Star Wars Irish Fan Club

col1032

Hi,

Im looking for an official irish star wars fan club or somebody in Ireland or even the Uk who runs a star wars website to appear on a radio programme special for the new Star Wars movie.

If anybody knows anything please contact me ASAP!!! on producer@colmandfry.com

Thank you

jaggeh

this message board isprobably the closest you will come to an official fan club, id be happy to appear on your show
i have a face for radio or so the girls tell me...

aerialhead

Saw this on a news letter site from the University of Alabama, and it says it all!


Just take my wallet, George Lucas


Stop the Hate
By Corey Craft
Entertainment Editor
September 13, 2006



Oh, those glorious days of childhood. It was a simpler time then, when "Star Wars" was not "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope"; it was just plain old "Star Wars," and we liked it that way.

But, as childhood tends to do, it slipped away, as changes were made to our beloved "Star Wars" trilogy.

The 1997 Special Editions release and the 2004 DVD release of the trilogy, as we all know, added CGI creatures, changed dialogue, retouched special effects and made Greedo shoot first. (I'm still not over that.) There were subtle changes - taking the Vaseline blur away from the landspeeder, digitally removing the unmasked Anakin Skywalker's eyebrows and color-correcting the blades of the lightsabers.

Fans rejoiced at these, and yes, they did enhance the experience, taking away all those little flaws that surely bothered George Lucas, creator of the saga and control freak of almost Kubrickian levels.

Then there were the obnoxious changes - replacing a ghostly Sebastian Shaw with a ghostly Hayden Christensen, for instance, or the infamous musical number in Jabba's palace.

Fans were furious. Cries of "George Lucas ruined my childhood" were common.

Lucas was unrepentant.

"The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it," Lucas said, in a 2004 interview with MSN. "I'm not going to spend the - we're talking millions of dollars here - the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it."

(Only a Sith deals in absolutes, George.)

Now, after repeatedly telling the fans that the original, unmodified versions would never again be released on a home video medium, Lucas released two-disc DVDs of the original trilogy yesterday. On one disc is the 2004 DVD release. On the other is the original theatrical print, imperfections and all, in non-anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 sound - the bottom of the barrel as far as DVD quality goes.

Now let me tell you a bit about myself. At this very moment, I am wearing my "Star Wars" hat, and it is an unusual day when you will not see me wearing it. I have a "Star Wars" poster in my room. I've wasted countless hours playing "Star Wars Battlefront" on the PS2.

When I was younger I collected the action figures, and I brought a lightsaber to the midnight screenings of Episodes II and III. I bought the DVD set the day it came out and was annoyed by the changes, though they hardly ruined my childhood. (Greedo shooting first came really close, though.)

Now, Lucas has released the new DVDs to please all the fans who threw a fit for them (and to make a little money in the process). Here I am, a die-hard fan, and I desperately want to buy these DVDs, and I probably will, and I will hate Lucas for not releasing the proper versions in the first place, but most of all I'll probably hate myself for buying them.

In 2007, I speculate that a 30th anniversary "Super Ultimate Limited Special Edition Saga 21-Disc Box Set of DOOM" will be released, and I'll probably buy that, too. I might as well just mail Lucas my bank account number.

But no one ever said the road to Jedi knighthood would be easy. See you at Wal-Mart. I'll be the guy cradling the new DVDs and muttering something about Jawas. Such is obsession.

Pigman II

Cory Craft should be angry at himself not Lucas. The guy sounds like an idiot.