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Star Wars (the original trilogy) will have its day on DVD, the way the fans want. I don't believe in coincidences, I believe everything happens for a reason. This 'Special Edition' is here for a reason, and I have no doubt that George Lucas will be made to see in a way that only he can, that the trilogy he created, the original, the one that gave him the ability to make these newer versions he so parades now, was his finest work.

I'm impressed by how so many have come together for this cause, keep the faith....and watch.
I will cultivate patience to such a degree, that time itself will grow tired of waiting.
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I am a huge Red Sox fan and each year that goes by, I have more faith in the Red Sox finally winning a world series over the odds of the OT getting released. This is a man who's company edited guns out of the hands of the men in ET and replaced them with Walkie-Talkies (yes Spielberg and Lucas are in cullusion for cartoon PG kiddieness). This is the man the releases not the director's cut, but the "GEORGE LUCAS DIRECTOR'S CUT" of THX 1138, again with new CG and promised that the theatrical cut is gone. And he means it. I think Luca$' attitude is the more we serve up fanboy hate, the more he steals it away and makes it "his project" of supposed genius, though leaning now towards self-delusion. No, my friend, Star Wars has gone the way of Jar-Jar and Company. It is far more Roger Rabbit now, having live actors mixed in with CG, then the reverse. The brilliance of Star Wars is now mixed with Naboo Celebrations (Jar-Jar actually goes "WEEESA FREEEE!" in the ROTJ now). My friend I hope you do have that much patience...there won't be that cut until after his death. Now there are people working on that cut and soon there will be excellent copies of edits and that will be as good as it gets. Don't worry you'll have more CG goodness in Ep. III coming, lunchboxes, toys, and YES A TV SERIES!!!!!

Keep waiting. And welcome to the board. Most of us our bitter here and "A New Hope" means magnoliafan edits here and not the crap getting released on 9/21.
16 years I wait and this is what I get???
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"This is a man who edited guns out of the hands of the men in ET and replaced them with Walkie-Talkies."

Wasn't that Spielberg?

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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
"This is a man who edited guns out of the hands of the men in ET and replaced them with Walkie-Talkies."

Wasn't that Spielberg?


Yes. But ILM did do the effects, so Lucas is indirectly responsible I guess...
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I believe Lucas is dead serious about his statements about not releasing them. I don't believe we will get them in 2007, 2017, or even 2177. I believe there gone. But with original version footage in the documentary in full DVD quality you can edit the original trilogy together quite easily with good video editing software. That should be enough to satisfie you. Its what you want right the original versions on DVD in full DVD quality. It just will take a bit of work to make. But if you love it as much as you do then it shouldn't be too outragous to do.
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Nice try, Jimbo, but you know that most people here want the original films as they were presented in '77, '80, and '83. The documentary in no way contains all of the original footage necessary to do this properly. C'mon.
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Originally posted by: RowMan
Nice try, Jimbo, but you know that most people here want the original films as they were presented in '77, '80, and '83. The documentary in no way contains all of the original footage necessary to do this properly. C'mon.


Well, I think that all that is really missing that isn't shown in the doc is Han shooting first. Of course, unless you mean without ANY tweak (being extended corridor or changes in text on screens) then I don't know what to tell you.
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Originally posted by: RowMan
Nice try, Jimbo, but you know that most people here want the original films as they were presented in '77, '80, and '83. The documentary in no way contains all of the original footage necessary to do this properly. C'mon.


Technically you haven't seen the whole documentary. It might. Even if it doesn't combine unchanged scenes from the movies, documentary footage, anamorphic remastered laserdisc. Very little of the movies won't be DVD quality even then the difference between DVD and laserdisc will be small. Thats good enough man.
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jimbo please dont talk to us like we're drug addicts needing our fix of SW...

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But with original version footage in the documentary in full DVD quality you can edit the original trilogy together quite easily with good video editing software. That should be enough to satisfie you.


your just lucky that you like the shitty versions of his movies and because he doesnt know what makes a movie good anymore, he's deciding to bugger up what made him who he is today...

Lucas didnt release these versions for all those jimbo's out there...
he thinks of you just as he thinks of us...

just another dollar in his pocket... and thats all you are to your wonderful Lucas...

welcome to reality son...
"Never. I'll never turn to the darkside. You've failed your highness. I am a jedi, like my father before me."
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I hope our "NEW Hope" of magnolia, does just that. He has been using the new DVD's as a source for his Edits of IV-VI.
16 years I wait and this is what I get???
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker

he thinks of you just as he thinks of us...

just another dollar in his pocket... and thats all you are to your wonderful Lucas...

welcome to reality son...


Ain't that the truth! You preach it Luke and I'll turn the pages.

Keeping The Star Wars Hoiliday Special alive. Once person at a time. Stir, stir, whip, whip, stir, beat, beat.
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Most of us our bitter here


No doubt. All you have to do is read through this forum and see all the whining. I think many here need to get their priorities in order. It's a movie. I can't imagine what many here will do if something serious does happen in their life.
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Lucas is a film maker first, business man second. I'll accept your badmouthing him on not giving you the OT, but I won't accept you discredting his ability as an 'artist'. The man knows what makes a story, from Greek Mythology, to English legends, to Samuri tales. He was good friends with Joseph Campbell, the uttmost authority on all things myth throughout history. Listening to him talk on Charlie Rose's program, I rediscovered the feeling of admiration I had for Lucas before I let the mentalities of Internet Message boards degrade him. He is a visionary in storytelling and the technical aspects of making film.

The 'story' of the prequels is good. The execution (mostly editing) is where it fails. When you see all 6 films together you will understand the diffrences in the tone, pacing and approach. You basically go from the story of a grand republic with knights as it's guardians to a renegade rebellion against an empire, after almost 10 years of Civil War. The tones are obviously going to be diffrent.

Anyways, this isn't really directed at anyone in particular. It's just something I wanted to get off my chest. In the anger many have over the changes, let's not lose sight of the wonderful story telling that takes place. Hell, the Jabba scene in ANH is almost neccesary if you look at the movies as a Saga. If he is not in EP III, what you have is a character who disappears at the end of EP II, reappears in EP IV in a "I'm still here/What's he doing there" cameo, to EPV "Oh crap, he's back and this is what he was doing in EP V, to EP VI in which his name is uttered on screen for the first time in '25 timeline years' and he meets his doom.
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I think many here need to get their priorities in order. It's a movie. I can't imagine what many here will do if something serious does happen in their life.


Whoa...are you here on this forum just to remind us of that? Or are you here because this goes above and beyond The Fast and the Furious. For you to say that Star Wars is just a movie, is like saying the The Wall is just an album. I mean, im not a huge fan of Pink Floyd - but for somebody to deny the significance of an amazing work of art by leveling with every other work of art in the medium is just silly.
Were Star Wars just a movie, it wouldnt have spawned an entire sub-culture, which has assimilated very well now into mainstream culture. Star Wars revolutionized film making, it revolutionized the way people thought of special effects. Star Wars...just a movie?

I can see what you are trying to get at...IF i stretch my brain REALLY far. But seriously man, it seems like you are making us out to be misguided or irresponsible or some shit. Im certain that the majority of us can/will/have handled serious things in our lives. What we are talking about here is a matter of entertainment and art, Id say that this is extrememely relevant and important to life. And because we take art or entertainment seriously is hardly grounds for saying that we wouldnt be able to handle something that you coin "serious" in our lives.


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Most of us our bitter here


No doubt. All you have to do is read through this forum and see all the whining. I think many here need to get their priorities in order. It's a movie. I can't imagine what many here will do if something serious does happen in their life.


then why are you here?
do you have nothing better to do with your life then come on forums and try to start arguments...
either STFU or leave...

u pick?
"Never. I'll never turn to the darkside. You've failed your highness. I am a jedi, like my father before me."
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As a lurking newbie here, I resent the "get a life" speech. This forum is a place for fans to vent about the new DVD set, no? That's why I'm here.

My grandmother died last month ... I didn't yell "Fuck You George Lucas" at her funeral, ok? There's a time and a place to vent about George Lucas ... and THIS is the time and the place.

And no, I don't really think George Lucas is much of an artist. Not anymore. Whatever artistic magic he had in 1977 and 1980 has vanished ... and now he's admitted that he WANTS that original magic to vanish.