Jacobss said:
Just read some of the commentaries on blu-ray-com - Apart from famous Kenkraly and his repetitive comments, seriously I can't stand anymore people, who believes Lucas lies that all original prints of SW are lost forever. Let's take a look on some of those comments:
It never ceases to amaze me at the shear ignorance of the "unaltered theatrical" anal retentive fanboys on this issue.
Don't you people get how the restored '97 SEs were made to begin with? And actually much more importantly, WHY? Because by '95 or '96 (whatever year they started work on them) the original prints were in such bad shape thaty they had to restore them then, or lose them forever. But because they were altered with new CG stuff and whatnot, the frames that included these new effects were only restored in this state...not in the original way. So the unaltered frames, even if they still existed, are in 15 years worse shape now than they were back then. And remember, we're talking '70s film stock, which wasn't the best film stock to ever grace the film world. And I'm mainly talking about ANH here.
Why do you think the "bonus feature" of the unaltered versions on the 2nd DVD release was just a port of the LD version? And no, I doubt there are some better prints of the unaltered film out there in some warehouse somewhere. Because if there was, don't you think they would have been used during the restoration in the first place?
I mean, com'on folks, use your noggin for something other than a hat rack!
Guys, I don't know. Does it even make sense to explain people that they are utterly wrong?
Do they not know that Lucas is a multi billionaire and can do anything he wants? If he wanted to release the original unaltered trilogy in pristine condition... he could.
Too bad he's a jerk.