This is the real star wars saga:
1977 Star Wars
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1983 Return of the Jedi.
No abominable revionsionist crap that is not real star wars Like the 1997, or 2004 special editions or the lackluster prequels.
I had looked forward to the return of star wars after reading the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn in the early Nineties, little did i know that lucas would cut up and butcher the negative of the original movies and bury them in replacement with inferior versions with bad cgi. Or that the prequels would be three big steaming piles of shit, followed by worse in Indiana Jones IV, followed by the even more awfull clone wars debacle of 2008. My Faith in Lucas ever making another good movie is long gone he has failed at least five times in that regard since the Phantom Menace in 1999. The last good movie pre cgi overtaken all garbage was The Last Crusade in 1989. And he did not even direct it.
Lucas will never get another dime of my money unless it be a proper restoration of the original films in theaters and on Home Video on dvd and blu ray, supervised by Robert Harris as the restorationist. The gout in 2006 was the straw that broke the camels back as far as the original fanbase Lucas abandoned was concerned. It was like a big Fuck you and middle finger to release a 1993 laserdisc transfer on dvd in 2006.
Lucas caused the rift in the star wars fandom between the old saga fans vs new by denying us our right to pristine copies of the original versions of the movies as consumers. By trying to force the 2004 editorial tampering of a classic down our throats.
i could somewhat stand the special editions or the prequels until he did what he did by disrespecting the movies that made him a very rich man and made us all fans.
Never mind that the actors, artists, and technicians who worked on those movies deserve better than to have them buried or released in inferior quality. It is an absolute outrage to deny the history made by the original academy award winning trilogy and replace it with a version that did not. It is the original versions of star wars and empire strikes back on the afi list even if lucas bars them from showing the original versions. The updates will always be an abomination in my mind as long as he keeps up the revisionist bullshit and suppresses the original movies.