Originally posted by: Jumpman

CO, you can't tell me The Battle of Yavin doesn't look 20 times better in its Special Edition for than the theatrical version?

This is a key point, cause many years ago I used to be on your side with this example. I used to like some updates that Lucas made with the SE, but the problem is what one person sees as a good change, another might see as a bad change. A friend of mine who hated the Greedo shooting first change back in 1997 told me right after the SE release that year after I sorta defended them, "The problem is when a director starts changing movies, you may like some at first, but eventually there will be one that really pisses you off, and then you will hate that he even tampered with them to begin with."

That is exactly what happened to me, I put up with Greedo shooting first, cause I did like the Yavin battle cleaned, and many other things didn't bother me that bad. Fast forward to 2004 and Lucas inserts Hayden into ROTJ, WHOA!!!!!!!! Wait a second here, I never had a problem with updating effects, but now you are replacing actors? So what happened is I went from a SE defender to a SE hater, cause I got fed up with the changes, and started just hating anything about the SE. I started to then REALLY hate Jedirocks, and then I started to despise Greedo shooting first, and then Lucas takes out Lukes wink to the force ghost too?

That is why I believe that you can't go and tamper with films, because there is always going to be someone out there who has seen the movies a zillion times who may really hate one or more changes. Some people despise JediRocks the most, some Greedo shooting first, some like me who hate Hayden in ROTJ the most, it just gets to the point where you just go back to the OOT and say the experiment failed.