I saw this “new” clip from the upcoming re-release of the Star Wars movies earlier today on Ace’s site and dismissed it. It’s just too easy to do mash-ups now. Someone somewhere with enough time on their hands has already subbed in every famous James Earl Jones movie line for Darth Vader’s in Star Wars, making for one of the funniest mash-up clips ever (language alert). This “new” clip is clumsy and lame by comparison. Surely it’s not the work of the folks at Skywalker, right?
Here, supposedly, is George Lucas’ new bright idea: Let’s take the risible “Nooooooooo!” from Revenge of the Sith and crassly slap it into the scene when Vader tosses the Emperor down the well. Oh, spoiler alert if you’re one of the three people on earth who haven’t seen Return of the Jedi.
I can’t watch that clip without laughing. But it’s legit.
Then on Tuesday, an online report by Devin Faracisuggested a revelation almost as troubling as the news that Luke and Leia had been brother and sister all along: in a climactic scene from “Return of the Jedi,” when Darth Vader hurls the evil Emperor to his demise on the Death Star, he would now shout “No!” (In all previous versions of “Jedi,” Vader has committed this crucial deed in silence.)
On Wednesday, a press representative for Lucasfilm confirmed that this change will be included in the Blu-ray release, writing in an e-mail: “Yes — Darth says NO.”
That’s just hacktastic.
Well, then I guess it’s OK to give the Mona Lisa a little facelift. Geez!!! Leave it alone already!!!
The Emperor was Han Solo’s grandfather.
Obiwan had a huge blaster collection.
Chewy, Leia – c’mon, you know it happened.
George, it’s not good when your last name becomes a verb.
George Lucas hates the people who made him a billionaire. There’s just no other explanation for this.
Beyond restoring the negative and cleaning up some of the effect shots, NONE of the changes Lucas has made to these films have been well received, but he keeps on making them anyway. He refuses to release the original theatrical versions because he knows they’d outsell the mutilated copies by 20 to 1, and that’s a rebuke to his “artistic vision” that his ego just couldn’t take.
Lucas wouldn’t be doing any of this if the fanboys didn’t eagerly lap up every last drop of crap he serves up. Sure, they complain about how George Lucas “ruined their childhood”, and how “Greedo shot first”, but every one of them will stand in line to buy the newest turd from Lucas Arts. They just can’t help it, and they’ve got no one else to blame.
I saw the original Star Wars in the theater in 1979, and each subsequent film as it came out in the 1980′s. I didn’t even think of Star Wars again until the “Special Editions” came out in 1995. Once I realized George Lucas had dropped a massive deuce all over the originals, I stopped caring about anything about Star Wars.