uncanny474 said:
Brockyman said:
uncanny474 said:
Would you mind just shooting Lucas after Return of the Jedi? Just killing him dead? Because then we wouldn't have to deal with the remakes, OR the prequels. Think about it. No "Han Shot First", no "crappy CGI Jabba", no "little orphan Annie", no NOTHING.
Just the brilliant original movies... bliss...
I don't mind remastering, but actually CHANGING the films is a step too far. You're ruining perfectly good movies with your meddling!
Yes, because brutally murdering the man that brought you those wonderful films because he exercises his right to change HIS material.... That's really mature. Maybe you should shank JRR Tolkean w/ a shiv before he wrote The Similarian (spelling?)....
The only real mistakes from the remakes is the Han shot first and the NOO! Other then that, the enhance visuals looked better, and add things he couldn't do on a shoe sting budget in the 1970s.
What about the crappy singing bit in Jabba's palace? What about adding Hayden Christensen to the end of Ep 6? What about Luke's pathetic little scream as he fell down the bottomless pit in Ep 5?
All of these are meddling with the final product. And all of them remove some of the tension and drama that made the first three movies such masterpieces. He hasn't made one addition to the movies that has done anything except make the fans facepalm at the stupidity of the decision.
As for JRR Tolkien, that's a poor analogy. The Silmarillion was published after his death, so it wasn't finished--it was his children trying to squeeze some pennies out of their fathers' corpse. Also, it was actually GOOD, unlike the prequels. And to be honest, Tolkien may not have meant it to see the light of day--it may have just been his notes on his world--but we'll never know due to him dying before we could find out.
The Tolkien analogy was just showing absurdity by being absurd and wasn't meant to be truly realistic.
It was just the hate that seeped from your post... wanting to murder a man because he made changes to his own intellectual property. I admit that Lucus is a bit of a douche for not releasing the Uneditied Trilogy, and I'm about 90% sure you don't actually don't want him to die (and if you do, you really are a jerk), but its just the fact that killing him was an actual option in your mind for editing 3 movies and making 3 more that you didn't like.
I will admit I forgot about the "crappy singing segment" in Jabba's palace did suck, everything else you listed ISN'T THAT BIG OF A DEAL. I consider myself a pretty big Star Wars fan, and I didn't notice the "bottomless pit scream", and I understand why he wanted to have Hayden in the final scene...it was to show him returning to the state he was in before his turn to the dark side, and to link the two trilogies. Was it necessary? No. But did it alter the storyline or ruin the movie? Hell no.
Also, could the prequels have been better? Sure, but I also get tired of people dismissing them as a whole because of Jar Jar Binks and some stiff acting. I even heard one person mad because the plot of the Phantom Menace had something to do w/ trade disputes. IF they had half a brain, they would have realized that it was to show how masterful Palpatine/Sidious was in manipulating both the Republic and the other organizations for him to take power and destroy the Jedi.
People just get so wrapped up in things its just crazy.. it's like the people who bitched that parts of Harry Potter were cut and Lord of the Rings had some changes to make them into movies.
