Star Wars on Blu-Ray

By now I’m sure everyone’s heard of Lucas’s further fiddling with the original trilogy. On one hand I’m torn because while Lucas is getting a lot of flack of this, artist reworking their creations is nothing new and Lucas is hardly the only one.

• Stephen King rewrote several scenes in his classic The Stand to update the time period
• After The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien had intended to rewrite several things in The Hobbit to make them more cohesive. He sent a sample chapter 1 to the publisher who did not respond, thinking they were interested Tolkien dropped the plan. However the publisher thought the proposed chapter 1 was the only change and used it the next printing
• Apocalypse Now Redux adds so much new content it’s generally considered to be a separate movie
• Spielberg changing guns to radios in E.T.
• Musicians and ‘remix’ go together like banana peels and kart racing

Lucas’s problem isn’t that he’s making changes (for the most part), it’s that certain changes are stupid. For example there is little outcry over replacing muppet Yoda with digital Yoda in The Phantom Menace. Why? Because digital Yoda looks better.

However take The Revenge of the Sith. Regarded as the best of the prequels, the one scene reviled by most people is Vader waking up after being rebuilt and shouting ‘Nooo!!!!!’. So what’s Lucas do? He has Vader shout ‘Noooo!!!!’ in RotJ. Because, obviously that’s something fans are clamoring for.

OH well. I’ll get them anyway, though I WONT be getting any 3D version that may materialize. I wonder if RotJ would be considered a horrible movie if the original script called for James Earl Jones to shout ‘Noooo!!!’

Lastly: here’s samples of the changes straight from the blu-ray with no alterations. I swear.*

and…

*I’m a big fat liar

Lazy Movie Review: Sucker Punch

Mr. Snyder you have failed me. I’d try to explain the plot but I think the entire thing is a hallucination about 7 minutes into the movie. I hate that shit. I hated it with Shutter Island and I hate it here, hell I even think The Wizard of Oz was a copout*. Maybe the plot would make more sense if I’d finished, but I don’t think I should work that hard to decipher a movie. That’s the director’s job.

D.N.F. – Did not Finish

 

*The Nightmare on Elm Street series gets a pass because you know… Freddy will kill you

The New PS3: Episode 3

So Gamestop will cover price changes in a 7 day window and I got the $50.00 difference refunded today. Yay!!

PS3 Price Drop to $249.99!!

… and I got my replacement Sunday.

@#$%

PS3 RIP

*Taps*

So for the last week or so my PS3 has intermittently turning itself off. I cleans out the vents and pointed the air conditioner vent at it. Alas, it hasn’t turned back on this time. It appears to the end. I understand electronics don’t last forever, but it still makes me sad. I had an old 60GB model with backwards compatibility that I loathe to give up.

Still I think I’ll get a new replacement this time and maybe a PS2 a few months down the line.

Pity too, disc two of Burn Notice S3 is trapped in the system.

Random Awesomeness

What would happen if Mega Man was able to claim a Portal gun after clearing a stage? Pure awesome would happen!

*Courtesy www.dorkly.com

Trailer: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

OMG, this is the funniest trailer I've seen all year. I don't often go to a theater for comedies, usually just the overblown blockbusters, but I may have to go see this. Looks freaking hilarious.