I have the first trilogy on laserdiscs (Special Edition box set), and the rest on DVD. That's good enough for me, as I really can't see the appeal in any of the movies. I like them as a kid, but when I bought them on laserdisc I only watched the first two, and never bothered with Return of the Jedi. Only one I liked was Attack of the Clones.

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You mean aside from the fact that it looked like it was drawn by a 6-year old.

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Still looks better than the CGI "animation" in this newest piece of fecal matter.

I realize my opinion is going to be extremely unpopular here and I will probably get hit with a lot of red arrows, but I think all of you just need to stop.  If you do not want Mr. Lucas to make money off of you do not buy his products.  I loved Star Wars as a kid.  It is one of my fondest memories playing the Rebellion with my friends and making the kid we all hated be the Empire.  George squeezes blood from stones for one reason and one reason only, we buy his products.  If I were he, I would also make money on something that I created.  You all say he has no imagination and that he is just stealing our money, lets not forget some of the things that he helped create or created including ILM and THX.  Two things that movies with 5 seconds of special effects would suck with out.  I would love for George to put out a definitive Blu-Ray collection of the films that doesn't include Greedo shooting first.  This may happen some day.  But I will no longer bad mouth or be accepting of anyone bad mouthing him just because they are mad because he put out another release that they feel they must have.

Don't get me wrong. I also grew up obsessed with all things Star Wars. I had the toys, the books, the pajamas, etc, etc. I bought all the previous re-issues, I paid to see the all the movies in theaters, I buy almost everything with Vader on it.

But I feel that Lucas has literally wrung the last drop of fun out of the franchise, simply because he hasn't added anything to the story. Sure, there may be new characters, new worlds, new lightsabers... but nothing really original.

('Course, I played the demo of Force Unleashed last night and darn near wet myself. So, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, I freely admit that.)

I never said that Lucas and his people hadn't contributed anything worthwhile. I still love Star Wars and I can't imagine the industry today without ILM & THX. But I still think George should focus on broadening the saga, instead of churning out more "Special Editions."

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Well its happened.
Star Wars is being released again. This time in TWO Boxsets with "new" names. Star Wars: The PREQUEL trilogy and Star Wars: The Trilogy.

No details yet on features are exact composition. Are they going to be the Anamorphic restored Original films in the Prequels or the SE or maybe BOTH? Tune in for more details as they become available, boys and girls.

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Those sets will NOT CONTAIN ANY NEW Materials.. Just new packaging..

And there will be no Blu Ray versions.. At least they aren't currently planned

Lucas reminds me of Muhammad Ali who at the end of his career  kept boxing and many thought he was just embarrassing himself. Or Bob Hope who even though it was apparent he was just reading cue cards kept doing those specials that made even someone like me who has all his movies & radio shows cringe.

He was a good director of such films like American Graffiti, and of course the 1st Star Wars film.
However on the two sequels Empire & Return, he had others work on the scripts and the direction
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On Empire while he provided the story the late Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan actuality wrote the script , and Irvin Kershner directed. These three thing IMNSHO were what made Empire the best Star Wars movie.
And on Return he and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay and Richard Marquand directed.

Somehow he convinced that after a 18 year lay off he could just jump in and do all himself what others had helped him do in the past.
(OK I know he had help on Attack, but how much control did Lucas really give to his co-scriptwriter?)

I wonder if he is bankrupt of ideas, but will do anything to keep from being bankrupt in wealth. (Yeah like that could ever happen!)

Somehow he reminds me of Charles Foster Kane. Perhaps his last words will be, "Jar-Jar" as he lets a Boba Fett action figure fall from his hands.

Bobb

I studied filmmaking with a few who went on to work at ILM... modelmakers, camera operators, prop makers, etc. This may be rumormongering, but each of these whom I have spoken with have affirmed that in many people's opinions the biggest loss Lucas suffered was when he and Marcia divorced.

Prior to Star Wars, she viewed hundreds of old WWI airplane dogfight films, choosing her favorite moments, finding 16mm prints, re-editing these scenes into mid-1970s action sequences. Then they used the Marcia Lucas edited sequences to create the storyboards for the outer space dogfight parts. She edited American Graffiti, Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, and nothing since they divorced.

It seems we lost a great editing talent.

I've got to say, the wheels started coming off around Return of the Jedi, for me.  I wanted to like it, but I kept thinking been there, done that.  I'm sorry, but another Death Star just isn't all that menacing since I already watched them destroy the first one.

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But I will no longer bad mouth or be accepting of anyone bad mouthing him just because they are mad because he put out another release that they feel they must have.

It is not up to you to "accept" or "reject" anything from others on these forums. They are Ken's, not yours. 

Then I will just have to criticize them, the same way you are criticizing me...

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Other than the 'midi-chlorians', I enjoyed all 6 movies.  I can't believe I am the only one. 

While I did not care for most of Menace, I was happy to see Star Wars back.  As for the other two I enjoyed them very much.