Wasn't he kinda swimming in DePalma's wake there with the split screens? (like in Sisters and Carrie)? More American Graffiti is an interesting movie. Without Dreyfuss it's like it has no rudder, but maybe that was the idea. The style is cool but the actual 4 stories are kind of boring. The pattern of Lucas' "producer projects" (the ones without Spielberg that is) is starting to emerge, like with Willow, Ewok movies, Young Indiana Jones, Radioland and now even this Clone Wars cartoon to take neat visuals and an interesting setting and characters to tell these really really generic stories.