12 Things That Were Really To Blame For Hollywood's Biggest F*ck Ups

3. Star Wars CGI Is Because Of Clumsy Stormtroopers

George Lucas has done a lot of insane things in his time, but the one people tend to latch onto €“ besides Jar Jar Binks €“ are the Star Wars special editions. Not only did they inspire the aforementioned terrible CGI re-do of ET for its 20th anniversary, but the new versions of Star Wars set a dangerous precedent for the over-use of computer graphics and terrible continuity-diddling that Lucas would go on to do with the Star Wars prequels. There's seemingly no end to the list of grievances hardcore fans have for the changes Lucas made in the special editions, from the cluttering of perfectly fine scenes with unnecessary CGI aliens to bolster the practical effects to, well, Han shot first. Han shot first. Let us repeat that again: Han shot first. And presumably all this happened in the first place because shrewd businessman Lucas was following the Turner model, wanting to be able to release a €œnew€ version of films he made twenty years prior and make money off them, which was much easier than actually making new stuff. Partly that, anyway, and partly just him being a weird perfectionist who can't leave well alone a bunch of films that were totally fine as they were. It's one of the reasons that Lucas has gone from nerd royalty to geek public enemy number one, as most fans tend to attribute the special editions to a combination of the director's vanity and greed €“ but the actual explanation is far more prosaic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQaLuqwtl8 And the person you should be blaming was the clumsy extra who played the Stormtrooper who, rather infamously, clonked his head on a doorway whilst walking through, a favourite of every one of those crummy movie mistakes programmes they show on BBC Three when they're run out of Family Guy episodes. It became a running joke in pop culture, an embarrassing blooper that somehow ended up in the finished film. So, rather understandably, when Lucas got the chance to edit out that little boo-boo, he did so. But then he realised he could change other things, too, and that's when everything started to get really f*cked up...