Lord Haseo said:

First of all let me quote myself...

The truth is that George Lucas only made one masterpiece in his career, and that’s the weirdly underappreciated American Graffiti.

Empire Strikes Back......I rest my case.

So overated.....not in the slightest. >_>

Except Lucas didn't make ESB... Kirschner did!

Which is the point being made. 'American Graffiti' is the only good film he made on his own, all credit to him. ANH was great also but it took a huge team of genius editors, sound crew and FX bods to rescue the disaster he'd shot.

Many of the great moments in ESB were crafted by Kirschner on set. He shot the carbonite scene as scripted and it sucked so they improvised the classic "I know" line. A moment that ties with "I am your father" as the emoional climax of the movie.