Disney will be the best thing that has ever happened to the franchise. I submit the Marvel movies and the PotC movies and compare them to the turds that Lucas has been dropping since the Empire Strikes Back...

Marvel movies sucked until Disney bought Marvel and they did a good job with the Pirates movies. Who's to say the they won't do a good job with Star Wars? The entire expanded universe is written by people other than Lucas and I think they've done a pretty damn good job. Lucas fucked up the prequels, especially Phantom Menace.

Disney just wants to get freaky with the corpse.

...love the flags.

that was NOT called "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" but was called "Star Wars". Period.

Where Jabba the Hutt was a humanoid, Han shot Greedo just as Greedo was raising his blaster, and Luke saw the battle for Leia's ship from the ground.

Just. Do. It.

they had no idea whether it would be a hit or not and if it bombed it would end up being a one shot. Jabba was originally humanoid but was never in the first film in theaters, that was cut because Lucas wanted Jabba to be more alien and they didn't have the tech to do that scene with the big slug. Han did shoot first. I've never seen a scene cut or uncut in which Luke sees the battle from the ground.

10 times as a high schooler and could see it at a $1 Saturday matinée.

And it has been a struggle to watch how much revision has been done to it and worse, the revision of history itself regarding how it was originally advertised, which is not what they claim about it today.

Regarding Luke seeing the battle, last year I finally found some Youtube clips that have been posted showing him looking up at the sky with his binoculars, sees the blue and red streaks, and then rushes off to find his buddies in Anchorhead. There are now Youtube uploads have trickled out showing the cut Biggs scene once Luke gets there.

Get me a decent video capture card and I'll rip it and share it. Han still shoots first.

(Just joking Disney, don't sent the DMCA blackhats after me.)

No really, I should do this.

(Seriously, I would never do this Disney. I am just trolling you)

Edit - I guess it is New Hope, not labeled that way. But there is certainly no humanoid Jaba in it.

With the 10 discs, as that was the only way to get the movie in AC3-Dolby Digital at the time - before there was any DVD technology. And in that version, he added stuff to each of the 3 films.

The remastered VHS version (sold around Halloween back in the mid-90s if I recall correctly) seemed to me to be the best "compromise" release as a cleaned up version of the original VHS release (both of which I have). But that release was only Dolby Stereo.

I think either the DVD release or one of the specials, showed the original Jabba the Hutt and how they altered the scene to overlay a computer-generated Return of the Jedi slug Jabba over top of the human actor. the original that I saw in theater in 1977 had Jabba like this -

Some of the early VHS copies are the original. I've never looked for them but they are supposed to exist.

Never felt like I wanted to either.
The commercials was enough for me.

because I have never seen a single second of any Star Wars movie.

can't take a second of fantasy or science fiction....must be a brain thing. Might as well throw in dolphin shows and circus stuff too.

Have you ever played "I have never...." It's a really fun party game now that the holidays are coming up. Everyone starts with 4 quarters and there is a hat.

Then people take a turn and you say, "I have never seen a Star Wars movie." (honor system). Then, everyone who HAS seen it has to put a quarter in the hat....on and on until the last person with at least a quarter left wins the pot.

It can get pretty juicy, especially if alcohol is involved. Like "I am not a member of the mile high club", "I have never done it in a car.", etc. etc.

My husband is so honest, I couldn't be mad. He put a quarter in when someone said "I have never looked at any porn at work"

Three words: Jar Jar Binks.

Why did you have to say that

There is no punishment too great for your transgression.

That is most definitely awesome!

Please let somebody other than Lucas make the next 3.

forward to the 3 prequels at all because I knew they'd be goofy and cartoony.

Now though with a fresh set of eyes and writers and directors with their own visions, this can be like the Batman films or something and someone can revive the series. I actually have A New Hope here that Star Wars may return to glory after all these years.

to the lightsaber battles between Mickey and the chipmunks or Darth Duck.

Disney sure as hell won;t do worse, and if they don;t allow Lucas to write a word of any future scripts, they will do better.

I would rather have had Nemo be Padme's Senator instead of Jar Jar.