James Cameron prefers George Lucas' 'Star Wars' over JJ Abrams' 'Force Awakens'

Filmmaker James Cameron dissed JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens" saying it lacked visual imagination.

The 61-year-old Oscar-winning director expressed his disappointment in a video recently posted to YouTube.

"Well, George Lucas is a friend of mine. I don't want to say too much about the film because I also have a lot of respect for JJ Abrams and I want to see where they're taking it next. I have to say that George's group of six films had more innovative visual imagination, and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before, and it took a few baby steps forward with new characters. So for me, the jury's out. I want to see where they go with it," Cameron said.

However, the director feels he has set the bar too high for any future Star Wars films, as the original 1977 movie was what inspired him to play with special effects.

"Everything just kind of blew up at that point in the visual effects world. It was a big revolution, and I wanted to be in on it. Star Wars was the film that made me want to go actually do it," he said.