Anchorhead said:
danny_boy said:
...because you have watched them far too many times on whatever home video format you have had the priviledge of owning.
You will NEVER EVER be able to enjoy these films as much those original cinema screenings ...
......you will never be satisfied due to viewing oversaturation spanning 3 decades.
So you channel your anger at Lucas' s unwillingness to release the OUT or the changes he has made
You don't get to speak for other fans. I strongly suspect that the fan base is angry over the revised history, the altered films, the lies, and the suppression. I doubt number of times seen factors into it.
Considering the number of members of this board who own, watch, and somewhat support the SEs and prequels, I think their anger is placed correctly.
Got to disagree.
Fans are only aware of the revisons/changes because they have seen the films so many times.
That is my point.
Hypothetically speaking:
If you saw Star Wars just once in 1977 ------- and you did not see it again until 1997 would you honestly remember every detail of the story or every frame composition.
No.
Obviously each individual will remember different aspects of the film depending on a whole host of factors.
Personally speaking I cannot remember the exact details of the Han /Greedo confrontation when I saw SW in 81' back to back with ESB(aged 6).(It is just not one of the scenes/images that is embedded in my memory)
I ofcourse I did familiarize myself with that scene by watching SW repeatedly on home video (from the age of 9 through to 12).---so when I saw the revised sequence in 1997(aged 23) it felt jarring and wrong----- even though I had not seen the film since 1987/1988(aged 13/14) at that point.
But:
I would not have remembered the intracacies of that scene from just that 1981 theatrical screening alone despite the fact that is the presentation that is most dear to me personally.
2001 Space Odyssey had 19 minutes of footage cut by Stanley Kubrik himself after it premiered but before it went into it's proper nationwide theatrical run.
That original version(as it premiered) has never been seen on home video(or any theatrical screening since).
That was Kubrik's intent(ithis lost footage only recently resurfaced in 2010!----but will not be re-incorporated back into the main film).
And there is hardly any public outcry regarding the supression of that "original" version because 2001(despite it's own huge cultural prestige) has had nowhere near the same level of overexposure as Star Wars.
Lucas is no different to Kubrik---they both altered their works of art after the fact(in different ways and chronologies ofcourse).
But Lucas has to battle with the fact that there are people out there who think they know his film better than he does himself.