The Star Wars thread

BIG JOE said:
See, when you say it like that it sounds all well and good. Then when your watching the movie and suddenly Hayden Christiansen appears as a ghost , theres a terrible CGI Jabba the Hut, and Boba Fett has an accent! I'm glad I still have my OT widescreen set on VHS. Sure it looks ****ty but god damnit there's no new bull**** in it!
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You could at least upgrade that to DVD. :)
 
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Goddammit, George... NO!
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Just play the clip, and then come back.

Okay. According to Badass Digest, this is confirmed... yes, Vader says "No!" as he picks the Emperor up. This is yet another change in the Original Trilogy, and yeah, I'm pissed off about it.

It was already such a perfect moment. As Luke, dying under the Emperor's torrent of force lightning, calls out to his father to help him, Vader stares quietly, looks at his son, then at the Emperor, and makes his decision. And he DOESN"T ****ING SAY A THING. That's what makes it so powerful. You could almost see the thought process behind the mask, as Vader slowly comes out of the fog of 20+ years of evil. It's a grand, amazing moment and the pinnacle of the trilogy, in my opinion.

And George Lucas just ruined it.

Goodnight, STAR WARS. Thanks for the memories.

Nordling, out.

Update to include another twisting of the knife - Obi-Wan's Krayt Dragon call now sounds like he's getting a hummer in a back alley on Mos Eisley:
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What is that going to be called? "Return of the Jedi: The Bitch, Please" edition? :facepalm:

Seriously, I am far from a purist or hardcore Star Wars nerd, but Lucas needs to stop.
 

This is proof that there is still plenty of footage left for George to add. If they aren't already edited into this release then they will be on the next. Save your money.
 
Bleh. Maybe I'll just let my dad buy it. I can tell the re-watch value on this isn't going to be too terribly high.

I just really want to see the deleted scenes.
 
adgy-san said:
Bleh. Maybe I'll just let my dad buy it. I can tell the re-watch value on this isn't going to be too terribly high.

I just really want to see the deleted scenes.
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The only way to stop Lucas is to boycott this. Resist the Dark side...
 
So About Those Changes on the Star Wars Blu-rays...

"Every time we watch the movies he's got something he wants to change," Wood said. "And so there's obviously changes done to the films, visually as well as audio-wise. So there are some changes in the Blu-ray version that you'll have to find. [Laughs] That's always fun. It's funny because we meticulously put it all together like, 'Here's where it was.' And then he'll update it."

Wood wouldn't reveal any of the audio changes to us, but he did hint that some of them go back to the original script. " I mean we're talking super subtle like a footstep here and there or a couple of lines of dialogue, or maybe some background stuff that we would basically go in and just re-perform or get an approximate sound. But very, very, very small subtle stuff."
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George Lucas Speaks Out Against Altering Films in 1988 | /Film

In the 1980s, a controversy swirled in Hollywood when there was a notion to colorize black and white films. The issue made it all the way in front of Congress due in large part to the passionate backing of several important filmmakers. Eventually, their efforts helped to establish the National Film Registry which, to this day, takes historically significant films and preserves them in their natural state forever.

On March 3, 1988, George Lucas was one of those filmmakers who spoke in front of Congress. The same George Lucas who, in the two decades since, has continually tinkered with his signature Star Wars films from the Special Editions through the prequels and right up to the Blu-rays, which caused massive mainstream controversy this week due to new changes including a digital Yoda and Darth Vader’s new dialogue. But on that day, 23 years ago, Lucas delivered a rousing speech that condemned exactly what he’d end up doing himself.
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Read the whole thing at the link.
 
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