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Comment by KG on September 7, 2011 at 12:43pm

This is so stupid! We know the movies came out in the late 70's/early 80's! We're okay with it!

Comment by Emen William Garcia on September 6, 2011 at 7:29pm

If it makes him money, he'll do it. Maybe Spielberg will one day talk him out of taking the reins and let someone else write and direct 7, 8 and 9 (as sure as you're born, there will be a 7, 8 and 9) so that Star Wars will be revived. I'm sure that when Lucas saw the way Abrams rebooted Star Trek, it emboldened Lucas enough to want to reboot his franchise. Well, I just hope he does it correctly (by realizing that he shouldn't be the one to do it all...)

Comment by Waggleton P. Tallylicker on September 5, 2011 at 12:23pm

I'm surprised old Georgie hasn't replaced the puppet Jabba with the CG one from the anniversary ed.

Comment by Lawparte on September 4, 2011 at 11:39am

Geez, what a fuss over nothing! The changes are incredibly minor in the vast majority of cases. The only really invasive addition was that "noooo" and it's actually integrated well into the scene. A lot of audio clips like that are added into movies all the time. Yes, not after 30 years I agree, but you can see it even in the original releases that some dialogue was put into the movies after the scenes were filmed. That's usually why some dialogue seems to be out of sync with the actors' lips.

Comment by mjtfreeze on September 4, 2011 at 8:24am

Let's focus on the good things that George Lucas gave us people:

He gave us a story/culture that will always live on in our hearts.

He changed cinema for the better.

Without ILM or SkyWalker Sound  most of the movies that we love wouldn't exist. 

 

Now these things will help you... through the mourning process when he has an "accident". This shit has to stop. George Lucas is turning into a frigging dictator, and someone needs to overthrow his ass. Forget Libya, NATO should storm his house.

Comment by ProtoVanitas on September 4, 2011 at 3:04am

On a personal note: I like dark, helmeted characters who are awesome. I love them to death. Why Lucas? Why did you turn this one into a whiny piss-ant with mommy issues? You took a syringe and sucked all the awesome out of Vader. I couldn't take him seriously before and now I definitely can't. I can't claim to know what is going on in your head George. You may very well have good reasons for the constant editing, but your audience doesn't see it. It's been so long since I've seen the VHS versions I don't even remember half the changes. Some I do. Like the Ewok scene at the very end of VI. The change in song, I actually liked. It wasn't as catchy as the tribal song in the original, but didn't they just defeat an empire? A catchy tribal song is really out of place and the replacement song has a "Holy shit that just happened!" feel to it. In the same scene THE CROPPING IN OF THAT NO TALENT HACK HAYDEN CHRISTIANSON WAS INEXCUSABLE!!! ...

 

Now, credit where it's due, some touch-ups are good. Aesthetic ones like the blinking Ewoks (even the CG Yoda I'm OK with, frankly that puppet kind of scared me as a kid)? Go for it. It doesn't change the tone or distract from the flow of the story. The line should be drawn where you desecrate a respected actor's mannerisms with lines spoken (granted, dubbed by James Earl Jones) by a greasy toad of an actor. Seriously Lucas, THAT'S who you picked to be Anakin. A guy who, in the original trilogy, was a memetic badass before the reveal showed that he wasn't just memetic. Hayden Christianson was the guy for the job? That fits about as well as Christopher Walkin as Ghost Rider (though that would be hilarious).

 

Getting back on topic, an example in the re-released version of A New Hope is the CG Jabba scene. Despite Jabba looking all kinds of creepy, it is a good addition. It was a touched-up deleted scene that clarified why Jabba was out for Han. It made him seem more like a gangster than just a weird perverted worm. Yet, two movies later, you had to put in that wretched song-and-dance CG scene, with a song that made me dread playing Tatooine on Star Wars Battlefront II. It threw an emergency break on the plot and did not belong there whatsoever. If you were trying to show Jabba's frivolous life-style, I think him having the hot alien slave-girls was enough. 

 

It seems like you forgot what you were doing George. I saw Episode I at age ten, and even then something felt off about it. Long-winded speeches about government, talking about racing, talking about slavery, talking about midichlorians. That's all Episode I is: awful dialogue. The original Trilogy made up for hokey dialogue with good - decent actors, cool fight scenes, and much of it actually happening IN SPACE. Of all the moments in the prequel trilogy, Kamino felt most like Star Wars. It was intriguing how someone could get a star system deleted from the most complete source of knowledge in the universe (imagine deleting Wikipedia and then multiply that by about 1,000. That's probably the amount of information Darth Tyrannus had to delete). The arguably best actor, playing Obi-Wan, had to go to another location (finally) to find the origins of a mysterious assassin. Then, wham the clones are dropped on us. The wonderment I felt reminded me of my childhood. It was genuinely interesting. Had it not been interrupted intermittently by "Plank and Rock: A Love Story", I would not have been able to find anything wrong with it. I miss the days when Star Wars didn't have a broken base. Frankly at this point, nothing surprises me. After seeing these changes, especially the "Nooooo", I can't bring myself to keep going with this. I just don't care anymore. I'm not buying these. I'm going to convince my friends not to buy them. I don't care what delusions you've trapped yourself in George, you are killing your franchise. You have lost a fan

Comment by Lord of The Hills a.k.a LOTH on September 3, 2011 at 6:28pm

He just can't leave it alone can he?

Comment by FilmKiller on September 3, 2011 at 4:34pm

@Adam Smith!

 

I think you're missing the squirminess of the the underlying subtext. What Lucas is saying in that speech is that works of art - music, film, etc. - should never become public domain. He would argue that since he is the original artist this doesn't apply to his altering his own work,

 

It still makes him sound like an ass though. =)

Comment by Cameron Johnson on September 3, 2011 at 3:06pm

I'm actually that jerk who's not even that crazy about the "Star Wars" films and when I hear people complaining about all of this stuff, I just don't care. This time, with the blu-ray adjustments, I don't know what they were thinking. I mean, some of the CG enhancements sound perfectly reasonable, but most of this is stupid. Seriously, a CG rock in that crevice R2 was hiding in? Some more "Noooooo"s from Vader? My personal favorite is how they changed Obi-Wan's howl that he used to scare off the Sand Bandits. The first adjustment was silly and now, I don't even know how they could have possibly even remotely considered using that goofy Stewie Griffin as a gorilla "Oo-oo" bull. Seriously, the actual siren howl sounded more like Alec Guinness. George Lucas really is going crazy.

Comment by PoisonPirate on September 3, 2011 at 4:10am

You'd think George would realize by now that people are frustrated with these constant unnecessary changes. He'd probably make more money and certainly get better reviews if he released the original unaltered versions to Blu Ray.
That's what we're all really waiting for right?

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