"Star Wars" Revised

 by D. A. Houdek

It was great seeing the original Star Wars in the theatres again when they spiffed it up and rereleased it, but--really--I think they hurt the movie more than helped it with the changes. All three of the original movies.

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I hate what they did to Han Solo. In the cantina scene it the first one, when he shoots Guido, they changed it so Guido fires first, changing Han's action into pure self-defense. Totally took the hard, dangerous edge off the character. Changed him completely.

They did it again in the 3rd movie at the scene where they're putting people down the desert critter's mouth. When Lando is dangling down and the tentacle grabs him, Han points the blaster to shoot it. Originally when Lando protested that Han was blind, Han said, "Trust me." Now he says something inane about being able to see better. Again they softened the character into mushiness. Yuck.

It took a while with that new movie (Phantom Menace) to admit to myself that I just didn't like it at all. It had some very pretty stuff to look at but the story... ugh! Why did they have to change the Force from something mystical into nothing more than a virus that infects some people more than others. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Didn't Highlander's "Planet Zeist" fiasco teach them anything??

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