rcb said:with all respects, i don't think george took star wars back and gave me a cheap ten
bucks. really i think its just a matter of opinion. star wars is here because of GL. He has
done good over the years even though he made some screw ups. The PT being his
biggest in the corny acting between anakin and padme. ugh. he still deserves respect.
And on the comment about GL seeing the movie, he'll prolly just sit back and laugh and
accept that this is wat some people think of him.
I don't see the PT as his biggest screw up. All directors make a few dogs every now and then. It is disappointing but far from unforgivable.
You may not feel like George gave you ten buck and took Star Wars back, but that is very much the way some of us feel. My illustration was pretty general, wasn't meant to define the situation perfectly. The fact is, we grew up with these movies and really liked them. And then we were told they don't exist anymore and were basicially told to F off. If we wanted those old pieces of crap, they were waiting for us on dilapidated old VHS tapes.
This may not have bothered you at all, but to many of us it was rather like a kick to the stones. If you went to the theater and saw a movie you really liked and thought "Man, when that comes out on DVD I am buying it!" Then they announce it won't ever be on DVD. It would suck. You'd be disappointed. In our case, we grew up with it, and loyally purchased it again and again on VHS and laser disc. Then this really great new format comes out, this format makes VHS look awful and even makes LD look rather pathetic. Most of us here, since the very moment we learned what DVD was, were imagining how great SW would look on it.
Finally, after being told we couldn't have it on DVD ever, we were told, alright, fine, it is on its way to DVD. Then we get the GOUT... another kick in the stones.
Ever had a bully take a toy away from you, wave it in front of your face tauting you, "You want your toy back? You want your toy back? Huh? Do ya? Then go get it! HAHAHA!" as he tosses it into a garbage dumbster/neighbor's backyard with mean dog/puddle of mud/some place gross and crappy? Well, neither have I, but I imagine it would feel a lot like the GOUT.
I can't say I don't have respect for Lucas. If I were to meet him I'd be very kind and polite. I don't hate him. But I am disappointed in the quality of his current products, and cannot support them. I don't go around saying he raped my childhood, because he didn't. It is not like I am going to die without the OT in a modern format. But his stance on the matter, which let's face it, is just pure stubbornness, would have cost him pretty much the same to put a real version on DVD instead of the 1993 LD masters, is really disappointing. Using the very outdated LD masters feels as if it was done out of spite. We had been pirating the LD transfers and saying, well, as long as they are not on DVD we are justified, and so he piped up and said, 'Well guess what? Now they are officially on DVD'.
You'd probably say he did us a favor, better that than nothing. But open up your eyes! That is what we already had! Even your precious SEs look absolutely horrible. Sure the picture is crisp, but the colors are all wrong, and the sound is all jacked up. Anyone who defends any of the OT DVD releases, SE or GOUT, has a very questionable degree of LFL loyalty. If someone is so loyal as to defend LFL on their DVDs, chances are if LFL employees came to their home and raped their mom/sister/wife and killed their family pet, they have some logical way of explaining their behavior away and defending them.
There are movies I like that have come out on DVD that have had very poorly done releases. Movies by film makers I have great respect for, and the movies have even been the version of the film I prefered to watch! And yet I never once felt the need to defend them, seemingly to the death, for such a poor quality transfer. I cannot understand why fans of the SE find the need to defend the 04 (and subsequent) DVDs so adamantly, when clearly they are a very poor quality product. It is some really odd brand of loyalty that clearly wanders over the line of obsessive. It is almost like some of you enjoy being screwed by this company, merely because its owner made a few movies you like.