Please

Lucas won't even let you see the original Star Wars without his CGI additions. Lucas has lied to deflect from being criticized for his decisions.

Harmy and the 4k77 project have illegally done what Lucas refuses to do.

Lucas won’t even let you see the original Star Wars without his CGI additions.
My VHS tapes say otherwise.
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  A New Hope https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QWVH3JajvLZx6IKMf_XXKhAAumwEo3NH/view?usp=sharing
  Empire strikes back https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H5b1LmH7FcYVm4qIj7FgMZuOt3Mo4LAy/view?usp=sharing
  Return of the jedi https://drive.google.com/file/d/14soyrTUubC02_vImP1aRbtdI_lY1CDqa/view?usp=sharing
I thought he manually edited the masters, so the original Star Wars without CGI additions no longer exists.
I do love the Harmy Despecialized editions. Also check out the Anti-Cheese edits of the prequels.
- The cheese is why the prequels are fun to watch though! We've all worked through our collective trauma about how trashy the prequels are, now we're ready for good ol fashioned hate watching.
- You can destroy the negatives with extra processing but you can't destroy the prints. Lucas has original prints and if he didn't he had the millions to acquire them. If fans did it, Lucas could have.
- Also check out the Anti-Cheese edits of the prequels.
  Why would you want that? People nowadays have no appreciation for theatre...
Not his choice any more. Now Disney is the one not allowing it.
- MaĆlunky!
I've always loved the Harmy version but recently I watched 4K77 without noise reduction. My god.... so much grain!
- The grain helps us grow!
- I loooved the grain. It made me feel like I was a kid again watching it for the first time in the theatre.
- In hindsight, all of media used to have this "meh, close enough" attitude about it: Vinyl LPs, audiotape, broadcast TV, film, iffy projectors at the local theater, AM radio, it all had limitations well within the range of human perception. Plus, everything the consumer got was a lossy copy of something else. Everything had noise, and everything cost some amount of fidelity no matter what you did. In light of this, "authenticity" is really a No True Scotsman argument, where we argue forever about intent, the optimal fidelity for the time, and what one would have experienced.
  Come to think of it, an easy approximation for a time machine is to buy some aviator frames, smear some Vasaline on the lenses, and stuff your ears with some cotton.
I thought it was to screw over his ex-wife.
- It likely was. That and the ego of someone who wanted to be Steve Wozniak but was really a Steve Jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy%27s_Despecialized_Edition
He's doing God's Work.

If the original trilogy is anything to go by, George Lucas desperately needs a good editor. I can't imagine a longer cut will be anything but worse than what we got...

That's exactly why we want it
The "special director's anniversary editions" or whatever the hell they were called were the worst bullshit insult to those of us that grew up with the original trilogy. Fuck you, George Lucas.
- Despecialized Edition to the rescue!
  And you can torrent it now! Back in my day we had to download it as 20 separate files from Mega.nz!
George Lucas desperately needs a good editor
Literally his first wife. One reason why New Hope and Empire Strikes Back were so good. Once Lucas got divorced, his screenwriting fell off a cliff.
Also, incidentally, Carrie Fisher became an acclaimed script doctor towards the end of her career. She was rewriting a bunch of her own dialog in Return of the Jedi. She fixed up the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's "Hook". Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3, Scream 3, Coyote Ugly, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith are also on her resume. She patched up the first Austin Powers movie and saved Mike Myers from himself.
https://www.slashfilm.com/548436/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/
And that's where you'd be wrong. Quite a bit of the stuff that was cut from RotS is really good.
- Like Anakin talking in R2 speak lol

Disney: No.

It's just 2 hours of Jar Jar Binks slapstick.

When is the screening?

It's hard to trust George Lucas with Star Wars after he keeps making so many little changes. Can I see the Topher Grace prequel cut instead?

.... No.

"George, the house is on fire!"
- No, Vader, it's just the Death Star exploding.
- No mother, it's just the Disney rights.

George Lucas? Release an old cut of a movie he made that his fans want to see? Where have I heard that one before?

We need a wrath of vader movie.

For it to work, he needs to keep his mystery. Like, I don't want to see him collect his laundry. But basically just him going round the galaxy mercilessly hunting down and murdering the crap out of Jedis.

I've been saying for years that the market exists for an R-rated movie about Vader hunting Jedi, but Disney doesn't have the balls for it.
- We got a taste at the end of rogue one, and I'm hungry for more.

At no point watching any of the prequels did I think "man, I wish this was longer"

Idk, the pod racing seems excited.
- I'd take 30 minutes of Greg Proops sportscasting

Seymour! Seymour! The Chosen One is on fire!

George Lucas should screen this cut of the film at Sodankylä Film Festival in Finland.

That way, he could be feted by the most dedicated of the film buffs. AND experience the Aurora Borealis. Localised entirely on the geographic region he is in.

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

Well I'm from Tatooine and I've never heard that before.

I mean, I'd watch it. It couldn't be worse than the ST.

Yeah...

Just think of all the memes you could mine from four hours of patented Lucas dialogue.

Gib

The Darth JarJar Cut.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth….

Why would you want this????!

I know the prequels have been meme'd to hell and are objectively ridiculous, but I'm not too proud to admit that I really like them.
- RotS was always genuenly good.
- Pervert
- Everything cool about them is despite George Lucas not because of him. Sure the battles are cool, the CGI scenes are cool, but the prequels were wayyyyyy too much a direct implementation of what Lucas thought was going to be good to ever have been good lol.
  The original Star Wars movies were better because Lucas wasn’t famous yet and had to actually listen to the people around him.
It's been like 15 years since I've seen it, but isn't it the one with all the good memes?
- It's got several of them, and that's the only redeeming quality.
  I re-watched it recently, and was reminded just how bad it was. I only saw The Phantom Menace in the theatre, and the disappointment kept me away from the releases of the next two installments - money well saved.
I could watch 4 hours of RotS but no way could I make it through 4 hours of Phantom Menace.
- Honestly, I’d rather just ditch the terrible plots of both movies and just go have fun in Star Wars Battlefront playing with all the cool hovertanks and robots.