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.

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.

They're not just HIS movies. Legally yes, but morally they belong to all of us. As classics they belong to the human race. He had no right to mutilate classics. I can't stand the stupid Lucas-yes-man "they're his movies" argument.

You may be sick of "haters" but I'm sick of fans lapping up every harm Lucas does to Star Wars like some dog that likes to be kicked. And I'm tired of Lucas-worshippers saying we shouldn't air our grievances.

Lucas and co most certainly did not add more to the movies than they took away. They added stuff that didn't belong and should never have been put in. Would you think it was good if somebody spliced Mickey Mouse into Schindler's List and made that the only available version of the film?

We have a right to see these classics of ours on up to date formats. We have a right to have them available in future decades on whatever format is current then. And we have a right to "complain". When somebody destroys something worthwhile people not only have a right to "complain", they have a duty to.