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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2107966" data-attributes="member: 9045">I think the problem here is that some people are trying to compare the work Lucas did when he was 'young and hungry' to the work he's doing now.  Sure American Graffiti was good, Star Wars through RotJ was great even.  The man's done some fantastic stuff (and as many know, had a more hands-off approach to TESB and ROTJ), no doubt about that.  But are we discounting the fact that with all these successes he's become more insulated from the public, the pedistal he sits on has risen ever higher as the legend of Star Wars has grown without any efforts from him (thus elevating his own status even when he was either idle or doing something else)?  This is not the same man who did American Graffiti, or even the first three Star Wars movies.  This is George Lucas the mega-legend, and that kind of thing does affect people.  The odds are very good that every single person working on the prequels is in complete awe of him (Samuel L. Jackson and a few other of the big-name actors have stated at one time or another that they were reduced to slack-jawed fan-boys to be on board, in effect.  What do you think the assistant editor or conceptual FX guy was feeling to be working with GEORGE LUCAS on STAR WARS felt?), so I think the odds that anyone walked up to him and said "Mr. Lucas, I think this is going in a bad direction here, it's hurting the overall production of the movie in the biggest franchise of all time that you're helming and paying for all on your own" are pretty minimal.  I don't doubt for a moment that Lucas had (maybe even has) great talent.  But I see many signs that his position and prestige have clouded it greatly, and I think he lost touch with this particular franchise before he began making these prequels.And really, of course they're making money.  Star Trek movies can fail for being bad, we've had multiple TV series and multiple movies, it's not like as if we're all looking back at nothing but the original Trek series and saying "My god, Roddenberry's making 3 Trek movies after all this time!!  And..  wait..  that's not right...  oh hell!"  No, we have the original series, TNG, Voyager, DS9, Enterprise, and the movies..  we've been getting our fix all along, and so aren't so hungry for something new to bring it back and make it shine again like it did when it broke out of the threatres and swept us away.  Star Wars, on the other hand..  is kind of in that position.  It is my firm belief that Lucas could have very well made these movies in his garage with leggo people and they would have made money.</blockquote>

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