George Lucas sucks

[sal_amanda]

in case you needed another reason to be annoyed with Lucas, we just discovered something new.

john and i bought the original Star Wars movies on DVD when they came out this past year. sadly, we haven't really watched them since purchasing them in september. our neighbor steve borrowed them over the weekend, though, and he just returned them with the news that Lucas changed yet another thing on the originals.

remember at the end of Return of the Jedi when Luke looks over and sees the ghostly figures of Yoda, Obi Wan, and also his father in his normal human form? remember how Annakin was the older man that you see when Luke takes off his mask? well, not on the DVD.

now on the DVD you actually see Yoda, Obi Wan (as in Alec Guinness), and also Annakin played by Haydn Christian (or whatever that dude's name is that plays him in the current movies - can't remember exactly). what is the point of that? why would Annakin be his young self while Obi Wan is still his old self? and why would Lucas bother changing that when Annakin was the older man you just saw five minutes earlier in the movie when Vader was unmasked?

gah!

i still hate the "new" added scenes he put into the originals when he rereleased them in the 90s. they're just pointless and stupid. so i'm quite glad i still have the original originals on tape. i hope Lucas gets some brain cells back someday and releases that version on DVD some day. i will gladly buy those and hand over the current DVDs to my brother who thinks there's no difference.

Comments

[datashade.livejournal.com]

If you look around on the internet (BitTorrent sites, etc) you can sometimes find LaserDisc rips of the original movies.

[sal_amanda]

yeah, i figured they'd have to be out there somewhere. i'll be checking that out. thanks.

[wigglett.livejournal.com]

wow - yet another reason why im glad im not a starwars fan - it seems like i would have a lot of disapointment

[sal_amanda]

more like downright anger. and a sense of betrayal.

[schraderj.livejournal.com]

That's just WRONG WRONG WRONG! As I was reading this, I guessed where you were going with it and thought NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I don't remember if Andy bought the "New" DVDs - he's a sucker and probably did. I still have the old tapes and I'm not getting rid of them. Who the hell needs to see Jabba walking around, anyway? Lucas, don't make the rest of us pay for your poor planning. It's not our fault you decided you didn't have enough money and had to make three new stinkers fit with the classics.

[sal_amanda]

i just don't know why he feels that he needs to keep fucking with them all. yes, it's partly about money, but i also think he believes that he's actually improving them. what an ass.

[heywoodjabloski.livejournal.com]

the thing is, whenever Lucas changes something, he says "well, that's what I wanted to do in the first place but couldn't because of budget/technology/etc"
so don't expect to ever see releases of the original movies, because he feels like these newer versions are more the movies he wanted to make...
someone needs to learn to tell that boy "no"

I would, but I really really really want a three picture deal

[sal_amanda]

someone needs to tell him that his adoring public wants the originals, and that he really ought to listen because he would be no one without our money becoming his money.

[heywoodjabloski.livejournal.com]

sadly, I doubt that argument would float, but feel free to try...