Lucas was a genius in 1977 with Star Wars. But it’s humor and humanity came from his ex-wife. ESB was a great chase movie that had the benefit of GL’s imagination but it was driven by the sensibility of a mainstream action director. RotG basically showed Lucas being completely sick of the franchise. That movie was tired and off the rails. Decades later came the prequels. They unveiled GL’s modern bloated and unfettered storytelling ability when surrounded by people too afraid to keep him in check.
Once upon a time there was a young George Lucas who built ANH with the passion and purity of an art house director - one who loved film and drew from Kurosawa, Ford and Campbell. In contrast the prequels turned Star Wars into a giant engine for showcasing ILM’s CGI.
Did GL get out while the gettin was good?
I don’t know but I think Star Wars is fortunate enough to have gotten away from Lucas before he ran it completely into the ground.
Stars wars fortunate to have got away from lucas? Absolute rubbish.
Without lucas, what you get instead is a bunch of amateurs and hacks who only know how to copy and paste and repackage the old stuff as new.
The last jedi was a pile of horse dung, a corporate puke on the legacy of characters like luke skywalker, so much that mark hamill was embarrased by the way the hack rhian johnson destroyed the mythology.
Jar jar abrams is another hack also with his farce awakens.
Lucas was right to get rid. He doesnt have to deal with internet whingers who cried like babies and who lack respect for the man who created it all.
Without george lucas, the special effects industry probably would have been set back by at least a decade.
It was his idea for ILM to bring special effects to new standards. He deserves a lot more credit than people give him.
The fact he owned all his own work really pissed off many in hollywood.
If it wasnt for the whingers im sure he wouldnt have sold out to disney. He woukd have kept everything.
The only reason he sold to disney was because he always viewed disney highly as a child, and in a naive way believed they would treat his work with respect, but he failed to realise what disney has become today, a corporation that doesnt give a crap about anything other than the quick buck.
The white slaver comments pretty much sum up everything what he thinks.
Ironically Kathleen kennedy the palpatine hidden sith truly will run star wars into the ground quicker than george ever could.