generalfrevious

Creative consultant=100% control. (Remember crystal skull anyone?)

I guess the pre-divorce Lucas was just an average, "effective" director like JJ Abrams is nowadays. And then when ANH became successful his ego took over and he made creative decisions based on how much money it would make. That's why Lucas hates ESB and loves ROTJ, and is disappointed that no one prefers his visionary SE to the originals. SW is Lucas and Lucas is SW in his mind; no room for the real creators of the franchise.

SilverWook said:

If he had, what the heck would would we have done with our free time and disposable income the past 36 years?

A world without Star Wars is not a pleasant concept. 

I am of the opinion that Lucas had nothing to do with SW; he might have been nothing more than just a hired hand for the first film and later revised history to make it look like he was the mastermind of the whole franchise. It's like saying Star Trek would not have existed without Rick Berman.

If only it was better... Seriously, Jedi was the lynchpin of the whole series. Its falling short is a greater source of bitterness than the whole PT. 

Lucas is just a hick from Modesto who couldn't handle the burden of taking on the SW franchise he claimed to have created and alleges as his vision. He should of just stayed home and taken over his father's walnut farm.

I'm going to bet that out of the three films, Lucas had the most control over ROTJ, and that's why it is the weakest of the three. Thank God he didn't completely ruin that film.

Speaking of Kurtz, I believe he was the first victim of George's purging of any dissenting voices. By the time Jedi was released from theaters he was purging Marcia from the official story as well. At least ROTJ has some humanity in it, unlike the later prequel films, in spite of its more commercial direction. Let's face it, Lucas would be living on the streets if the very people he later threw out did not save ANH in editing. 

They shouldn't have Anakin live on tattooine in the first place! They just lazily added that planet into the plot of every movie except ESB. 

The obvious answer is that the script was being written as the movie went along. 

Ewoks are obviously more marketable than wookies, especially in light of the holiday special. Any mention of toyetic bears in the SW franchise did not exist prior to 1982; marketing was forced on the story.

The Ewoks only existed to sell toys. Everyone knows this. 

Otherwise, the movie falls in the middle. Not on par with the first two, but way superior to the following movies. 

That means George Lucas has the same intelligence level as Palpatine. This was just a left-handed explanation of the PT. 

on second thought, he did study anthropology back in college. Maybe the SW galaxy is an example of a world without intelligence. 

I would think that Palpatine has an IQ slightly below average (90-95), but most people around him are dumber than him and are easily manipulated, plus the Jedi as shown in the prequels are no longer the ideal guardians they supposedly were before the prequels. So if anyone is born in the galaxy who is smarter than him, it would be a threat. 

Maybe Palpatine invented the dumb prophecy about an akin bringing balance to the force in order to have his implies creation destroy the weakened Jedi order, because they are stupid enough to believe it. 

We all know how dumb most people act in the star wars films. But here's a question: are people in the SW galaxy statistically dumber than we are in our own world? It would help explain why the Emperor was able to rule the galaxy by the end of the PT, and this idea was from another user here, but it helps explain a lot of plot holes in the six movies. 

TV's Frink said:

Unless this is Steve Allen, you're stealing my bit!

Sorry, I didn't know I was ripping you off.

And I thought I heard Willow was a ripoff of the Hobbit.

georgec said:

Seriously nobody else loves Willow?

:P

I saw it once, in fifth grade.

At least TPM has a nostalgic factor for me (sorry), but the later two prequels I really hate. They're unwatchable to me.

Foe me, it would be a tie between ANH and ESB at the top, ROTJ a close third, TPM a more distant fourth, and AOTC and ROTS tied for the worst movie ever.

Well the fact that Luke and Leia were siblings was not written into the story yet when ANH and ESB were filmed.

who knows, maybe the sequels could be okay, but I doubt they will hold a candle to ANH or ESB.

The sequel films will most likely fall in the middle. The prequels are too incompetently made to be topped by Disney. At best they will be on the same level as ROTJ.

These might be worse than the prequels. 

It would be a twist if in episode VII they did have a third death star, but failed to destroy it at the end...

Three times: The Faces VHS set back in 97 (or my parents did)

Then I received the 04 DVDs for Christmas of that year

Then I bought the GOUT reissue in 2009.

What if they decided to build a third Death Star?

TV's Frink said:

I just hope Disney doesn't make a movie called "Revenge of the 5ith."

Or a SW/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover