He had some other setbacks—by the time he got done hearing about ‘Return of the Jedi’, ‘Radioland Murders’, ‘Willow’, ‘Howard the Duck’, and how he’d never again do anything as good as ‘Star Wars’ (which he had a miserable time doing and still didn’t have good emotional associations with) he really didn’t want any…

I always got the impression from stories I had heard and read that Lucas was surrounded by too many “yes” men during the prequels and not many had the guts to differ in opinion or criticize ideas when it came to story or filming.

I loved how non-ironic or post-modern it was. Straightforward adventure, characters that were SO likable, jokes that were jokes and not sarcasm, and an adventure story that kept me invested. I am reeeaaaally tempted to go see it again today.