As a great man who really understood Star Wars once said of the prequels, "You know what? I'm starting to get used to this fucking crap not making any sense"
Seriously, I just cannot care anymore. The 97 special editions were crassly ostentatious, and the prequel elements needlessly shoehorned into the 2004 DVD release were cringe worthy, but at this point, I cannot even bring myself to care. I can't be emotionally invested in something when it is obvious the man who is responsible for it has no emotional attachment to his own accomplishments, and isn't going to change his mind about "improving" his past achievements. If this is what Lucas really wants future generations to remember him for as a film maker, so be it. It's his choice and he can ruin his reputation however the hell he wants. It is a travesty that the originals are being reduced obscure collectibles status, but quite frankly, between fan edits, the OT DVD, the THX remastered VHS and other such releases, they will be out there in some form for the fans who actually remember and love them. Lucas clearly does not understand what made Star Wars so special in the first place. All he cares about it doing fancier shit on his computer. This of course begs the question: why not just make more movies? Why does he have to go back and alter classic films that didn't need to be updated and "fixed"? Honestly, I would let the man make crappy prequels and sequels to his heart's content if it meant that the originals would be left untouched. But no, he has to continue to revise the original trilogy just to make them stylistically symmetrical with the prequels.
So where does this end, George? Will all the sets and backgrounds and matte paintings and creatures and droids and space ship models be completely redone in CGI so that the entire Original Trilogy looks every bit as fake and lifeless as the prequels? What about the characters? Will Harrison Ford be replaced by some green frog alien thing like you originally envisioned? Will Anthony Daniel's C3PO become some slimey, used car salesman type? Luke with a robot head? Leia with full cybernetics from the waist down? And what of the dialogue. Will Han tell Leia that he loves her at the end of Empire, just because it's more "romantic"? Instead of zen-like wisdom and thought provoking lines that actually impact our view on life, will we "finally" get to see a flashy CGI Yoda teach Luke how to lightsaber fight on Degobah by doing triple back flips off the sides of trees? WHERE DOES IT END?!
I'm not buying this "enhanced" Blu-Ray release. I have already owned this trilogy three times in the past two decades, and the first edition was still the best. If, by some slim chance, the original versions of these films get released on Blu-Ray (in anamorphic widescreen this time!), then I will buy those. But I will no longer throw away my hard earned cash, or even ask relatives to do the same for me on birthdays or Yule-Time, on these incessant, pointless and, quite frankly, insulting revisions of the films we all enjoyed in our youth. The line has been crossed to many times, and I will not see three of my favourite movies altered yet again. Lucas can do what he wants to his legacy, but for me, I will just continue to live in the past, and remember a Star Wars that was about more then just being visually "bigger and better-er".
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