Star Wars Even Gayer Now

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.

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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon

I hate everyone who says this is some sad shit.

White people problems indeed.

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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 AOINEOTOIHAOSHGONBOEONOBINWOINB3EOITNOINC

Edit: oh yeah, the thing I came in here to post about in the first place:

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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.

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- George Lucas, 1988. What. The. Fuck.

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.