Ill-conceived at the very least, catastrophic at the worst, it’s still hard to get over the fact that Lucas made a sequel to his beloved teenage drag-race movie "American Graffiti," especially since at the end of that movie, there were little cards that said what happened to each character. And while the first film was bittersweet, the sequel is an out-and-out bummer (there’s an entire section set in Vietnam and filmed to resemble war footage). The fact that almost everybody returned from the first film is even more baffling (there couldn’t have been contractual obligations, especially considering how out-of-left-field the first film was). When Lucas was mounting the "Star Wars" prequels he would often cite the film as an example of what happens when you make a follow-up and "nobody shows up." A similar fate should have befallen his shameful prequels but, unfortunately, America loved pod-racing too much.
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