Do Star Wars fans have appreciation for the wrong Lucas?
As a OOT fan, sometimes I think about the Special edition or the prequels and wonder What the hell happen to George Lucas?... Did he go crazy sometime after 1983? Now, after think about for 11 years I think I have an answer...
"George Lucas has always been like this".
George Lucas has always sucked...but, why are the OOT and the first Indy good?
The only answer I can find is Marcia Lucas (George Lucas' Ex-wife).
Marcia and George were married from 1969 to 1983 which are the best years of Lucas' film-work. Marcia was the editor of the OOT and even won Academy Award for Film Editing for Star Wars in 1977. After their brake-up, George's film work gets bad. I have to question if Marcia have a bigger hand in the OOT then just editing them. Did George talk to his wife Marcia about the OOT and did she give input? Did Marcia tell George what was bad in his ideas when he was working on the OOT?
George Lucas film-work after Marcia:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (the first time George Lucas decided to make a prequel.) (even Spielberg said in 1989: "Temple of Doom is my least favorite of the trilogy")
The Ewok Adventure (1984)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
Captain EO (1986)
Willow (1988) (story)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (which I like, but some do not like)
Radioland Murders (1994)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)