Do you wish George Lucas was still in control of Star Wars?

People will write (probably video) similar comments about The Last Jedi in the future...

These are just StarWars movies... they're all pretty average... People have their favourites... The only distiguishing thing is the religious commitment to them by the fans...

They were all terrible and great at the same time, like all Star Wars movies.

I did the same thing a while ago. Watched all of them chronologically. And I had the exact same experience as you. Indeed the prequels have flaws and dumb elements and some poor speciel effects (especially in SW-II).... but the build up and its ambition is no joke. In fact much of the meat to the saga is really created in SW-II and SW-III - much more than SW IV-VI. The complexity of the saga and story is very ambitious and even though SW-I is childish, then SW-III is anything but, in fact it is wonderfully dark. Together they complete a whole in a way. I was let down by them like most of us, but in hinsigt they have merits and deserve more respect than they get. They are honest and they have a purpose. Christ, the whole setup with Palpatine etc... wauu, imagine if we knew there was this much meat to the story back when....

Now under the belt of Disney we are getting them left and right and I find that exciting, even if it is not perhaps living up to my hopes (I loathe SW-VIII). The story telling is better now (Lucas is no Director - something he learned during A New Hope, and then apparently forgot when he started on Phantom) and the effects are marvelous... but they lack originality and vision and not least ambition and in a sense they lack purpose (my biggest biff). It seems they are taking us nowhere and they feed upon all the prequels, slowly destroying what they were essentially about, imo. So, I would rather wish that Lucas was on board as the main author still and Disney and their lust for productions on for the rest.....

Lucas alone would likely be too slow in production, and as we learned too risky in quality of the movie making
Disney alone is without true originality and ambition, and lack respect of the history..

A combination of the two would give us something much better...

If I had to choose one over the other, I think Disney is my pick, sadly... I still hope for originality and purpose to awake in their productions...

I was never as enamoured with Star Wars as the biggest fans of the OT here, heck, my father told me that he and my mother went off to see A New Hope in 1977 and left me (4) and my sister (7) at home (babysat, I hope)!

I remember A New Hope being on TV at Christmas, and then me and my sister saw Return of the Jedi in cinemas. Yes, I didn't see Empire Strikes Back until AFTER RotJ, so the whole famous "father" twist never happened for me.

I loved the spaceships and the action and I was particularly fascinated by the Death Star (still am) but I don't recall playing with the toys or anything like that, not ones I owned, anyway. But I remember how BIG everything in Star Wars was, compared to every other space movie like it.

And then the Prequels came around, I watched each of those around five times each, and I wasn't offended by anything in them, not even Jar Jar. I figured they were for a different generation, and they were telling a backstory decades past, so they would have a different feel. To me, it's like the OT focuses on a few core people, and the PT covers a much wider group of places and cultures. The writing and directing may be a bit off, but Lucas sure knows world-building.

As for George Lucas being here today to helm the movies: Lucas works best when surrounded by talented people, but he is not really a writer or director by himself, and this aspect harmed the Prequels. His best work was when others were advising and assisting him, as in the OT. If he was at the helm and repeated that, we could have better movies than what Disney churned out, and at least they would be ORIGINAL. Last but not least, he should've been allowed to write his treatments (with help) for VII-IX.

Even a porg would make better Star Wars movies then Disney. So its a clear "Yes".

George should have realised he was a crap director and worked with other directors to create good movies with him overseeing. If he were in control he at least would never have allowed the present debacle to happen.

I think George Lucas should have been retained to manage the overall story while others helped write and direct the films. He would have been more conscious of how to make everything work while expanding the series and still respecting the past. We don't know for sure if it would have been better, but i think it would have been more likely to be better.

What we do know though is TFA is a somewhat lazy semi reboot, and TLJ is largely not a well made film from a director who may not know how to properly play in someone else s world.

Revenge of the Sith is a good film and I would easily place it above TLJ and TFA.

The prequels themselves would have been better if Lucas allowed others to help more. He didn't need to direct them. Just having directors that work better with actors would have helped immensely.