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I'll try to paraphrase what I said in the Box Set thread:
Lucas has fallen in love with his own innovations. He is now all style and no substance. I think that Peter Jackson proved that a filmmaker can create a lush, fantastic epic film without 650 effects shots and 100% digital backgrounds. In fact, Jackson used many techniques that Lucas was using in the 70's and 80's (filming miniatures, using matte compositing, etc.)
What made the original films great WASN'T the special effects or the battle scenes or what have you. It was the story. It was the characters. What the new films lack is just that. There is no rogue (Han), there is no smart ass (Leia). Everyone is very straight forward and cold.
Somewhere Lucas was led astray and thinks that SW fans want dazzle instead of substance. We don't want 3 prequels that are about politics and government (which they plots really are when you look at them). We could give a shit about trade federations and the galactic senate. What the original films had (and what LOTR had, which made them great) was a clear and present danger that had to be eliminated by the underdog. The prequels have no such things.
I'll wrap up this rant by saying that in all my life, I never thought I'd say that there were films that were better than the SW trilogy, but I'm starting to leave them behind.
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