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Post #1084070

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Cobra Kai
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
16-Jun-2017, 12:21 PM

Well, my experience has been the complete opposite of some of you.

I have discussed the OOT with a LOT of friends and acquaintances over the years, ranging from hardcore to casual fans. Not once did I hear anything other than disgust for the SE’s, and everyone expressed their wish for an OOT release.
The last guy I talked to had just shown his kids the trilogy for the first time. They watched the blu-rays, which was his first time to see 2011 versions. His first comment was “I had forgotten how many changes were made to the movies,” and then said he would never watch those versions again. I then told him about Harmy, TN1, Legacy, etc.
(I am 40 years old, BTW, and everyone I’ve talked to about it has been about my age, give or take a few years.)

Now apart from my personal experiences, when they first announced the digital releases a while back I did look at all the social media reactions from fans. When it was first announced on Facebook from the official Star Wars page, I went through the hundreds of comments to see how many people were asking about the original versions. On the first post, the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of all the comments were about the OOT. I would have to go back and look to be sure, but I recall that the number was over 70%, and then it was pretty much the same thing on all subsequent posts regarding the digital releases.

Now let’s forget all that. The fact is SW obviously has the biggest fan base of any movie in history. The original versions started one giant pop culture phenomenon and existed for 20 years before the SE’s with millions of fans growing up watching them at home on VHS.
With all of the other restorations and blu-ray releases of classic movies that have been done over the years, I find it strange that people believe an OOT release would not be profitable enough for a studio to mess with. Star Wars fans will buy just about anything anyway, and have been double-dipping on releases since the VHS days. So you will even see a significant percentage of fans who are content with the current blu-rays, purchasing an OOT release just to have in their collection.

Now, that being said, I’ve pretty much given up hope since the 40th anniversary came and went without any mention of it. I would love to hear from Mverta, but he obviously can’t or won’t share any info from his conversations with people at Disney/Fox.
Personally, I’m completely done with all things Disney at this point. I hated TFA and R1 anyway, so no big loss there…