This is essentially what I've done, in spite of how much Star Wars once meant to me. I will pay damn near any price if the OOT ever comes out, but otherwise, I'm done. I love the "I wouldn't buy it if it came with a gold-plated Rolls Royce" comment. About sums it up for me.

I'm glad I held onto my DVDs of all six movies.

You should watch "The People vs. George Lucas" to remind yourself that you're not alone in your view.

NOBODY should watch that self-entitled manbaby whinefest

Yeah, it's not very good...a much better movie could have been made about the same topic, though.

Wait, there is a better movie made about that:

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The M. Falcon = Pristine OOT Prints (stuff dreams are made of)
Sydney Greenstreet = George Lucas
Peter Lorre = Desperate Fanboy

But who would Bogart and Mary Astor be?

I didn't see the film, so I can't comment on the quality of the piece, but I will say that it certainly hasn't done OOT fans any good that many of them act as immature as they do. There are larger issues about film and cultural preservation, but so many of them break it down "George Lucas did this me! Whaaa!" I have a lot of respect for Lucas as a person, especially after his recent philanthropic efforts, and fans should absolutely be more mature in how they state their viewpoint. Though to be far, their viewpoint also doesn't matter because it just doesn't hold economic weight given the massive mainstream popularity of the franchise relative to the small group of OOT fans. But that still doesn't justify calling Lucas names or making some of the comments that have been made about him. Although on Lucas' side, his endless problems with critics and fans have never entirely made sense to me. You're one of the richest people on earth, you changed culture as we know it, why do you care what a bunch of film critics or people online say about you? Enjoy it George. And again, the man just gave almost $4 billion to charity, in addition to a lot more he's given over the years. I really respect the man for that, very sincerely.

People take it to heart when the most powerful identity they've got from childhood gets squashed. What's truly disturbing is that modern times can produce individuals with so little culture or family heritage/history that they have to tap the entertainment world to fill the void.

Oddly, Lucas' work towards bettering education and now his generous financial donation will have to battle within the American cultural arena which he has helped define. Star Wars inspires some to study astrophysics or become DIY inventors. Others end up thinking our world can be neatly divided into good vs. evil and violence is a reliable way to solve those problems. And then the really sharp ones learn that exclusive merchandising rights are pure gold!

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Tr...-preview/18370

Details about S4

Star...TREK??

Whoops!

No doubt JJ Abrams is already working on bringing them together.

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Haha, classic. Nice work, Quack.

It's been a long week...

Props to Quack for not deleting his post. Good sport, that guy.

From the rumor mill:
The Bits

Wow, 7,8 & 9 are already panned? Where was the Internet outrage? I miss everything.

I think that it's likely that Disney will release the original, non-SE trilogy as long as 1) they have good transfers/original materials to work from, and 2) they aren't contractually barred from doing so (ie, Lucas included a clause in the contract that prevents its release).

Just release two Blade Runner like sets. One for the prequels with all the changes and the 3D versions and a original trilogy set with the originals and all of George's shitty special editions.

I'm not sure on any specifics but I doubt there's any clause in anything Lucas had signed when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. I would assume Disney got everything, including all original unaltered prints to work from and Lucas himself has no say in anything regarding any future with the SW universe.

It'd be up to Disney to remaster it, though, so who knows how long that would take. I can't see them putting out a subpar product.

Seriously? Use one of those wayback sites and check out all the quick photoshops people did putting Mickey Mouse ears on the Death Star and such immediately after the deal was announced last fall (jeez, has already been that long? I can still remember getting the news alert on my mobile, and just kinda wandering the office in a daze for a few minutes, waiting for somebody to yell April Fools!)

It may not have been "George raped my childhood with the SEs/prequels" type of outrage, but Disney has a long slog ahead of them making sure people don't automatically write off the sequels as being overly kiddiefied.

So, yes, I have to give this one a little credit. I've said for a while that there's no way Disney would drop 4 billion big ones on a franchise and leave *anything* behind. And Lucas may have had a moment where he realized he'd rather wash his hands of it all and let whatever happens, happen. It seems very likely to use something like this kind of release to build goodwill with the fans and win over the detractors.

Nice long response but Michael was referring to the typo in the quote:

panned = planned