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skyjedi2005
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If Lucas did a proper oot restoration for blu ray and dvd would he be forgiven for the special editions and the prequels?
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1-Jul-2009, 12:04 PM
Sluggo said:

I think this hits a snag when one tried to define 'proper restoration'  Does cleaning up the film consitute it as a special edition?  What about getting rid of the garbage mattes?  I'd wager some of us would include this kind of digital work well within the acceptable range of 'proper'.

 

I mean the Robert Harris definition of a proper restoration which means not just a home video restoration but saving the films for future generations.  And the ability to screen newly struck prints theatrically.

If Lucas hired Harris it would take millions of dollars to restore the originals to their original state, which i understand he does not want to pay for.

Didn't fox pay the 25 million dollars the restoration cost in 1997?

How much of the that was to cover the reshoots and the new cgi and newly mixed soundtracks one can only guess.

I am not against removing the garbage mattes.  They were never meant to be there or seen, and were left in the movie due to the limits of technology.  I was not against removing those little gaffes in raiders for the dvd like the snake reflection off of plexiglass in the well of the souls.