God those prequels were awful. Bad acting, terrible dialogue, plot holes galore, cutting away from action scenes just when action begins which totally destroys the pacing........ everything wrong with cinema making is included in those films.
I completely agree with the people who realize its because the original trilogy was made when Lucas wasnt a big name and wasnt surrounded by sycofantic suck-ups. He had people like Harrison Ford who said "You cant say crappy lines like this, its stupid" and people even taking the directing role off of him like in the best movie, Empire Strikes Back.
Lucas himself has even admitted in interviews that he is crap at writing dialogue i think the line in the interview was "its definitly not my strongest attribute".
I just cant understand why the man is so blatantly self-aware that he has a flaw in his talent-array, has so much cash, and yet doesnt HIRE a writer to work with to put his ideas into better focus and more quality.
He hires people to do the bleedin' special effects, and the costumes... he could do all those himself too but he isnt good at it. So why do the dialogue yourself when you're no good at that either? He's created the universe and the story, its not like people will say he's selling out because he's -only- co-writing it.... hell... its not like people will say he ever sold IN hehe.
I said after the prequels he'd make episodes 7-9, because he once said he originally planned out nine films, and with that fact and then the knowledge he'll sell his grandmother to make more cash than he'll ever need (like Star Wars - the Musical, and Star Wars - the soon and up coming COMEDY).... episodes 7-9 were ALWAYS going to be on the horizon at some point.
Oh he'll claim "the technology has caught up" to do them, or "it'll expand the story to its true meaning"...... but we all know why its coming.
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Its just lucky for him we'll pay him for that and not his grandmother.
