[Hack&Lube]

I hate Star Wars, any incarnation of it. But if you really want my opinion, what made the original movie the best was that it was Lucas acting out on his childhood dreams and trying to make a homage to the movies he grew up with. He was making those movies for himself.

A lot of people seem to miss this but the whole thing is a homage to flash gordon and WWII movies. That's why you get the flash gordon scrolling text at the beginning, you get old 1940s style screen wipes between scenes. The Empire are nazis and the whole Millenium Falcon shooting Tie-Fighters scene is copied straight out of WWII bomber movies where gunners would sit in turrets shooting at the Luftwaffe almost shot for shot. He thought kids growing up in the 70s nolonger had things like this with myth and fantasy and action like he grew up with and it was a shame. It's basically the same story with Indiana Jones. It's all an homage to 1940s film noir, action movies, comic books, etc.

Then Lucas got old and ######ed and I don't know what he was thinking. Sudden success screwed over what was once a struggling and talented director and even by 1983 he started making his movies toward his image of what kids would want to see and not what he wanted to see (has anyone seen Howard the Duck?). That's why you get silly things like the Ewoks and Jar Jar Binks and all of the new trilogy etc. I think he was already spoiled by success and Empire Strikes Back only turned out okay because writers rewrote his screenplay to death (Lucas can't write for s--- ) and Irwin Kershner directed it. Lucas started out an indie director and in the same school as Coppola, etc. but then Star Wars and Indiana Jones happened and it consumed his life and now that's all he's known for and it affected his judgement.