Lucas lives in his own version of reality I like to call "Bizarro World". Where the 2004 set is perfect and the gout was good enough to placate those Older fans who did not get his "vision".
Also Jar Jar was such a great character he needed to be added to Return of the Jedi, lol what sane person wanted that!
Lucas seduced Spielberg with the Dark Side of Cgi and convinced him it would make Indiana Jones 4 better when Spielberg's instinct was to shoot it worldwide on location and use traditionally bulit sets props and models and Glass Mattes. He should have followed his first instinct. The entire movie looks like it was shot in a fucking rolls royce factory on green screen and Only us locations.
No going to Peru, tunisia, or any other location needed we can fake it all in the computer nobody will notice. I certainly did.
To this day i cannot fathom why Lucas, Spielberg, or Koepp still have a job in the film business i mean that movie was that bad.
It also sent Lucas the wrong message, the same wrong message of the prequels. It made more money than the first three Indy films combined before adjusting for inflation. How the fuck that movie made over 700 million dollars worldwide i will never know.
I understand the south park episodes message that Lucas assraped 2 franchises. Still these movies are critic proof and seemingly box office proof. any Indiana Jones or Star Wars film except clone wars practically gives Lucas a license to print money. Why else would he want INDY V. That being said i will never pay to see Indiana Jones V in the theater as my faith in Lucas ever making a good movie again is gone after 5 horrid movies in a row.