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Post #1313698

Author
TavorX
Parent topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1313698/action/topic#1313698
Date created
23-Dec-2019, 7:04 PM

I firmly think that there’s little to gripe about these days in respect to having access to the OOT. In just another year or two, 4K projects for the originals will be complete. The more years that pass by, the more the OOT is forgotten. Newer generations are used to the special editions and mesmerized by whatever new SW popcorn movie that comes out. I’m in that odd category where growing up, my SW were the 97 editions and the prequels were steadily getting released. Talk of the OOT was probably the most at its peak back then. That aspect is what led me to look for the originals later on.

I have to be brutally honest and say many effects feel dated in certain scenes compared to some changes that the 97 SE, arguably, improved upon (think stuff like the X Wings). However, I’m just the type of person that still rather have the first, Original version. Now, the reason I bring up 97 SE being “my” SW growing up is because I’m used to certain changes that it is somewhat jarring to watch ROTJ unaltered and have to listen to Yub Nub. In most cases, I’m sure it applies vice versa for the people that grew up on the OOT. I say that to say this: if I was a kid right now, I’d be totally immersed with the newer SW and seldom mess with the OT. Parents right now, whom aren’t the most tech savvy to even find the OOT, will just oblige to buy whatever DVD/streaming release that’s available.
I basically think that even if the OOT was released, who does it really serve? A few thousand people? Perhaps a hard pill to swallow, but just look to the Star Wars sub Reddit. Talk of the OOT is just about extinct. Roll your eyes all you want, but the kind of people posting in those places on the internet is more of the intended audiences. Why lift a finger for the minority of us?