msycamore said:
I can completely understand why skyjedi2005 can be upset about this little American Graffiti alteration, it doesn't matter how small the change is. It's basically why has it been done in the first place, simply because Lucas can do it. You never heard people complain about those old dirty opticals and natural sky that supposedly ruined the film before '98 did you? The '98 release, is the third version of American Graffiti and the same goes for the '04 THX 1138, will we have a fourth version of these films soon? Probably, it's beginning to become a sick joke really.
Zombie, I think the reason why you never heard so many people complain about the redone opening crawl in Star Wars, is that it was done in '81 vs '98 for American Graffiti, no internet available and when it became available most people on forums was either to young to know about the change or the old-timers had simply learned to accept it for all these years, I never accepted it though ;) so, I was very pleased and very surprised when they actually spliced it in for the GOUT release. Never thought that would happen.
Btw, thanks for making converted screen photos available!
If that new cgi shot in the HD broadcast of Raiders is on the next dvd or blu ray release, i will be perfectly justified in refusing to buy it since it is not the theatrical release. Changing a shot and then not saying anything about doing so, and keeping the same copyright date is almost criminal in my opinion.
I know someone who bought the star wars trilogy 2004 set and returned it to best buy as false advertising, since the box had the 1977, 1980 and 1983 copyright dates on the film and nowhere on the box is it listed special edition 2004.
When a film is shot on techniscope it is supposed to be very grainy using dvnr and changing the color timing is not reproducing the original theatrical experience. The worst to me is what was done to graffiti and THX, i can live with the small changes in the indy trilogy boxset, but even those had too much grain removed and the color timing was different from previous releases but close enough that i call it a day on whether or not to boycott that release completely.
To me removing matte lines and the snake reflection is ok since it does not change the intent of the original work. I know that Bob Z, does not agree though since the back to the future blu ray will still have the wires not painted out via computers.