Star Wars D+3 Final thoughts...

Ok. Now that the movie has sunk in for a couple of days. I think I finally know what has been so wrong with me and the new star wars.

All the things I have said in my other post I am still going to say. I think it was warranted at the time because yet again, I was just so pissed off. For this post, however, I will sing to a different tune, one that is not so quickly rushed by my darker side.

So this is now how I feel. I think that George Lucas, after directing the original SW, made a great decision in not directing episodes five and six. Empire is still thought to be the best movie out of the six. Why? Because Irvin Kershner directed and did an absolutely wonderful job. The same with Jedi. Lucas wrote the story, but with a little help from others that story was honed and tempered into mithril instead of the dud iron which consisted of the prequals. For the prequals Lucas' heart was in the right place, but his love of cg and lack of a good editor and cast doomed the movies to dull dialogue and wooden characters. Put bluntly, he sucks as a director and it shows. To me, this is inexcusable. I have literally gown up with star wars. My inner child is bound to this fantasy in so many ways. I remember spending whole days trying to fathom the workings of a blaster pistol and the width of a lightsaber blade. In high school we used to talk endlessly about the Emperor and quote every line. Did the Emperor try to release a force storm after he was thrown haplessly to his doom and fail? Did Lucas form his 'Empire' idea from Issac Asamov's 'Foundation?' This fantasy was ALIVE in us! It FLOWED through us! It bound our GALAXY together!
So now when I look at phantom menace, I am expecting to see finesse. Not a cartoon. I want to see dramatic scenes, not a cg character that says "Exqueese me" I want more Palpatine, more GOOD directing! If even half the movie was directed like this, I would have been pleased.
The choppy scenes and half assed acting that consist of the prequals are a real drag. Plus it seems that a lot of lines are similar to his original three movies. I didnt catch this at first, but I found myself realizing Lucas was reusing lines from the first saga. WTF? Once again and for the last time I say, hey man, you're messing with my religion here. Please dont cut and paste, it's just SO sloppy! I've heard it before! It was cool the first time Han said "I've got a bad feeling about this," and then Leia said the line. And then 3PO said the same line. etc etc... But to do that again for the prequals is just not cool. And I know this is not really a fair thing to demand of Lucas. But you know what? It really could have been better. Even if it was the same frikin script for each movie, a different director would have worked wonders. We would have actually cared that Anakin turned, actually believed in the transformation. If they would have cut the cg crap down about 1/3 of what it is now, it would have been amazing. Truly it would have. Fine you can do space cg, I accept that. But yoda? And storm troopers?
Ahh... I dont want this to be a rant. Anyway. If George Lucas ever read this I would have this to say to him.
I am very disappointed in you. You are not a good director and you should have left that for someone else. Shame on you for doing such a bad job. If I were a professor, I would give you a F+ A whole lot of people were counting on you, and you failed them. Forever. My inner child is crushed, and you dont seem to care. SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU!