Its not that the PT story was not designed well for the medium of cinema, because it was. Lucas had one of the most powerful stories in the history of the medium, something as impactful as Godfather II, but he fucked it up. Why? Because he just isn't talented and competent as a writer and director to do it. Speilberg could have done it, Coppola could have done, hell Rick McCallum may very well have been able to do it (considering he was doing low budget indies in 1990), but no matter what the material was, whether it was Indiana Jones IV, Episode I, or his impending Red Tails film, no matter what material he had he still would have fucked it up because George Lucas in 2007 simply can't do it.
Its not that the PT story was not designed well for the medium of cinema, because it was. Lucas had one of the most powerful stories in the history of the medium, something as impactful as Godfather II, but he fucked it up. Why? Because he just isn't talented and competent as a writer and director to do it. Speilberg could have done it, Coppola could have done, hell Rick McCallum may very well have been able to do it (considering he was doing low budget indies in 1990), but no matter what the material was, whether it was Indiana Jones IV, Episode I, or his impending Red Tails film, no matter what material he had he still would have fucked it up because George Lucas in 2007 simply can't do it.