thecolorsblend said:

Harmy said:

Yeah, on BD that wipe is back to how it was in theatres.

Also, the simple reason faneditors get away with what GL doesn't is that they don't make anyone watch their edit, you can choose to watch it if you want but if you want to watch the film the way its creators made it, you can, I fail to see how there can be any argument there.

Hey, not trying to pick a fight here. But fan editors take a director's vision, carve it up and usually make at best a lateral change in terms of improvement overall. I'm not saying there aren't good concepts out there. I heard about one fan edit that did a Godfather Saga thing with the movies by intercutting the six films among each other. Maybe these editors do genuinely improve the material in some cases. Maybe the director in question truly lacked in the "vision" department. All the same, I just don't think they have any moral right to alter that vision, irrespective of their talents, their legit improvements, the availability of the real cuts or anything else. That, and I think their creative energies would probably be better served in developing their own creations rather than cutting up someone else's.

Well said.

Agree 100%.

A fan editor never recruited and directed the actors,liased with the art,special effects and production crews and consulted and collaborated with the musical composer.

A fan editor never concieved of the ideas and scenarios that are encapsulated in the scripts.

Lucas did and continues to do all of the above for better or for worse.