4 stars is reserved for the best of the best movies in the history of cinema; Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (I'd say) even the original Star Wars.
The style of Raiders of the Lost Ark was similar to that of Star Wars in effects etc.
Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan came much later and managed to be groundbreaking movies using modern cinema techniques to portray their content; stories behind events in the history of the human race in the audience's parents' generation.
Lucas could have taken these as a hint how to do recent history prequels. Imagine Episode I using the grainy old-style footage look of Schindler's list and emphasizing the growing evil by concentrating on the evil isolated in various parts of the galaxy.
Imagine ROTS in Saving Private Ryan shaky-cam, right in the action war footage style. Order 66 was bad enough looking through the glaze of CG as it was presented, but imagine what it would have been like had Lucas given us less of a sylish and more of a sylised point of view.
Whether he wanted good ratings or not, he could have manipulated ILM to produce far more cinematic emotion that he achieved. Had he, he'd not only be a billionaire, but a critically acclaimed one.
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4 stars is reserved for the best of the best movies in the history of cinema; Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (I'd say) even the original Star Wars. The style of Raiders of the Lost Ark was similar to that of Star Wars in effects etc. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan came much later and managed to be groundbreaking movies using modern cinema techniques to portray their content; stories behind events in the history of the human race in the audience's parents' generation. Lucas could have taken these as a hint how to do recent history prequels. Imagine Episode I using the grainy old-style footage look of Schindler's list and emphasizing the growing evil by concentrating on the evil isolated in various parts of the galaxy. Imagine ROTS in Saving Private Ryan shaky-cam, right in the action war footage style. Order 66 was bad enough looking through the glaze of CG as it was presented, but imagine what it would have been like had Lucas given us less of a sylish and more of a sylised point of view. Whether he wanted good ratings or not, he could have manipulated ILM to produce far more cinematic emotion that he achieved. Had he, he'd not only be a billionaire, but a critically acclaimed one.