AxiaEuxine said:
I have stated that I am subject to hyperbole. I am simply tired of people bashing various aspects of Star Wars AND Lucas who is a genius in my book since 1997. I was over exageratting the quality of film in the late 70's to make a point which unfortuantly has become the focus of this debate.

I see zero evidence of genius from 97 onwards. The original films might be evidence of genius, if I didn't feel the greatness of those films was the result of the coming together of multiple talents in the right place at the right time. And I think Lucas has earned the bashing by doing what he did to the old films and by putting out horrendous trash like AOTC and ROTS and trying to pass it off as Star Wars.