Baronlando said:

danny_boy said: I am trying to accentuate the excessive reaction to Lucas's alterations which are getting out of hand.Robert Wise made major changes to Star Trek: The Motion Picture for that film's release on DVD in 2001/01 whilst the theatrical version was withheld from DVD home video------ until it was released on bluray in 2009----- but Wise did not get rebuked as much as Lucas in that time period.Only the 1992 director's cut of Blade Runner was released on DVD in 1997/98(and a poor quality

Really with this? Do you really not see the difference in the reactions is proportionate to what actually happened?

Really? (and by the way, not that this will make a fucking dent, but here it is anyway: the fate of theatrical Blade Runner and Trek 1 were 100% dictated by Paramount Home video and Jerry Perenchio, not Wise/Scott but who cares about accurate comparisons, right?)

Yeah----Paramount must have brainwashed Wise into making statements such as the following:

''I'm happy with it now. This is the film that I really wanted (Star Trek Special Edition) .''

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