You can dumb down the original trilogy all you want, George, it’s still not going to make the Phantom Menace a good movie, and will never make JarJar anything more than a Muppet gone bad.
Not that I really have much to say about it, as I don’t even own a bluray player.
Someone please restrain Lucas before he does any more damage.
Movies should be left as they were made in the beginning.
The willing suspension of disbelief is, after all, part of the game.
(Of course, that supposes that the audiences of today have the capacity for imagination.)
should have had the work done here in the states better chance of no leaks?
SW 1, 2, 3 were painful to watch.
This change means I will not purchase the Blu-Ray versions. What a travesty.
Hey George, here’s an idea...MAKE SOME NEW MOVIES!
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone destory his legacy as much as Lucas has.
The first 3 films are legend.
Nothing he has done since is even in the same universe, figuratively speaking, as those first 3 films.
lucas’ insistence on continually screwing with a film that was absolutely brilliant just baffles me. The kiddie-humor 2nd trilogy and similar revisions to the 1st trilogy he did were bad enough, now he is going back again for more?
I first saw star wars in theaters in 77? when i was 6 years old, and while certainly some of the adult concepts escaped me to some degree or other, the movie itself thrilled me. It probably had a lot to do with a life-long interest in science-fiction. I didn’t need fart humor, clumsy humor, slapstick, etc, to get a great deal from the movie.
It probably says something about lucas’ personality that he cannot leave his masterpiece alone. It certainly says something else that his way of improving it is taking plot maturity down in age ever time he touches it.
With his endless butchery and rework, George Lucas has turned Star Wars into the Joan Rivers of movie sagas.
I know we aren’t supposed to hate, but...
I’m getting to were I really, REALLY hate Luca$ :(
At least the Library of Congress has preserved Star Wars as it was in 1977. It may have The Empire Strikes Back as well.
I want to see a modern day series from the E E “Doc” Smith series, Triplanetary and the space opera “Lensmen”.
Done properly Lensmen could out do the Star Wars series.
These are classic cult sci-fi from the late 40’s and 50’s, arguably when it was in its golden years.
I will buy the BD Star Wars set, better is good even if they continue dubbing and remaking it for the next 100 years.
Almost reminds me of how Obama is where he is now, his handlers didn’t like his past so the blue screened him a new one.
Maybe they could take Anakin’s “Yippee!” from the Phantom Menace and dub it into Luke’s post-amputation jump from the catwalk in Cloud City.
It’s amazing that the creator of Howard the Duck was ever successful at anything. He’s either the luckiest man in the world or he made a deal with the devil.
Why would it be odd if Darth Vader yelled “Nooooooo”, when pitching the Emperor? He tossed him to stop the prune from frying Luke!
can you still get the original trilogy on vhs?