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Originally posted by: YourHums
Hi again,
I don't think you have done the math I just did. If I remember right, the DVD set is going to sell for around seventy dollars US. If just the people who signed this petition decided not to buy them, that is a loss in gross sales of over $4,200,000. I know that is probably what George Lucas spend on mineral water for the year, but that is a significant amount of money, and businesses like to make money. If only the people that signed this petition wrote a letter to George Lucas and an e-mail to fox video, maybe they do the math too.
Defeatist thinking leads to just that, defeat. Even if a boycott and letter writing campaign were unsuccessful, those of us who really do want to see the orignals on DVD are are only thirty-seven cents worse off than we were. But at least we will feel like we did something about it other than finding reasons not to do anything about it. What have you got to loose?
I'm not being defeatist, I just being realistic. The truth is that there aren't enough people who care about which version it is to make that much of a difference. Besides, I think Lucas is ashamed of the OV.
But more importantly, it isn't that big of a deal. I mean is it really worth getting illiegal copies of the movie just to see Han shoot first? The Special Edition is not the end of the world. Somepeople are over-reacting and a boycott wouldn't help anything.