AxiaEuxine said:They are Lucas' movies. Love em or leave em. Ive been force to listen to people complain about HIS property since 1997 and I'm sick to death of it. If you want the originals so bad watch them on an old VHS without stereo. (First day of release only had mono mixes) The quality of the playback on those old VCRs and the contiuing degrading quality of your VHS tapes should be pretty close to the quality you experienced in a theater in 77.
You are comparing VHS (degraded VHS no less) to a fresh 35mm film print in 1977?? Yes, I read your later post where you figured that chalking up such an absurd statement to "hyperbole" made for a pretty good save; but that is like saying that black is pretty close to white and then claiming it was just "hyperbole" when called on it.
VHS roughly translates to 320x240 while a quality 35mm film print easily exceeds 1080p (with the original negatives far exceeding 1080p, to the point that you can get a proper 4K or higher scan from them).
They arent' your movies, they are Lucas'. Don't like it? Stop complaining about and move on to something you do like. I love the SE and Im sick to death of all the jaded haters.
You dont have to watch, you don't have to buy it. I've never understood the Special Edition hatred, they added far more to the movies then they took away.
You've obviously missed the point. Your statements here would make sense if Lucas had not tried to replace and suppress the originals. In this respect, you obviously do not understand nor take part in typical human nature. People naturally prefer originals to knockoffs and hacks, and people naturally see value in preserving significant aspects of history. People also naturally tend to get attached to things they like and don't appreciate changes.
Do you remember the "New Coke" fiasco from the mid '80s? Do you have a favorite song? Have you ever heard the results of when, years later, they get the same artist back into the studio to rerecord the song? It doesn't sound right, and those versions end up in the discount bargain bin while the real songs continue to sell and get airplay. Why do you suppose that is?
How do you think people would like it if AC/DC rerecorded their "Back in Black" album and then had the original album pulled from the shelves and the airwaves? And, they did it during the cassette era so that the original album never saw a CD release, and we were stuck with their own knockoff if we wanted decent sound quality?
I could give endless examples here but I have an idea that you (like George Lucas) simply don't "get it".