Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Doesn't matter now. I was never into pre-release hype, unlike some releases.
Unable to find alcohol, I lay down and thought about this.
I fought to get At Last the 1948 Show on DVD for a long time (and Do Not Adjust Your Set). Finally they released a DVD set, and it was indeed At Last the 1948 Show (and Do Not Adjust Your Set) and it was wonderful ... but it was none of the episodes I had, or had seen. It was all new to me. I loved it, but they hadn't released what I'd expected. And they still haven't. They released other stuff.
I fought to get the rather crap Rutles 2 released actually, and when it came out no one cared including me.
I fought to get Rutland Weekend Television released, and now it's been announced.
I wanted the Frighteners extended LD released - Alex was working on a version of it - then it came out, which was nice.
All this is nice.
But, y'know, you spend so much time fighting these battles, you're not a regular consumer anymore. Somehow you can't share in the joy in the same way. Or it takes a minute to.
When my rough cut of the Thief and the Cobbler was released on GBS.TV, somebody posted, really happily, at IMDB saying, we won! It's restored! We are the champions! We've defeated Disney, etc ...
Well ... no. No one defeated anyone. I restored a movie, the fight goes on.
It was like at the end of the Seven Samurai ... a film I haven't seen in a few years so pardon if I misquote. At the end, as I recall anyway, there's been a great victory won, but the old, experienced samurai just say to each other, it's been another battle lost.
Because so many died fighting, y'know?
We were fighting a war here, and we've won it, but we'll never be thanked for it. We, the fans, will never be thanked for our part in that. The joy we get is from the film itself, on its little picture disc.
We know, on some level, that we've been duped again. That George got us to freak out again, and buy his things over and over and over again, again.
Like when he wouldn't release Star Wars on video. Like when he wouldn't release it on DVD. Like when he wouldn't release the original versions.
It's like a cosmic joke on some level. He always hurts the ones who love him.
I feel a fool.
LOL US!
he's still not fooling me. I'll buy RotJ right of the bat and put the other two on my christmas list. I feel that is a nice comprimise as he'll make back the money he lost when I purchased OCP's Classic editions. no more, no less.