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I've been a Star Wars fan for as long as I've been alive, and I enthusiastically went to Best Buy at 12:01 on Sept 21 to get the DVDs, even though I knew he messed with the movies even more since 1997. But I'm somewhat annoyed at some of the changes he made to the movies. Han shooting first still sucks (though not as badly), CGI Jabba still sucks (though not nearly as badly), the CGI alien band in Jabba's palace still sucks (just as badly as always), Boba Fett's new voice wussifies his character, and adding Gungans to the end of JEDI really, really sucks, even if they're really small and only on screen for a second.
I think the tweaks he made for the DVDs really do improve on the 1997 versions. The lightsabers in STAR WARS look a lot better (no more shots of just a white pole), Luke's scream in EMPIRE is gone (proof that Lucas listens to fans), the Vader/Emperor scene in EMPIRE is actually quite good, and much improved upon the old version. Even changing the Anakin ghost in JEDI to Hayden Christensen makes sense to me.
While I would like to see the untouched originals on DVD, just for the sake of posterity, these new versions are still the same movies I've loved for my whole life. If your wife got a little bit of plastic surgery, would you still love her? Of course you would. She would still be the same person inside, and that's what counts.
If liking these new versions of the Star Wars trilogy makes me a huge dork and a traitor to legions of film lovers, then go ahead and label me a traitorous dork.
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