1 Romero's biggest problem has ALWAYS been that he insists on making political points in his films, and does so in the most ham-fisted way possible, and it becomes an annoying distraction.

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I have to admit, from what I've read I'm all fer it.

Imagine you're sitting in the audience watching this, one guy says,"Let's kill all the zombies before they eat our brains!" while Mac guy smugly tells us, "No, we can save them!".

I'm with the guy who wants to pop a cap in their heads and I bet a lot of normal people will be too.

This might make them realize that such thinking happens in real life and maybe they'll rethink their stand vis-a-vis dead jihadis.

 

As for the your question, I assume you're talking about George Lucas.

He was never visionary, he cobbled together a cheesy story line from some cartoons he watched that Saturday morning, stole his costumes from ancient Japan and anime and paid some guys to do the special effects.

He did put out a great movie, but he then spent 5 movies raping it and pissing on it.  

And part of the reason they sucked was because he did so many stupid things in the first one. Look at what happened with his throwaway reference to the "Clone Wars", it gave us the crappiest movie in the series.

The only thing he did right in the last 5 movies was putting Carrie Fisher in that gold bikini/chains outfit.

He wasn't a visionary, he was lucky and he had no idea how to recreate that luck.

That's why we have 4 foot tall teddy-bears with sticks and rocks beating technologically advanced Storm Troopers who could take out America in about 4 minutes. That's why we have Jedi Knights, the smartest, bestest, coolest warriors ever to use a light saber, using tactics that soccer hooligans would be embarassed to use.

I liked  the first one a lot, but all the rest have been teh suck.

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Romero's biggest problem has ALWAYS been that he insists on making political points in his films, and does so in the most ham-fisted way possible, and it becomes an annoying distraction.

Romero only started in with the political shit after people started making connections to it in his work that were not originally intended by him (in, say, Dawn of the Dead), which makes him something of a libtard poseur.