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George Lucas shouldn't be allowed near a typewriter or a director's chair for that matter.There's a reason The Empire Strikes Back is probably the best film in the series.
...which reminds me, Lucas received oscar nomintations for best director and best original screenplay...and the film overall was nominated for best picture...and it's on many, many top 100 lists of all-time...etc, etc. Lucas also wrote and directed American Graffiti, which ALSO was nominated for best picture. And then of course there is THX 1138, which is also critically acclaimed. You guys are so silly
Delta Wave...see NOW we're talking....the real problem with Lucas is that he's just not the same quality filmmaker that he was earlier on. I can totally understand that argument. While I enjoyed the prequels and will even defend them, I recognize that they in many ways they were poorly done. But to make the same argument about the original and some of Lucas' earlier films? They just don't belong in this conversation, IMO.
I feel the same about Spielberg too, He really butchered Kubrik's AI & P.K. Dicks Ubik? (can't remember the name of the book it was "based" on) AKA Minority Report... that was awful. Who ever did Asimov's I Robot should be shot, that was just pissing on the grave of one of the greats.
I know I'm too logical about stuff like this but after you ditch the junior high junk and get to the serious cinesewage one must start with the most pointless and self indugent: like Powder. This film was so bad Disney stock took a dump until the next Toy Story. Then there's loss leaders and basted turkeys like Jim Varney's first film, Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam with a screen play written by a basement dweller of 26 going on 12. And there are the big stinkers with big budgets and first rank talent taking leave from their senses appearing in what can only be described as Ep-sicks: Barry Linden, and Dune. Last and lowest are those off the wall attempts at overshlock no retrograde sophmoron would cross the street to see, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Supervixens, and The Baby, which was so atrocious theater owners wouldn't show it and was the top film career killer for years. Such things are done by those who possess minds like a steel trap, of the variety commonly found under a public park privy. There must be worse titles, but I can't think of any which didn't gain general release. I'm still looking for pirate copies of Hell's Belles and Wild in the Streets from times gone by of under age beer bashes at the drive in.
From 1979, "Can't stop the Music" with Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner and The Village People. If atrociously bad sodomite musicals are your thing, this is certainly one of them.
