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Originally posted by: Patrick R.
I also wanted to mention something else concerning Lucas' "milking" of Star Wars. If he wasn't "milking it" by not releasing things he did not care for, there would be no Full Screen (AKA Pan&Scan) versions of the films on DVD. If you have kept up with Lucas over the years, you know that he despises Full Screen because the film is not being presented in it's original aspect ratio (OAR). If you'll remember, there was no Full Screen version of Episode I on DVD until the Episode II DVD came out. If he hates Full Screen so much, why release Full Screen versions of his films on DVD. Well, because he knew he could put aside his dislike for it and make a lot of money since there are a lot of fools out there who hate Widescreen. If that is not one example of "milking it", I don't what is.
Patrick
Excellent point. The defense that these new DVD versions are "the way Lucas always wanted them" can't hold up when you realize fullscreen is created to appease a certain segment of the population and is in no way "Lucas' true vision"!
So since I saw a movie in 1977 that was only half done, how complete was it in 1997 when it was rereleased? Three quarters? What am I? A marketing test subject while Lucas spends 30 years fine-tuning his movie??? So if "Empire" was only half done when Luke Skywalker quietly fell from the catwalk in Cloud City, then it was "complete" when his scream was added, does this mean the movie is half done again now that the scream has been removed once more? Or since the movies are now "complete" (which angers me since Lucas is now admitting to having knowingly released incomplete films back in 1997), does that mean all this CGI tinkering madness will stop, and once they are released 30 years from now on High Definition Holographic Crystals they will be the 2004 versions?
Talk about a load of B.S.!