Originally posted by: zombie84
You will never get it "timeless," in the true sense of the word. Star Wars is a monumental piece of cinema that has a very important place in history as a film released in the late 70's--just deal with it. Nothing has stopped people from enjoying Gone With the Wind or Wizard of Oz just because the films are not "modern" or whatever.

Zombie this is why I believe Lucas will keep updating the OT films and eventually the PT too, he doesn't want a new generation to look at them and not watch them because of their age. Now I totally disagree cause great movies always stand the test of time, but I do have friends wont watch black and white movies soley because we all grew up in color movies.

Just take King Kong 1933 for example, how many kids today are going to watch that over King Kong 2005? I think King Kong 1933 is a better movie then Peter Jacksons movie, and when I do watch it I am amazed at the technology they were able to translate on screen for that time, but I suspect most moviegoers are not going to rent some black & white King Kong when they can watch CG King Kong in color.

Now I am not defending these types of moviegoers, but I think that Lucas is scared 20 years from that if he didn't update the OT movies, people would look at them they way they look at King Kong 1933, only cause they grew up in an age of CG the way all of us grew up in color movies.

So I think Lucas will redo Jabba in ANH again sometime in the future, and Yoda in TPM, and something else that he deemed 'old' looking. The reason I feel this way is that Lucas didn't stop after 1997, and if he never touched the OT films after the SE 1.0, then I would concede that he wanted to do somethings he couldn't do in the 70's. But once they redid Jabba in the SE 2.0, I knew they keep saying, "This one looks better then the '97 Jabba, just wait 10 years and he will look just like the ROTJ Puppet!"

And this is why I always never understood why Lucas supressed the OOT, he could have accomodated both fans and still succeeded in what he was trying to accomplish, never make a new generation feel the effects are so dated they lose sight of the quality of the movie. Most new fans would watch the SE, cause they wouldn't know about Han shooting first or Sebastian Shaw, so they would have no frame of reference towards that matter, they would just see the new Yavin battle that is spruced up and enjoy it for that. In the same vein, we the generation that grew up with the OOT could enjoy the movies for their effects cause we have a frame of reference of how cool these effects were at their time.

I really think the SE are purely marketing in a sense that every new version has something new so it gives the fan something to look forward to, and partially Lucas doesn't want SW to be deemed inferior to todays movies. What Lucas miscalculated is that many movies that are regarded with cool effects that blew everyone away like Independence Day and Twister, no one gives a shit about anymore cause they are only good to show off your surround sound system, and are a pure guilty pleasure movie with zero story, zero substance, and zero character development, and SW was successful because it had all of those qualities along with great effects.