Chewy72 said:
negative1 said:

but the SE versions put Star Wars back on the Map amongst consumers for

good, and the interest has never waned once since that point in time..

later

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Trust me, Lucas could have put out the OOT in 1997 and just said, "The Star Wars Trilogy" is on the big screen one more time, and I guarantee it would have done the same business.

Now lets see how the movies did in theaters in 1997:

Star Wars: 136 million

ESB: 57 million

ROTJ: 45 million

Supposedly ESB is the most beloved by all the diehard SW fans, as that is constantly talked about as the best of the 3 movies. Why did Star Wars take in more then ESB/ROTJ combined? Because that is the most appealing of the 3 to a general audience, and that is the movie that started it all. It had nothing to do with spruced up effects, or new added scenes, it simply was the #1 movie until ET, being put on the big screen again, and everyone wanted to see it.

i doubt you could 'guarantee' that re-releasing the movies, they would have the same or more

than the SE versions.... LETS look at HISTORICAL FACT, and not speculate:

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=starwars.htm

here are the amounts (gross) theaters amount opening dates

for the original releases...

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11     Star Wars (Re-issue)
(Re-release)     Fox     $15,476,285     1,070     $3,766,803     1,070     8/13/82

12     The Empire Strikes Back (Re-issue)
(Re-release)     Fox     $13,276,241     1,006     $3,949,478     992     11/19/82

13     Return of the Jedi (Re-issue)
(Re-release)     Fox     $11,252,123     894     $3,209,056     849     3/29/85

Star Wars was still HUGE at that point in time, and you're telling me that

they would have made more than the SE versions more than a decade later???????????

re-releasing the originals would have been a drop in the bucket, thats why

Lucas was smart in releasing the SE versions to CREATE interest in seeing them again..

once again, nobody seems to acknowlege what a Great idea it was,

or that it was a great test and showcase for the leap in technology that

was to come with the prequels..

look, i know people are all ticked off that they can't get the originals restored in normal

above average quality (duh!)..... but isn't the point of this board to move way beyond

just complaining about it constantly, and actually do something like what adywan has

done?

give the myriads of options (fixing it yourself, fanedits, restorations, g-force GOUT script etc)....

it would be a lot more constructive to act on it, instead of endless complaining, and hoping

that somehow miraculously lucas/lucasfilm/fox will get it into their thick skulls that it needs

to be 'fixed' and re-issued yet again....

yes, lucas made a bad artistic idea to some,

yes lucas ticked off a lot of hardcore fans, i know...

but monetarily, and fanbase-wise, he did the right thing

in creating the SE/the prequels/and the clone wars...

no amount of griping/moaning/complaining will ever change that or history

(barring time travel back, and convincing him NOT to do it)..

later

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