Darth Vader Will Scream ‘Noooo!’
In Return Of The Jedi Blu-ray

I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of fans suddenly cried out in terror and chose not to buy the Blu-ray edition due to more unnecessary, lame changes to the original movies.

Congratulations, Lucas, you just managed to drive away a lot of money!

You just ruined my day…and probably my life too. =(

please say this is just a rickroll

I really don’t find an issue with this. Cheesy yes, but we should be used to it by now. lol

Apparently Lucas will never learn. I guess this is something he couldn’t have added in all those years ago? He’s trolling the world at this point.

Does George Lucas egg his own house too?

Did anyone happen to click on the link to the “new” Krayt dragon call? It can’t be real right? I mean it sounds like someone yelling into their microphone and then playing with it in some shitty sound editing program…

Sure he will… he’ll get all your money one way or the other.  You know it, I know it…. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Learn what?  Put your hand up if you’re in charge of a billion dollar empire.  Anyone?  Anyone?  Lucas can, and will do whatever he wants to do.  His success shows he knows what he’s doing.

Padme said to Anakin/Vader ‘You’re a good person, don’t do this’ which I think qualifies.

It’s no different from what Bob Dylan has been doing for the past 40 years. Bob has an interesting relationship with the hard core fans, the Dylanologists. Bob loves to re-arrange his songs and lyrics when on tour just to goad and frustrate the fans. Why? Because he can and no matter what he does, Bob knows the fans will always pay and come.

I love how you are so critical of other peoples opinions, but think for a moment. If someone reworked or changed a story or film that you are passionate about, how would you feel then?
In regards to the screwing you over comment, yes he is screwing his fans over. Think about it for a minute, without the original Star Wars (before it was A New Hope, I’m talking when it was just plain old Star Wars) where would he be? The fans who paved the steps up to Skywalker Ranch are the fans who Lucas is taking the most away from. The people who bought the toys and begged their parents to take them again and again. Those are the people he is disrespecting with this.

Don’t forget Star Wars is a movie on many ”most-influential of all time” lists, including the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. There it is listed as “Star Wars (1977)”, not “Star Wars: A New Hope SE (1997)”, and there is a reason for it. To me it is not only a fuck you to his fans, it is also a fuck you to movie history.

Thank you for loving my post.  You flatter me : )
 
Did you not read my post?  I am one of those fans that love Star Wars.  I have all the different versions on Video, DVD, even decades old ones I taped off from the TV.  Hell, I even had an audio cassette I used to listen to in the car before video was widely available.  So I would quite happily call myself a “passionate” Star Wars fan.  Acting in a histrionic manner over little changes to Star Wars doesn’t make you a more passionate fan or “purist”, as much as most would like to think so. 
 
All I’m saying is if you don’t like the Bluray changes – well, use your brain and watch the originals he put out on DVD a while ago.  Any changes Lucas makes today, tomorrow, and in the future make NO DIFFERENCE to how much you like, or liked, the film!!!!!!  It doesn’t alter Star Wars’ place in film history or as a cultural phenomenon whatsoever.  And the only reason it’s a cultural phenomenon is how the franchise altered the film industry – certainly not in the actual product created.  I asolutely love Star Wars, but it’s no Citizen Kane, no Lawrence of Arabia, and is not deserving of some kind of “Holy Grail” status some fans seem to believe it deserves.  It is a flawed film.  A great, enjoyable, but ultimately flawed film that is loved by many on a purely emotional level that allows them to ignore all the flaws inherent.
 
And this is why Lucas is happy to tinker with the film franchise.  He doesn’t view it as the “Holy Grail” like the small minority.  Obviously, as the person who wrote, directed, and produced them he sees them for what he believes them to be.   IMO Lucas isn’t “f-ing” anyone by using his own companies money to update his films to stand up against other films being released today.  The only people who believe this is a vocal minority such as yourself who don’t reflect the opinions of the majority, let alone George Lucas. 
 
If you want to nitpick, if you and other Star Wars “fans” were such “purists” you wouldn’t even get the Bluray (altered or unaltered) because the films were NEVER, EVER brought out on HD anyway and would be missing the film grain, not to mention the past audio qualities.  Putting the original film on to Bluray changes it just as much as adding “Noooo” to a scene that clearly stands out as as awkward as a film filled with furry little Ewoks.
 
Is Lucas screwing his fans over?  Only in their owns minds.  The vast majority are just fine with the updates and alterations.