Originally posted by: caligulathegod
The covers are cool and quite classy, except for the Criterion worship. Criterion is more for Bergman and Bertolucci flicks (despite the paying a few bills with Armageddon). What makes Criterion special is that they take films that wouldn't otherwise typically see such a release and do lavish editions of them. Star Wars is about as mainstream as it gets and doesn't fit into Criterion's mold. Criterion would be more for THX1138 than Star Wars.
The covers are cool and quite classy, except for the Criterion worship. Criterion is more for Bergman and Bertolucci flicks (despite the paying a few bills with Armageddon). What makes Criterion special is that they take films that wouldn't otherwise typically see such a release and do lavish editions of them. Star Wars is about as mainstream as it gets and doesn't fit into Criterion's mold. Criterion would be more for THX1138 than Star Wars.
I think Criterion has quite some mainstream movies also (Movies like Hard Boiled, The Killer, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Life Of Brian, The Silence Of The Lambs, Robocop, The Rock and Armageddon come to mind) only their transfer is usually better and they have more extras. That's exactly what we could use for Star Wars
