The fate of the OOT what is to become of our old friend?
#1
Posted 16 April 2005 - 10:21 PM
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#2
Posted 16 April 2005 - 11:51 PM
I may or... may NOT have one. *Ahem* *Wink-wink*
Battle for the Galaxy--read the "other Star Wars"
All I know is I haven't seen the real prequels yet.
#3
Posted 17 April 2005 - 04:51 AM
As for the rest of us... maybe we could finish Lucas off with a small Jar-Jar shaped bomb in a piece of fake fanmail.
It would be a shame to see our friend go - but I won't let it go without a fight.
#4
Posted 17 April 2005 - 05:02 AM
Why the hell didn't Lucas restore the films when he had the chance? He could do it and add in his other crap afterwards and it'd be no more expensive.
He also would have sold more copies of his trilogy if he had included the original films. Maybe he could have released a six disc set with both the original versions and the new ones... or if he was really money crazy, he could release a nine disc set with the originals, the special editions and the supremely-fucked versions.
That's what annoys me the most about all of this. If it was money he wanted, then there was no reason not to release the original untarnished films on DVD and EVERY reason to do so.
His actual course of action actually reaped in far less money than he would have earned otherwise. And he would have known that would happen. So I can only conclude that he did this out of spite.
Yes, Lucas. You have the film rights. You can do whatever you want and we can't stop you. However, you ARE a wanker.
#5
Posted 17 April 2005 - 06:30 AM
Mind if I sig this, Movie Goer?
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People
#10
Posted 17 April 2005 - 12:03 PM
Yeah, but someday we'll all be dead, and there will be a new generation out there that will never have seen nor will ever see the OOT.
I guess that out of all the crazy Star Wars stuff that's happened, the destruction of the classiv films by their creator is the thing that ticks me off the most. It could be argued that George Lucas has a right to make the prequels however he wants to; they're his films, his stories, and his money on the line for making them. Our opinions on their merits are just that; subjective opinions.
But there is one thing about Star Wars that is not subjective opinion, it is a fact: the OOT was a classic piece of cinema. I don't think that Lucas or anyone else has the right to compare those original films to a "work-print", because they weren't that, they were films that were completed and shown to the public, and the public, by and large, enjoyed the trilogy for what it was at the time. They still do.
I'm not arguing that Lucas doesn't have the right to make the Special Editions; the 1997 versions were the ones that gave me a passion for Star Wars. But I do contest his 'right' to destroy three pieces of cinematic history, namely the OOT.
#11
Posted 17 April 2005 - 06:27 PM
Lucas's behaviour baffles me. My best guess is that he made and released his "special editions" in 1997 in all innocence, sure that everyone was going to love them (wow, more robots! Boba Fett! More Jabba the Hutt!), and only when he was unpleasantly surprised that fans mostly disliked the changes did Lucas harden his heart against his original movies and begin asserting in earnest that the SEs were the real Star Wars films and that the old ones were little more than rough drafts. Lucas is nothing if not defensive.
#12
Posted 17 April 2005 - 10:05 PM
which means i can mpeg them from video... but i'll have to check the quality... either... way...whoever does it first should kazaa the shit so everyone gets it free and doesn't need to own those pitiful remixes...
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#13
Posted 17 April 2005 - 10:24 PM
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#14
Posted 18 April 2005 - 01:05 AM
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#15
Posted 18 April 2005 - 07:23 AM
Check out Originaltrilogy.com for a lot of good resources and information about preserving the OOT.
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