In a recent article by USA Today George Lucas says:


“When you do a movie like this, a sequel that’s very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it’s going to be the Second Coming,” Lucas says. “And it’s not. It’s just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up.”

And I have to wonder is he knows that his last couple of movies have really sucked, and it was only the name “Star Wars” that kept them from bombing.

Now, I do have fond memories of the original Star Wars series.  My wife on the other hand wasn’t much into Sci-Fi.  So when we rented Phantom Menace, it was with two different points of view. 

I’ve seen some bad movies in the past, but Phantom Menace was pretty much unmatchable and Attack of the Clones even more so.  Special effects can’t really make up for bad acting and bad dialogue.  My wife was in complete agreement that sitting there watching the horrid acting was like watching a giant hand scrape fingernails across a chalk board for 2 hours.

Am I looking forward to Indy 4?  Heck yes.  Are my expectations low?  About as low as they can go.  This may be a movie that I have to go see alone just so I don’t die in shame that I dragged my wife to a suck-a-thon (much like when I took her to see Starship Troopers after reading the novel – I do believe that Heinlein was spinning in his grave over that debacle) .  My one hope is that Spielberg can bring this baby home.