Lucas ruins own art

Rating: 3/10 (16 July 2002)

I think George Lucas should not be allowed within 100 yards of anything Star Wars. The man spent $140 million on CGI effects that look terrible when he could have spent $40 million on goo and plastic models and it would have looked real. Not to mention the fact that there is no memorabilia to show for the movie. With the old movies you could order Darth Vader's Helmet or storm trooper gear or even an X-wing fighter through niemen marcus but with these last two works of garbage are you going to go on Ebay and bid on the floppy disk that contains the Codes for Yodas skin graphics?

The original Star wars set the bar for special effects for the next 20 years now they are using worse computer graphics than that of Spielberg's Jurassic Park back in '93. Shame on you, George Lucas, shame. I say we find Kershner's rickity old bones and have him direct what's left of the Star Wars epics and let Lucas provide the money instead of the creativity.
Give me plastic models and I will watch again and again. I only saw this last on once and I will probably never watch it again.
3 out of 10