georgec said:

Maybe I'm just a hater and don't understand Lucas' brilliance as a director.

very few creative shots in the PT, especially TPM. :(

his brilliance is non-existent. And even before the PT, lucas was not highly thought of as a director within the filmmaking community.

during AOTC, mccallum said that he found a cool crane for lucas to use. he said lucas doesn't like crane shots.

reason being? "too cumbersome"

!!!

i mean, for f*** sake. he's a 'visual' filmmaker and doesn't want to have overhead shots!? when I read that, all those horror stories regarding the 1977 shoot of star wars lost resonance and it just drove home the point that lucas simply wants to put minimal effort into making these movies (too his credit, he did end up using the crane).

In one interview during TPM, Lucas claimed that he always wanted to go back to directing and blamed the media (as usual) for making it sound like he hates directing. Suffice it is to say, after the viewing the results of the PT- lucas does hate directing.