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Whatever.
Fuck George Lucas for destroying my childhood. Fuck him for ruining the movies I loved more than was healthy. Fuck him for everything he did to the things I once cherished.
Ok. Done.
It is just a movie.
I think George Lucas just really likes to disappoint people. I was fortunate to get the original theatrical releases digitally (which they sold for several months). The scene where Darth Vader kills the Emperor and saves Luke is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. George Lucas has to know how stupid everybody thought the "NOOOOOO!" at the end of Episode III was, he has to. He fucked up Return of the Jedi on purpose, it has to be.
that's cool I'll just keep on keepin' on with my 2006 dvd theatrical cuts
I just watch the original cuts and ignore the rest.
It's not that hard.
*rolls eyes* What the fuck is the point of adding Vader's glowering "noooo" to that? I mean, was that ever not clear? I...
Whatever. The guy can do a goddamn tapdance in the next version and it won't matter, I have the version I like and I'm sticking with them and I can pirate HD versions.
If anything this last decade has taught me, it's to stop eating George Lucas's shit.
Kind of sad that that's what I've learned in a decade, but... take what you can get, I suppose.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1314769799
George Lucas is probably the most masterful troll the world has ever seen.
I love how he pretends to have a jawline with that beard.
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I don't get it. Why do that? They had "no" technology in the 70's. They had "no" technology in the 90's. If "no" was his original vision, he could have done it at any time over the last 30 years. Even back with the original release they had the money in the budget to have James Earl Jones say "no". Why now? To fuck with us?
Btw, what version does one buy to see the original?
I was wondering the same thing, except without the buying part. I just need to know if a completely unaltered original version of the Star Wars trilogy exists and what sort of name it had (Special Deluxe Collector's Original).
Honestly, these changes don't bother me at all. Lucas could put CG dicks coming out of Luke and Leia's ears and have Vader take cumshots to the face from Peter Cushing if he wanted to, and it'd be fine. What DOES bother me is his insistence that the original, unaltered versions are his "rough cuts" and should never be made made available to the fans who want them. You know, the same people that made Lucas the money to make all these changes as well as film his gay new trilogy.
Even the DVDs that were released a few years ago were just transfers of the old laserdics, as opposed to being re-mastered for DVD. Lazy and half-assed.
Whatever. I think I've seen these movies so many times that I'm almost permanently burnt out on them, anyway.
I haven't seen the original films in over a decade now. Really looking forward to Lucas dying so someone finally releases a real HD print!
Lucas could learn a thing or two from Ridley Scott. He had no problems releasing a Blade Runner blu ray that includes every single completed cut, even the stuff that the studio forced on him.
They're out of print again so you'll have to buy 'em off marketplace sellers but here they are..Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
I picked all those up when they were released and I'm officially done buying these movies until Lucas dies and someone puts these prints out remastered.
I have 1080p rips of the OT special editions. I used to rage pretty hard about some of the changes, but I don't care anymore.
I could understand if the neckless bastard had made compromises in the first film and it didn't quite equal his original vision, but its success pretty much guaranteed him the budget to make the rest of the trilogy everything he wanted them to be. Most of the things added to the special editions were trivial and stupid, while there were plenty of glaring faults that seemed to actually get worse with each edit. Instead of fixing the awful composite work and non-existent depth of field effects in the rancor battle, for example, he added shitty musical numbers and throwaway CG 'enhancements' that only served to make the unaltered scenes look shitty by comparison. And of course every film needed to have more wipes than my ass after dinner at KFC.
That added musical shit in Jabba's palace might be the worst crime committed by a human in history, made even more hilarious by how shitty 1997 CGI looks now
I've never really gotten in to any big nerd things like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. I like them just fine, but they are not even in my top 10 list of movies / series I like. So changes being made to them don't stir any mixed emotions in me. Vader is still Luke's father, Han still knows Leia loves him, etc., etc.
I don't lose any sleep over it, but as someone who loved these films as a kid, it does bother me to see them only released in mangled form.
If this kind of shit happened to, say, Big Trouble in Little China, I'd be fucking angry.
Ol' Jack Burton wouldn't stand for that shit.
LOL
The Ewoks blink now.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1314807022
This is really embarrassing for people in this thread that thought this was real
George Lucas ruined my life!!!!!! lol
There's nothing realer than a jizz-wailer wailing on his jizz box.
SO REAL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
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Originally Posted by youtube NOOOOOOOO edit
wow, it might be true... my life is RUINED.
It's real.
I hate everyone who says this is some sad shit.
White people problems indeed.
You're just jealous you'll never be able to troll as well as Lucas does.
Tell us some more about how you're just going to DIE if you don't have the new Marvel joint on release day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
I know I'll get it on release day. I'm okay.
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Originally Posted by bbobb
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1314820294
These Movies are terrible. There, I said it.
They sucked day one. Theatrical version, remasters, George's Bucket of Cum Edition, whatever... They stink. Its a bad soap opera...in space. You like them because you were a kid when you first saw them, and kids are idiots.
All of them besides Episodes V and II bore me.
I like III and V, personally.
Of note: I like III because it spends so much energy tying into IV. Lots of nerd out moments.
IV is the one that is really good for me, as more of a standalone movie.
IV>V>VI>II>III>anyothermovieever>I
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Comic ESB > Actual ESB
raspberries>blueberries>strawberries>blackberries
I think I like strawberries more than blueberries overall.
Enjoy them in their current unadulterated form while you can. Frank Lucas (R-OK), chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, is fixing to fuck them up for you by replacing the versions you know with genetically "enhanced" ones by supporting the FDA deregulation of genetically modifying foods.
Strawberries are the fucking BOMB.
ESB is the shit, forever.
I love you.
I know.
I like star wars 6 because it's full of so much implausible stuff, like a black guy saving the day and a shrimp in command of a space fleet
Yeah, I was shocked when Lando didn't get drunk on Colt 45, steal the Falcon, and sell it for space crack.
He sold out his friend instead.
Space House Nigger.
Snitches get stitches.
Rep to the first person who can tell me the theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Uncle Tom protected his friends, SSJN.
That was fast!
I guess he would still be an Uncle Tom to you either way. :(
Does that make Boba Fett Tom Loker?
Lucas would stop doing this if people would just stop giving him money. It's insane.
I haven't given him a dime ever since I bought those Star Wars VHS tapes back in the day.
I bought the THX remastered tapes, but not the wide screen version sadly, and then the special editions when the came out.
The SE's were enough of a letdown to kill my interest in anything Lucas did after that, although I did like the SE version of ESB.
The only good thing about the special edition was that I got a chance to see the films in the theater.
HOW DARE THEY MOVE THE HITBOX ON MY DOWN FORWARD DASH PUNCH PUNCH GO SUPER MEGA COMBO ONE PIXEL TO THE RIGHT THIS IS THE END OF LEGITIMATE COMPETITION THEY'RE HANDING THE WHOLE SCENE OVER TO THE SCRUBS I'M GOING BACK TO VANILLA SF1 THAT'S RIGHT NOT 2, 1, AT LEAST THAT'S STILL PURE AOINEOTOIHAOSHGONBOEONOBINWOINB3EOITNOINCQuote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
Edit: oh yeah, the thing I came in here to post about in the first place:- George Lucas, 1988. What. The. Fuck.Quote:
The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as “when life begins” or “when it should be appropriately terminated,” but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.
These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
There is nothing to stop American films, records, books, and paintings from being sold to a foreign entity or egotistical gangsters and having them change our cultural heritage to suit their personal taste.
There's a difference between an artist modifying his own work and some other party modifying his work against his wishes. I don't think any law that could have been enacted to protect films would have stopped what Lucas has been doing to Star Wars.
Actually, it would have stopped him tinkering with Empire and Jedi at least, as they were directed by other people. Besides, what he's done with Star Wars since then clearly violates the principle he was talking about, even if not the letter of the law he was lobbying for.
At least the Ewoks movies are safe.
those movies are odd
oh and this
Here's a website with photos showing the differences.
http://picasaweb.google.com/10254276...ars2011Changes
so
FUCKING
STUPID
Greedo gets off a few dozen shots now.
I think I have the entire run of both of those, as I am incredible nerd (there was only 2 ewok tv movies, the battle for endor and the caravan of courage right? and there wasn't too many episodes of droids aired but I know I at least have 2 or 3)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
the only thing I don't have and don't really care about was the dumb fucking ewoks cartoon that shit was for girls
I like all those wireframe drawings.
Lucas has OCD. I'm tellin' ya.
Honest question: Why doesn't he recast and remake the movies entirely? That way Han Solo can be a two-headed CGI koala bear who never shoots at all from the get-get go. It would save decades of altering the original to eventually get there.
Still plenty of water in the original trilogy well.
OH MRS. CHEEBS!
HE'S GOING TO BE SO MAD WHEN HE SEES WHAT YOU BEEN DOING WITH HIS ACCOUNT LATELY~
That takes work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
Some people said it upthread but I really think Lucas is just trolling at this point. He hates Star Wars and hates the fans. He takes pleasure in fucking with the movies and seeing how the fans react.
Because transformers are stupid.
You done lured her in here again to troll about Transformers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
because this will use & lose much, much more money than retooling the OT every 3 or 4 yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs