09-28-2004, 12:52 PM
matthewmalay Wrote:He should have at least put the originals version in the trilogy set for all those fanboys/fangirls. It's not very hard to do without over compressing the video with the DVD format.
But as I like to say, if don't like it, don't buy it!
You know this is my main beef with all this. I respect his right to remake, refine, and whatever, but I feel real disrespect when he refuses to allow anyone to get a legal copy of the originals on DVD.
Take for example what Spielberg did with E.T. He made his changes that made him feel better about whatever he had to feel better about and then when he released it on DVD he gave us BOTH the original and the new version. That is the way it should be done.
I just find it amazing that Lucas would have such little regard for the fans of the original versions, and there are LOTS of them. It isn't like there is this tiny contingent of radical fans who want the originals, many many people want them and I personally think Lucas is nuts to not even want to try to cash in on it just for the potential of money that could be made on it.
But like mr. matthewmalay said, if you don't like it, don't buy it, and there are many fans like me who won't buy it. And even as a person who readily buys bootlegs, if there would be an official release of the original versions on DVD I would snatch them up in a heartbeat.