Why, George Lucas?

Why must you ruin the things that I love?

;_;

I don’t like choosing, but these are for sure among my favorite movies. very well-written, done and directed; very nice, rich and detailed stories behind them; great actors… oh, and the soundtrack, of course. a genious’ work!!

Excellent, excellent, as always. The visual updates done by Lucas merge seamlessly. The substitution of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin-ghost at the very end of Return of the Jedi was startling, but pleasing. It is disappointing to think that Lucas is unwilling to allow the original movies, without his additions, to be released on DVD, or re-released at all. I understand that they didn’t match his vision, but I want to both recapture the novelty of the film and the special effects in the context of their time without future CGI enhancements, and also inspect the different that the new images make to the movie experience. I’d love to look specifically at these original movies to get a feel for how the imagination can take over from the eyes when watching a movie that captures you. Sometimes nowadays I feel like my eyes are spoon-fed. (Dogville was a good antidote for that, recommended if you want to go to a different extreme – very sparse, with props and costume but no scenery.)