January 8, 2006

When will George Lucas die already?

...so we can see his movies the way they were originally intended to be seen.

Pardon my bitterness. I just watched Georgie's first feature-length film, THX 1138, courtesy Netflix. Unfortunately only the...ugh..."director's cut" is available on DVD, and in true Lucas fashion, it adds all kinds of anachronistic CGI.

I don't mean it looks anachronistic for the futuristic setting of THX 1138, but rather it just looks wrong for a movie released in 1971. The unexplained creatures who attack THX in the end look, well, like bad CGI -- like the troll in the first Harry Potter movie, for example. Kinda cartoony and not real. So, why do that? Why add something to a movie that people respect just fine already?

There's also some explosions, and some more subtle effects, but they still take you out of the story and make you think "How'd he do that thirty years ago?" Turns out he didn't. Bah!

Andrew - 11:15 PM