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Oh. Right. Um. "Yaaaay." I guess.
May. 4th, 2006 07:18 pmSo. Star Wars -- the original three movies -- are being re-re-re-rereleased on DVD. Special Edition versions, of course, but this time they're coming with the OMG Jesus They Said They'd Never Release It But Now They Are Squee original versions exactly as we all saw them back in the 70's and 80's. Including Han shooting first, as the press release says.
Predictably, there is a tidal wave of joy and jubilation as Lucas has caved and the pristine films that everyone truly loves are finally coming out, because he was wrong and he was taken down a peg or two, Mister, and now things will be better, you wait and see. Now, now we can have glorious DVD copies of our original films and oh gosh hey the Special Edition versions too which is cool now since the originals are there so we no longer HATE THEM--
And they go on in this vein.
George Lucas, of course, licks the wounds of his humiliating defeat by a fanbase so much more in touch with what Star Wars is than him by having seven orgasms amidst a titanic wave of sheer unadulterated money crashing over him.
Guys? It was a promo gimmick. And it worked. This right here? This is the fucking Disney Vault done one better. The Disney Vault is all about saying "this is your last chance to own these DVDs for ten years!" But once you've bought the DVD, Disney has to figure out some means of reselling it to you, and it's hard when we're discussing "Beauty and the Beast III: Beauty's Makeover."
Lucas has managed to consistently resell these exact same movies to us over and over and over again. And now, he's going to sell them again. And this time, he doesn't even need to do new CGI.
Now, the funny thing will be if Spielberg does the same thing with E.T., and all the horrified people who can't believe the cops' guns were airbrushed out with walkie talkies will run out and buy that movie again.
(I mean, is there a major Star Wars fan of the appropriate vintage to even give a shit about Han shooting first who can't lay his hands on a copy of the original movie as done in theaters relatively trivially? Seriously? I assume that with my mighty In-tar-net, I could be watching Luke bitch on Tattoine within twelve minutes of being vaguely interested in doing so.)
In other news, I was back to work today, though my sudden outbursts of disgusting levels of sweat in an office air conditioned to Hell and back makes me suspect -- just suspect, mind you, that I'm still warring with a fever. Which might explain my depths of ennui on this breaking news story.
Predictably, there is a tidal wave of joy and jubilation as Lucas has caved and the pristine films that everyone truly loves are finally coming out, because he was wrong and he was taken down a peg or two, Mister, and now things will be better, you wait and see. Now, now we can have glorious DVD copies of our original films and oh gosh hey the Special Edition versions too which is cool now since the originals are there so we no longer HATE THEM--
And they go on in this vein.
George Lucas, of course, licks the wounds of his humiliating defeat by a fanbase so much more in touch with what Star Wars is than him by having seven orgasms amidst a titanic wave of sheer unadulterated money crashing over him.
Guys? It was a promo gimmick. And it worked. This right here? This is the fucking Disney Vault done one better. The Disney Vault is all about saying "this is your last chance to own these DVDs for ten years!" But once you've bought the DVD, Disney has to figure out some means of reselling it to you, and it's hard when we're discussing "Beauty and the Beast III: Beauty's Makeover."
Lucas has managed to consistently resell these exact same movies to us over and over and over again. And now, he's going to sell them again. And this time, he doesn't even need to do new CGI.
Now, the funny thing will be if Spielberg does the same thing with E.T., and all the horrified people who can't believe the cops' guns were airbrushed out with walkie talkies will run out and buy that movie again.
(I mean, is there a major Star Wars fan of the appropriate vintage to even give a shit about Han shooting first who can't lay his hands on a copy of the original movie as done in theaters relatively trivially? Seriously? I assume that with my mighty In-tar-net, I could be watching Luke bitch on Tattoine within twelve minutes of being vaguely interested in doing so.)
In other news, I was back to work today, though my sudden outbursts of disgusting levels of sweat in an office air conditioned to Hell and back makes me suspect -- just suspect, mind you, that I'm still warring with a fever. Which might explain my depths of ennui on this breaking news story.