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InfiniteMick posted...

George Lucas did a great job creating the universe.
But as a director? Let's be honest here, he sucks.

To be fair, a lot of the strength of the original films was rooted in him stealing a lot of ideas from other movies (like The Hidden Fortress and Flash Gordon), then running his rough draft scripts past other, much better directors (like Spielberg, Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian De Palma) so they could point out to him which ideas were incredibly stupid.

It's also telling that a lot of ideas that wound up getting removed from the original scripts during that process wound up getting put back into the scripts for the prequels after everyone had helped convince George Lucas that he was actually a genius, and he stopped listening to everyone else's advice.

And then you have things like other people coming in to write better screenplays or being better directors, and actors ad-libbing better lines while filming.

Basically, Lucas has always been vastly overpraised for the success of the original films, and it seems like the more control he had over the franchise at any given point, the worse it was.



InfiniteMick posted...

During the filming of the first Star Wars, everyone else on the set thought it would flop.

So did most of the executives at 20th Century Fox when they saw the preliminary cut of the movie.

And it probably would have, if his wife at the time hadn't gone into the editing room and re-edited it without George getting in the way and continuing to ruin things.

Again, it seems like almost every good thing about Star Wars only happens when people take control away from Lucas.


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