When it came time to do Jedi, however, the machinery was fully in place to sell it to the hilt.
Empire was still a risk, as successful sequels were rare at that point in time. When Star Wars was conceived, no one had any idea how much money it would eventually pull in. But by comparing the genesis of each of the three films, we can make a pretty good educated guess. Whether Jedi’s faults are a result of his sincere artistic vision or of something more sinister (read: “marketable”) may never truly be known. What Lucas was thinking is another story. So we’ll let Marquand rest in peace chances are he did the best he could. But while few would argue that Marquand wasn’t the greatest choice to inherit the franchise, the fact remains that it was Executive Producer Lucas who hired him, who told him how to handle the material, and who always had the final say. It would be easy to put the blame for Jedi’s failure squarely on the shoulders of its director, the late Richard Marquand.
(We could have just as easily made a list of 100 reasons Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are two of the greatest films ever made, but where’s the fun in that?) Nearly 14 years after its release, it’s become sadly evident that Jedi hasn’t aged well at all, while Wars and Empire increasingly gain acceptance as cinema classics. Like most of you out there, we love Star Wars more than words can say, and will always respect and thank George Lucas for providing a generation of moviegoers with the most significant mythos of the last 25 years.īut also like most of you out there, whenever we watch the Trilogy, the awed reverence with which we watch Wars and Empire is replaced during Jedi by laughing, moaning and shouted insults that make MST3K look tame by comparison.
Search your feelings-you know it to be true. But compared to “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” it’s just plain bad. On its own accord, “Return of the Jedi” has a lot of problems.
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