SpaceOddity

Vaderisnothayden said:

The whole thing of mutilating Star Wars with the special edition and replacing the originals with it so the originals may not be available in the future, that's a stab in the heart. That's no minor thing. That's crime against the huge numbers of people who loved the originals.

That pretty much sums it up. I'm probably just repeating what everyone else here has said more eloquently than me... but it just boggles the mind why Lucas seems to loathe the original trilogy so much. He doesn't understand how important the original incarnations are for all of us who saw the OT when they were first released. It's ridiculous that he just can't give those fans a decent release of the films. These are the people who made him rich in the first place. Instead, all he does is throw out a half-assed DVD set, and then pretends that the "modified" versions of the OT are the "real" things. And he'll just keep changing and changing the original movies until they're no longer recognizable. Check out the "Free Hat" episode of South Park. lol.

There are so many other filmmakers out there that respect the fans by making all versions of their films available... Just look at the Blade Runner blu-ray released by Ridley Scott. There are so many versions of that film, and Scott made ALL of them freely available and in decent quality. Lucas, on the other hand, seems to refuse that the original versions of the OT were valid, and he'll never be satisfied with them.

skyjedi2005 said:

What i cannot believe if that it took 10 years for it to sink in that the prequels suck. 

Anybody Celebrating the Tenth anniversary of the Phantom menace  this year?

Wow. That fact just hit me like a load of bricks... I can't believe it's been 10 years since TPM. It's mind-blowing how the state of SW has changed in the years since 1999.... :(

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Hmm... Looks kinda interesting. It's great they included a bit of the "If George Lucas Made LOTR" YouTube video... lol. I'll definitely check this out, especially to hear what Gary Kurtz has to say.

Wow. This thread touches on a lot of great points that I totally agree with. Especially:

The thing that works for me is to look at the PT as almost EU, so you can take it with a grain of salt and accept it or not.

In my mind, I've just completely separated the prequels from the OT. To me, they're like mindless SW-spin off video games (which isn't exactly false... lol) and crappy EU at best, so I don't consider them canon. I just focus on the OT, and how they're simply the three little movies that I grew up loving and still love to this day.  The last prequel I saw was ROTS once in the theater, and I haven't seen any of them since then. I just kind of act like they don't exist. LOL.

There's also solace in knowing that 20 years from now, the OT is what people and film historians will still remember, not the prequels...

TheBoost said:

I would love to see a show just like The Clone Wars (CGI) but covering between Star Wars and Empire. Just simple adventures of Luke, Han, Leia and the gang, perhaps against Vader and some newly created 2nd string villains.

And after that, another series about Luke, Lando, Leia and the gang between Empire and Jedi.

I agree with you there, but I'd prefer great-looking, 2D animation over CGI any day. I've always thought it would've been cool to have an animated series done by someone like Bruce Timm, since he's actually done a lot of pretty cool SW drawings and seems to be a fan. Alas, only in my dreams, though... I don't think kids would go for it, either, especially after they've had their brains fried by all of the prequel/Clone Wars crapola.

An animated version of Shadows of the Empire would've been kinda cool, too. I think I'm one of the few that actually liked the book, though. LOL.

Interesting thread... I think it's obvious that however cheesy their dialogue may have been, Han and Leia had much, much, MUCH more chemistry than Anakin & Padme. It's almost laughable to compare the two relationships. Han and Leia were interesting and there was real, palpable sexual tension between the two... at least, in ANH & ESB. Han and Leia kind of fizzled out in ROTJ and they became boring.

Anyway, going back to Anakin and Padme... Their chemistry was so lifeless that I couldn't even bring myself to get through their scenes together without gritting my teeth. Again, Han and Leia were adults with a real tension between them... Anakin and Padme seemed like teenage siblings. LOL! Heck, Padme had more chemistry with Obi-Wan than she did Anakin, which is kind of hilarious.