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We don't hate Star Wars.  We hate what Lucas has turned it into.

My outlook on life - we’re all on the Hindenburg anyway…no point fighting over the window seat.

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Harmy said:

I love STAR WARS - the movie and its two sequels.

I was born in '88, so I never saw the originals in cinema and I even saw the Special Editions of ESB and ROTJ before I saw the original, so for me, wanting the original versions of the SW Trilogy isn't a question of some kind of childhood nostalgia, it's a question of film history - when I watch a film made in a certain era, I want it to look that way - I watched Butch Casidy and the Sundance Kid on Blu-Ray today and it was a beautiful transfer, which looked like a pristine print of a 60s film and it was magical.

I liked the prequels when I was a kid but I also liked Power Rangers you know. So when I grew up, I realized they weren't so great. I don't hate the prequels, I hate that they're the reason that the original trilogy movies, indisputably some of the most acclaimed films in history, and movies I love, are being changed in their image and the original versions suppressed into obscurity.

Harmy, I wouldn't have thought you were born in the late 80's, with the passion you have in restoring the originals, I honestly thought you had experienced them as they were originally released.

I love Star Wars, in 77 I was 9, I was into Planet of the Apes, Space 1999, Doctor Who but not a great fan Star Trek, I remember cutting out exclusive pictures of Star Wars from 'The Sun' newspaper and trying to draw and make plasticine models of R2 and Stormtroopers.

I really have divorced myself from the poor sequel trilogy, the same way that I don't acknowledge Jaws 3 & 4, Alien 3 & 4, Superman 3 & 4, Halloween 3, 4, .....etc

I don't really mind the originals getting the SE treatment...provided that it is done right....which recently (BD) hasn't, thats why I enjoy and respect what Adywan is doing.

Lucas is performing like a bad plastic surgeon, making cuts and injecting inferior elements to try and make the Originals current and modern,....while we remember what natural beauty was there before.

J

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I like Star Wars.

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Jaitea said:

Harmy, I wouldn't have thought you were born in the late 80's, with the passion you have in restoring the originals, I honestly thought you had experienced them as they were originally released.

That's the whole point, I want to experience it in the closest way possible, which currently is an HD preservation very close to the original.

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Harmy said:

Jaitea said:

Harmy, I wouldn't have thought you were born in the late 80's, with the passion you have in restoring the originals, I honestly thought you had experienced them as they were originally released.

That's the whole point, I want to experience it in the closest way possible, which currently is an HD preservation very close to the original.

Well I'm very appreciative that you have Harmy

J

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I like Star Wars, but I admit it sometimes gets hard to do so with all the crap that's gone on.  Honestly, in order for me to enjoy watching the trilogy, I really just have to divorce myself from all the backstory of the past 15 or so years, and pretend that the SEs, prequels, and George Lucas psychosis never happened.  Several months ago, I was having to forget about the Blu-rays.  Now I'm having to forget about recent interviews where George really hopped on the crazy train and blamed the fans being critical of Star Wars for there not being new Star Wars.

In short, I like the Star Wars movies, but I HATE Star Wars fandom (except this place, obviously).

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Gaffer Tape said:

I really just have to divorce myself ...

Gaffer Tape- BACK ON THE MARKET!

Gentlemen, What am I bid?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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I don't hate star wars and I don't hate the prequels, but I hate what Lucas has become


"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." Davy Crockett

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I bid an Overcooked Salmon... with Red Wine!!!

 

Mu ha ha haww!!!!!!

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Call it pedantic, but if someone asks "Do I like Star Wars?" I respond, yes I like the movie of that name released in the 70s.

At that stage people catch on, that I am not answering the question as if they asked me about the franchise it then became. If they don't catch on I make it clear I'm talking about just a single movie.  It's my way of sticking to the facts, not what the media, Lucas, and the general populace have "shaped" Star Wars to represent. Why is this important? Because I don't want people to mistake my answer for meaning anything other than I intended. 

I also love "The Empire Strikes Back" and while not as strong I always liked "Return of the Jedi" purely because I enjoyed seeing Luke come into his own and the longer, improved space battles.

Bar that I liked the original Expanded Universe novels from the early to mid-90s, there is nothing else I can really say.

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greenpenguino said:

I bid an Overcooked Salmon...

TV's Frink said:

A bucket of fish.

But... but I'm a vegetarian!  I don't eat fish!

And greenpenguino's tags are breaking the thread!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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We're paying xhonzi for your....ahem....services. So go suck a fish-head.

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Let's all post like this from now on! Or maybe take it to the next level.

 

Oh, I see, that was unintentional :-( *Walks off in shame*

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Gaffer Tape said:

And greenpenguino's tags are breaking the thread!

Oops!!!

Sorry!

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I love Star Wars 1977-83. I eat, sleep and crap it. If it were up to me it would be everywhere in my house. 

I like the Special Edition for what it is. A  Special Edition. Not to replace the originals.

I grew up with it and I will die with it. But I did try to watch E1 in theaters. Please don't stone me. But I just couldn't bare it. It for me, does not have the magic that the OT does.

Hell, I suffer a emotional  breakdown for 3 years wondering were they going to get Han Solo out of that block or if he would be back at all.  Hey! I was a kid!

and thanks to Harmy I will be able to enjoy the adventures of Luke Skywalker for years to come.

Do I love Star Wars? I watch it everyday. Some part of it.

Troy

 

looking for HDTV of the  Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.  Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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I think I've seen some of your crap floating around the internets.

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As others have said, when it comes to Star Wars, I'm hardly a fan outside the OUT. Though I must be in the minority, I only got into Star Wars in 2003 when I was 11, the first film I watched was The Phantom Menace on VHS. After that was Attack of the Clones, then Return of the Jedi SE, Star Wars/A New Hope SE and Empire Strikes Back SE, after that was Revenge of the Sith in theatres.

Around the time, I was the usual kid where I preferred the visuals and duels from the Prequels. When the DVD set came out for the OT the year after, I was a bit disappointed with some of the changes like Hayden in Jedi, though I just accepted them.

It wasn't until 2009 where I discovered Adywan's Revisited edit for A New Hope and this site when I started to loathe the Special Editions. After that I finally got around to watching the OUT and I found them much better, they definitely felt more like 70/80s movies.

To think, a fan for nine years who was introduced by the Prequels (I can still watch these though it's hard to ignore the awful stuff in it now) and Special Editons (can't watch these full stop now) and now the only thing I ever want to buy from them is a properly restored OUT set.

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Harmy said:

That's a cool story, Bro.

Fixed

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Creative people certainly loved SW (OT) for all the crafts it brought together (painters, modelers, sound ....) + a certain art of story telling.

No need to remain sitting watching it for years scratching your balls with a buck of popcorn (or fish) though. Stuff like this can wake you up , or wake some skills up.

Washing your brain over an over again with the films is all the contrary of Yoda's teachings ! It fanatism (and also running away). Memory should be enough and then you move on.

 

Edit: of course if you watch it a thousand time to check what's wrong and restore it, that's something else.