I just saw the trailer. There's a song, written and performed by two fat fan boys which repeats the line "George Lucas raped our childhood" over and over again.
Really?
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."share
I don't think that's the people who made the movie singing, they're just showing a snippet of some other people within the fan culture, including those who perhaps take it too seriously.
NEW petition for the unaltered Star Wars Trilogy
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damn straight.
I'd put the date at about 1978 or so, instead of 1997. That's when he diverged from his original concept to give viewers the story I abandoned decades ago.
Yeah, that's right; I said it. George Lucas wrecked Star Wars the day he approved the jettisoning of the original character of Luke's father and decided that Vader would fail the paternity test instead. Nearly everything that sucks about that fictional universe stems from that moment.
How much?
I don't think you can quantify it, but a hell of a lot more than he's sustained thus far.
Think of the millions of young fans who bought into that first movie, literally and figuratively.
It sucks to watch what once represented impeccable quality and creativity of the highest degree - a level one should aspire to, no matter what your chosen field - to watch it degenerate into a sad, bad, house of cards that can't remember its own foundations. Yeah. That sucks.
"Feet of clay," as they say.
You guys are sad.
Star Wars returns to theaters in February!
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As far as I'm concerned; Lucas can do as he pleases but for me as a fan, I just want to see the original, unaltered trilogy again, properly on dvd, blu-ray, etc., really the way their meant to be seen.
The 4:3 gutter-boxed DVDs ripped from the laser-discs were a disgrace and an insulting slap across the face of anyone that cherished these films. Frankly it's a poor, misguided business acumen on the part of Lucas to alienate his fans and piss his creditability away as a filmmaker and a business man, Lucas came off more like a child unable to grasp that these movies have their place in film history. I'm not against directors going back to their older movie to create a new cut, hell; the 1992 director's cut of Blade Runner is my favorite movie and guess what, that version is available, along with four other cuts on blu-ray, because even those the 2007 final cut is Ridley Scott's preferred version, he still respect the fans and know very well, that each version of Blade Runner does have it's fans. And no version of the Star Wars: special editions have impressed me, what been added over the years have really been nothing at all, nothing important to the story or characters and I know that subjective in the end. I can remember clearly back in 97; the whole novelty of seeing Star Wars on the big screen faded away when those now-dated SFX reared its ugly head. If Lucas wants to go on altering these films decade after decade, when their converted into 3D in the next few years, that will be the third time. Lucas want to make a fool of himself, that his prerogative, I'm sticking with the originals, please. I won't see them in 3D, haven't wasted a second, watching that clone wars series, stopped playing the video-games, and stopped reading the comics-books a long damn time ago.
I'm going to attend a screening for this documentary here in Vancouver; not going to go in with any bias, if the movie is pretty much a bunch of butthurt fanboys ranting and raving, I'll call it. I'm hoping it not, and if not, Lucas should just accept that the original movies that made him a multi-billionaire, love the original trilogy as it's is and not the grotesque caricatures that he just repackaging over and over again.
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That song plays to me as comic exaggeration.
It's not as offensive to me as South Park's "Chinese Problem" episode
about Lucas and Spielberg supposedly raping Indiana Jones.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may not be as good as the original Raiders flicks,
but it is entertaining and it's not the huge drop in quality between the Original Star Wars trilogy and the Prequels, or even between the OT 1977-1983 version and the Special Editions.
With that it is like new formula Coke versus Coke Classic.
Indiana Jones IV has a cool Fridge Nuke scene salvaged from a draft of Back to the Future, and a little too long jungle chase with unnecessary Tarzan/Shia stuff that should have been mostly off screen. But it is also a solid, fun flick. The SW prequels are not, and the tinkering Lucas has done to the OT have diminished it.
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If you are concerned? Or AS FAR AS you're concerned?
I am sure Lucasfilm is glad you liked them.
I liked Red Tails, their movie from last year, and few people I respect shared my opinion on that flick.
If the theatrical live-action SW prequels were as good as the animated Clone Wars, there would be no controversy. Clone Wars is pretty solid storytelling, for the most part, with a tone closer to the O.T., so it works. The prequels while being self-serious don't stand up to logic. The O.T. was breezy fun and simple enough that logic wasn't a distraction.
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