Right. I feel I'm a film purist to a certain extent, but I'm finding the more I think about it that I have no real qualm with the Stooges release because, as you said Sweyland, they are giving us a choice of which version to watch. It's like those DVDs that offer both wide- and fullscreen versions of the film; I hate fullscreen, and feel it's a waste for the fullscreen to be a separate release, but if it's on the same release as the widescreen (Shrek, Glory, Secondhand Lions, and a number of other releases), I have no problem with it.

Choice is the issue here, I think, and one of the main reasons this site is still up (i.e. that Lucas is giving us no choice).