And in other news...

[eee1313]

...George Lucas, haven't you ruined these movies enough already? Stop crapping all over my childhood memories! Learn your lesson! No one likes your tinkering! And no one likes retro-fitted 3D movies!

Booooooooooooooooooo, George Lucas! Booooooooooooooooooooo!

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[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

I don't even like most made-for-3D movies.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

They are rarely, if ever, actually worth it. The "Day & Night" short at the beginning of Toy Story 3, however, was TOTALLY worth it.

[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

I hope Ebert writes something about this. He haaaaates the 3D movie trend.

[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

Also, I am a bit of a hypocrite because I'm going to go see the new Wes Craven flick in 3D.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

Well, I just saw Legend of the Guardians in 3D and thought it was quite nice. IMO, the only movies that benefit from 3D are animation (specifically stop-motion, as it adds so much depth and texture) and horror (so the movie can give you an added "eeek!" factor).

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

I hope that Ebert writes that Lucas is a hack writer who needs to stay the eff away from movies that aren't just classics, but transcendent pieces of cinematic history. Tweaking them all you want after the fact won't improve them, George, it'll only diminish what made them work in the first place. STOP NOW.

classics?

[yakgirl.livejournal.com]

Please tell me that when you call the Star Wars series "transcendent pieces of cenmatic history" you are ONLY referring to Parts IV-VI, and NOT the horseshit Parts I-III.

He should leave the originals alone (watching it on cable with the boys a few weeks ago proved annoying, as there were new digital animations added to Return of the Jedi that I went apeshit about-- NOT COOL!!!), but he can do whatever he wants to the new ones. Crap. Utter crap.

Anything having to do with JarJar cannot, as a rule, be considered anything but utter crap.

I rest my case.

Re: classics?

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

Please tell me that when you call the Star Wars series "transcendent pieces of cenmatic history" you are ONLY referring to Parts IV-VI, and NOT the horseshit Parts I-III.

I believe that for anyone over the age of 7, this goes without saying. OBVIOUSLY parts I-III should only be viewed for the following reasons: 1) Costume design. 2) "Set" design. 3) Watching Obi-Wan chop off Anakin's legs and leave his mangled, burning body clawing its way up the hillside, because it's LOL-worthy.

there were new digital animations added to Return of the Jedi that I went apeshit about-- NOT COOL!!!

Are you perhaps referring to the atrocities that were inflicted on the Max Rebo Band at Jabba's palace? Perhaps the replacing of Sy Snoodles with that horrible monster (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060711074430/starwars/images/e/e3/Yowza2.jpg) that looks like an escapee from a Honeycomb cereal commercial (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:hbGUweqx_qEEYM:http://homepage.mac.com/Berkana/xanga/mewanthoneycomb.gif&t=1)?

(Upon doing some research on Wikipedia to find a picture of the Honeycomb monster, I found this choice bit about the re-jiggered Max Rebo Band sequence in the special edition: author and critic Tom Bissell described it as the "most unspeakable sequence in all the films, almost too depressing to discuss at any length." Ha ha ha!)

There's a reason why the Scientist and I own two complete sets of the original Star Wars trilogy; he bought the three-pack when it was originally released on DVD. I held out until public pressure forced Lucas to reissue the ORIGINAL original trilogy as bonus discs, and I got those instead. Because I WILL NOT have my memories of the Max Rebo Band crapped on by a fat bastard who doesn't know to leave well enough alone.

Anything having to do with JarJar cannot, as a rule, be considered anything but utter crap.

I offer one exception: when we were at the Chicago comic con, a vendor had a T-shirt with Jar Jar's face on it. Underneath was the immortal quote from Tropic Thunder: "Never go full retard." HA!!!

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

Jesus fucking Christ.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT???

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Ugh! I know! He just can't seem to stop himself from fiddling, can he?

OTOH, if I can see Episode IV three more times in the theater, that will make an even 150 (yes, I've really seen it 147 times in the theater... what can I say, I was obsessed as a child and I lived on a military base where I could catch it in a matinee after school for 35cents).

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

That's... impressive? I've never heard of ANYONE seeing a movie that many times in a theater. Other than the people working at said theater, that is.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

LOL! I know... but I was seven and I would quite literally run home from school so I could hurry and do my homework, then I'd ride my bike up to the base theater, catch a showing of Star Wars, ride home and get some exra chores from my mom so I could earn more money to support my Star Wars habit.

Of course, I also got to see it once as part of a school field trip! The Governor of Guam thought it was such a feat of technology and imagination that he sent all the schoolchildren on the island to see it.

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

Guam is AWESOME.

My school just sent us to a local health center to learn about puberty. They had a clear fiberglass model of a human woman whose internal organs lit up. BORING compared to seeing Star Wars on a field trip!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, we had some pretty awesome field trips when I lived on Guam... especially considering there was really a very limited number of places we could go -- we once went to the only "dairy" on the island (there was no local milk, it was all brought in powdered and reconstituted) to watch how ice cream sandwiches were made, we went to demonstrations of native culture, dance and history, went to the old Spanish Governor's mansion (it had been turned into a museum) and we went to the beach. It's possible we had some boring field trips, too, but they're not coming to mind.

Edited to change the icon... forgot I had this one!