Lucas won't even let you see the original Star Wars without his CGI additions. Lucas has lied to deflect from being criticized for his decisions.
Harmy and the 4k77 project have illegally done what Lucas refuses to do.
Lucas won’t even let you see the original Star Wars without his CGI additions.
My VHS tapes say otherwise.
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A New Hope https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QWVH3JajvLZx6IKMf_XXKhAAumwEo3NH/view?usp=sharing
Empire strikes back https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H5b1LmH7FcYVm4qIj7FgMZuOt3Mo4LAy/view?usp=sharing
Return of the jedi https://drive.google.com/file/d/14soyrTUubC02_vImP1aRbtdI_lY1CDqa/view?usp=sharing
Why would I want to watch a moldy VHS copy when 4K77 is a thing?
I thought he manually edited the masters, so the original Star Wars without CGI additions no longer exists.
I do love the Harmy Despecialized editions. Also check out the Anti-Cheese edits of the prequels.
The cheese is why the prequels are fun to watch though! We've all worked through our collective trauma about how trashy the prequels are, now we're ready for good ol fashioned hate watching.
I'm not sure "we've all worked though" it, but I'm glad I'm not the only one with this perspective. I tried to explain "rage watching" the prequels to a non Star Wars fan not long ago and they looked at me like I had 3 heads.
I dunno, seeing it without the racist stereotypical accents was a significant improvement.
You can destroy the negatives with extra processing but you can't destroy the prints. Lucas has original prints and if he didn't he had the millions to acquire them. If fans did it, Lucas could have.
Not his choice any more. Now Disney is the one not allowing it.
I've always loved the Harmy version but recently I watched 4K77 without noise reduction. My god.... so much grain!
The grain helps us grow!
Is grain that stuff that's rough and gets everywhere? I hate it.
I thought it was to screw over his ex-wife.
It likely was. That and the ego of someone who wanted to be Steve Wozniak but was really a Steve Jobs.
If the original trilogy is anything to go by, George Lucas desperately needs a good editor. I can't imagine a longer cut will be anything but worse than what we got...
The "special director's anniversary editions" or whatever the hell they were called were the worst bullshit insult to those of us that grew up with the original trilogy. Fuck you, George Lucas.
Despecialized Edition to the rescue!
And you can torrent it now! Back in my day we had to download it as 20 separate files from Mega.nz!
That's exactly why we want it
Disney: No.
It's just 2 hours of Jar Jar Binks slapstick.
When is the screening?
It's hard to trust George Lucas with Star Wars after he keeps making so many little changes. Can I see the Topher Grace prequel cut instead?
.... No.
"George, the house is on fire!"
No, Vader, it's just the Death Star exploding.
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth….
Why would you want this????!
I know the prequels have been meme'd to hell and are objectively ridiculous, but I'm not too proud to admit that I really like them.
RotS was always genuenly good.
Aside from the logical inconsistencies, the plot holes, the (still) bad writing, the over-utilization of green screen that makes the whole production soulless and artificial, and the infamous "NOOOOOOO!" scene, it's a great movie!
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I think the resentment from fans came out of a feeling of missed potential. What people wanted was what they eventually put into the Clone Wars series: space adventures, complex characters, and the subtle corruption of a great hero.
What we got wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. There was cheesy dialogue, convoluted storylines, and one-dimensional characters. Star Wars, like a lot of franchise films, benefits from the association with the wider universe. We, the fans, fill in gaps and references to backstory with the things we know without it appearing on the screen. But it also suffers from the comparison and expectations we have.
Take the reveal of Vader/birth of the twins at the end. Seeing Vader rise from the table, and hearing James Earl Jones' voice for the "first" time was genuinely cool because we have all seen the original trilogy. The interspersed delivery scene draws parallels between Luke and Leia being born with Vader being born.
Taken in a vacuum, if you had no idea who Vader was, it would all seem a bit silly, because "Darth Vader" was actually "born" several scenes ago when he killed Mace Windu and then mass-murdered a school full of children.
At the same time, we know what Vader looks and sounds like. Drawing out the reveal feels slightly overdramatic. Then you get the whole "she's lost the will to live" and that "Noooooo!" and people are rolling from laughter instead of wiping away tears.
That's like the whole movie. Anything good or bad is made simultaneously better and worse by association. How you view the movie depends on how that association makes you feel. If you love Star Wars and want to love the Prequels, you will.
Was it? Or was it just a breath of fresh air after the other two? And yes I did grow up with it, even saw it in theatre.
I also saw it in theatres, and while I wouldn't call it a breath of fresh air per se, but it was definitely the least bad of the prequels. This is gonna get me down voted to hell, but that 45 minute lightsaber battle at the end was 44 minutes too long in my opinion.
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Everything cool about them is despite George Lucas not because of him. Sure the battles are cool, the CGI scenes are cool, but the prequels were wayyyyyy too much a direct implementation of what Lucas thought was going to be good to ever have been good lol.
The original Star Wars movies were better because Lucas wasn’t famous yet and had to actually listen to the people around him.
Don't get me wrong, the original trilogy is the best by far. I was just the right age to enjoy the prequels when they came out, so maybe it's the nostalgia talking. I rewatch them every few years and enjoy them every time.
George Lucas? Release an old cut of a movie he made that his fans want to see? Where have I heard that one before?
Seymour! Seymour! The Chosen One is on fire!
We need a wrath of vader movie.
For it to work, he needs to keep his mystery. Like, I don't want to see him collect his laundry. But basically just him going round the galaxy mercilessly hunting down and murdering the crap out of Jedis.
I've been saying for years that the market exists for an R-rated movie about Vader hunting Jedi, but Disney doesn't have the balls for it.
George Lucas should screen this cut of the film at Sodankylä Film Festival in Finland.
That way, he could be feted by the most dedicated of the film buffs. AND experience the Aurora Borealis. Localised entirely on the geographic region he is in.
At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
Well I'm from Tatooine and I've never heard that before.
I mean, I'd watch it. It couldn't be worse than the ST.
Just think of all the memes you could mine from four hours of patented Lucas dialogue.
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