skyjedi2005 said:
But he the fact he failed to recapture the magic of the original series will always leave fans the impression they have a right to condemn Lucas as a person and human being.
He did a lot more than fail to recapture the magic of the original series. He totally fucked Star wars over every which way (Hayden Anakin, jackrabbit Yoda, cartoon Jabba talks to Han, Jango voice in ESB, Hayden in ROTJ, jedis as wankers, films without feeling or heart -the list goes on and on). And then he basically told us that mutilated versions of our beloved films were the only real versions and stuff to the effect that he wants the originals to vanish. We have good reason to be pissed off.
So the films sucked. So we still have the original movies if albeit in 1993 laserdisc quality.
Not for long. Dvds and laserdisc cease to function after many years. Video fades. If we don't have it on future formats eventually that will mean we won't have it at all. We'll have to watch the SE or not watch Star Wars, which for me and many others means not watch Star wars.
So the films sucked. So we still have the original movies if albeit in 1993 laserdisc quality. And that is the real issue fans hate the special editions and the prequels to no end.
Not true. Many people hated the prequels before people found out the OOT wasn't going to be released on decent dvd. The prequels ruined Star wars. That's reason enough to hate them. The special edition spat in the face of three of our favorite films. Reason enough to hate it.
When the 2004 dvds came out, I didn't buy them, because I didn't want special edition dvds because I didn't like the special edition. It had nothing to do with the OOT being released on bad quality dvds, which hadn't happened yet. I was fairly tolerant of the specal edition at first (for the life of me I can't figure out why), but I ran out of patience with it at the same as I ran out of patience with Lucas and all his bull, which is after I saw AOTC and realized that star wars was fucked and was headed down the path toward further fuckdom. That was 2002, before the whole OOT-on-dvd issue started up.
The shit quality of the gout does not allow me to recommend those dvd's to anyone
I have no problem recommending them to people. After all, we all survived on vhs for years and that has worse quality. Those dvds have great films, so I'd be happier recommending them to people than quality dvds with crap films.
I refuse to spend money on what a young kid would see as unwatchable quality after watching the restored 2004 set.
Kids watch all sorts of youtube videos with shite quality. If a kid really thinks the GOUT is unwatchable quality then that's one dumb tech-snob kid. Make them watch VHS.
In a consumer based society you would think the originals being non restored and non anamorphic would prevent them from selling well.
In a consumer based society, the OOT on bad quality is still superior to the SE on high quality. A lot of people know that, which is why the GOUT sold well. And thank god it did -that's our only hope for getting the OOT on future formats.