries to impress us because he was insecure. He wanted to prove he was as good as his friends, but the truth is, to do that, you can't define yourself by one film or one series.