{"id":5653,"date":"2011-09-02T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2011-09-02T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:54:07","slug":"youtube-friday-nooooooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5653","title":{"rendered":"Youtube Friday: Nooooooo!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars<\/em> makes its long anticipated release on Blu Ray this week.\u00a0 And has now become the tradition with the launch of Star Wars<\/em> on a new format, George Lucas has tinkered with the film by adding a slew of new visual and audio effects to the original trilogy.\u00a0 And once again, they are almost all universally terrible causing fans of the series to be up in arms.<\/p>\n

There are two reasons for this.\u00a0 The first is that the changes are frequently handled in a surprisingly sloppy fashion.\u00a0 For a film series that began in the Seventies and employed the use of puppets, models and some clever camera work, to throw in a bunch of badly designed computer effects is jarring and ruins the suspension of disbelief.\u00a0 For Industrial Light & Magic, who have a track record of creating some of the most stunning effects in films such their work in Jurassic Park<\/em> and Pirates of the Carribean<\/em>, the quality of the effects are head-scratchingly poor in the new Star Wars<\/em> revisions.\u00a0 They seem rushed and out of place.\u00a0 What in the world is going on here?\u00a0 Just look at these CGI Ewok eyes<\/a> that got added in the Blu Ray edition, this unnatural-looking panning shot<\/a> complete with crappy CGI door and the comically out of place new audio<\/a> that has been added to the scene in which Obi Wan chases away the Sand People.\u00a0 Who seriously thought adding ‘AWWOOOOOOOO…*dubstep music*<\/em>‘ was something that would improve these films?<\/p>\n

By far the most derided change to the Blu Ray release has been the addition of the ‘NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO’ audio sample from Revenge of the Sith<\/i> to the scene in which Darth Vader turns on the emperor.\u00a0 What was once a well constructed emotional climax to the film (and entire series for that matter) where a silent Darth Vader finally acts on whats left of his humanity has now been ‘enhanced’ with the most frequently cited example of Lucas getting it wrong with the new trilogy.\u00a0 Behold:<\/p>\n