Whoa, I think I am going to have to read Skywalking. Thanks for those quotes, sky. I really liked this quote and I think it is very true,

"Dale Pollock: I don't think he has any skill in directing good actors in any kind of film, big or small. To take talents like Samuel Jackson, Natalie Portman and Christopher Lee, and do so little with them, is almost criminal. I still don't think he enjoys directing, he only enjoys manipulating technology that doesn't talk back or have a different point of view."

As much of a movie whore Sam Jackson is these days, he is not a bad actor. A lot more could have been achieved with him than was. I do not find Natalie Portman to be all that great of an actress, but I hear she has pulled off some impressive roles since ROTS his the screens. And as for Christopher Lee, my goodness, this is where the Pollock quote rings the truest. How do you have a guy like this in your film and not throw him into as many scenes as you can? Instead George gives the guy less screen time than Ahmed Best! How does that happen? What wasted opportunities. In Ep. 3 George kills him off in his first scene, then replaces hims with a lame, over the top, 100% CG villain. Not sure how many serious writers or directors would do something like that when they have one of the greatest portrayer of villains of all time.

I also think Ewan is a pretty good actor, though in all fairness George did do a lot with him, and his scenes would have been the most entertaining to watch had they not been of the most mundane things (Ep.2 follows Jango Fett around the galaxy. Ep.3 follows General Grevious around the galaxy). Oh, that and the mullet from Ep.2, that thing was kind of hard to look at, glad when it was gone by the next film.