Is George Lucas damning ‘The Last Jedi’ with faint praise?

Although on the script page George Lucas is a man of too many words, in real life he is a man of too few. Those of us interested in the life of the shy Star Wars billionaire must make do with the tiniest of insights into his thinking about what Disney is doing with his former intellectual property.

So news that Lucas told The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson his movie was “beautifully made,” according to a THR report that quotes his private secretary, needs to be carefully parsed. It may not be the full-on compliment it sounds like. 

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