Harmy said:
trimboNZ said (in the ESB:R thread):
Recently I sat down with my seven year old son and introduced him to Star Wars. ANH seemed the right place to start and as for which version, well there was no contest.
My next dilemma is whether to wait for this edit to be completed before showing him ESB.
Having just read this, I must apologise to thecolorsblend and acknowledge that there is something to what he says. In light of this post, fanedits don't seem altogether as harmless as I'd have liked to think. The post shows that some people may actually be exposed to a fanedit of a film before they saw the original and there's definitely something wrong and disturbing about that.
That's how I feel about remakes. Whenever I'm talking 'favorite films' with people, it seems like I'm constantly having to say "Oh, No no no. I'm talking about the ORIGINAL Dawn Of The Dead / Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Halloween ect. ect. NOT the shitty remake." it's quite frustrating.
The thing with fan edits is that 1- they are usually something that a fan has to seek out on their own. So it's not likely to be mistaken for the original It's not like they sell fan edit DVDs at Best Buy alongside the original cuts. (except for the Star Wars films of course. In that case GL's fan edits are the only ones available.) and 2- the files that are downloaded generally marked "FAN EDIT BY SOMECRAZYBASTARD!" unlike remakes which are usually advertised as if it was a brand new film. I find it hard to believe that people are being exposed to fan edits thinking that it's the original cut. ...Unless of course they are being shown the edited versions by someone who is withholding important information from them...