Originally posted by: CO
Gomer, there are two things I think you are missing the point on SW message boards:
1. Thinking George Lucas reads this shit. If you are here to defend ol Georgie cause you think it will hurt our cause, I think you are wasting your time. George Lucas doesn't read message boards, nor do 90% of SW fans either. I am the only one of my SW friends who post on message boards, and they think I am a little wacky for talking about movies that essentially done with via May 2005. They have moved on and just love what they love of the SW universe, and sure we still talk and analyze, but that is all it is. What we say here has no barring on whether the O-OT will be anamorphic next time, cause I find it very hard that George Lucas clicks on TFN & OT.com every night and thinks, "What are they saying about me now?"
Most artists or athletes or even actors, don't read this stuff for a reason, they don't want to know. I live in an area with a very popular sports talk radio and all day it is constant bitching and whining by callers on whether my sports team suck or not. And numerous athletes have said in interviews that they don't listen cause they just don't want to hear it. The reason the O-OT got put on DVD was partly cause of this site, but not the message board part, but just the petition and letters and emails the fans wrote in during the years, and Lucas finally gave in. Superman II (Donnor Cut) is coming out on DVD in 2 weeks because of the same campaign by fans who always wanted it, but not because the Superman Message Boards said, "Fuck Richard Lester, we want the Donnor cut!!!!"
2. Changing Peoples Opinion- I hate to break it to ya Gomer, you aint changin anyones opinion. People have their views of the 6 movies, and I have rarely seen someone do a 180 after an explanation and say, "You're right, TPM is great!"
The PT are movies just like anyone else, and it comes down to whether you like them or not, and no new defending of Lucas or rationalizing the turn is going to convince anyone now, the movies are over with, everyone has watched them once or a couple of times, or even 10 times, and made their judgement. The reason this won't change over the years like other movies like Shawshank Redemption, which tanked and is now a classic, is because people saw these movies opening night, they saw them on DVD, they waited for these movies for years, so it is not like someone here just discovered the PT movies and still has to watch them. I didn't see Shawshank til 1999, and what a movie I missed for 5 years, but I saw the PT movies opening weekend, big difference.
I don't know what to tell you Gomer, but for me I just come here to talk to fans of my ilk, and that is what I like, and as I said earlier, if it is boring, then goto ORS, that is a site with good fireworks. Sometimes people just want to talk with fans who love the O-OT and thats it, and in the same vein bitch about the PT and how good it could have been, without anyone telling me it was great, and how great the SE are. Message to you Gomer, if I loved the PT and SE, I wouldn't be fighting for the fricking O-OT so damn hard, so can you understand what I love and what I dont'?
Gomer, there are two things I think you are missing the point on SW message boards:
1. Thinking George Lucas reads this shit. If you are here to defend ol Georgie cause you think it will hurt our cause, I think you are wasting your time. George Lucas doesn't read message boards, nor do 90% of SW fans either. I am the only one of my SW friends who post on message boards, and they think I am a little wacky for talking about movies that essentially done with via May 2005. They have moved on and just love what they love of the SW universe, and sure we still talk and analyze, but that is all it is. What we say here has no barring on whether the O-OT will be anamorphic next time, cause I find it very hard that George Lucas clicks on TFN & OT.com every night and thinks, "What are they saying about me now?"
Most artists or athletes or even actors, don't read this stuff for a reason, they don't want to know. I live in an area with a very popular sports talk radio and all day it is constant bitching and whining by callers on whether my sports team suck or not. And numerous athletes have said in interviews that they don't listen cause they just don't want to hear it. The reason the O-OT got put on DVD was partly cause of this site, but not the message board part, but just the petition and letters and emails the fans wrote in during the years, and Lucas finally gave in. Superman II (Donnor Cut) is coming out on DVD in 2 weeks because of the same campaign by fans who always wanted it, but not because the Superman Message Boards said, "Fuck Richard Lester, we want the Donnor cut!!!!"
2. Changing Peoples Opinion- I hate to break it to ya Gomer, you aint changin anyones opinion. People have their views of the 6 movies, and I have rarely seen someone do a 180 after an explanation and say, "You're right, TPM is great!"
The PT are movies just like anyone else, and it comes down to whether you like them or not, and no new defending of Lucas or rationalizing the turn is going to convince anyone now, the movies are over with, everyone has watched them once or a couple of times, or even 10 times, and made their judgement. The reason this won't change over the years like other movies like Shawshank Redemption, which tanked and is now a classic, is because people saw these movies opening night, they saw them on DVD, they waited for these movies for years, so it is not like someone here just discovered the PT movies and still has to watch them. I didn't see Shawshank til 1999, and what a movie I missed for 5 years, but I saw the PT movies opening weekend, big difference.
I don't know what to tell you Gomer, but for me I just come here to talk to fans of my ilk, and that is what I like, and as I said earlier, if it is boring, then goto ORS, that is a site with good fireworks. Sometimes people just want to talk with fans who love the O-OT and thats it, and in the same vein bitch about the PT and how good it could have been, without anyone telling me it was great, and how great the SE are. Message to you Gomer, if I loved the PT and SE, I wouldn't be fighting for the fricking O-OT so damn hard, so can you understand what I love and what I dont'?
Wonderfully said CO. You're a very logical thinker, I must say.
But all that typing won't get through to Gomer. It goes in one ear and out the other. Or bounces off at the retina. He'll never listen to any of this, sadly.