Why does Gorge Lucas hate Star Wars?

[yoritomo]

So as some of you may know May 4th is a pretty big day for Star Wars fans (May the forth be with you and all that). But this May 4th was going to be huge because everyone was expecting big news. You can see here:

www.starwars.com/

As you can guess the build up was pretty phenomenal.

So today I go check and what do I get? I'm redirected to 20th Century Fox's upcoming release page. WTF!? Here I am, expecting news on something like Star Wars Blu-ray release, and I get a page for the (please do not swear) new X-Men movie. They go out of their way to build this up (even creating a countdown page) only to have a site redirect error? Way to go George.

But that's why George hates Star Wars.

See, after several attempts I get the site. I wait a bit for the site to load and think that this will be huge given the time it takes to load. Wrong! It finishes and I here the iconic Star Wars intro, four notes of it. After all that I got four bars, a picture with yoda in it, and a message that if I want to see more I need to share this site with others.

Seriously? Who treats their fans like this? I'm waiting days for this and you decided to make me work for this? No notice, no warining, just a "by they way, if you want to see this you need to do some recruiting".

If this was anything but Star Wars I might understand. But what has a larger fan base on the internet than Star Wars? Do they think that fans don't know about this? Especially after a pretty decent marking campaign? Or do they think that spamming the general population will help them sell DVDs? Maybe they think that spamming their fan base is a good idea?

Anyway, I haven't given the website because I don't like being treated like that. Star Wars fans know of the site and you can find your way there from starwars.com if you want to. No matter what happens the news will be released in a few days. It isn't worth becoming a bot just to see it any sooner.

[coff]

I've perma-banned Lucas from my life. He hasn't done anything in the past decade that hasn't been anything but a slap in the face to my fandom.

I sought out the DVDs without the "Special Edition" scenes/CGI BS from the late 90s. I'm eschewing prequels and Indie 4 from my life. I've recast, rewrote and reshot the prequels in my head in such a way that they're compatible with the original trilogy.

[Geneva]

My respect for Lucas died when he re-edited Return of the Jedi to reference those awful prequels. It took me ages to find a DVD set of the "real" original movies.

The guy isn't even a real director in my eyes anymore. Just a glorified business man.

[Bot]

And George Lucas... How could you let this happen!

[Psychodrake]

Episodes I, II and III frustrated me so much.

How to ruin a good movie series.

[robomummy]

Its the law of making movies, once there is a trilogy that is good they will make another movie and completely screw it up just so they can make even more money which they already have plenty of.

[Psychichobo]

Quick question... he didn't actually rework the first movie so that Greedo shot first did he?

[t⊗theark]

He wanted moar blue screen's why.

[yoritomo]

May 4, 2011 20:49:11 GMT Psychichobo said:

Quick question... he didn't actually rework the first movie so that Greedo shot first did he?

Yes he did.

[robomummy]

May 4, 2011 22:55:43 GMT yoritomo said:

May 4, 2011 20:49:11 GMT Psychichobo said:

Quick question... he didn't actually rework the first movie so that Greedo shot first did he?

Yes he did.

all part of making Han look like "the good guy"

[Geneva]

Despite the fact that Han's entire character depends on him not being such a good guy to begin with.

I'm surprised Luke didn't end up with a metal head with all the lousy edits they made.

[Tyamius, Shadow Lord]

Refused to watch Episode 1-3 did I. Failures they would be, told it was before released they were.

[mina]

As a long time star wars fan, I loved 4.5. and 6 as a child and as a teenager read many of the novels written in the universe itself.

And I still consider myself a fan, able to acknowledge it for what it is and still enjoy it. But I do not count 1 as a movie, and 2-3 must be taken with plenty of re-writes in my head.

At this point in time I have ceased reading the books because I despise lucas for his money grabbing that has ruined so much. If you ask me, star was 2-3 almost as amazing as Twilight in how mopey and vulnerable the leading lady is, and how controlling and stupid the male is.

[Tyrantor]

May 4, 2011 17:27:38 GMT Geneva said:

My respect for Lucas died when he re-edited Return of the Jedi to reference those awful prequels. It took me ages to find a DVD set of the "real" original movies.

They did what...?

[yoritomo]

You didn't know? After Revenge of the Sith the re-did the digital effects in the original trilogy. One of the changes was to replace Vader's ghost with Anakin from the prequels. They also re-did the dialog between Vader and the Emperor in the Empire Strike back.

I can live with Hayden Christinson or whatever his name is in Return of the Jedi. Trying to ruin the ending to Empire Strikes Back was unforgivable.