Hello all,
I am a new poster, but have been a lurker for a few weeks now. I have been run off just about every SW fourm I can think of....it seems that my "old ass" and my hard line attitude on the "Original Trilogy" is not welcome on most Star Wars boards. I am not sure how I will be received here, but some things I would like to get off my chest.......
1. Did George Lucas Rape my Childhood?
Yes, what he did to these films is an abomantion. He might as well have thrown a 12 year old boy on the hood of his car and went to town...
2. Han/Greedo Scene
By changing that scene you change the whole character of Han Solo! You turn him from the rotten scoundrel/ Pirate that he was into someone that has a conscious. After that scene is over, we are left with the thought that he can be a cold blooded killer when he needs to be.
3. The Movies are His!
No, I do not agree. Yes he created them, but once they went out into the public then they became apart of film history. I do not see many artists paintings once they go to a museum get sent back to the artist because they should have done this or that...if he wanted to fiddle with them, he should have kept them at home.
4. Updating Special Effects
I am aginst it! Movies are like pieces of time, and Star Wars belongs in the 1970's. The effects were way ahead of their time in 1977,80 and 83. But they belong in the time that they were made. Is George going to update the effects again in say 2020 when the effects from 2004 have long since been outdated? Should we go back and redo the shark in "Jaws" just because we can?
5. You have the Original Trilogy on every format except DVD, get over it!
Why should we be punished and not be able to see the Original Trilogy in the latest medium with the best quality?
6. Go watch it on tape or Laser if you like the originals so much...see it how it was back then with grain etc...
Guess what, just because it looked bad in those older formats it did not look like that back in 1977, 80 and 83 in the theater. So I want it how it looked in the theater with the best possible cleanup and transfer (but kept original).
7."This is how I wanted to make them" but couldn't excuse.
Total horse shit...yeah maybe there were some things he wanted to do like the Jabba scene but he has used this old excuse for everyting now and it has become his crutch...Why not have changed the Han scene in 1977? Certainly he could have done that.....so what that he can make the effect look better now...thats what "NEW" movies are for...this is he license to tinker. He will turn these into the prequels...lots of effects and no heart or magic.
8.Prequels
I think it is just sad how he is trying to tie all this together by butchering the OT....look its his own fault for waiting 15 years between making these trilogies. I could care less how he tries to tie them together, just as long as he does not change anything in the originals to do it.
9.Shafting Others
He is totally spitting on the people that made the originals possible including the directors that he hired for ESB and ROTJ. I wonder if Marquand is rolling around in his grave? What about all the people who designed the models, makeup, fx shots..everything? What about the original actors like Sebastian Shaw? What they are just wiped from history?
10.Get a Life!
Yep these are just movies, and in the grand scheme of life not the highest on the importance scale..but they meant something to a 12 year old in 1977....they mean something to the history of film. And we deserve better than having a revisionsist history cramed down out throats. Maybe I am getting old and crotchty...I know that nobody can appreciate these films the same way that those of us did that actually saw them in the theater as they were released...
If only he would give ALL of his fans a choice as to which versions they will watch...
Would you like a little Cheese with your whine?
Yes I love chesse, thank you.
You can add me to your ignore list now
