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Post #333253

Author
Mielr
Parent topic
Star Wars The Completely Last Edition ever
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Date created
14-Oct-2008, 2:28 AM

I don't give a crap about how many awards SW won. I don't need a film to win awards for me to like it. Of all the stuff in Puggo's post that I quoted, why did you decide to pick on that one line? 

I also quoted:

 

Puggo wrote:

...It also represented the state of the art for special effects at that time.  As such, every cultural, historical, and artistic sensibility that I know of demands that it be preserved in its original form.  Students of the history of cinema should be able to study it, for example.  IF a real preservation was done, as it should be, nobody here would mind if GL or anyone else wanted to make updates and release those too.  However, since GL is actively stopping it from being preserved, it is natural for film lovers to be angry.

With that in mind, as I've said many times before, it isn't that we "hate" the SE.  If anything, some of us sort-of "resent" it, because it has "replaced" the original iconic film.  The improvements would be way coolif the original were also preserved.  This has nothing to do with what scenes I prefer, and everything to do with preserving historically significant film art.  Until the original is preserved, like virtually every other major motion picture is, the SE will serve as an annoying reminder of what still hasn't been done, may never be done, and the gap that exists in the cinematographic historical record.