Why George, why?

Maybe Jabba got on the Jenny Craig diet after Episode I. :) Size matters not! Judge me by by my size do you? maybe Yoda stole those words from Jabba???
 
WOW kenchan so ur not gonna buy it? Well that is ur choice me I will have these baby's at 12:01 thursday night even gonna wear out boba to pick mine up, don't really care to much for the change's but it will be nice to watch on blu ray but it's all about the bonus material for me 40 hrs, makes my mouth water lol!



chris
 
Lol, what was that? I liked the first 'no', but the second, long one... That was just a ***-moment. Ah, well. I still love Star Wars, with or without the changes. Plus, I don't have blu-ray, so I won't have to worry too much.
 
I dont know if you guys checked out what we posted on the TDH facebook wall but the 360 degree views of props would make me overlook the Noooooo and what not, Im also pretty sure there will be options to watch the originals with no added features just like the DVD's that are out now have two discs one Special edition and one original.
 
Just a quick note on the ROTJ Vader end scene video that has been posted, as well as the Krayt Dragon video. Those 2 videos were not taken from the actual Blu-Ray DVD. Those 2 particular videos that has been going around the internet recently, and are being shown as "clips" from the Blu-Ray" DVD are actually FAN MADE. While it has been confirmed that there will be some changes made to the Blu-Ray DVD version, the so-called sample clips going around the internet are NOT from the actual Blu-Ray DVD. (There is another YouTube clip that shows the actual change in the ROTJ scene that was supposed to have been taken from the Blu-Ray DVD.)

Someone even made a joke video in regards to the controversy surrounding the ROTJ changes to the Blu-Ray DVD.

 
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Here's my 2 cents worth on the Vader scene..

Lucas believes his new audience and possibly his old audience to be incapable of understanding the complexity of that scene. The silent conflict going on behind Vader's eyes that we all felt and still feel when we watch the amazing scene. So he felt compelled to add in the voice over.

He's basically saying, "look your too dumb and numb to get it...So here's some help idiot"!

Just my thoughts...
 
That's how I feel as well Christian. It takes away from the intensity of the scene. Did anyone else notice that they cut out Luke's pleas of help from his father in that scene?
 
George Lucas addressing Congress in 1988, to protest the then-popular trend of colorizing old black-and-white movies:
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

I agree with him 100%!!!!!!
 
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Im pretty sure the original artist wasnt around to say they didnt intend for it to be in color...but he is the original artist and can change things the way he sees fit...its not your story its his, and it may flow better the way he sees it you just will have to wait and see
 
Whether it's his story or not, it stood for something the way it WAS. For nearly 20 years before he started screwing with it. It would be nice if he understood that. His huge fanbase was built on what those movies were, not what he "thought they could be." I am glad Fett_MD posted that because I remembered reading it somewhere. Why George didn't practice what he preached is beyond me. "In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society." If only HE had taken this to heart. He is a hypocrite.
 
Like I said Im sure the original will be available to watch just as easy as watching the enhanced...lets not string him up just yet
 
The "original" versions that were Included were not anamorphic widescreen and severely lacked the quality of just about 99% of DVDs that were released. They put no effort into those. They should have at least attempted to port the laser disc versions. Lucasfilm can afford to put a little effort into a project like that if a small B movie can restore their movies from the 70s and 80s.
 
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