Harmy wrote:

Wow, that forum certainly is an interesting read

That's no forum, that's Usenet!

Where else could you find someone from Pixar (and soon to be ILM) publicly blowing off a statement made by the guy who invented THX. Of course what is a sound engineer doing making comments about the visual medium...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson_Holman

Tomlinson Holman is an American film theorist, audio engineer, and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm THX sound system. He developed the world's first 10.2 sound system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Hickel

Hal T. Hickel is a visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic.

At the age of 12, Hickel wrote a letter to Lucasfilm outlining his ideas for a sequel to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and received a polite rejection letter from producer Gary Kurtz. The letter now hangs on the wall of Hickel's office at ILM. Twenty years later, Hickel found himself working on Star Wars after all, as a lead animator on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.