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Originally posted by: Lord Peeler
I'll use whatever icon I like, thank you very much.
"I'll never buy the Ses on VHS, DVD, etc". Whatever. You already own them on VHS, because you bought them back in '97 when they came out.
But the point I need to make is, how the hell can anyone act surpised that Lucas isn't going to put the rough-cut out on DVD? He said nine years ago, NINE YEARS AGO thar the "95 release was the LAST TIME the original versions would ever be released on video. So if you where actually paying any attention you'd known that he wans't going to release the rough-cut of the movies on DVD, or VHS, or lazer disc for the last NINE FREAKIN' YEARS.
How the hell is it Lucas' fault you guys didn't pay attention when he said NINE YEARS ago that he would never release the movies in their original version ever again? I bet you giys yell at the teacher when he gives you an "F" for not paying attention in class.
This wasn't a surprise to anyone who actually looked at the back of the box of the 1995 "One Last Time" edition of the trilogy. So other than SEs haters, the very fanboys that are a pox on all Star Wars fans, the very idiots that make the rest of us look like anal-retentive losers, why would any sane, rational, observant person be surprised?
Or did I just answere my own question?
I wasn't surprised, but I must admit, when I saw the interview on the 95 OT release, I didn't understand what the hell Lucas was talking about. How could some one make such a bold statement about the future when he had no idea what the future would bring? Who could've predicted that in 1995 dvds would be invented a few years later? That's enough reason to re-release the OT, just for the sake of it being on dvd. Its so arrogant for one man like Lucas to express so much control over something that had so much influence on the childhoods of millions of kids all over the world, and then finally deprive them of that childhood experience by sending it into permanent retirement. That's like Disney saying "we're not going to release Snow White anymore because we've come to the conclusion that its outdated and boring; from now on its going to gather dust in our vault
