Neither did I… until the prequels made it silly. As a kid it was just awesome and full of action and derring-do and heroics and lasers.[quote=“Mister44, post:92, topic:76275”]
I have no idea how how he managed to write Star Wars so well (even with its faults) and then completely screw up any other scripts he did for Star Wars.
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The original script went through tons and tons of rewrites, and he was constantly being told that it was ridiculous and dumb by various studios, so he kept redoing it over and over. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that he had folks like Gary Kurtz, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian de Palma reviewing it and offering help and ideas. Compare that to the prequels, which by all accounts he just churned out by himself in an office and said “there you go”.
