This is a continued discussion from the X0 thread, and as it’s off-topic and I don’t want to derail the thread I’ve produced this new one.
It’s killing you, isn’t it Boris…
It’s starting to become all too clear now…
The X0 version is going to show up the offical OOT. I can hardly wait.</div>
Personally, I will buy the DVD’s in September, and have no problem with it. Every little thing that is complained about the release on these forums is 1. speculation and 2. blown way out of proportion. I don’t understand not wanting to buy the official product on DVD, and then expecting to download a pirated DVD copy made from Laserdsic - honestly, I don’t. I can understand if you own the LaserDiscs and in September you say “these are still better quality” - and you then go and make a back-up copy of your own - I can understand that. It seems to be killing you vbangle, that I will buy these and have no problem with it… Lucas has given us exactly what we want.
He could have ruined it with a new transfer. Remember what they did with the Indiana Jones trilogy? I refuse to buy the DVD’s, and I have absolutely no plans to obtain a pirated version of it either. It’s not that the films have been bastardized to the point of the SW trilogy, it’s the fact that I can’t buy an authentic version. I don’t care if there’s a few small changes between the home video release and the theatrical version, it’s to be expected - but it’s when they make the kind of changes that censor the original work that I do. As consumers we have a choice, and my choice is not to buy it. There are so many things he could have done wrong with a new SW transfer. And so all there is to complain about is:
And I mean why all the PT bashing? The PT is not the OT, so therefore why does it matter to originaltrilogy.com if the PT was fantastic or not? I’m a Spielberg fan, but you don’t see me complaining about every movie he made that I didn’t like as if it somehow ruins the movies I did like. You don’t see me complaining about some of the shit that Craven has directed when I talk about the great movies that he made. In fact, you don’t really see anyone do this - so honestly as far as I can see the members here are so unforgiving and critical of a great filmmaker - for many the filmmaker who made their favourite saga. In addition to this they’re rude, arrogant, insulting and all too negative. Here’s a thought, if ot.com held an official convention and invited Lucas to come, and lets say tfn.net held a convention in honour of the prequels the same day, with the same number of people - and you are Lucas, and you’ve been invited to both - which one would you rather go to? Would you rather go to all the hate-mongering ot.com members who keep defaming your name, and calling you a liar, a cheat, a scumbag - have no respect for you and seem to hate everything that you’ve done? Or do you go to TFN’s convention where there are people who will smile, who appreciate your work - who don’t defame you, who’ve sent nice letters to you and have made you feel really good about yourself?
I do appreciate what the X0 team is doing, I really do. I’m certainly not a “fan of the project” - but I do believe in preservation, and I do appreciate their dedication for what they love and I appreciate their goal to preserve the Laserdisc is the highest possible quality. Hell, I’m not a fan of this site either. You may wonder then why I keep coming back - well I wonder too.
But as far as I can see, so many members that frequent this forum just do not seem to be the kind of people who are going to motivate Lucas to do what they want - they just seem to be the kind of people who want everything their way, and vent anger and hate towards Lucas at every opportunity. My favourite thread is the SW covers thread, because at least there people are positive, they don’t say bad and negative things all the time, they share their own original work - and they represent real love for Star Wars.
Perhaps the thing that worries me most is how everyone seems to have already judged the September release based on nothing more then speculation and bias. I am going to prove that this is wrong in September, when I will show everyone official DVD’s that I own, that I had no problem buying and look worse then the September SW trilogy OUT discs.