Hayden's acting was horrendous in Episode II and III as well as Jumper.
Then there is that bad movie he is in with Jessica alba running and screaming saying "their trying to kill me" and all bad performances.
Never seen Life as a house but in every other Movie i have seen him in he is awful. They chose him for star wars because of the intensity of his eyes, and his brooding which they Called Being Like James Dean.
Brooding in every movie hardly translates to acting. To be fair to Hayden though Lucas had to be the worst Director ever for actors, he cannot direct actors as he is not a character director.
Faster. More Intense is all he does.
Some actors can compensate for awful dialogue and little or no direction Like Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark hamill also can have a sense of humor about it. Generally actors are put off by quiet directors who don't talk to them. Don't work with them to get a performance and stick them in front of a blue or green screen to act against cgi that with be put in later.
Shoot the actors seperately because a composite performance can be put together later. Have an actor just basically stand there and look dumb because the cgi backdrop you put in Later will distract the audience from the fact there is no acting or story.
Lucas should only do special effects, have someone else direct the actors and write the story.
He should direct the the cutscenes for videogame companies he would excel at that. Well as long as he leaves Jar Jar out,lol.
He is for pushing the technology of moviemaking forward at the same time he is the King of Wooden Dialogue and Twerp cinema.