I have come to realize about George Lucas that "Fail" is his normal mode of operation. I have come around to the position put forth by "Mr. Plinkett", that Star Wars was only good because somehow the rest of the staff kept George Lucas from totally screwing it up.
Everything George Lucas had a strong hand in since is utter crap. The first movie was excellent. The Second Okay. All the rest were just terrible. The more George Lucas there was in these movies, the worse they were.
I can now only conclude that the first one was a weird fluke, and George Lucas has no actual talent at anything.
Lucas had a pretty strong hand in ‘American Graffiti’ which is great. THX1138 is pretty good too.