These clips aren't quite as embarrassing as the Vader "NOOOOOO" moment that we threw up a couple of days ago, but you guys seem interested in what these Star Wars Blu-Rays are going to change, so here's a few more clips to tide you over. Up above we get our first look at arguably the most innocuous change, the digital Yoda from The Phantom Menace. Then we move on to Ewoks that Lucas has suddenly decided must blink:
And hey, were there not enough aliens in Jabba's Palace already? Let's add another two-second shot of one for no reason, and make sure that everyone knows that Jabba's door is really big by adding a CGI extension.
On the one hand, an obsessive attention to detail is arguably what made Star Wars so wonderful in the first place, and it's certainly still Lucas' film to fuck up, if he wants to. On the other hand, there's little rhyme or reason behind any of these changes. Lucas has it well within his power to simply make a fully-CGI remake of A New Hope, should he wish to do so; at some point that becomes preferable to the death-by-a-thousand-cuts series of changes he's making to the films we all grew up with.
As someone not all that fussed about Star Wars
this is a little wacky
Their eyes blink but their lips are as immobile as ever. Why not go whole hog? He's not even consistent in his meddling.
Alright, minor things like Ewoks blinking and the door being bigger don't terribly bother me. That "no" that Vader utters though...ugh.
The blinking and bigger door are not that big of a deal, so it doesn't really bother me because of that. It's just the fact that changes keep being made that bothers me. I mean, come on!
Remember when George Lucas actually had integrity?
The sad thing is that most regular people will just see "Star Wars is on Blu Ray now!" and rush out to buy it regardless of any changes. That's why Lucas keeps doing these changes. He loves to meddle, and he knows that he can make a ton of money from the movies pretty much no matter what he does to them.
No.
Fuck you Lucas.
Before or after he became a robot?
It's going to get to the point where Darth Vader takes his helmet off in rotj and it's going to be JarJar.
I think the door looks awful and then it just zooms in awkwardly onto the original shot with R2 and C3PO.
Maybe "jub jub" means "OH GOD MY EYES BURN!!!" in Ewokese?
Why not just add the Dug to Jabba's palace scene somewhere else? That was a really awkward cut.
It's like Lucas re-watches his films and adds anything he can. Like there needs to be a CGI to length of movie ratio fulfilled.
I discussed this on another forum, and I wouldn't at all hate George Lucas for messing with his old movies - if only he made the originals available as well. As a movie freak I am one hundred times more interested in the original film. I want to see the films as they were, because they wouldn't be what they are if they hadn't been made at that point. Is it really so terrible, George Lucas, to offer the originals as well as your altered versions? I'm a fan, please listen to me for once.
But at this point it almost seems like George Lucas is intentionally trolling us. Or, more than likely, nobody has the guts to tell this man "Hey, you know, this might be a bad idea."
He is the enemy of nostalgia. Not content to let one of the most beloved trilogies of the 70's and 80's age, George Lucas continues to drag Star War to the modern era. All of the fantasy, mystery and magic of this series has been spoiled by an obsessive desire to explain it all away. This stopped being a movie decades ago, and started being a universe, and damn if George Lucas isn't going to try and have it all make sense in the end - even if it means finding ways to wedge new content in where it doesn't belong so everything "ties together".
Clearly, if the Ewoks didn't blink, the whole universe would come unraveled because nothing would make any sense anymore.