Harmy said:
Lord Haseo said:
lovelikewinter said:
I agree with Tyrphanax 100%. I just want the movies I saw as a kid. The one that made me beg my parents to dig my brother's old action figures out of the closet and let me have my own adventures. Had I been a little older, I would have begged my parents for a laserdisc player to see them in better quality than the old releases that sat on the shelves of my local mom and pop video store.
If Lucas would have just given us a choice, then most of the hard feelings would have gone away. He didn't for whatever reason. But now we have the chance to have a high quality release of the OOT. Something I though would never happen unless Lucas was dead.
Adywan's Star Wars is a nice variant, but not the Star Wars I and many more will look at the definitive version 20, 30, 100 years down the line.
I want the OUT on BluRay just as much as anyone of you. But let's not let nostalgia delude us. In editing the OUT is a disaster. HUNDREDS of mistakes per film and outdated technology which of course is charming, but loses it charm overtime as we grow out of adolescence. Now Ady is not only fixing errors, he is filling the imaginative gaps I filled in when watching these films as a child. Just by that alone SW:R is superior regardless of popular opinion.
LOL, the original Star Wars won a friggin' Oscar for best editing! Every movie ever made has little continuity errors but that doesn't make them editing disasters. And the effects were the groundbreaking peak of the technology of its time and sure, they are a little dated but that also doesn't mean that the movie is bad because of it - I mean, Alien has dated effects, 2001 has dated effects, hell, even newer movies like Jurassic Park or even Lord of the Rings have some very dated effects - should they be updated with the latest technology every ten years?
I mean, I have absolutely nothing against Revisited and I enjoy it for what it is - a good alternative version of a classic movie but I don't think it should be a replacement.
SW was released in 1977 and ESB was released in 1980 and ROTJ was released in 1983. I mean come one its been over 30 years and the OUT (other than the sets) don't stand up til this day and age when CGI is getting really realistic looking. I mean even up until ROTJ there are big boxes around Tie-Fighters and X-Wings in space. What is exceptional back in the days of antiquity isn't whats necessarily as acceptable as what is acceptable today. That's where Ady comes in. Whenever I watch any of the OT films I am constantly pointing out errors and outdated technology whilst watching it and for a perfectionist like me that really bothers me. If I were to show someone SW for the first time I'd have the most seamless experience it could possibly be. I wouldn't want someone to say something "The story, music and characters were great, but the technology is dated." With SW:R the narrative, characters and music are still there, but the visuals have been updated. I don't see why this shouldn't be a replacement from an objective standpoint.