imperialscum said:
JT 1138 said:
imperialscum said:
Bobocop said:
It would be ironic and somehow fitting if the originals were fully restored from the O-neg in glorious 4K and brought back into the spotlight, while the "superior" Special Editions were stuck at 2K resolution because of the limitations of the technology used at the time.
I'd love to the the SE's 20 year reign of terror end as it fades away into just a curious footnote in film history.
The only release labelled as Special Edition was the 1997. That release got pretty much the least care of all releases. The Special Edition is not stuck at 2K but rather in LD format.
It may not be technically accurate, but it seems like most folks refer to the '04 and '11 editions as the SE's.
Just because most do it wrong, doesn't make it right.
Actually, the only people I hear not refer to any post-97 release as the Special Edition are Lucasfilm reps (at least when George was in charge) or TFNers who both referred to them as the """official""" versions of the films or the true versions or whatever. Just recently there was an Alec Guinness tribute where they were screening all of his most famous films, and they had a disclaimer saying that it was the "special edition" of Star Wars, same with the Plaza Atlanta about a month ago. I'm glad the current versions are referred to as the Special Edition so that people who don't care won't forget that there is in fact an original version.