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by Mischief Maker 05/25/2006, 12:16pm PDT |
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I live within 2 blocks of Madison Central Library, and ever since I discovered their huge, everchanging DVD collection (ranging from free to $2-for-a-week-if-you-absolutely-must-have-a-new-release) I have quit frequenting rental places altogether. Last night I lucked out and found the DVD of Empire Strikes back on the free shelf. I remembered that being the least fucked up of the Special Edition movies when seing it in the theaters way back, with nothing changed save unnecessary CGI cloud city swoops randomly ejaculated here and there, the extra-special edition should still be fine.
Woah. Thank god they're re-releasing the original theatrical run. The changes are few, but effective at derailing the whole flick. It's amusing how Lucas adds unnecessary details trying to trick audiences into associating these movies with the embarassing fan-fiction prequels (like how the DVD Menu Eschews the old ESB masthead for "Star Wars EPISODE V!!!" in big letters, or how Boba Fett is now voiced by that clone dude with the New Zealand accent who's a lousy voice actor) but in doing so he makes a horribly awful change.
Before scrolling down, sit back a moment and imagine you're George Lucas. What is the one little change you could make that would do the most damage to the best of the Star Wars movies?
If you said, "Reveal that Darth Vader is Luke's father within the first half of the movie," (The emperor tells this to Vader during their holographic transmission scene,) congratulations! You're a genius too! Now start looking at the naysayers and say, "what? If you watched the movies in order you'd already know that. Stop questioning my definitive version! All the original prints were lost anyways." |
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