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<blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 2098260" data-attributes="member: 4049">As I (and others) have already stated, financial windfall doesn't necessarily translate into a successful film.&nbsp; The money made by SW does not reflect great stories or even great movies.&nbsp; Episode I did well by virtue of its name and association, not by its story, characterizations, dialogue, and so forth.&nbsp; The fall out between Episode I and Episode II was considerable because people were more wary about the hype the second time around.&nbsp; And, let's be honest now, SW has become more about spectacle... People see it because everyone else has seen it, not necessarily because it was a great film.I'm curious about those numbers... Are they associated with inflation and such?Hardly.&nbsp; Have my own website.&nbsp; However, at Dicefreaks, we typically read everyone's posts in their entirety.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Touche.&nbsp; Still disagree with the suggestion that a position can't be taken.I think someone else mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating.&nbsp; The issue here isn't so much that SW have been bad films.&nbsp; It's that they have not been what they could have been because George Lucas doesn't know how to write a cohesive story with decent characterization nor can he direct people with great efficiency.&nbsp; The drama is all there, right below the surface, but Lucas failed in RotJ, TPM, and AotC to bring it to the fore because he's incompetent and inept in those areas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Serge, post: 2098260, member: 4049"] As I (and others) have already stated, financial windfall doesn't necessarily translate into a successful film. The money made by SW does not reflect great stories or even great movies. Episode I did well by virtue of its [i]name[/i] and [i]association[/i], not by its story, characterizations, dialogue, and so forth. The fall out between Episode I and Episode II was considerable because people were more wary about the hype the second time around. And, let's be honest now, SW has become more about spectacle... People see it because everyone else has seen it, not necessarily because it was a great film. I'm curious about those numbers... Are they associated with inflation and such? Hardly. Have my own website. However, at Dicefreaks, we typically read everyone's posts in their entirety. :P Touche. Still disagree with the suggestion that a position can't be taken. I think someone else mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating. The issue here isn't so much that SW have been bad films. It's that they have not been what they could have been because George Lucas doesn't know how to write a cohesive story with decent characterization nor can he direct people with great efficiency. The drama is all there, right below the surface, but Lucas failed in RotJ, TPM, and AotC to bring it to the fore because he's incompetent and inept in those areas. [/QUOTE]

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