George? Hey, George! GEORGE!!! Yeah, you, you lying sack of sh*t. Listen up.

Fnck.

You.

So Lucas is claiming that the idea that Greedo shot first was true, from a certain point of view.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: What I really want to know is why DIDN'T someone shoot Jar Jar Binks?

Because if you get rid of the bad grammar, he's not actually that bad (new window)

Actually it should just be "Han shoots Greedo"

As someone who is old enough to have watched the original movie in the theater, can someone please explain the controversy here? It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember the scene: Han shoots the dipshiat at the bar who is pointing a gun at him, AFTER a conversation that clearly seems to be wrapping up with Greedo's intent to shoot Han.

So why exactly does anyone care if Greedo shot first? In the old westerns, where Lucas undoubtedly stole that entire scene from, the gunslinger duel didn't always result in two shots fired. More often than not, one man was faster on the draw and only one shot got off to begin with, but it didn't matter because the intent was always understood to be just as menacing as an actual shot. The Han/Greedo scene was just a protracted duel.

Actually, I'm just going to slap myself for writing that much about it in the first place. If someone cares to explain this "controversy" to me, great. If not, IT'S A farkING MOVIE!

Go fark yourself, Lucas.

this argument mattered to star wars geeks before star wars was completely ruined by the prequels.

now.. shiat, who cares.

Why does that fat tard think that he got it wrong the first time? That he had to go back and fix it so Han does not look like a cold blooded killer? Nobody, and I mean nobody. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBODY, ever thought Han acted in cold blood. Jeebus, even at 10 years of age I knew Han acted in self defense. Greedo had the gun drawn on him and made it perfectly clear that he was about to kill Han. "Over my dead body." "I've been waiting for this a long time." etc. etc. Han bought himself just enough time to draw his blaster. He was about to get shot but beat Greedo to it.

Damn it, Lucas really needs a kick to the ball sack.

Poor editing? Yes, clearly that's the audience's fault.

Just like the other thread about the guy who killed a rhino and blamed it on poachers!

haha Lucas doesn't give a shiat about any of you and yet you keep throwing money at him

Lsherm: As someone who is old enough to have watched the original movie in the theater, can someone please explain the controversy here? It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember the scene: Han shoots the dipshiat at the bar who is pointing a gun at him, AFTER a conversation that clearly seems to be wrapping up with Greedo's intent to shoot Han.

So why exactly does anyone care if Greedo shot first? In the old westerns, where Lucas undoubtedly stole that entire scene from, the gunslinger duel didn't always result in two shots fired. More often than not, one man was faster on the draw and only one shot got off to begin with, but it didn't matter because the intent was always understood to be just as menacing as an actual shot. The Han/Greedo scene was just a protracted duel.

Actually, I'm just going to slap myself for writing that much about it in the first place. If someone cares to explain this "controversy" to me, great. If not, IT'S A farkING MOVIE!

Because of this,

/true story

Here I thought everybody knew that the scene works better with Han shooting first. Everyone except Lucas, apparently.

George Luca$ has always been at war with Eurasia. Also the chocolate ration will be raised to 2.5 grams.

How come guys with insanely successful intellectual properties can't ever leave them alone or do them right after the first few go-arounds?

Examples:

Star Wars - can't leave the f*cking originals alone. I mean, the 90s re-releases were tolerable, but not the rest of the changes.

Microsoft Windows - By most measures, the most popular software product of all time. Know how we got everything *just about* perfect in Windows 7? Well, we're throwing all of that out and replacing it with an interface originally designed for phone screens 480x800 pixels in size... and short of a registry hack, you can't turn back to what you're familiar with. Sure, it's a great idea on the phone, but makes desktop use torture.

Half-Life and Half-Life 2: two genre-defining games which changed the face of the hero and the face of the female sidekick in gaming, both for the better. Valve switches to an episode format to "reduce the development time of the series." At least four years later, we're still waiting for the follow-up on Episode 2. The Black Mesa fan remake has taken 7 years to complete and is still somewhere in between closed alpha and closed beta.

Metallica - Awesome band, was abducted by aliens and replaced with clones that only knew how to barely bridge the gap between hard alt-rock and thrash metal. Started off the war on "piracy". Has made one good album in the last 15 years, and it's still not as good as their original work.

The list goes on.

It was bad enough he felt he had to change it in the re-releases, but WTF does he think he's really doing here? That nobody ever saw the original cut? That it's not out on the internet? That plenty of people can't open the damn file on their computers and see that he's plain full of shiat in like 5 farking seconds? That just by saying this his words are going to travel back in time and change the original cut of the movie so that we never saw only one shot?

Worst jedi mind trick ever.

Screw the whole 'who shot first' spiel...

The true sin was having Vader do his 'NOOOOOOOOOO' in the middle of saving Luke from the Emperor.

The whole thing was 'supposed' to be a silent reversal. You're supposed to sit there and wonder at Vader/Anakin's mindset as he watched his son get brutally assaulted and nearly killed...You're supposed to sit there and silently urge him on, watch him look from Palpatine to Luke and back again and then, without a farking word, reach out and grab the old fark and throw him down a shaft.

Now, it just looks and sounds retarded....

Screw Lucas, that fat no-talent fark.

Infernalist: The true sin was having Vader do his 'NOOOOOOOOOO' in the middle of saving Luke from the Emperor.

Seriously? I haven't seen the changes, and thank god for that) but that sounds demented. I have a hope that when Lucas dies his estate will re-release the original versions.

There. Case closed.

/Shut up George.
//Go play in your money mountain.
///That always cheers you up.

Grables'Daughter: Jim Gordon: So Lucas is claiming that the idea that Greedo shot first was true, from a certain point of view.

A certain point of view?

Grables'Daughter, you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. George Lucas was a good artist. When I first saw his movies, he was already a great creative force. But I was amazed at how strongly the marketing department was with him. I took it upon myself to watch his movies. I thought that I could depend on my fond memories of the films to last and be something I could watch with my children. I was wrong.