I could easily ignore that. I'm not one of the people that thinks George Lucas ruined my childhood by releasing the Special Editions or Jar-Jar Binks and the garbage prequels. That's all fine; he created it, he owned it, whatever. The unforgivable sin of George Lucas was treating the
Original Original Trilogy like it was the freaking Star Wars Holiday Special and trying to shove it down the memory hole in favor of his Special Edition. It infuriates me, just me from a film preservation standpoint, and they add very little of importance to the movie while looking so jarring in comparison to the 1977 footage. It actually, legitimately makes me angry. I'm totally fine with directors wanting to go back and tinker with their masterpieces years later, it's interesting to get a look at how they would have done things differently if they had it to do over, or if they didn't have the studio breathing down their necks. Sometimes it's a lot better (Blade Runner), sometimes it's meh (Alien), sometimes it's terrible (Apocalypse Now, ET, and ahem...Star Wars). But to alter a movie so drastically 20 years later, and then just decide this is the only version of the movie...
I am
x1000
I will watch Starcrash, Star Raiders, Starchaser, Star Odyssey, Battle Beyond the Stars, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Last Starfighter, AND Star Wars Holiday Special before I'd watch the Special Editions again. Suck my dick, George Lucas.
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And yes, I know that the fan-made Despecialized Editions exist, but that doesn't let Lucas off the hook for this bullshit.
