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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?
The problem I have with the SE is that the original movies are forever lost. It's like having a paiting you love, and then someone paints a mustache over it, and you can't remove it anymore. I'm OK with him releasing the SEs, George Lucas can turn the whole thing into a bobsponge squarepants cartoon if he wants to, I don't care. I'm OK with watching the SEs, yes there are some neat things there, windows in cloud city, i liked the sarlaac pit, "you're lucky to get out of there" original line, but it can't REPLACE the original one.
I have them on VHS tapes, copies of the 1995 release, and I don't have a VCR anymore (it broke while I was watching ANH) and I'll not buy another VCR (buying VCRs is too 80s to me), and the DVD was my only chance to see them in a original presentation. I don't want to download it from some torrent, I don't have a DVD burner. I don't want to buy a bootleg, mostly because it's kinda hard to find the original unaltered trilogy here, and it would cost too much to buy it from the US or UK. I wanted an official DVD from 20th century fox and lucasfilm, with comentaries, with special features and all that stuff...
Another good example is THX-1138. I've always wanted to watch it, and it's unavailable here in Brazil. It will be available now, but it'll be that special edition. I'll never be able to watch the original movie, ever...