And people really think George Lucas is a profound master artist!?
He was always cynical and self-indulgent. Star Wars, as much as I still love it, is a self-indulgent space-fantasy. Basically, it was Plan 9 from Outer Space . . . only good. (And I love Plan 9 from Outer Space! Scary, huh?) George Lucas thought Star Wars was going to BOMB (and it did, critically, but it was 100 fold times the opposite financially)! People who cling to the Star Wars franchise like a security blanket have great difficulty accepting this. (And there are already a lot of things about my favorite genres that even I take for granted!)
I've been mostly annoyed with George Lucas in the past decade, but his dissing Spider-Man takes the cake. (As if he could do the new Spider-Man movies better!?) He has such a supernatural gift of being a hated individual, and at the same time, ironically being profoundly famous for changing the world in 1977. It's beyond ridiculous.