So episode 4 is the best? I agree.
I bet randomrogue and Sliver Prime are wishing this poll was private. How awful it must be to admit Episode 1 was your favorite.
The whole "Lucas is greedy" thing is most baffling to me. The dude could have really tried to milk the SW universe like crazy but never did.
If anything he was incredibly stingy about SW.
The whole "Lucas is greedy" thing is most baffling to me. The dude could have really tried to milk the SW universe like crazy but never did. He always stuck to his own direction (for better or worse). He could have thrown DVDs out early on, then remastered special editions later on. He sat and waited and did the DVDs right (to him), just once.
George Lucas said:“People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians,” he said, his voice no doubt taking on an emotional, Jimmy Stewart-like quaver. “And if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.”
“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….
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…. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.”
Errrr, what? Lucas milked it to DEATH and he didn't release DVDs just once.
star wars isn't a "film"... it's a movie. and i love the shit out of star wars.
Tons of studios milk DVDs. Originals. Directors. Ultimate. Boxset with bonus materials. Etc. Lucas didn't do that. He didn't rush out DVDs as soon as possible but went in and remastered them (pink sabers - sigh!), culled bonus materials and put it all out at once. After popular demand he released the originals years later on DVD even though the laserdiscs were on par in quality.
Did you bother reading his quote?
Lucas doesn't edit other's work, he has (err had) complete ownership of his own work and could do as he pleased with it.
Any of the changes Lucas made were for whatever personal reasons he had,
but they certainly can't reasonably be seen as acts that "destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power".
Yet at the end of the day you can still watch the OT theatrical versions on DVD if you want to. Nobody is stopping you, certainly not Lucas.
Meh, same thing.
I used to think Phantom Menace was the worst. But once I rewatched Episode II a few times, I realized just how bad it was and that "elevated" Phantom Menace.
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2 is at the bottom because of the horrible love lines. So freaking painful.
Me Tarzan, you not sand.
Maybe they are from Florida.
not really. movies = broad appeal, not very educational or artistic or introspective in any meaningful way. film = typically artistic, philosophical in some way, very tasteful in it's direction, and/or caters to a more selective audience.
really Empire is winning? I am totally blown away...jedi ftw, I mean come on, ewoks, jabba, princess in sexy bikini, speeders, B-wing fighters, traps...how can that be not good?
That reason was for money.
Technically speaking, you can't -- the "theatrical releases" he included on DVD were ripped from the Laser Discs, not film.
though it should be said, I also saw the IMAX version of this, and those scenes were entirely axed. Amazing how much better this film is without that detritus. and in all honesty, it makes it more believable--if only because Lucas' uninformed attempt to describe love brought too much attention to the idea.
C'mon. You know as well as I do that he could have put out *any* version of SW, edits, originals, etc, and it would have sold just the same. It wasn't as if people were going to refuse to buy SW on DVD unless he make revisions to them. That is perhaps the most dense comment from this entire thread if you truly believe it.
The Laserdiscs of the originals. Let's not play semantics here. If you want to pop in a DVD of the originals you can. Laserdiscs were MPEG encoded just like DVDs. It isn't Lucas' business to clean up and restore the originals to IndyColtsFan's satisfaction. That would be going quite beyond his point he made in comments 25 years ago.
I still dunno WTH was Lucas thinking for the past 2 decades. He could have did nothing and let others write and film the prequels, releasing the original trilogy in DVD/Bluray untouched and live on forever drowning in money while living in history books as an eternal legend. Instead he just have to personally meddle with SW half-assed to leave a bad taste in the mouth in everyone.