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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2119279" data-attributes="member: 8863">Actually my point is that the idea of "Best Picture", "Best Actor", "Best Director", and so on, aren't really all that objective as criteria for judging films IMO.  These selections have at least as much to do with internal Hollywood politics as they do with actual merit.  People who win them do so at least partially out of favor from the Academy, and not just purely because they were the best.  I also see some of it as a matter of taste, and thus harder to judge objectively.    Awards like Costume Design, Visual Effects, Makeup, and so on tend to be a bit more objective because there's less (if any really) of those politics involved.  Perhaps you may disagree, but that's my view of things.I'm not going to bother getting into the long pointless argument of how good or bad Lucas is at making these films that has dominated the thread.  I've read it enough times already, in several different variations.  I do agree that Lucas isn't great at dialogue, particularly romantic dialogue, and he does seem to focus a bit too heavily on special effects. Certainly his weakness with dialogue hurt the whole romance with Anakin and Padme in Episode II.  But otherwise I thought AotC wasn't that bad.  TPM seems weak too, but like I stated before, it's not meant to stand alone, but rather part of a greater whole.  Certainly Lucas knew that much way back in the 70's when he decided to start Star Wars where he did, rather than with the fall of the Republic.  And no, I don't believe Lucas had all of TPM in mind when he wrote up the final scrpit of Star Wars, although there are some ideas that go back that far.</blockquote>

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