Is this thread about when people realised the prequels sucked or When people Realised George Lucas started to suck. I would say it was sometime After The last Crusade was released up until the Phantom Menace premiered.
There were some Signs early on Like More American Graffiti, Howard the Duck, and Radioland Murders. Return of the Jedi was a drop in quality between star wars and empire strikes back. And except for some Fine moments Young Indy basically bombed and sucked. I liked Willow but the critics hated it.
The first turd Lucas put out was the holiday special in 1978. He was also responsible for the awful temple of doom which incidentally is no longer the bastard outing of the Indiana Jones series. Crystal Numbskulls now is.
Indy IV was the single worst movie i saw in theaters since Ghostbusters 2. Even worse than the prequels because it ruined an icon. The only comparison i can make is If Lucas made episode 7 of star wars and crapped all over the characters of Luke, Han and Leia.
At least in the prequels i never cared for the characters or felt attached to them emotionally. They were cardboard cutouts in a video game cutscene.
I can attribute my 2 biggest cinema dissapointments in my entire Life to George Lucas. The First is 1999's the Phantom Menace aka the phantom plot movie, and the second is kingdom of the crystal Skull aka Crystal Numbskulls or kingdom of the crystal turd.
I just about walked out of the theater in 1999 when that Racist caricature Jar Jar Binks made his first Appearance. It was all downhill from there. I had extremely low expectations for Episodes II and III and still Lucas managed to dissapoint.
And you think the prequels were bad or had cringeworthy Dialogue Clone Wars was the worst piece of trash to ever come out of the star wars canon. Skyguy, Stinky and Artooie.
Even the bad and campy jokes of the 30's and 40's movie serials pale in comparison to the poor and juvenile jokes of the prequels, clone wars 2008 or Indiana Jones IV.
You never had Flash Gordon stepping in poo, or making a bizarre love conversation with dale arden while managing to be entirely wooden and creep audiences out at the same time stalker eyes.
I will never pay to see another peice of Lucas modern garbage filmaking again.
He has had way too many chances to get something right and had only gotten worse over time. He has had like 5 chances to make a good movie. And yet people still drink the Lucas kool aid. Ever hear the saying "fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
Lets count the times Lucas gave people a pig in a poke and they still showed up for his next serving of table crumbs.
1 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
2. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
3. Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
4. Indiana Jones IV: KOTCS
5 Clone Wars 2008
Apparently Lucas is well aware of his shortcomings as a screenwriter and director as he is neither writing or Directing Red Tales. He will only Executive produce the Tuskagee Airmen biopic. Even his colleague Spielberg lately had taken up the producers role Giving Trial of the Chicago Seven to Ben Stiller to direct and passing on Directing it Himself. God knows he certainly deserved a year off from directing after Indy 4 . That phoning in, ahem i mean film shoot must have been exhausting.