Chewbacca Riding Falkor the Luckdragon

George Lucas is slowly killing my childhood with each film he produces or directs after 1998. I enjoyed the story telling of his galaxy adventures but felt it was to glossy. Then came a glimmer of hope with a new Indiana Jones film with influence from others (Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg) and again I felt let down. I blamed Spielberg and Lucas for distorting my view of a world traveling, historian adventurer with crooked smile. However, I feel like I should apologize to Steven Spielberg. This is from an article on "TimesOnline". This is a quote from George Lucas about making another Indiana Jones:
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”
I apologize to Steven because he got it. He understood that people like the past and the memories that they had with a character. People do not want characters to be reinvented or placed out of context (aliens and spaceships wft?). It is like sticking Chewbacca in Lord of the Rings or him paling around with Falkor the Luck dragon. Just take a second and imagine Chewbecca riding Falkor ( I bet Lucas thought of this idea and wanted it for his ending credits for the Attack of the Clones).
What I am trying to say here is this. George Lucas continues to play the card that he is the creator of this amazing mythology of characters in these stories and he can do whatever he wants because of this. (This may go against my philosophy about art and what I like to encourage with what I am about to say next) George Lucas stop making films. Stop trying to recreate something that does not need to be reinvented or the 2.0 version. I feel all of Lucas's pal sit around and continue to say yes to him because he created this over 20 something years ago and made millions off of it. Honestly, I love the originals and I could possibly have liked the loved the new ones (because I collect memories in dvd form, i own all of them. I probably haven't watch the 3 new ones since I bought them) but Lucas got in the way. Hence, slowly killing my childhood and all the adventures in my life with these characters. I guess people in the late 70's and early 80's could have seen this coming when George Lucas allowed a "Star Wars Christmas Special". After discovering this gem, I realized that this is all George's fault. He did not direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi or any Indiana Jones films. However, when he is involved greatly, he finds a way to make it look like Chewbacca riding Falkor the Luck dragon. If you have never seen or heard of about this. Check out the video below. Watch the whole thing and you will see how bad it is.
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Doesn't that article make you upset. That there was hope of making something better and realizing that its own director had to bend a lot and still was not thrilled about the script. It made me sad to read this article which inspired me to write about how I feel about George Lucas slowly killing my Childhood, one movie at a time.

Update: I may have spoken to soon about Mr. Spielberg. I read another article today from New York Times about how "Hollywood is Losing Spielberg". I was curious on what this article had to say about this director who everyone loved and adored. However, according to this report it seems like Spielberg is interested in one thing (money) which explains why he caved in making a flashy Indiana Jones movie. "The pending deal with Reliance underscores some realities about Mr. Spielberg — mainly that he has become so expensive that few public companies can afford him. Mr. Spielberg’s standard deal, on par with other blue-chip talent, is 20 percent of a movie’s gross from the first ticket sold, although he agreed to a somewhat less aggressive paycheck on the latest “Indiana Jones” installment to offset its high budget." The article continues to share how no one can work with him because he cost to much. My question is this. How much is to much? He has unlimited resources and millions of scripts. I know, I am contradicting what I said above. But Spielberg what happened to your art and passion? When did money become the sole reason for making movies.
It is sad to see people who created such amazing stories and engaging characters that shaped our culture and words. "But there was still an element of shock: Hollywood could not come up with a rich enough deal for Mr. Spielberg, the most bankable director in the business". I guess, the passion is gone.