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Post #1313672

Author
ray_afraid
Parent topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
23-Dec-2019, 6:25 PM

There’s a version of Night of the Living Dead where the co-writer & all 'round dumb schmuck John Russo added in scenes where the zombie apocalypse is said to be brought on by “Man’s sins” such as homosexuality. Original writer/director George A. Romero could do nothing about it, because the film is public domain (a whole other story). It’s the most shameless & repulsive revision to a film I’ve ever seen.
The only thing that makes Star Wars SEs worse is that the original version 1968 of NotLD is still readily available in HD (through Criterion no less!) & the awful 1999 version has been practically buried without a second release.
Still, to think I’ve told people that it ranks among my absolute favorite films & that they may have then gotten a version that makes me look zealously religious, sexist, racist & homophobic makes my freaking skin crawl.