George Lucas sucks balls

I'm sure you have all heard by now that George Lucas, being the greedy self-centered prick that he is, refuses to release a good anamorphic version of the original Star Wars trilogy. His idea of fulfilling the purist fans' wishes is to transfer them from Laserdisc to DVD with no clean-up.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm glad they are finally being released and I am optimistic in thinking that we will get a new transfer from the best possible film source materials Lucasfilm has. No digital cleanup, no recomposited special effects, no remastered audio. Just a nice transfer from fairly clean elements with all the original flaws intact. That's fine with me, because to be honest, I don't like the "clean up" job on the 2004 trilogy box set. the black levels are off, and the colors are too "enhanced" for my liking.

It's the fact that George Lucas is so adament about protecting his artisitc integrity and vision that his attitude is to just ignore his purist fans, which he owes his career to. We, the fans, made him the rich bastard that he is today. To snub them off is very rude, in my opinion. It would have really easy to do it right the first time around by putting out a proper boxset with either 2-sided DVD's, the original untouched movie on one side, the "enhanced" version on the other. But he made his fans BEG just to get him to put them out at all. Even a petition site was created that many people signed before he gave fans their wish. That's prettty low. Yeah, they are HIS movies, but without his fans, he'd be nothing.

In the new "enhanced" versions, none of the new additions are necessary or crucial to helping the story, and some of the changes are just downright stupid, especially at the end of Return of the Jedi where they replace the ghost of Anakin Skywalker with Hayden Christenson. What the fuck?

All the movies in the second trilogy suck balls. Jar Jar Binks sucks balls. Hayden Christenson sucks balls. And most of all, George Lucas REALLY sucks balls. Piss off and retire already, ya Kurosawa rip-off...