DuracellEnergizer said:

grainger said:

Qui Gon and Obi Wan both have terrible hair

Qui-Gon has terrible hair?!

It's obvious you're just jealous of his thick, luxurious tresses.

I have very thick hair (barbers have commented on it!) and I used to have it very long. It's the "long at the back, short at the front" part that's the problem (I know he has it tied back, rather than cut short at the front, but it has much the same effect).

Seriously, many people (at least here in the UK) were laughing at Qui Gon's hair when the movie came out (for example, a newspaper article called the Jedi the "bad hair crusaders"); maybe it's just something that's cool in one country and not in another, which I suppose isn't Lucas' fault, but I can only bring my own perspective to it.