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Originally posted by: jimbo
Yes its to make money. He has the right to make money. Hes not forcing you to buy them is he. About the original trilogy thing. Most not all of those who prefer the originals are prequals haters. Most of those who prefer the Special Editions like the prequals. He has been hearing there bitching since 1997 and he has learned to ignore it.
In my opinion a sweeping generalization, but that could be accurate. But I don't truly think it is fan moaning at all. I have a theory about why GL wants to release revised versions and not the originals, a very illogical thing to do by the following. Most directors consider their movies to be their "babies" after a sort. GL described his relationship with both trilogies as a "marriage." So that would make you think GL feels like the movies are part of his family. So many here ask, "How can he just throw his old kids to the street for the model son(daughter)?" I have asked the question myself as well. And I believe I have the answer. From statements GL has made he feels the OT trilogy was "abandoned." He honestly feels he didn't do his best for the OT, he and it failed in so many ways. So GL doesn't want to display his "children" that he "abandoned." And in so many ways, that is a sad thing for him. He should not beat himself up over what he and/or what NO one could do. Considering when they were made, he did something so much beyond what anyone knows and really, in a technological to their day, most movies can only try to do the same. So my honest hope for GL is he realize he never "abandoned" anything, they were fine viewed with any amount of perspective. His children then and his new growing kids (in the form of the SE and on) are "timeless" and they should be treated that way, preserved not just in the 70's, 80's, and the 90's, but for the 21st century and beyond. That's my two cents.