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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
But what is the big deal about tinkering with them?
People complain that Jabba in ANH looks awful, which he did. Now it is fixed.
People complan that after all the CGI Sy Snooldes crap, that they never fixed the Rancor scene. Now they have.
If people hate the SE because it looks too-much like a carftoon, then why hate it MORE when they fix that?
Ok, I'm going to try and explain 'what the big deal is' with all of the changes/tinkering with these movies.
I read this on another board and I hope that I can keep it as close to the original idea as possible.
Picture this if you will. You have a favorite restaurante. You eat there all the time. You love the food, you love the atmosphere. Then suddenly, the owner of the joint fires the chef and hires a new one. The menu didn't change. Just the chef. However, now you begin to notice that your favorite foods don't quite taste the way they used to. It's not that the food tastes bad, but it's just not the same. It's not what you grew to love.
That in a nut shell is how most of us here feel about the SE versions of these films. It's not that what Lucas is doing is 'bad.' Most of us feel that the clean up of the movies and fixing what really needed to be fixed is great. And there are some of us who feel that some of the 'cosmetic' changes and tinkerings are ok. Not great. But ok. Example, the Cloud City windows (at least for me anyway).
I, and many others here, have stated time and time again that we don't care how much Lucas changes the films. We just want the choice to either buy the original versions or the new versions. Lucas is refusing to release the original (and by original I mean of course the theatrical versions of the films that have been cleaned up and no added scenes, Jabba, Luke girlie screem, Jedi Rocks number, ect.) These are the films that I and many others saw back in 77, 80 and 83. These are the movies that we want on DVD. Like your favorite food as mentioned above. We don't want the new dishes that have been spiced up. The original dishes were just fine. We savored those dishes for over 20 years. Now if we want to own Star Wars on DVD we are literally being forced to either buy the new version DVDs or to just go without. That is the big deal!