Anchorhead said:

EyeShotFirst said:

...further proves that George Lucas wants to screw with us. It's almost like he's cramming in shit, because he knows it will rattle our cage, and the fanboys will lap it up like a kitten on a tit.

I'm not usually a conspiracy type of guy, but that's been my thought on the more ridiculous changes for a while now. Lucas has been a control freak with a colossal ego for years.

The moment someone says he shouldn't do something - whether it be peers or fans - he makes it a priority to do it. The NOOOOOO, the new dragon call, etc - the more the fan base gets upset, the more he shows them who's boss. At this point in the history of the franchise, to me, it's the only logical explanation.

I don't believe these kind of things is done to give fans the middle finger, just take a look at what was done to the trilogy in '97, most of those alterations are amazingly stupid and bad and hurt the films far more than any later alterations have done and those changes we saw in that re-release could never have been done to say fuck you fans. Take a look at the poor filmmaking in the prequel trilogy, it's all quite reminiscent of what we're seeing in the further degradation of the classic trilogy in 2004/11.

All these products has made a huge amount of money despite all this, and the money it makes is everything that Lucasfilm see, the 3D release is the next step in whoring this old franchise. I think that Lucas is just a lazy old man that have lost every sensibility of good filmmaking and have found the joy of playing around like a kid with these old creations of his and see what he can come up with and do next with his new digital tools, instead of creating something new, and in the process he also makes enormous amount of money on it. He do what he likes and people are buying it, couldn't be a better situation for him.