Lucas Continues Ongoing Rape of Star Wars

[Basedow]

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie...-more-changes-original-trilogy-191605319.html

 

[L3ggy]

 

[Ravenholm]

This man is one of the most overrated movie makers in existence. He's a one trick pony. And he knows it. This is why he tries to make as much cash from that series as humanly possible. It's a joke now just like him.

 

[Rane1071]

Yeah, I saw something similar about the upcoming release on BlueRay. Apparently they've changed Yoda from the original puppet to a CGI version. Which isn't a bad thing IMO.

But I agree that some of the new dialogue sucks though. There's one or two new/different lines that especially bug me in Empire Strikes Back.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

The Yoda change in The Phantom Menace, I totally approve of! Hell, I don't even mind the Ewoks blinking in Return of the Jedi or Obi-Wan's new screeching in A New Hope!

The Darth Vader change in Return of the Jedi, WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have yet to see any other changes to have any feeling on them. I guess I'll find out on Sept. 16th.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

There's nothing wrong with taking pride in one's work, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to edit one's work (whether people agree it needs it or not). However, there is a point in which so much tampering is done that the original work is no longer, and there just remains a cheapened copy, which can become even more so if further damage is done.

I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, first off. I really enjoy the first 3 (released, not in the trilogy), and can stomach bits and pieces of the second 3, but there's even a point for me in which it becomes so plasticine that I can't even watch any. The change in Yoda is one that astonishes me. I can see the need for keeping him a CGI version in the newer three, people want effects and fluidity in said effects over something realistic but slightly silly looking. However, was the puppet Yoda (so expertly manipulated by Frank Oz) really that detrimental to the film that it had to be gone over with an eraser to put a group of pixels where it once was?

I know that he's made many other edits, reedits, and rereedits to the film series that I haven't mentioned, in addition to wanting to move into doing it to other films. Is there a point, George Lucas, at which you YOURSELF will step back and say "Hmm....looks good the way it is fellas"?

 

[Trident1]

Lucas to introduce cut film sequence showing Storm Troopettes in spandex dancing to unreleased 1977 disco soundtrack.

Death Star to be renamed "Boogie 1", and Millenium Falcon to be replaced by Bitchin' Red Corvette.

 

[D-rock]

There's nothing wrong with taking pride in one's work, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to edit one's work (whether people agree it needs it or not). However, there is a point in which so much tampering is done that the original work is no longer, and there just remains a cheapened copy, which can become even more so if further damage is done.

I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, first off. I really enjoy the first 3 (released, not in the trilogy), and can stomach bits and pieces of the second 3, but there's even a point for me in which it becomes so plasticine that I can't even watch any. The change in Yoda is one that astonishes me. I can see the need for keeping him a CGI version in the newer three, people want effects and fluidity in said effects over something realistic but slightly silly looking. However, was the puppet Yoda (so expertly manipulated by Frank Oz) really that detrimental to the film that it had to be gone over with an eraser to put a group of pixels where it once was?

I know that he's made many other edits, reedits, and rereedits to the film series that I haven't mentioned, in addition to wanting to move into doing it to other films. Is there a point, George Lucas, at which you YOURSELF will step back and say "Hmm....looks good the way it is fellas"?

It sort of reminds me of artist that always want to add that one last brush stoke to a painting and can't stop, and they keep doing it and doing it, and sooner or later they have a good chance of wrecking what was once great and finished at one point.

 

[Rane1071]

There's nothing wrong with taking pride in one's work, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to edit one's work (whether people agree it needs it or not). However, there is a point in which so much tampering is done that the original work is no longer, and there just remains a cheapened copy, which can become even more so if further damage is done.

I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, first off. I really enjoy the first 3 (released, not in the trilogy), and can stomach bits and pieces of the second 3, but there's even a point for me in which it becomes so plasticine that I can't even watch any. The change in Yoda is one that astonishes me. I can see the need for keeping him a CGI version in the newer three, people want effects and fluidity in said effects over something realistic but slightly silly looking. However, was the puppet Yoda (so expertly manipulated by Frank Oz) really that detrimental to the film that it had to be gone over with an eraser to put a group of pixels where it once was?

I know that he's made many other edits, reedits, and rereedits to the film series that I haven't mentioned, in addition to wanting to move into doing it to other films. Is there a point, George Lucas, at which you YOURSELF will step back and say "Hmm....looks good the way it is fellas"?

I think they're leaving the original Yoda alone in the first 3 (released). You're right they did do an excellent job with the puppet Yoda.

Sorry, I should've specified that.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

It sort of reminds me of artist that always want to add that one last brush stoke to a painting and can't stop, and they keep doing it and doing it, and sooner or later they have a good chance of wrecking what was once great and finished at one point.

That's a very good comparison, actually. The thing is, great artists are able to recognize when less is in fact more, and let their work be.

I think they're leaving the original Yoda alone in the first 3 (released). You're right they did do an excellent job with the puppet Yoda.

Sorry, I should've specified that.

Really? I'd heard that they were planning to go ahead with changing him, I can't remember from what article though, maybe I'm completely wrong.

I've always enjoyed the art of puppeteering (even if I don't enjoy puppets themselves) and have great respect for people that can do it so well that the puppet looks "alive". I'd hate to think that it's become such a bygone medium that all elements of it in film would have to be replaced. Jim Henson must be rolling over in his grave.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I'm trying like hell to get this set as my avatar but I'm too stoopid to figger it out.

 

[ragincaucasian]

hear me now, believe me later....
instead of all the PREQUELS what they should've done was this....


they had everyone sold with the whole "force" thing after the first 3 movies
the 4 th movie should have been from a different perspective. The should show Yoda, Skywalker, and Vader as charlatan faith healers and how what they were doing was nothing but hokum.
The could've revisited Vader's final scene and instead of Vader telling Luke he was his father, he tells Luke that he's raped little boys and extorted billions from the weak.
Luke then has to go on and hide the corruption of his patriarchs and leads him down the same road until he gets busted in a polygamy racket

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Hey, guess what?

Big. Fucking. Deal.

 

[Red Spyder]

Luckily, I got the original trilogy on VHS, before even the re-release from the late 90's. So in my version HAN SHOT FIRST!!!

 

[StanScratch]

It would be like Kurosawa instead reeling in his success with Drunken Angel, continually remaking it, making prequels and sequels.
Or Hitchcock instead focusing on The Lodger...first remaking it as a talky, then as a color picture, then throwing in miniature FX, then blue screen FX...

As far as U an concerned, Lucas can keep on remaking his pure crap. As long as I have copies of the originals, in their original forms, I am content.

 

[PJpenny]

i was okay with the changes he made to the 97 re-realease of the first Star Wars, as well as the other 2. those were good changes. When he changed Darth Vadars image at the end of Return of the Jedi in later DVD releases tho, that was the end of the line for me, Hayden Christiansans image did not belong at the end with Obi-Wan and Yoda. I dont understand why directors have to tamper so much with classics, esp. George Lucas with the Star Wars movies

 

[darkwarrior3007]

I've decided that if I ever make any piece of work that is loved, I'm going to tamper with it to holy hell just to piss everybody off!

 

[busaguy79]

I just can't get over Lucas turning the most bad ass villian of all time into a crying little bitch!!

Obi Wan was 10 times the badass that Vader was and he was played by Alec Guiness!!!

 

[maildude]

It's only rape if the victim is alive. Star Wars is deader than Elvis's dick.

 

[Tittyman5000]

Really, this from the man who created Jar Jar Binks?