[CaptainCrunch]

I'm going to put it out there, I love George Lucas, he had this incredible vision for Star Wars, and the only way to deliver it was with massive special effects, and state of the art bleeding edge technology. He has an amazing eye for detail as well. I remember reading a book on the making of the trilogies and in pre-production and post production his eye for details and the small changes and big changes that he made to things like how a scene should look, or how a ship or weapon should look, and what the wardrobe would be was amazing.

I don't think that there's any doubt that he hated directing he's said it time and time again, but he kept sitting in that chair because he likely like most creative minds doesn't trust anyone else to see it as he saw it.

He also can't dive into the details when it comes to people or characters in his universe, and because of that his direction and dialogue often felt flat and unispired unlike the story itself and the universe it lived in.

We saw how great it worked in Empire Strikes back when he threw a veteran director in the chair and had a proper script doctor and he stood back and said, ok this is the story I want to tell.

I agree that Phantom Menace wasn't a great movie, but it had some incredibly inspired moments and characters. Darth Maul and Palpatine were inspired in that movie and the three way duel was amazingly well done.

Attack of the Clones wasn't a great movie for dialogue, but to me the story itself was great, and the battle scenes were awesome to me as were the settings. He also got a great performance out of Chris Lee.

I will state this now, I still love Revenge of the Sith. I loved the opening battle scene, I loved the fall of Skywalker to Vader and to me it made sense. I loved the confrontation between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and the filming of the ending of the characters was inspired. But people focus on two things, and they are rightfully focused on. First of all the will to live thing was terrible, and the Vader "NOOOOOOO" was the right intent but the bad execution.

I want to add on that Lucas was heavily consulted on the Clone Wars cartoon, in terms of story lines and Dave Filoni did a great job of translating that vision to the screen. Even Lucas' daughter wrote some of the best episodes of that series, including the amazingly well done Order 66 season 6 storyline.