Family Guy Star Wars Trilogy

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Family Guy is by far my favorite show on television and the original Star Wars Trilogy are my favorite movies of all time. A few years ago they started making hour long episodes of Family Guy plugging in characters from Family Guy in to the original Star Wars Trilogy, with Peter Griffin as Han Solo, Chris as Luke Skywalker, Lois as Princess Leia, Stewie as Darth Vader, Brian as Chewbacca, and Meg as various space creatures.

Other characters from the Family Guy universe include Mort Goldman as Lando, the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett, Carl as Yoda, Quagmire as C-3PO, Cleveland as R2-D2, and Mayor Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin.

I've been loving those episodes and am looking forward to the next one.

The first episode was called Blue Harvest and was based on A New Hope, the second one (The Empire Strikes Back) was called Something Something Dark Side (a reference from an earlier episode in which Stewie said that the Emperor discovered the formula for perfect Star Wars dialogue by saying "something something something dark side something something something complete"). The newest one, based on Return of the Jedi, will be called It's A Trap!
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CGI

CGI technology has been used excessively in films for quite some time. CGI is very expensive and takes a lot of manpower to implement. Seems like producers sink most of any given film's capital into special effects instead of character development, plot, script, etc. What's even more upsetting is when they follow this formula and the CGI/special effects aren't even that impressive. Case and point: Superman Returns and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Superman Returns was a completely unnecessary film and did not add anything of value to the Superman mythos. It was just a way of getting Bryan Singer's name on the movie (pissing off a lot of X-Men fans in the process because he couldn't work on X-Men 3)

In the Nightmare remake, Freddy Kreuger, a horror icon, was reduced to a CGI burn victim who looked more deformed than burned and scarred. In the original Nightmare on Elm Street series, all that was used was make up and ratty clothing to create his signature and memorable look.

Even the original Star Wars Trilogy used make-up, not CGI. CGI didn't even exist in 1977 when A New Hope was released. Plus, the shots of the rebel and imperial ships in the hangars were cardboard cutouts to save money. And Star Wars is freaking amazing. Filmmakers should use CGI when they have to, not just because its expected.