Scott,
I usually include you in the list of Poor Bastards I Accost with Links to My Latest Nonsense, and am always pleasantly taken aback that you opt to share said links at your blog. (This is to say nothing of the three or four times I've actively solicited a plug from you, for the various blogs I've started and deleted over the years.)
Anyhoo, whatever you opt to do with this'n, it (eventually) quotes you:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/116083-what-if-were-all-mythtaken-about-star-wars/
It's a long piece, composed of a half dozen shorter essays I wrote last spring, wherein I learn to accept the original Star Wars trilogy (I spent many happy years mocking the films and their fans), and then discover that the Prequels are really no worse (or at least not much worse) than the classics.
I hope you enjoy it.
I did! And I agree, the dialogue in Indy is much smarter and quotable at times, but I agree with your friend about the Star Wars dialogue being deliberately pulpy, so I’m kinda open to both sides of the debate. But then I watch all the movies in both trilogies pretty often (TRILOGY! The Indiana Jones TRILOGY) so I’m not really an impartial observer on either side.