Originally posted by: COI am watching the list of movies that are coming out in the first two years of HDDVD, and it is almost exactly the list of DVD titles in 1997/98/99.
Yea I noticed that also, Dune and The Thing being the most obvious. This brings up something else I was going to say, and that is Star Wars didn't hit dvd in any form until 2004. The same kind of thing happened back in the vhs/beta days, but that was because home video hadn't nudged theatrical exhibition aside as much. Jedi, for example, was re-released in '85 before it first hit home video in '86. LFL only reissued the SE vhs once and that was 2000, but then again it was getting plenty of revenue from the first two prequels between then and '04. So, as has been said, with no more Star Wars movies on the way LFL will need something special to sell us next time around.
In regards to the AFI thing I think the 121 minute running time may just be them trying to be consistent in their lies, although we've already pointed out the incorrect title of "Episode IV: A New Hope" from 1981 and not 1977, so who knows.