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Here's a pun-splattered heads-up to all you Star Wars fans out there. In about two hours' time news will reach us from a secret server located on the distant planet Bespin that Maythe4thbewithyou will prove a good day for the Lucasian franchise. There's a countdown and everything! The gimmicky website created in honour of the …

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  1. Adrian Jones
    FAIL

    Almost working

    It's got as far as 38% and is now frozen.

    A countdown, followed by a countup. Amazing the creative talents at Fox and Lucasfilms these days.

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  2. Reading Your E-mail
    WTF?

    You didn't miss much

    I got the page in plain text before the redirect kicked in, it said there were 9 or 10 discs in the collection, the first 6 are easy to figure out, then you had making ofs the originals with interviews, then assorted junk include parodies (but not family guy) and other stuff, bit of an anti climax really.

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  3. Ken Hagan Gold badge

    Has Lucas milked this cow enough yet?

    I'd say not. Let's face it, if George had done a Carrie Fisher, then someone else would have made the three prequels and someone else would have re-issued the films (with slight tweaks, just to tease) each time the industry had a new format to sell. That's how Hollywood works and plenty of other film franchises have been spoiled by someone less talented than the original director being given the job of doing a remake or a sequel.

    With Lucas himself behind all these derived works, at least you can tell yourself that it isn't some talentless nobody basking in the reflected glory of a true artist. Quite what you *do* tell yourself is up to you. I still haven't seen the prequels in a cinema, but I have all six on DVD and that's enough for my kids to understand where all the merchandising came from. One of these days I'll get the Indiana Jones films and then they'll understand *that* too.

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  4. Magnus_Pym
    Stop

    Ok in their day...

    ... but man, have they aged badly. Like an ageing Hollywood heartthrob still trying to play the romantic lead through all the cosmetic surgery, panstick and soft focus these things should be retired. Let us remember the them the way they were and how they fitted into the history of cinema at there release not turned into embarrassing parodies of themselves.

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  5. NoneSuch Silver badge
    Grenade

    It isn't the "Complete Saga"

    ...until they make the last three films.

    GL was ambling on about there being nine films in the series for almost twenty years . Then he said after the first six there will be no more films until piracy was under control. Next he says that he was "mis-quoted" and there never were going to be more than six.

    We do have memories George. You will never have a perfect distribution system and there will always be pirates. They are in the minority and you will only lose a bit of money on the films and lets be fair, you made enough from just the Jar-Jar merchandise to cover those losses.

    You don't need to do it yourself, but it would be nice if you chose just one director to do it for you. Yes a trilogy would be hard work. However, that Peter Jackson bloke seems to be doing OK after making Lord of the Rings. I heard he made a few bucks too even in this world of pirates.

    Sources: http://www0.epinions.com/content_4057571460

    http://www.movieweb.com/news/lucasfilm-denies-rumors-of-9-star-wars-films

    *spoiler link* http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/10/25/george-lucas-starting-work-on-a-brand-new-star-wars-trilogy/

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  6. Stevie
    Unhappy

    Bah!

    The only lasersword movie I want to see is the one where Peter Sellars and Burt Kwouk attack each other with those Kendo-ready lightsabers SW cosplay enthusiasts build, and as a result demolish the Clouseau residence (again) in "The Pink Panther: Once More Unto The Breach".

    Now *there* was a franchise...

    8o(

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  7. Ben Lambert
    Grenade

    What a bunch of complainers....

    Could you people bitch and moan any more? I agree with some of the points, but really, you aren't mature enough to just sit and watch the movies and enjoy the story line?

    My 5 year old called Jar-Jar annoying....but really, it's not that big a deal. The special edition for the originals...could have been better, but that was waaaay back when now? (excepting the greedo thing....that was just stupid).

    I enjoy the story, it's good, all 6 of them. I take it how it was presented to me, not how it might be better or what might have been. For me, the biggest travesty of the whole thing was Hayden Christenson, he DESTROYED 2&3 with his terrible acting.

    If you don't want to buy it, then don't. It's pretty simple. There's no need to complain about it.

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  8. Rattus Rattus

    The final nail in the Star Wars coffin

    for me, was Mass Effect. Similar feeling setting, but much better characterisation, story and technology. I'll still watch the Star Wars films on occasion, but they no longer hold my interest for long.

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  9. Richard Jukes

    heh

    George Lucas + Dead donkey + Whip * Fanboys = $$

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  10. Eponymous Cowherd
    Unhappy

    Meh

    So its Star Wars on Blu Ray?

    Damn, that cow has been milked so hard and so often its tits must be red-raw......

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  11. Ray 8

    instead of blasters..

    George will have them airbrushed and replaced with walkie talkies as shown in E.T

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    George Lucas has let us all down... suppost to be 3 trilogies!

    Hi, I was a the opening of Star Wars in the seventies. George Lucas announced there would be Star Wars triology and then a triology 50 years before Star Wars(he did it) and one 50 years after(no word about this anymore) George, we want to see the 3rd triology please.

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