Time for an Opinion. In my calm and sincere opinion, George Lucas has screwed up big time. Yes, they are re-releasing all of the Star Wars movies in 3D, and I will see the re-release of The Phantom Menace when it comes out on February 10th, but it's still a disappointment to look back on the last few years of George Lucas' career. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Pardon my bluntness, but what was that crap? Did George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have some extreme desire to completely ruin an already immortalized trilogy? Or did they simply want to make another billion dollars off of the American movie-goers? The answer to this question is probably the latter, but that is my opinion. Furthermore, why couldn't they have hired a real Russian person to play the evil Russian Socialist? It was obvious enough that she was an American, but then she had to go and butcher the accent. Mistakes like these have also been made in the edited editions of the Star Wars Saga, specifically the Blu Ray collection. The last I checked, Darth vader wasn't a little girl who randomly screamed, "NOOOOO!!!" after being shocked and throwing the Emperor into the main power system. Instead, in the original trilogy, he took it like the invincible robot he truly is. The last problem I have with George Lucas late 90's to mid 2000's career is that he did a terrible job of creating a legible segway from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader. The Phantom Menace, though a great movie (entirely because of Liam Neeson, Ewan Mcgregor, and Darth Maul), gave the audiences the opinion that Anakin was a wimpy little kid who could get beaten up by a Jawa. Not to mention the enthralling dialogue, "Now this is podracing!" The only thing I can say with regards to that line is
Adding onto this point, George Lucas will also be making a TV series about Star Wars. The series will cover the period between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope". Supposedly, in the first season of this series, the main characters will go back in time to attempt to kill Darth Vader before he became Darth Vader. Lucas says that he will direct and produce the first season, and then hand it off to a new director. Any thoughts? Personally, I hold no bias at this point towards or against the upcoming series. I think, potentially, it could give Star Wars fans "A New Hope" for the future of George Lucas's directing carreer.
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