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	[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="jeep"]The reality is he's never made a good movie. I loved Star Wars, but for the same reasons everyone else did: as a child it spurred my imagination and as an adult it reminds me of that experience. It's the thin story of that first film that was the difference, there's enough there to get your mind running, and thirty years later we're still going. The films after it, he had all the money he needed, he could make the images he could only imagine in the first one, and it turns out his imagination isn't as spectacular a place as we'd all imagined for ourselves. [/quote] That's called bad filmmaking, making a movie that an audience finds disappointing. Giving a thin story so as to be both more believable AND a jumping point for the viewer's imagination is called good filmmaking. Lucas did make good movies, if you give him credit for Empire, and I do, because he should get full credit for delegating to The Big Chill/Rio Bravo guys. Apparently it was an accident, but he still made good movies at one point. You're also wrong about only kids liking Star Wars. Every adult who saw it loved Star Wars, 100% of them. Maybe 105%, I don't know, I don't have the numbers in front of me. Only the critics who had to go down their "acting, direction, meaning, originality" checklists didn't like it. [quote]This in no way takes away from his influence on modern film. I suspect that people will look back on 1975-2005 as the "ILM Era" in Hollywood, since just about every movie has their tag on it. Computer effects, blue screens, thx sound, summer blockbusters, and home theaters all owe a lot to that guy.[/quote] You're especially right about the summer blockbuster, and you don't even have to go into the future for this perspective, as filmmakers immediately credited Star Wars for ruining movies. Studios wanted another Star Wars constantly, so mature and non-merchanizable non-megahits became third-string priorities for studios (until Miramax, but lets digress). [/quote]