Being an artist myself I must say that art is COMPLETELY subjective. Some artists would argue that if most can agree that is IS art than it cant possibly be art. My theory there being that if art talks to the masses it cant possibly have any depth or meaning. Some would consider ALL Star Wars movie to be artless swill. I believe we can ALL agree thats just not true. Art IS subjective. To me the artist Olivia is simply the greatest artist that has ever lived and Ive never seen why Picasso is held in such "High esteem". Most art critics would disagree with me.
Personally I dont think any PT would have been successful. Too many people had built up the OT as the end-all be-all of Star Wars movies and no matter what happened most would have hated them. People wanted Luke, Leia and their taxi-driver han running around again in the Millennium Falcon and that just wasnt going to happen. Sorry. :D
I personally love the PT.
The fights werent uninvolving and flat? Say whatever you want about the PT, hate it, loathe it, revile it but the lightsaber fights were amazing...I mean come on.
CGI vs Puppets. 99% of the time CGI looks better is this day an age, yes the orginal CGI Jabba was bad but he looks great now. The Puppet in TPM needs to be replaced with CGI. (yes I know thats been done and merely awaits release.) And I like the new musical number in Jedi.
Do I think Lucas is perfect, no. But I like FAR more of what he has done then what I dont. I like the OT the OTSE and the PT. Indy IV....is well garbage from start to finish. But Ford Spielberg and Lucas had to aprove of the story before it went forward, plenty of blame to go around. Its not just Lucas.
I tried watching Indy IV again and only could stomach about half the movie, its just awful, so I wont be watching that again. Id rather spend time watching movies I do love, Like Revenge of the Sith.