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Rereading Skywalking: The Life and Films of Geroge Lucas. I never realized how much George Lucas was the Tarantino of his time. Say what you will about The Phantom Menace, you can't find a more perfect beginning of a career, it would take 25 years for another film to come out that had the impact of American Graffiti (Pulp Fiction), and I don't know if a film more radical than THX 1138 has been greenlit by a major studio since. And then of course, his third film. We forget how radical his third film was, how visionary, how new, the world had never seen anything like it. From 1965 to 1977 nobody was better. We're so spoiled now, sitting on our asses, eating doritoes, complaining that Lucas doesn't work doesn't stand up to our standards, and saying how we coudl make a better Matrix Reloaded.