Originally posted by: Jumpman<br

So again, if he really wants to mend fences with certain circles, then he should release them remastered. But, I think Lucas should continue to push for what he feels Star Wars really is (since this is his creation from pretty much top to bottom)....because again, it's not like changed them in the manner of say Kingdom of Heaven or Alexander. He changed some things that would've been that way had he had what he needed back when he was originally making these films....

But Jumpman, you keep blaming fans like me for bitching when the whole DVD sinces its inception has been botched. When you have a creator say 'this' version doesn't exist, you have to understand that people will take offense to that statement, cause I watched and loved those versions for 20 years, and now your telling me they are crap?

I have always been of the group of fans that there are room for the SE & OOT in EVERY release, just like The Abyss, just like LOTR, just like Superman, just like Terminator 2, that is the way it is when you change a movie after its been released for many years, you are going to have people that like one version over the other.

But for Lucas to say the OOT doesn't exist in 2003, then put it out in 2006 in laserdisk quality and not expect fans to get pissed, I don't know what else to say. He deliberately put them out to look worse then the SE, so people would not make that choice. Trust me, I have compared them, the SE looks spectacular on an HDTV, and the OOT looks all grainy and dull, and that is what Lucas was trying to accomplish, make the fan go back to the SE cause the OOT is so crappy, yet still take their money.

As for SW and DVD releases, most friends I know don't give a shit anymore, and don't go on the internet like you and I, so whatever is said on either side is not a true gauge of the 'majority' But I did notice this is the first time in my life of being a SW fan that many of my friends are just fed up with the whole thing and think it is a joke. I know many friends who won't buy the rumored Saga boxset just out of principle, cause they are tired of rebuying the damn movies every year, and feel they are getting their chains yanked.

I just remember back in the early 90's when the OT was being released and released on VHS & Laserdisk, my friends and I would run out the day it came out, even though nothing was changed back then. But what Lucas has created has been a mistrust amongst the fanbase because he is all over the place. Many Saga fans feel betrayed he went back on his word for releasing the OOT last year, and many of us here just want the versions we loved from 77-96 in great quality. So what Lucas has done has just made most people put their hands up and shake their heads towards this whole matter.