Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back was without question the BEST SW film of all time....
JEDI was BAD... the prequels were unbearable... The problem with the prequels was Lucas, should have hired a writer... you can see what he was trying to do with them, but it just doesn’t work... His dialogue was TERRIBLE, and the guy he had playing Anakin was stiff as a board... there was no chemistry at all between him and Padme. However less than great acting can be said of all the first Star Wars actors/actresses as well... but the films worked.
Anyway I think if Lucas had kept his EGO in check and hired the writing out, particularly the dialogue the prequels would have faired better... there were interesting stories in there, they just failed in execution.
Yeah, no kidding, and it also didn’t help that he unintentionally made a case for the Empire when he during Cannes 2005 effectively implied that Robespierre’s France was a basis for the Old Republic and that Robespierre’s France was a good thing, at least better than either King Louis XVI’s France or Napoleonic France. He lost me there.
It says a lot when Palpatine, the main villain, was practically the only GOOD thing about the Prequels and to a lesser extent Jedi (the latter also had the rescue operation on Tatooine, and Lucas had minimal, if any involvement in that scene being shot).