The Star Wars movies

[Local Hero]

oh the humanity... it's amazing how someone who created the second best trilogy in movies (heh for me LOTR now takes the top spot, although SW is still the best original trilogy) can create a trio of films purporting to be prequels to the originals, which have very little of the joy and excitment generated by those originals. Ok there are some nice set pieces (Yoda's fight scene in AOTC has me cheering everytime) but the thru story seems to meander aimlessly as if it's trying to hard to please too many people rather than staying true to the originals - make a movie version of the old black and white sci-fi serials like flash gordon with thrills spills and cliffhangers. Lucas really should be ashamed of himself for what he has done to his own franchise. I'm not saying the new films are bad, but they could be so much better if he had stayed with the simple approach rather than trying to be too fancy.

just my tuppence worth