generalfrevious said:
If the GOUT was anamorphic, then it would sell out overnight; but the caveat for Lucasfilm is that if the OOT sold like hotcakes, then the "official" vesrion of the saga would suffer and go against their plans to eradicate the OOT from the collective consciousness of the general public. It is their gaol that 50 years from now, no one will remember the OOT and everyone will unconditionally accept the SE and PT.
If the GOUT was anamorphic, then it would sell out overnight; but the caveat for Lucasfilm is that if the OOT sold like hotcakes, then the "official" vesrion of the saga would suffer and go against their plans to eradicate the OOT from the collective consciousness of the general public. It is their gaol that 50 years from now, no one will remember the OOT and everyone will unconditionally accept the SE and PT.
Oh, please. I can understand the goal of the purists, but this is nothing short of delusional. The SE has all the fancy newfangled CGI that kids love, nowadays. They'd sell no matter what the OOT looked like. Let's face it, most people don't give a damn who shot first. To the vast majority of buyers, it's the same movie. And really it is, whether we want to believe it or not. A few bells and whistles does not a new machine make. The purists' share of the market is almost negligible. There is no conspiracy to make people forget the original movies. That's ridiculous. If it was, they wouldn't ADVERTISE THE CHANGES when it hit theaters in '97.
Companies have been known to put out garbage DVDs, but I just found the fact that they didn't trim 12.5% off the top and bottom of the picture an act of unusual laziness, and wondered if they've even acknowledged questions about this.