Agreed on Lucas. If you look at his track record he hasn’t made that many films. He is not really that good a director or writer and the last three Star Wars films he did make that pretty clear.
I really liked “The Empire Strikes Back”, simply because he did not write or direct it and it shows.
He got pretty lucky on Star Wars and he and Spielberg did very well with Indiana Jones, although the last one could have been so much better with a different script. It was bad and even Harrison Ford thought so. I have read they were thinking of another film but that Ford’s comments got the boys all upset to the point they may never so another film. Too bad with a really good script I think Ford would have one more Indiana Jones left in him to do and then pass the torch, but not to LeBouf. I think Chris Pratt might be the guy.
I don't think they made a good Indiana Jones movie after the original. Sacred rocks? Are you frigging kidding me? Stupid and ridiculous. The "Holy Grail"? Better, but they flubbed the plot. Crystal Skull was just silly and had no redeeming characteristics.
They should have done one about Excalibur or some such.
It was just like Star Wars. The original was a Gem, and sequels were dreck.
It’s more of Lindelhofs fault than anyones.
JJ abrams and his crew have come onto the scene to destroy movies, and TV.
That may be but I wouldn't bestow the accolades on the director of the second one either. He later made a mess out of Robocop 2 and said he had a sh!t script to work with (that was well written by Frank Miller). He tossed out a lot of what was good and then blamed it on the writer. I'd wager his hand was restricted in what he did with Empire.
“But not LeBouf”
Please, no. I’d rather see jar-jar play Jones than LeBouf.