You know what would be fun? BOYCOTT! ! !

[Looney]

I heard that there is a feeble attempt to boycott the newly altered versions of Star Wars that are about to be released on BLU-RAY. I thought to myself, "What would be more fun than spreading the word about such a thing?!" George Lucas is once again tinkering with Star Wars because, I guess, he just has too much money and time on his hands. So, let's just say no to buying this product.

[David Panzer]

The boycott wouldn't work since it's obviously going to be a best-seller. Plus, there will be the inevitable re-release a few years later, and also in the formats that have yet to be thunk up.

I'm not going to purchase a copy for the sole reason that I don't own a Blu-Ray player.

[Looney]

Yeah, I know

Yeah, I know it will be a bestseller. People are dumb. It is like they feel they have to buy it.

[KoshN]

You Know What Would Be Fun?

A sci-fi channel that likes science fiction, fantasy, and the fans of those two genres.

[Looney]

Yeah

Yeah, that would be fun. Didn't there used to be one of those, but it wasn't very good?

[KoshN]

You Know What Would Be Fun?

Yeah, that would be fun. Didn't there used to be one of those, but it wasn't very good?

Yeah, here in the USA it was good up until the early~mid. 2000s, when it started going downhill bigtime with:

Scare Tactics
Mad, Mad House
Ghost Hunters
Wrestling
and
non-sci-fi movies.

...while cancelling sci-fi series.

[Dan Dassow]

Would it really be a boycott if you would never consider buying it?

[David Panzer]

Yeah, here in the USA it was good up until the early~mid. 2000s, when it started going downhill bigtime with:

Scare Tactics
Mad, Mad House
Ghost Hunters
Wrestling
and
non-sci-fi movies.

...while cancelling sci-fi series.

Yup. I remember annoying the hell out of my cable provider in the 90's by constantly asking them to pick up the Sci-Fi Channel. I never thought that a few years after finally getting it that I would turn around and annoy them by asking that they drop it.

[Looney]

I think my favorite ridiculous thing they've done is try to re-brand themselves as SyFy. Of course, that came at the very end for me. I was already down to watching only one or two shows they had. Those shows ended up stinking and I haven't watched that channel since.

And that is a good point Dan Dassow. I guess I am not really boycotting it. Once I heard it was just going to have the SE cuts of the originally trilogy I wasn't buying it. Guess I can't boycott something I never planned to buy.

[DGTWoodward]

You could boycott yourself from changing your mind about it.

Apparently, there is yet more tinkering with the OT. in ROTJ, when Luke is being assaulted by the Emp's force lightning and DV stops him...he now wails "NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[frulad]

As someone with an eye on film history, I've been continually dismayed with how Lucas rewrites his own history with these changes and keeps the originals out of circulation.

For me, I'm sticking with my old laser discs ported over to DVD and then borrowing a friend's blu-ray discs to watch the special features. I have no interest in watching these re-re-re-worked versions.

[DGTWoodward]

As someone with an eye on film history, I've been continually dismayed with how Lucas rewrites his own history with these changes and keeps the originals out of circulation.

For me, I'm sticking with my old laser discs ported over to DVD and then borrowing a friend's blu-ray discs to watch the special features. I have no interest in watching these re-re-re-worked versions.

Well, that's the real slap in the face to the fans of the OT isn't it? The only way to see STAR WARS remastered in full 1080p HD will be on the new set.

Doesn't the keeping '...the originals out of circulation' involve a legal action/pay-out with his (then) wife?

I suspect that in his mind, this is just crossing the 'T's and dotting the 'I's on the original trilogy. What he is really doing is proving to the world just hows shoddily written the PT movies really were. Which is just plain laziness. He had the OT, he knew where all the sentimental 'touching posts' needed to be, he knew all the plot elements he needed to establish. So why did he manage to miss so many of them by so far.

[Garibaldi's Hair]

The one sop he threw to us original version OT fans was the limited DVD release a few years ago where the original versions were included as "special features". The picture quality was truly hopeless and basically ruined the whole thing for me ... which is to say I still love the movies, but can't be arsed with it all anymore.

[DGTWoodward]

The one sop he threw to us original version OT fans was the limited DVD release a few years ago where the original versions were included as "special features". The picture quality was truly hopeless and basically ruined the whole thing for me ... which is to say I still love the movies, but can't be arsed with it all anymore.

Yes, I bought them hoping for something that was salvagable. I ended up with three films that looked almost no different from my three 'faces' Laserdiscs!

[SmileOfTheShadow]

I heard that there is a feeble attempt to boycott the newly altered versions of Star Wars that are about to be released on BLU-RAY. I thought to myself, "What would be more fun than spreading the word about such a thing?!" George Lucas is once again tinkering with Star Wars because, I guess, he just has too much money and time on his hands. So, let's just say no to buying this product.

What do we want? We don't know!

When do we want it? Whenever!