Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I'm just saying what Lucas did wasn't a crime. He was well within his rights to do what he did.
Yes, he had legally the right to destroy the original movies.
It's not like we all don't already have a billion copies of the O-OT already. Now we can even get it on DVD.
But these are not the original movies! A low resolution video copy is hardly a substitute for the original negative masters!!!! If these are destroyed, the movie is basically destroyed. It´s gone!
I don't know about you, but I will be able to watch the O-OT until the day I die. And if I want to, I can leave them for someone else after I've gone.
Argh, such ignorance....
To me, no harm no foul.
Yeah, only that the original negative is lost forever. That you will NEVER be able to restore them in original quality on modern formats. Only these low resolution DVD´s are left from these visual masterpieces. Yeah, definately no harm, no foul..........
The negatives may not exist as they originally were, but they do still exist as the basis for the SE version.
I'm just saying what Lucas did wasn't a crime. He was well within his rights to do what he did.
Yes, he had legally the right to destroy the original movies.
It's not like we all don't already have a billion copies of the O-OT already. Now we can even get it on DVD.
But these are not the original movies! A low resolution video copy is hardly a substitute for the original negative masters!!!! If these are destroyed, the movie is basically destroyed. It´s gone!
I don't know about you, but I will be able to watch the O-OT until the day I die. And if I want to, I can leave them for someone else after I've gone.
Argh, such ignorance....
To me, no harm no foul.
Yeah, only that the original negative is lost forever. That you will NEVER be able to restore them in original quality on modern formats. Only these low resolution DVD´s are left from these visual masterpieces. Yeah, definately no harm, no foul..........
The negatives may not exist as they originally were, but they do still exist as the basis for the SE version.
Yeah, with SE scenes cut in where the original scenes were originally. There is no basis for the original version anymore.
Look at the comparison pages HOW much was chaged. The special effects, even if there is still model work, was recomposited using the computer. Nothing left anymore of the original work. This is desastrous. It´s like tearing parts out of a book and rewrite them to rewrite history.