This is amazing to me. It's absolutely amazing to me how we can ask here how it is that George "THX, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM, LucasArts" Lucas still commands respect.
The man is a pioneer. His latest work has been pretty bad, but I'm guessing what Lucas really needs is someone to translate his work. The prequel trilogy was filled with some good ideas, some bad ideas, and some GREAT ideas; the problem with them was that it felt like Lucas took the first draft of his screenplay and shot it. I think he's an amazing idea man. He comes up with this wild and crazy **** that nobody else seems to fathom, but when he writes or directs it the vision gets lost in translation. Jar Jar Binks might have been edited out by a more competent screenwriter. And Crystal Skull's MacGuffin was actually pretty interesting, but lacking in the mystique we've come to expect of Indiana Jones. Had we NOT seen an actual Grey Alien at the end or the Flying Saucer, it would have been better than Temple. The allusion of aliens rather than the physical presence of aliens would have made this film a lot lot lot lot better, but unfortunately David Koepp is the kind of screenwriter who doesn't do subtlety, and left in Lucas' UFO idea.
Lucas has mores ideas in his little finger than most of us on the forums here have in a week. I'd really like to see how you guys could have done this better, because I'm hearing a lot pretentious crap about how Lucas has fallen off. Come on, guys; do you really think you could do better than the pioneer of Star Wars and Indiana Jones?
