"Maclunky"

And comments like yours are why fanboys are a plague, defending all kinds of fucked up decisions by someone/a company through blind praise without any critical thought whatsoever. The kind of mentality where there's no accountability whatsoever. If everyone acted like you, we'd have nothing but trash films without respite, because you need to consume, consume, and consume some more - don't dare question the great Lucas, or the deific Disney.

So I take it you're okay with this type of behavior, the behavior that George himself said was "barbaric"? What a top notch apologist you are, advocating for the literal destruction of historical film reels to push a distorted version of classic films with no alternative. But hey, you're George's boy so it's all worth it. Maybe someday down the line when you meet him, he'll specifically remember this post and give you a cookie.

You think I'm going to just blindly praise Lucas because I don't like Disney? Or be a Disney fanboy because I dislike these decisions by Lucas? No, some of us have this thing called a brain, and the ability to use it. The ability to judge things beyond this mindless black and white fanboy mentality you have, which is the antithesis of critical thought.

Absolutely disgraceful, that there's people out there like yourself who condone this type of thing. I mean, the millions of fans who want to purchase the actual films they grew up with and supported for decades... how dare they, am I right? You are seriously messed up.

*By the way, can you point to any other well-known classic films, where a filmmaker has released a distorted version and actively suppressed, even destroyed, the original film? I can't think of any, because doing that is seriously fucked up and insane. "Barbaric... a great loss to society", says Lucas. Yeah, it is.

who gives a fuck. you're being such a snowflake. it's literally a fucking movie. no need to get this mad over a fucking movie dude

Methinks you need a hobby!

The Vader change was such a travesty... at that point it almost felt like Lucas was deliberately trolling. Then this Maclunky thing came out and almost solidified it. Could he actually think these changes are for the better? Looking at the prequels and Indy 4, I guess it's a possibility. Either way he is just so far separated from the filmmaker he was when these were originally created.

I would be all for Lucas doing whatever the hell he wanted to with these Special Editions, but the fact that he went out of his way to suppress the originals is what puts him beyond the pale - especially considering the hypocrisy of it with his past statements. Every other filmmaker and company has always presented the option for both versions, and that's how it should have been here. It actually makes a decent case for why an artist or filmmaker maybe shouldn't have absolute control over their works.

You mean in Jabba’s palace, I think?

What's even cheesier, to me, is that in this age of CGI and Disney's billions of dollars it could use to recreate a shot or two of Greedo talking, that they had to resort to using existing footage of him saying "Yakoska" earlier in the conversation and re-dubbing it with "Maclunky". I mean, come on! Not only do they make changes to make the movie worse, but do so utilizing the absolute minimal possible effort.