Anonymous
10/30/2025, 2:36:30 AM
No.544596329
>>544590007
Lucas was a visionary, but as a businessman, he was bad at making decisions. And even as a producer and director, he was bad. Lucas had only directed two real films before the prequels (American Graffiti and Star Wars). I don't count THX-1138 because that began as a student film. Regardless, he actually had minimal experience as a director prior to the prequels. This is an incredibly significant fact that seems completely lost upon by most people. People seem to believe that he helmed the first 3 Star Wars films and perhaps the Indiana Jones series. He did not. After he directed A New Hope in 1976/1977, he did not direct again until the prequels more than 20 years later.
The prequels pretty much prove that left to his own devices, he is a horrible director. It doesn't surprise me in the least that he chooses to not direct any more films lest more people understand how poor a director he actually is. It's very telling that the best Star Wars movie, Empire Strikes Back, wasn't directed by Lucas and that his ex-wife Marcia practically saved A New Hope thanks to her editing. I think when he made the prequels, he got a bit full of himself and surrounded himself with yes men who couldn't reign in on his bad ideas and compromise with him like the people who worked on the original trilogy.
Same thing with Toriyama. His original editors were beasts. Besides discovering him, Torishima was the one who introduced Toriyama to fights, tournaments, power escalation, the rivalries, etc. He even told Toriyama to tone down on the gags and work on his biggest strength: 3D movement to draw good fights. He wanted to make DB a less preachy Hokuto no Ken with a bigger focus on action and cool one-liners. Hell, even when Torishima wasn't Toriyama's editor at the time, he still personally called to tell him how lame Android 17/18/19/20 were (and they were lame lmao) leading up to Cell.
Lucas was a visionary, but as a businessman, he was bad at making decisions. And even as a producer and director, he was bad. Lucas had only directed two real films before the prequels (American Graffiti and Star Wars). I don't count THX-1138 because that began as a student film. Regardless, he actually had minimal experience as a director prior to the prequels. This is an incredibly significant fact that seems completely lost upon by most people. People seem to believe that he helmed the first 3 Star Wars films and perhaps the Indiana Jones series. He did not. After he directed A New Hope in 1976/1977, he did not direct again until the prequels more than 20 years later.
The prequels pretty much prove that left to his own devices, he is a horrible director. It doesn't surprise me in the least that he chooses to not direct any more films lest more people understand how poor a director he actually is. It's very telling that the best Star Wars movie, Empire Strikes Back, wasn't directed by Lucas and that his ex-wife Marcia practically saved A New Hope thanks to her editing. I think when he made the prequels, he got a bit full of himself and surrounded himself with yes men who couldn't reign in on his bad ideas and compromise with him like the people who worked on the original trilogy.
Same thing with Toriyama. His original editors were beasts. Besides discovering him, Torishima was the one who introduced Toriyama to fights, tournaments, power escalation, the rivalries, etc. He even told Toriyama to tone down on the gags and work on his biggest strength: 3D movement to draw good fights. He wanted to make DB a less preachy Hokuto no Ken with a bigger focus on action and cool one-liners. Hell, even when Torishima wasn't Toriyama's editor at the time, he still personally called to tell him how lame Android 17/18/19/20 were (and they were lame lmao) leading up to Cell.