You_Too said:

I don't know what it is about the blu-ray era that made previously respected directors go back and change their most popular works. There are way too many examples. Maybe they don't think people will buy the same movies again unless they look different? Different being new in the eyes of mainstream consumers?

I know some people are gonna think I'm overdoing it, but I'm gonna say it anyway. To me, directors going back and changing and "fixing" their movies when new technology is available is the equivalent of if all artists could come back to life and re-do their most famous works. Paintings, statues, books, music, and movies. Like if we brought them all back to life every 100 years or so and they went and altered their works.

And if that's too much of a stretch since said directors are still alive when they modify their films, then how about this: Directors altering their films with new technology is the equivalent of if the famous artists went back and re-did their work every 5-10 years while they were still alive.

To me, movies are art the same way the Mona Lisa is. They are our markers of the advancements of human history, as well as markers for what we thought of things as a species at that point in time. But letting future changes alter that, we alter history. And that's wrong.

To me, the racist story writing of the black centaur in Disney's fantasia being removed in order to not offend anyone is the equivalent of removing slavery from the history books.

However, because this is only movies we're talking about and not a period in time where people were treated lower than animals, I say if the directors wanna change their work that's fine. But for all that is good and holy, please give the consumer the OPTION to CHOOSE. Case in point: Would anyone REALLY hate the SW specials editions if their original counterparts were there alongside them?