Pretty much. Frankly I have a fairly dim view of him overall.Monterey Jack wrote:"Whaaaahhh, someone else made a Star Wars movie that everyone liked more than my prequels, whaaaaahhhh!!!!"
That's all I'm hearing from Lucas' side...sour grapes.
I think it's too little too late from Lucas even if I sympathize with some of his complaints. He's the biggest part of the problem and the reason this all happened.
His prequels weren't exactly amazing to say the least and he just took damned long for ANY of it. Jedi in 1984 we had to wait until the late 90s for something new?
No way that license should have sat fallow for that long. That's HIS fault.
Then the prequels were done and somehow we are suddenly into the second decade of the 21st century. What the hell happened?
Did anyone really want to see Han and the gang as a bunch of old fossils? I sure didn't. It's 20 years too late for them! It's absurd. It's depressing.
It didn't have to happen.
I think he was full of it when he said he always had the full stories ready to go. Obviously not.
You don't wait over a decade plus and then crank out those mostly awful prequels...yeah I know I'm going to get in trouble for that but there it is. They weren't worth it. I wish they had never been made.
He should have made at least one sequel movie to lay things up and move it forward.
I blame him for this even more than whatever I may disagree with from Disney's choices.
Lucas gave us Jar Jar Binks and the damned Ewoks which were more clicheish bad Disney than what's in this new movie. Jedi even closed with a musical number for cripes sake. 1984 to 1999 gulf and we get Jar Jar, Hayden, and midichlorians and some of the most God awful writing and acting I can recall in the modern era in a AAA big budget movie?
Is Disney really going to do worse than that?
We all know what Disney is about and being in the industry he would know even better. What did he think was going to happen?
Cinderella part 3 direct to video but guess what? Still better than his prequels, lumps and all .
'Nuff said.