Originally posted by: Jay
With some of the posts I'm seeing around here, I'm almost convinced this release really is exactly what the majority of Star Wars fans truly deserve.
Kind of sad how people are ready to accept whatever Lucas throws at them in the hopes that he'll bless us with a copy of the holy trilogy that finally meets industry standards.
Count me out.
I hear you, Jay. It's that attitude that I keep trying to correct, reminding people this isn't a gift it's a product for which we're being asked to fork over our hard-earned cash. If Lucas were giving this out free to everybody who bought the 2004 set, then it would be a gift that we would have less room to bitch about. But that is not the case. He's essentially selling us the same crappy movies in 2004 and charging full-price for new "bonus material" in his words. $90 for Bonus Material. The balls on this guy must be bigger than his goiter.
Difference is, yes, I'll buy it -- but not before selling my 2004 set. I'm going to buy it for one main reason: To preserve my license to possess the X0 project. Especially given that both of these discs will have come from the same master, posessing the official Unaltered Trilogy will give Lucasfilm no legal ground to stand on.
Edit: I thought this quote was applicable. I'm not sure if Gandhi actually said it, or if it was just from the movie, but it's a good one:
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!