Star Wars, the original. Just turned 30 this year. I remember reading the book first then the comic and waiting in anticipation for the bloody movie to come out. I was 12 and the year was 1977. I had all the different T-Shirts, an LED watch (remember those....they were blank until you pushed a button then you got a glaring red digital readout...oooooooo very late 70's High Tech) and all the action figures. I even had the soundtrack album and the Story of Star Wars album (the audio from the movie). Yes I was a big Star Wars Fanboy. I remember when the movie first came out, it didn't have a number on it. It wasn't Episode IV: A New Hope.....nope it was just called Star Wars. Having watched the original a bazillion times, I refuse to believe that Darth Vader was ever supposed to be Luke's Father. Sorry, the BS explanation that Lucas came up with when Obi-Wan says "when Anakin turned to the dark side the man I knew truly died..." Uh yeah George...suuuuurrrreeee......I believe it.... Empire Strikes Back is, of course, the best of the trilogy....but wait, you want to tell me "Dear Ranter....there are actually 6 movies...". NO. There isn't. Just like there is no Highlander II, there are no such thing as Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars. Nope. Didn't happen. This is what has pissed me off over the years with these movies; George Lucas has lost the concept of who the movies are for. Remember back in the day when George was a "filmmaker"? When George wanted to make a better movie than what was out there? He did in the original Star Wars. Then something happened; he ad libbed the rest of the story. He had to. Let's take the aforementioned episodes 1-3 that never happened for instance. In the original movie series, Darth Vader meets Threepio several times, but yet doesn't recognize him as the Droid he built as a 9 year old boy on the Desert Planet Tatooine. Yeah....bad story telling. Also in the original, Vader's troops are orbiting Tatooine.....his birth planet, but yet he doesn't seem to remember it?????? C'mon..... Then Lucas takes the best explanation of the Force (it's an energy field that surrounds us and binds us) and tries to give it a specific explanation (it's little microbial bacteria called Midachlorians.....WTF???????). Stop it George....stop it now. In the first movie, Han Solo (everyone's favorite character) is a pirate and a smuggler. The definition of Rogue. He blasts an alien named Greedo from under the table who is threatening to kill him. Lucas didn't want Solo to be a cold blooded killer (uh.....that reaction to a situation is called survival. Better them than you basically) so he changes the scene in the original movie to show the alien shooting first. Why?????? This has always pissed me off. The changing of an original work. It's like that stupid colorizing of black and white movies. Why???? Did that make it better? No it made it look like my 3 year old Grandson was finger painting on your TV screen. I don't mind "Director's Cuts". I think that sometimes it really adds to the movie....and it's not really changing the movie per se, those scenes were part of it originally but were cut for certain reasons. Go and rent the directors cuts of the Lord of the Rings movies, especially The Return of the King. Wow!!!! The cut scenes are freaking awesome, but make the movie over 4 hours long!!! Going back and changing scenes because they weren't the way you wanted them to begin with is like Michelangelo rising from the dead and fixing the Mona Lisa's smile....... Spielberg is just as guilty with removing all the FBI Agent's guns in ET and replacing them with radios. HUH????? Oh yeah, Law Enforcement NEVER carries guns. C'mon......the guns made the situation more tense. It demonized the FBI Agents and accentuated ET's predicament. You felt his terror and you felt the danger. A bunch of Suits with radios is no threat to anyone. Stupid move Steven......very stupid.......
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