Star Wars cash in

The first three Star Wars films are excellent, there's no getting round that in my eyes, they rank as one of the best film trilogies ever made and at the time they came with the appropriate levels of merchandise for the kiddies to want to buy (and if they kept hold of in good condition put on eBay for the ubergeeks to pay good money for now), I've no problem with that at all.

My problem is with the continual whoring out of everything Star Wars related to buy George Lucas another golden nob stroker (or something similar). The man, or indeed his marketing department, never seem to miss an opportunity to make just a little for cash from the franchise. Did we really need 3 sub-standard more films 16 years after the original trilogy reached it's natural conclusion? No. Did we need VHS box sets all slightly different to the previous, followed by DVD box sets, once again several versions slightly differing from the last? No. Thank the lord there's only been the 1 Blu-Ray version... SO FAR, there'll be more, there'll be an added scenes version and a 3D version and a 3D version with added scenes and the version with the out take included that has Carrie Fisher farting as she runs down a corridor...

There's the 3D cinema reissues, I'll pass on them thanks George, you do know a piece of shit... in 3D is still a piece of shit, it's just in 3D... Maybe when you get to episodes 4-6 I may, but until then, F.R.O.

Some of the things that have been done to these films is horrible, I'm not just talking about the "Noooooo" added to Jedi to match the piece of shit trilogy. What about in Star Wars when Han meets Jaba in Mos Eisley, it was cut, and then due to the future design of the Hutt character the scene no longer worked, so why wedge it in with awful effects. For those who don't know Han walks round Jaba, who at the time didn't have a tail, but when added back in, he would have, so Han steps on it and he yelps weirdly. No, stop it.

That brings me to the current Vodaphone adverts. Now previously C3P0 and R2D2 where used as bitches in some electric shop advertising campaign. Not happy, I think it was Comet or Currys. That was rough and the feedback I assume as negative, so why the fuck is Yoda, grandmaster motherfunking Yoda getting bitched out to promote Vodaphone services? The line has been crossed, the line is a dot to Lucas (or appropriate person who ok'd it). They won't rest til Mark Hamill is selling tampons on the back on London buses, Chedwbacca is doing pet shampoo and Wedge is selling his own brand potato wedges.

But he won't stop, he'll never stop it, what happens when the income dies down from these re-issues and the cartoon finishes? Does he re-issue again, probably. Does he make episodes 7-9? I really wouldn't be shocked. Does he rent some other CG cast member out to sell anything as long as the company are willing to pay? Inevitably.

The only time I'll accept this is if JaJa fucking Binks is used to sell rifle scopes, I'll be first in the queue for a go at that bitch.