Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Back in 1999 something I thought would never happen finally came to pass. 16 years after Return of the Jedi , we were finally treated to a new Star Wars film. Despite what George Lucas tried to pass as gospel truth, he had never intended to run through a trilogy and then present the back story. This was all pie-in-the-sky ideas that he told the press after the original movie became a hit and The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be an even better movie than the original. We all know what happened with The Phantom Menace , however, and we should have seen it coming. Lucas went back and retooled the original films, adding in tons of misplaced CGI and practically neutering Han Solo. Sure, he did some things right, like getting rid of the Ewok celebration at the end of Jedi and digitally erasing some of the matte lines from around the spaceships, but most of the changes were unnecessary. Still, in many ways I found The Phantom Menace to be better...