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Let him produce. Maybe let him come up with very rough ideas for movies. Do NOT let him write, and keep him away from the director's chair if possible.

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I too love Willow, can't say the same thing about the horrendous Howard The Duck.

The two little guys from Willow were absolutely some of the best characters in movie history...."We stole the baby!!!!"

Why that movie gets panned, it has to be Val Kilmer not being media friendly.

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I miss Sean Connery.

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Oh god yes...that would be great.

As an old school Star Wars fan, I hate the 'additions' he's made to the Star Wars universe, and they do sully my opinions of even the original trilogy. But I've learned to tune everything out lately...Clone Wars movies and video games and all these goofy products.

But from what most people can gather, he's responsible for a lot of what was wrong with the last Indiana Jones movie. And I'm sorry Erik, but that was an awful steaming pile of a movie. So having him move on to messing up other things is just getting old.

He suffers from the vacuum he lives in. He lives with hundreds if not thousands of people around him telling him how every one of his farts is a symphony and every burp like the singing of angels. Even the most brilliant person needs an editor from time to time.

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I think he should do whatever the damn hell he wants... If some imbalanced fans think George has done damage to franchises that he created, to them I say suck it up... They were his to damage. I sure as hell didn't create Star Wars, no matter how much I like or dislike it ... So why should I get a say in it's future? Certainly my ten bucks doesn't give me the right to anything more then a viewing and my opinion after said viewing is as much my own as the film is his.

In the end, if people don't like what he has to offer, they don't have to watch it... Or at the very least they can pretend it never happened. Call it the vanishing fridge technique, if you like but I think it's preposterous to tell someone what then can and can not do with their lives or careers, within legal limits of course... But even then, Jar Jar was not a crime against humanity, no matter how many people he bothered. Most of us can't go to the corner store without bumping into someone that gets on our nerves, I imagine it to be entirely likely that a whole damned galaxy is bound to contain a few people that are going to be annoying.

That said, I don’t personally think he is particularly talented in the director’s chair to begin with, my favorite Star Wars film wasn’t even directed by him and yet he has done an incredible amount for the industry as a whole and doesn’t exactly make lousy movies, maybe they didn’t live up to hype, maybe they did, I really don’t care about that stuff. It’s none of my business. He has made flicks I’ve enjoyed and he has made some I didn’t… The same can be said of most directors or producers or actors or anyone in the game. This is why I am not inherently against remakes. There is always room for improvement (the opposite is, of course, also true) and so I just don’t let it bother me if something wasn’t what I wanted from it. We can always try again later and barring that, no adaptation or remake or so-called shoddy sequel will ever erase the source material that got us so pumped in the first place.


Do we really need to lynch the guy just because it turned out that Anakin was as much the whiny little bastard that his son turned out to be?

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George Lucas has never made a great movie. Star Wars was as close as he came.

Irv Kirschner made Empire Strikes Back and in that file essentially made Star Wars.

Indiana Jones may have been a Lucas idea, but Spielberg reigned him in.

When George Lucas is good, he comes up with an idea and gets the right people involved and lets them run with it. He should have let the last 3 Star Wars pics be directed by someone with talent.

Then again, Indiana Jones looked like a turd and had an incoherent plot and horrid acting and dialouge and Spielberg didn't bother to fix any of that. They're just past their prime.

Can you imagine David Fincher or Tim Burton directing Star Wars? Let them do the thrawn series. Let someone else do an Indiana Jones movie. Why not.

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He should be hung for Crimes against Films...

I will grant he comes up with some fantastic ideas, but he needs to stay away from writing the script and directing the movie.

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I don't care if he retires or not. It would be nice if he would stop revisiting and tampering with his films.

I'm still patiently waiting for a version of the original THX-1138 on DVD/ Blueray.

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Anyone watch this week's Zero Punctuation? The first award given out was the "Indiana Jones in the Fridge Franchise Death Award".

So, yeah.

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I'm kind of inclined to agree with Clark. I know people who simply refuse to believe that Episodes 1-3 have been made, but it's all personal preference. Regardless of whether you think any or all of the Star Wars films are a disappointment, it's not like the guy didn't make it up in the first place! I say leave him alone, he's wealthy enough that he might actually be able to get away with telling satan himself to retire from the soul-harvesting business.

-Jay

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My wife and I were just talking about this. She thinks Christensen might have been an OK actor if he wasn't spewing so much manure for lines. I personally liked Jumper, so I'm definitely in the "Lucas ruined it" camp. We need JCV to go back in time and force Lucas to give up writing after Epi IV. To hell with his wife and kid!

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A Thrawn series of movies would be awesome! The books were very engaging and an amazing addition to the mythology. The comic book adaption was also a great read.

Should Lucas retire? While many of us have been crushed as our collective childhoods have been raped over and over - the already mentioned "indiscretions" perpetrated on Indy & SW, Transformers (that might get another thread started altogether I'm sure), upcoming possibilities G.I.Joe (man I hope not!), it does not mean that a specific person should get out.

We may not agree with any of the "updates" and "additions", but they are here and we can't do anything about it. I would love to see some other people get a crack at certain projects such as Guillermo del Toro on a Star Wars epic maybe? Heir to the Empire anyone?. His monsters are not CG and offer a real world feel to make me believe they could actually exist and his almost complete devotion to the source material makes me giddy to say the least.

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No disrespect to him and what he's brought to the world, but it doesn't really seem like he's going anywhere nor has any drive to do so. What has he done recently that was actually original? Why doesn't he move on to other worlds and stories? Were Indiana Jones and Star Wars really the only things he had in him? Obviously both have been very lucrative for him, but he's locked himself into a creative box. He seems to be more of a business man by this point, pursuing his little projects out of a lark more than any necessity or call for them to be made.

And I'm not saying he shouldn't do whatever he feels is right or that he should give a damn about what we think, but that's my opinion on the matter and he's completely free to ignore it.

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George Lucas retired 31 years ago after the original Star Wars film became a monumental success.
This is how he spends his retirement - by making movies!
You no like, you no watch - simple.
Remember kids - nobody's got a gun to your head!

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