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Lucas changes around Star Wars movies yet again.
DaveMMR:
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When ET was re-released a few years back, the guns the cops were holding were modified to be flashlights. You might remember the South Park episode making fun of that decision where they changed all of the guns in Saving Private Ryan to flashlights.
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I bought the limited edition, it came with both versions...
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Yes, that's what I got too. Never watched the re-edited version. And that's what Lucas should do. Do whatever he wants to the movies, but keep the original intact and available.
BTW: I'm not a Star Wars fanatic, but in general I don't like when movies are changed around from what you remembered and enjoyed.
popsicle:
Two kinds of people in the world - Star Wars and Star Trek. Admittedly, since I saw the original Star Wars in the theater when I was in Kindergarten, I was a Star Wars fan. Empire was by far the coolest, for sure (thank you Lawrence Kasdan).
Nowadays, I enjoy the more cerebral Star Trek universe. It presents often difficult social and ethical dilemmas and I like that the interaction between the various races on the same ship with each other as well as the new races they discover along their journeys.
Star Wars just seems childish anymore.
Donkbaca:
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the Star Wars movies, but I don't get all pissed off when the dude that made it decides to erase a puppet.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on September 02, 2011, 07:47:22 pm ---Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the Star Wars movies, but I don't get all pissed off when the dude that made it decides to erase a puppet.
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You are so dumb sometimes. He didn't erase a puppet, he erased AN ACTORS PERFORMANCE. Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda and Jim Henson's partner in crime back in the day worked that puppet during the scenes. Because he is a premiere muppeteer, the acting he can get out of that "puppet" is astounding. When you erase his scenes you are essentially pissing all over Frank Oz.
It would be like if at some point they decide to re-release The Temple of Doom, but decide to digitally turn short-round into a cgi monkey.
I'm not an obsessive fan of Star Wars by any means, I roll my eyes at people that say stupid things like "I only watch the laserdisc version" but there is a difference in digitally enhancing the special effects and removing/altering the actors performances.
So to be blunt I'm a Star Trek fan, and even I'm pissed about it. ;)
But just for the record, I'm not even that much of a Star Trek fan anymore. As much as I liked the films and various tv shows, at some point the shows became so formualic that from the first 5 minutes of an episode you could go "oh this is a time paradox episode where they keep repeating the past until somebody fixes something" or "this is a show where they take something that was in the news and thinly disguise it as a conflict between the crew and an alien race".
And the reboot movie.... don't get me started.
wp34:
I sense much anger in this thread...