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Originally Posted by kysirsoze
I think that Lucas has so much money and power at this point that he is incapable of making a good film. IMO the only reason the original trilogy was good, was because he had talented people checking him constantly and a studio looking over his shoulder.
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He didn't have a studio "looking" over his shoulder. Star Wars was independently financed by Lucas from his profits from "American Graffiti".
As a matter of fact, he literally saved 20th Century Fox from extinction.
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Originally Posted by kysirsoze
With the new trilogy, he got everything he wanted and they were horrible. ROTS was an improvement but still lacked soul or really any interesting conflict since the first two didn't do anything to make me care about anyone involved.
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I like "TPM" quite a bit. Where he screwed up was casting Hayden Christensen and listening to internet chatter, resulting in a horrible "Attack of the Clones". ROTS was better but would have been far better with a different actor as Anakin.
If DiCaprio wouldn't have demanded creative input, he would have made an amazing Anakin, even with the same script.
FWIW, the voice actors in the Clone Wars series are better than any of the actors (save Liam Neeson and maybe Ewan) from the movies.