the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

finally watched the yoda fight on youtube (saw I & III but somehow I only caught two minutes at a friends house of a movie named "Attack Of The Clones"). Somehow forgot he'd be an animation now rather than a puppet.

tbh these days I enjoy the Family Guy/Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies way more than I enjoy any of the Star Wars films

The shots of him twirling around mid-air are nice but the dialogue and footage of animated characters grimacing at floating animated objects didn't really do it for me

actually twirling emperor might even be funnier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRd9PGmAQUE

tbh these days I enjoy the Family Guy/Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies way more than I enjoy any of the Star Wars films

This is where i give up

it's just that there is no reason for anyone operating from anything like a position of fairness to give the original trilogy a pass; those movies are very enjoyable, but they are also very, very stupid, in all of the same ways that the prequel trilogy is stupid

i don't think george lucas has been fair to us, why should we be fair to george lucas

yeah they're all stupid, but I don't think all the qualities that make the original trilogy likable are in the latter batch

it is true that George gave us Jar Jar, but then Jar Jar is directly responsible for the rise of the Empire which kind of redeems the existence of the character and cements him as not merely useless, but actively dangerous/detrimental

yeah they're all stupid, but I don't think all the qualities that make the original trilogy likable are in the latter batch

well no, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams are not in the latter batch

Original trilogy is stupid in the same way that Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon is stupid. Prequel trilogy is stupid in the same way that Beverley Hills 90210/Baywatch is stupid.

george lucas won't let me buy a widescreen copy of the original movies without his goofy ass cgi additions, if he doesn't like people overrating the movies of their youth at the expense of his crappy animated hayden christiansen vehicles, he can go cry on a pile of money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6d1dR2170o

6 hours of bonus features - one is an hour long still pic of Lucas you can pray to

the most hilarious thing about the CGIed originals is the confrontation in Star Wars between Han and Jabba where they had to insert a reaction shot of Han stepping on Jabba's tail because the original blocking wasn't wide enough to accommodate Jabba's character model

the thing i like about the plunkett reviews is that he almost totally ignores jar jar - too easy a target when there's so many deep-seated flaws to go after

my favorite thing from them - which i'm sure i referenced upthread - is the pussified scream one-armed Luke gives as he falls in Empire. What was a silent "fuck you, dad" fall becomes AH, I SLIPPESD!

haha the caption for this video says it was removed from the DVD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXgK5HRBjk

all of the planetary/Death Star explosions are hilarious, too

man just even look at the set design in that clip...shit's epic. computers shomputers, gimme a stunt falling down a disco tunnel

otm!

a stunt guy, i mean xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eCg0rGfH-w

:54

"hilarious"

i dont even have to watch it, i remember perfectly how awkwardly han 'steps' over jabba's tail - sorta like this:

http://m.assetbar.com/uua6Ptg4Q.gif

and then jabba's eyes bulge comically

when george lucas dies he's going to be sent to a CGI heaven I tell you. "oh these are just as good as your real dead relatives...just as good! BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!!!"

lol TamTam OTM

this is the single worst thing in the special editions though & i will entertain no arguments otherwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiDRgDmXGi4

omg I had forgotten about that

haha i never saw jedi redux except for 2 minutes on spike, where they'd turned the sand monster into the plant from Little Shop Of Horrors

TamTam otm about that abominable music

see I just think all of that shit is hysterical

hey if I could still get the original I'd love it if lucas would drop CGI remixes of all kinds of old school movies

he could fill in all those empty landscapes in Once Upon a Time in the West with delightful scampering critters and blink-and-you'll-miss-them extras

i do have to admit that seeing episode 2 on opening night with a crowd of fairly clued-in adults was one of the best comedy experiences of my life - i can remember the exact moment when the audience collectively decided to accept that the movie was a comedy, and it was during the scene where padme appears by a fireplace wearing a pleather space-gown

hey if I could still get the original I'd love it if lucas would drop CGI remixes of all kinds of old school movies

I have the originals (on VHS, but still) so

Frank Miller's later Batman stuff (Dark Knight Strikes Back, All-Star Batman) are irreverent rebukes of previous works that I actually enjoy and admire, Lucas I laugh at more than I laugh with, and however silly his crimes against humanity are, i still would sentence him to the pinkbelly of a lifetime

I think all these pale before the crimes of Christopher Nolan.

lol

Christopher Nolan vs Jerry Schumacher

morbz, take this troll doll and show us where nolan touched you

Inversion

i can remember the exact moment when the audience collectively decided to accept that the movie was a comedy, and it was during the scene where padme appears by a fireplace wearing a pleather space-gown

Same experience -- the audience did a "Mystery Science Theatre" type thing, except we saw her appearing AS a fireplace.

lol at Ned

http://i.imgur.com/rQaWa.jpg

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full picture here: http://twitpic.com/photos/shintarokago

dudes at this website the pirate bay they have torrents of the original trilogy in widescreen and unfucked with (rips are from the laser discs iirc). just sayin.

padame has real nipples

From the Onion AV Club review of the "American Graffiti" blu-ray out today:

Never one to leave well enough alone, Lucas did some unnecessary tinkering on the new edition, most notably by digitally enhancing the opening shot to look more like a picture postcard than a real-world ’60 diner. The Blu-ray also looks artificially crisp for a low-budget movie from 1973; it’s true that American Graffiti has never looked better, but should it look this good? Nevertheless, Lucas’ busy hands doesn’t diminish the impact of a film that’s clearly personal and heartfelt, and now represents a rare opportunity to access a director who receded as his iconic status rose.

Was pretty let down when I saw graffiti - it might be personal and heartfelt for lucas but its not much less sitcom than an American Pie movie. Admittedly the movie might have been more striking before wistful recollections of teen loserdom were common.