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Originally posted by: JamesEightBitStar
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I dunno. Assuming this whole "Lucas needs to get laid" thing isn't just a tasteless joke, nothing really surprises me with this group anymore.

I mean, this is the group where people complain endlessly about how Lucas has ruined Star Wars, yet then they turn around and buy the DVDs even though they know that set is just another crappy altered edition that they're just going to bitch and moan about later.

Though presented 'jokingly' I really DO think Lucas needs some adult companionship of a non-professional nature to keep him grounded. He seems to be de-volving, in a creative sense. I truly feel there is no passion behind the PT (or at least very little) and that he's just going through motions to make more money. I also truly feel that he probably does have some deep problems, the kind that can only come from lots of money and living in the fantasy, movie-mogul, celebrity world.

And again, for the record, I haven't bought any of the SE video stuff. I was given the '97 VHS box set as a gift by an un-knowing friend. In fact, I excitedly saw the '97 ANH SE in the theater, felt a bit violated by it and therefore didn't see the SE of ESB and ROTJ until given the aforementioned box set. So *some* of us hold out still.

And people will always gripe about stuff they love. Some more and some less, but if we didn't care then we wouldn't talk about it at all. Or read these forums at all. But the griping increases when one is faced with such a riduculous scenario as the simplistic release of a cleaned up original version of three films which helped to change the shape of world cinema.

Maybe its because the world just thinks of us griping fans as the type of people 'Triumph the Insult Comic Dog' interviewed in his SW bit on Conan O'Brien. The sad truth is I don't remember ever having seen a respected Hollywood insider, film critic or educator speak out publically about what Lucas has done. Now when LUCAS speaks out in favor of film preservation people listen. When the Hollywood community rallies against colorization of B & W films people sure as hell listened. But when a film festival makes a simple request for a print of original versions of the OT to show its place in film history it barely registers on the national radar. But you know what? I think ILM has much of Hollywood by the cojones. You don't want to mess with the company that we're going to pays lots of money to to make our summer blockbuster look pretty, do you? That's why I was so impressed when Peter Jackson came along and had his little independant team do the vast majority of the LOTR Trilogy work all by themselves. (and before you say it- yes I know ILM helped out with a bit of outsourced work on LOTR AND I know Jackson released SE's of his own films... along with the original theatrical versions).

geez I end up writing long posts, don't I