{"id":40627,"date":"2025-06-16T21:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40627"},"modified":"2025-06-16T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:48:04","slug":"star-wars-looks-terrible-in-screening-of-long-lost-original-1977-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40627","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Wars\u2019 \u201cLooks Terrible\u201d in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Star-Wars-Carrie-Fisher-R2D2-Everett-MSDSTWA_EC102-H-2023.jpg?w=1296&amp;h=730&amp;crop=1&amp;resize=681%2C383\" width=\"302\" height=\"170\" \/>The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas&#8217; post-release tweaks and polishes and looks &#8220;like a completely different film.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/star-wars-1977-screening-version-review-1236291808\/\">\u2018Star Wars\u2019 \u201cLooks Terrible\u201d in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: apparently people love it.  worth lookng for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta, Lucas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I\u2019m not going to spend the \u2014\u00a0we\u2019re talking millions of dollars here \u2014 the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn\u2019t really exist anymore. It\u2019s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, <strong><em>and I\u2019m sorry you saw a half-completed film and fell in love with it.<\/em><\/strong> But I want it to be the way I want it to be. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[900],"class_list":["post-40627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-movies","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40630,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions\/40630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}