ROFLRICK said:
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
ROFLRICK said:
I'll wager that wrongfully and intentionally attempting to sway the general public's idea of something is not a good principle. And furthermore, the thing that most of us want is accessible right here on this website. I've been enjoying the OUT for some time now, in versions that indicate they were created with a lot of love and care. The obsession with getting a single man to do what more creative men are doing already (and better) is silly.
You're kidding, right? "Wrongfully" suggesting that the owner of a classic film properly preserve it?
And regardless of our efforts, a proper preservation/restoration from original elements would do considerably better justice to the film than anything we can do or have done. Harmy's wonderful efforts notwithstanding, I'm sure he'd agree.
I'm not kidding. Let's move away from Star Wars momentarily. Let's say I like a specific author. He has a new book coming out and I know that content-wise it isn't what I expect, nor is it what I want. It's not even what the author should have produced. I know it, you know it.
It's still not right to preemptively publish a 1-Star review for something you have not seen, nor do you own yet, to further an agenda. Because it's not what you want. It's just not constructive.
Boy, is that comparing apples to chairs. We're not talking about an author releasing a new book that has questionable content. This isn't a book we haven't read before. People who wrote these reviews (and I admit I never wrote one) did so after having seen what was changed. Some of them, through some reason or another, did manage to get their hands on them early. So it's not just assuming something's wrong. It's having first hand information to form the opinion that it's wrong. Again, is it because the opinion that's formed is different from yours that it's wrong? Have you gone after the people who have for years been posting 5-star reviews of Star Wars releases before they've come out? Or is their "agenda" somehow not as wrong as ours?