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It was Kurtz and Kershner who made "Empire" the quality film it was, despite Lucas' urging for them to do a cheap-and-nasty. He fired both of them afterwards. I'm thinking for everything after Star Wars, Lucas has been getting too much credit. Hell. Maybe even for Star Wars itself? Much of the wonderful design came from Ralph Macquarie. When I think "Star Wars", it's Macquarie's images that come to my mind. Even Marcia Lucas gets credit for giving his movies soul; he claims he and her came up for the idea to kill Obi-wan both at the same time, but I'm wondering now, maybe she thought it up and he claimed credit? Maybe the magic of the original Raiders was very little Lucas, but more Kasdan and Spielberg. Left to his own devices, we've seen how badly Lucas sucks. Maybe he was never that good. More so, it was the quality of the people who hired him who made these movies great. After Star Wars and Raiders I was expecting Lucas to come up with many epic franchises, but it didn't happen. I wondered why, and the reason may be he was a fraud. Without of the people that made him great, he was a nothing.

So all the bad PT movies. Lucas didn't set out to "rape our childhood". He set out to make "the best movies he can", didn't realize how bad he is. Instead of hiring new visionaries, he mistook himself as a cinema genius (we're to blame - many of us kept telling him how great he was) and still hasn't got it. It would explain why everything he's came up with since Empire has stunk.