Originally posted by: zombie84
With regards to Faces and the OOT, I have to side with LFL in the best-intentions motive, in that I truely believe that Lucas intended that they never be sold again, simply because that is what he wanted, and what he tried to do.

See, I think the SE was a trial balloon, and I think Lucas was amazed that the movies did great business in 1997, and that is when he figured that EVERYONE loved them. In some respects I can't blame him for thinking that way, cause look at these grosses domestically:

ANH - 136 million
ESB - 67 million
ROTJ- 45 million

Alot of movies being released for the first time would kill for numbers like that! But what Lucas missed was that most OT fans who grew up with the movies were happy to just see SW again in the theaters, and the SE was cool and something new, but most would take Han Shooting first anyday of the week.

The same goes for the PT movies:

TPM - 431 million
AOTC - 310 million
ROTS - 380 million

Whatever we think of the PT movies, they did great business, so again, Lucas thinks that most SW fans loved the movies, cause if they sucked, the grosses would be significantly lower, just check out how Matrix Revolutions did as that literally bombed in November 2003.

What Lucas missed all the time is that we fans love our SW, good or bad, and are willing to show up to something new and always give it a chance, and that is the power of a GFFA, we can't get enough. But just because it does great numbers, doesn't necessarily mean we will love it, as ESB is the lowest grossing movie of the 6.