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The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

    By Nic Lindh on Friday, February 27, 2009 in media · 1 min read

    Bad film nerd. No money for you

    It’s time to stop giving George Lucas money.

    It seems George Lucas is intending to release the Star Wars movies in 3D. Which seems like grave robbery to me, although John Scalzi has some thoughts that make sense about why Lucas might do such a thing.

    Nevertheless, I’m done giving Lucas my money (at least until the inevitable Blu-ray release).

    So I put this together to remind myself why there will be no 3D Star Wars for me:

    Stay strong, brothers and sisters.

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