Easterhay said:

I didn't tell you what you should call it. I simply said it's idiotic to do so when the film was only titled that for three or four years.

I guess you think Lucas and Lucasfilm are idiots because they weren't promoting it as A New Hope back in 1997 when they released the Special Editions to the theaters. Check out the Special Edition Trailer and around 1:30 they advertise them as Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Not once is the name A New Hope mentioned, and that is 20 years after the movie was released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96wKCLbfGE

Only when Lucas made the Prequels, did he start advertising them with Roman Numerals and then started calling it A New Hope. No one is arguing that they were in the opening crawl, but even Lucas still called it Star Wars for the first 20 years!

So I guess George Lucas is as idiot as we are! LOL!