And personally, the market for the theatrical versions is a niche market anyway.
Recent sales seem to indicate otherwise.
I couldn't. Until I see a proper OOT DVD release, I'm done with SW and LFL. There are other products more deserving of my money if I can't get what I wanted. The question you are asking is whether or not, 100 years, people would still care about SW if the SEs only existed. I don't think so, but none of us will be aroung long enough to tell.
That said, some of the things they did in the 2004 DVD are not quite as good to me, such as the lack of musical fanfare when Luke goes into the trench on the Death Star
Recent sales seem to indicate otherwise.
Still, his movies, his way, and will always be his way when he's no longer with us, will be Original Trilogy in its Special Edition form, in the future and forever. There's no way of getting around that any longer.
True, but the two are view very separately.
Big enough to make Lucas money at any rate, which is the crux of the issue.
Let me ask you a question. If Lucas never came out with the Limited Editions and remained firm in his decision never to release the theatrical versions, could you live with the Special Editions as the only version of the Original Trilogy on DVD and future formats?
True, but the two are view very separately.
PEOPLE PREFER IT, there just isn't millions of idiots like me who post on a SW board everyday, and that is the difference.
Not everyone, perhaps, but a substantial enough number to make Lucas see a considerable market.
Every friend I know bought this release in Sept, and they also bought the 2004 release too thinking that was the only version that was ever going to be released, but now they prefer to watch inferior quality of the O-OT over superior quality of the SE, so that may tell you about that niche audience may be bigger then you think.
Not everyone, perhaps, but a substantial enough number to make Lucas see a considerable market.
Every friend I know bought this release in Sept, and they also bought the 2004 release too thinking that was the only version that was ever going to be released, but now they prefer to watch inferior quality of the O-OT over superior quality of the SE, so that may tell you about that niche audience may be bigger then you think.
Big enough to make Lucas money at any rate, which is the crux of the issue.
Let me ask you a question. If Lucas never came out with the Limited Editions and remained firm in his decision never to release the theatrical versions, could you live with the Special Editions as the only version of the Original Trilogy on DVD and future formats?
I couldn't. Until I see a proper OOT DVD release, I'm done with SW and LFL. There are other products more deserving of my money if I can't get what I wanted. The question you are asking is whether or not, 100 years, people would still care about SW if the SEs only existed. I don't think so, but none of us will be aroung long enough to tell.
That said, some of the things they did in the 2004 DVD are not quite as good to me, such as the lack of musical fanfare when Luke goes into the trench on the Death Star
Yes, well, that was a foul up that Lucasfilm just don't want to admit to. I seriously doubt that that was a change that he intended.