S_Matt said:
I think I can see what would happen if a "restored" version of Star Wars supposedly identical to the final release version were to come out on blu ray - most of you would still boycott it because of something or other it got wrong in any of its 120 odd minutes of run time. There *has* to come a point where close enough is good enough. Its just never going to happen that anyone would ever restore a 35 year old film in a way that would please every die hard restorationalist in all instances.
You're very persistent.
We've all told you how we feel and what we want. Starting to feel like you just want to pound things into the ground or get us all to agree with you.
What we want out of a restored version isn't unreasonable. What we want is a restored version. That doesn't exist.
I am sure if Orsen Welles could have filmed Citizen Kane in color back in 1941, he would have. That is fantastic! But I don't really care what Orsen Welles might have wanted had the technology existed. I want the film that actually was made. Why is that concept so hard for you to wrap your head around?
Star Wars isn't by any means or stretch of the imagination my favorite movie, so it isn't that I am being overly anal or picky with just this one film. Plenty of other old films were restored and released on DVD and looked great. No modern special effects, no computerized recomp, just cleaned up, restored, and transferred to DVD, a representation of a film from the age it was made in stored on a high quality modern media format. Pretty simple. It isn't rocket surgery. If this was done with the original Star Wars films, I'd be happy. You don't believe me? Okay.