The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – Is this ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Spaceballs’?

In 2007, while in production on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg, producer and Star Wars creator George Lucas was photographed sporting a T-shirt that read “Han Shot First.” Nerds for the franchise were already well aware of this T-shirt and the Internet meme of the same title spawned by Lucas’ ham-fisted revision of his own film when he turned the roguish smuggler’s Western-worthy quickdraw entrance in the original Star Wars into a matter of character-killing sheer luck. It was one awful change among dozens that Lucas has inflicted on his own classic films since the late 1990s, much to the chagrin of millions everywhere—me included. Read more…