Obi-OneManShow
Senior Member
I agree Jkozzy, my top three posted above is just bullshit, I hope you realised.
While I don't think the prequels are the movies they could've been, think about what poop could've been made if it was in the hands of the studios. At least we have Lucas' original vision of the whole story. With as much pros (Ewan McGregor, great lightsaber duels,...) as cons (Jar Jar, over-use of CGI, bad dialogue,...)
If it would have to be made by another director, for instance if Lucas died in 1998 or something, and someone else had to finish the movies, you would need more than a good director.
For instance, I think people like Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino or Spielberg COULD possibly have done a good job, HOWEVER they would really need to adjust themselves for the SW universe and not just do their own thing.
I would love to have seen Irvin Kershner's vision, especially for ROTS, being the darkest of the prequels (and ESB being the darkest of the OT); however he is quite old (82) and hasn't directed anything since 1993 (and that being a SeaQuest DSV episode), so we'd probably just be dissapointed in the end.
I would love to have seen a grown up prequel trilogy made by a "serious" director, like Stanley Kubrick, really focusing on the characters and fleshing them out, with something like 200 special effects shots, only where necessary, instead of the fully animated films we have now.
For instance, I was very excited when I saw the ROTS teaser trailer, however one of the first things that came to my mind was "are these CG creatures riding on the bugs on Mustafar really necessary? I think they did a FABULOUS job creating the lava-world (just look at the webdoc), and while they are very well made, doesn't all this eye-candy just bring down the emotional confrontation between Anakin and Obi-Wan?" Also, watching the spoiler pics of Padmé dying in the asteroid belt, wouldn't this scene be much more convincing emotionally, if there were human doctors, instead of the little green men (Pollis Massan or whatever)? Can't Lucas save these things for scenes like the Cantina scene, podrace crowds, senate scenes, etc...?
Bottom line, I think we should be grateful with Lucas, and while I personally think that the level of excitement of ANH and ESB (and some parts of ROTJ) hasn't been matched since, let's hope ROTS finishes the SW Saga with a bang. I think the whole saga as a package, one 12-hour movie will be watched for many years to come, however if TPM and AOTC were the first SW films released, I'd doubt we'd all be roaming these forums, excited as we are.