skyjedi2005 said:
On Empire as beautiful as the photography is, and that the finished film was marvelous, Kersh almost went to Kubrick style levels in the filming and set ups, totally out of bounds in a Lucas production.
Really?
I know he went over time and budget and went through a flurry of multiple takes but is ESB any more 'arty' than Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or Superman The Movie?
Raiders being the pertinent call, being a Lucas production and pretty close in terms of development to how the Star Wars sequels were made.
The simple truth is Return Of The Jedi is not that good a Star Wars film, it's not quite as bad as the PT (which is why it tends to get overlooked) but it's where the rot set in.
None of the Indiana Jones films even approach Raiders either.
After Raiders Lucas just plain lost any mojo he may have had (probably because of the Marcia thing).
From then on it was a case of knocking them out as infrequently as he could get away with and selling the toys, videos, video games, comics etc and not worrying about the quality or even the quantity of the films themselves.