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Equally irritating as the Lucas-speech arguement is the inevitable arrival into any spirited SW discussion of the guy who's only fallback is "YOU COULDN'T MAKE THE PT, SO, SO...YOU'RE A STUPID HEAD!".
I don't need to be able to out-direct Lucas to say his actors (ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTORS!) look lost and totally directionless in most scenes. I don't need to be a better screenwriter to say that TPM has stilted dialogue no human would ever say and suffers from a long string of jokes which absolutely fail to land on any level. It may be only my opinion, but outside of pre-school enforced niceness, my ability to produce a better film has no bearing on my ability to fairly say what I think about said film, nor should it.
I usually abbreviate this by saying "I don't need to be a chef to know when my food tastes like ****."
In seriousness, though, the "You can't do it better" thing is generally irrelevant.
But then again, so's hatin' on the PT. It is what it is. I mean, I can say it's lousy, but at this point, arguing about it might as well just be an installment of Even Stephven.
Plus, at this point, I just basically ignore them. They diminished my love for the franchise as a whole, but not for the original films. Nor has Uncle George's steadfast refusal to release a true archival copy really diminished my enjoyment of the originals, except insofar as I cannot get a reasonable copy of them anymore.
For those who don't get it, the "original" OT is functionally unavailable on home media in anything that anyone here would call a reasonably viewable form.
There is no hi-def version of the originals. At all. The DVD release from 2006 is ripped from a laserdisc, which has lower resolution than a standard DVD, let alone a blu-ray. What's more, it's non-anamorphic letterbox.
If you want to understand what that means in a practical sense,
check out this website.