I don’t normally put in links here, but I must say AMEN to Bill Hunt of the Digital Bits.

George Lucas has said that he will NOT release the original cuts of the original Star Wars films on DVD. EVER. Why? Because his inflated, fat-headed ego cannot handle it his warts and all original versions.

Yes. Fat-headed. I don’t mean that in a figurative sense. I mean it in a literal sense. George Lucas has an enormous, fat head.

Look, I grew up with Star Wars. Hell, I LIVED Star Wars for a long, long time. It was one of the greatest parts of my childhood. But George, in his infinite egotistic stupidity has told me that my childhood will be improved through his vision.

His vision. HA! The man couldn’t direct his way out of a paper bag. Alan Smithee himself can elicit a better performance out of a piece of rotten wood than Lucas can. Yet that was the charm of the first film. And it was heartening to see him allow more talented people complete his vision. Alas, however, he’s mucked it all up with his special editions and lifeless prequels. He’s a fool.

“If you have the gall to tell me,” Bill Hunt writes, “that these films that were so much a part of my childhood don't exist as I remember them anymore, that's just fine. But then I want my childhood back. I want a refund for every movie ticket, every poster, every T-shirt, every book, every piece-of-crap action figure and every single God-damned bubble-gum card I ever bought as a kid. I'll send you the bill.”

My bill will be on the way too Mister Lucas.