Why the Hate?

Rating: 1/10 (28 September 2005)

I'll tell you why. Mr. George Lucas has taken the Star Wars myth, one of modern cultures most well known stories, populated with some of the worlds most beloved characters, and completely and irrevocably flushed it all down the toilet. For many others and me Lucas is a legend killer. I won't go into the gruesome details of this failure that so many others have already cataloged but will say that the blunders are legion. What is most frustrating is the total wasted opportunity. Lucas had the money, the resources, and the creative control to produce an epic, a timeless tale about the Rise of an Empire and the Fall of a Man, that surpassed the Original Trilogy and entered the pantheon of cinemas greatest accomplishments. Oh, what could've been? Instead we get ridiculous situations, phony characters, non-existent motivations, and fart jokes. Ugh! It should be noted that on the best of the OT, ESB, Lucas had the least collaboration. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Also, I do understand why these "movies" receive so much praise and adulation. It's the same reason why some people believe that professional wrestling is real and others believe that there is a dime's worth of difference between the Republican and Democrat parties.