in all reality, Empire Strikes Back is the only really good movie in that series...
sure the rest of them are entertaining, but as far as quality film making goes its the best one... and probably the only one that stands alone as a film in the series...
RETURN OF THE JEDI is a good film as well. REVENGE COULD have been good if LUCAS had let someone else fix the dialogue and had cut HAYDEN's strings (or gotten a performance out of him like SHATTERED GLASS).
As for the change - big whoop. They are HIS MOVIES. You are under NO OBLIGATION to buy them.
[quote:19f9d]They have been "tweaked" more as well . . . and it isn't over yet. In 2007, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first film's release, an "Archive Edition" of all the films will be released again on DVD. So in regular George Lucas fashion, you will be expected to shell out even more big bucks to re-buy the same films . . . AGAIN. The original theatrical versions will not appear in this set either. The first three films at that point will be barely recognizable to anyone who saw the original theatrical versions when they were released as they are still in the process of "tweaking" the original trilogy to his Lucas-ness' specs. He was never happy with the original trilogy - and apparently still isn't.[/quote:19f9d]