Hayden Christensen now appears at the end of Return of The Jedi. Yikes!!!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 20:07
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Shaw is still in the movie as helmetless Vader, he hasn't been replaced entirely.
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Originally posted by Gnarsh:
Shaw is still in the movie as helmetless Vader, he hasn't been replaced entirely.
Maybe so, but his eyebrows are missing now. (See the link in the first post.) Now that's just gratuitous.
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wow. at first i thought this was joke...but it's real...sad,sad,sad.
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No they are comlpetely worthless now because the changes are gratuitous (as Stizo said) and are obviously done with disregard to what the fans like. Lucas is no longer creating a vision, he is simply creating a piggy bank...and the newest changes reflect his greed, not his creativity.
Episode I was barely tolerable, Episode II was a joke, so in order to keep interest, he FINALLY allows the Ep. IV, V, and VI movies to be released on DVD and is marketing them essentially for those fans who jumped on the Ep. I and II bandwagon. It's all about the money now. I even hear there are NDA's for Ep. VII, VIII and IX...the three he said he'd never make. So fine, he can go make his movies (can't wait to laugh at Episode III and you KNOW he'll likely use it to make MORE changes to IV, V, and VI, so you'll have to buy the *ahem* "classics" for the FOURTH time to get the "whole thing", not to mention all the new toys, because hey, now we have a ghostie young Anakin)
Face it. Star Wars has become a circle jerk, and I am tired of being jerked and am no longer gonna circle around waiting for this thing to finally come to rest. So you can cry about me becoming disenchanted by what you term as trivial, but I believe the evidence dictates otherwise, and you can look forward to, like I said before, my Star Wars stuff going up for sale on e-bay, so I can be just like Lucas, and make a mint off the rest of you who don't realize when an old horse is too tired to run anymore races.
So go, enjoy the "who's-the-ghost-on-the-left?!", enjoy the "little-Sarlaac-of-horrors-plant", enjoy the "Death-Star-II-blew-up-and-the-whole-galaxy knows-instantly-and-even-the-rich-people-who-benefit-from-the-Empire-celebrate-its-downfall", enjoy the "crappiest-cgi-band-in-Jabba's-palace-that-completely-diminishes-the-efforts-of-the-original-puppeteers-and-actors", enjoy the "laser-guns-now-have-big-booming-sounds-like-50-caliber-rifles", and enjoy the fact that I will be selling my stuff so you can have the opportunity to get some of the original stuff that was not saturating the market like the "rip-off" classic trilogy figures they put out now in the "collector's plastic" for $12.99 a pop and look nothing like the originals.
So yeah, I reasoned this out a WHILE ago, this recent incarnation of Lucasism is simply the last straw for me on a laundry list of complaints.
If you need me, I'll be in Serenity...
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No they are comlpetely worthless now because the changes are gratuitous (as Stizo said) and are obviously done with disregard to what the fans like. Lucas is no longer creating a vision, he is simply creating a piggy bank...and the newest changes reflect his greed, not his creativity.
Episode I was barely tolerable, Episode II was a joke, so in order to keep interest, he FINALLY allows the Ep. IV, V, and VI movies to be released on DVD and is marketing them essentially for those fans who jumped on the Ep. I and II bandwagon. It's all about the money now. I even hear there are NDA's for Ep. VII, VIII and IX...the three he said he'd never make. So fine, he can go make his movies (can't wait to laugh at Episode III and you KNOW he'll likely use it to make MORE changes to IV, V, and VI, so you'll have to buy the *ahem* "classics" for the FOURTH time to get the "whole thing", not to mention all the new toys, because hey, now we have a ghostie young Anakin)
Face it. Star Wars has become a circle jerk, and I am tired of being jerked and am no longer gonna circle around waiting for this thing to finally come to rest. So you can cry about me becoming disenchanted by what you term as trivial, but I believe the evidence dictates otherwise, and you can look forward to, like I said before, my Star Wars stuff going up for sale on e-bay, so I can be just like Lucas, and make a mint off the rest of you who don't realize when an old horse is too tired to run anymore races.
So go, enjoy the "who's-the-ghost-on-the-left?!", enjoy the "little-Sarlaac-of-horrors-plant", enjoy the "Death-Star-II-blew-up-and-the-whole-galaxy knows-instantly-and-even-the-rich-people-who-benefit-from-the-Empire-celebrate-its-downfall", enjoy the "crappiest-cgi-band-in-Jabba's-palace-that-completely-diminishes-the-efforts-of-the-original-puppeteers-and-actors", enjoy the "laser-guns-now-have-big-booming-sounds-like-50-caliber-rifles", and enjoy the fact that I will be selling my stuff so you can have the opportunity to get some of the original stuff that was not saturating the market like the "rip-off" classic trilogy figures they put out now in the "collector's plastic" for $12.99 a pop and look nothing like the originals.
So yeah, I reasoned this out a WHILE ago, this recent incarnation of Lucasism is simply the last straw for me on a laundry list of complaints.
If you need me, I'll be in Serenity...
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Well, you can't buy the original Star Wars cuts on DVD, but you can download some superb (from what I hear) LaserDisc transfers of them, complete with 5.1channel surrond, some very proffesional looking menus, subtitles, etc, etc. There are bittorent links over at www.suprnova.org. They're in the form of 3 4.7gb iso's, so you'll need a fast internet connect and a DVD burner to use them.
Now, from what I understand, it's not illegal to download these as long as you own the original movies in some other medium (currently VHS cassette or LaserDisc are the only ones I know of the un-butchered Star Wars movies being released in). However, I am not a lawyer, your millage may vary, etc, etc.
Rob
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okay, that was weird...sorry about the deja vu. :)
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Quote:Well, that much at least I accepted as artistic time-compression.
Originally posted by TenthCrewMember:
"Death-Star-II-blew-up-and-the-whole-galaxy knows-instantly-and-even-the-rich-people-who-benefit-from-the-Empire-celebrate-its-downfall",
The riot on Coruscant could've come three-four years down the road, after Rogue Squadron takes Coruscant (the X-Wing: Rogue Squadron novel series).
It could also have been a spur-of-the-moment demonstration by a handful of resistance/dissenter groups ("true believers"), all of whom were rounded up and executed almost immediately.
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I honestly never liked ROTJ as a wrap up for the series. Some good scenes, but unrealized potential. I saw the refurbished rerelease..rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It was a definite improvement. Not a prob here. But, when you put lipstick on a pig, what do you get?
Vilavon AKA Claude
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Lucas is no longer creating a vision, he is simply creating a piggy bank...and the newest changes reflect his greed, not his creativity.
How exactly are these changes going to make him anymore money than he would already make by releasing them on DVD? I would assume most people, like myself, want to own the films in the best video format possible.
Am I bothered by some of the changes? Yeah. Am I disappointed in the prequels? Yeah. Does that mean I absolutely hate Star Wars now? Hell no. The original films are still where it's at, and I think these changes Lucas is making are small potatoes. Is it enough to make me not want to own the DVDs? Again, hell no.
"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
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