Originally posted by:ESHBG

Lucas is a businessman....he can't ignore those numbers....original vision or not.
Like I said to CO, he KNOWS there is and has always been a demand for the OUT and he hardly needs this release to prove that. If Lucas truly believed or was unsure about people wanting the OUT, you still wouldn't have the OUT on DVD IMO.

Yes, Lucas is a businessman, but you would be suprised how many OT fans have accepted the SE, and what I mean by that is, they have just 'put up' with all the SE crap because they wanted it on DVD so bad in 2004. Everyone of my friends bought the 2004 SE , and all of them prefer the O-OT, but they were starving for the OT on DVD, so as one of my friends said, "I will have to live with Greedo shooting first."

That to me is where SW has changed in the last 10 years, and that is why Lucas is miscalculating the numbers from the PT & 2004 DVD release. Putting aside what version we love, the PT & SE were a huge success financially to Lucas, why wouldn't he think that people love em? Rocky V sucked, nobody showed. The Matrix Revolutions tanked at the box office, same story.

The difference with SW is all 6 movies were successes in making money, and in Lucas's narrow little mind, he thinks the majority love them, because if it was as bad as Star Trek Nemesis, then fans wouldn't turn out. The difference is fans like me are starting to smarten up, and realize that SW has become mediocre. I was just as naive all through the PT movies thinking they would be great, but now I look back and realize they are one big missed opportunity, but I still went to every movie, and bought every DVD.

But heres the difference with SW in 2006 and the early 1990's, I don't love the SE & PT enough to ever buy them again, wheras the OT I would buy over and over again. Lucas could have put out the OT on VHS in 92, 93, 94, and 1995 with different cover art and I probably would have bought them!!!!!!!

So my point is we have to hit Lucas over the head now with this release and show him that there is not only a demand from some purists, but the MAJORITY of SW fans love these versions. As I said, everyone I know bought the 2004 DVD's, but prefer the O-OT, so that tells me that they are not keen on buying an OT Mega Boxset with more changes in 2007, but they will buy some non-anamorphic OT DVD's just to see Sebastian Shaw.

I really believe that Lucas doesn't know there is a huge demand for the O-OT, remember he is in that box on Lucasranch and I think he is out of touch with what is cool in the movies today. Just look at the PT movies, they aren't cool, and then watch the O-OT movies, whether we are SW geeks or not, those movies are fucking cool to watch, there are no Anakin/Padme on Naboo awful love scenes or Jar Jar Binks in the O-OT, Lucas knew what was cool from 77-83, and that is where he atleast needs to see that fans really haven't liked anything he has done since 1997. I may accept the SE & the PT movies, but I sure as hell don't love them, I more or less put up with them because they're SW, and that is the diffence with the O-OT, I love those movies, and that goes a long way in me rebuying something I already have. Just like I did last Tuesday.