Fang Zei said:
generalfrevious said:
I feel like the last person alive who cares about saving the pre-97 trilogy. So to everyone else my rants are seen as nothing more than ridiculous, because no one else seems to care.
...I care...
But in all seriousness, I highly doubt that Disney would've bought the company without securing the rights to all versions of the films from George, in as much as Lucasfilm (not Fox) legally owns them. Now we can see they've worked out a deal with Fox to distribute the films digitally. It's the SE once again, yes, but if they were going to start selling the OOT there's no good reason they wouldn't wait until the next physical release to include it as a selling point.
Besides, as someone so eloquently phrased it in this thread, releasing a remastered OOT for the very first time in the form of a compressed download file would be the 2015 equivalent of the GOUT.
They're continuing the tradition with this digital release of using bonus materials as a selling point, continuing to keep the OOT in their back pocket. I'm now starting to doubt we'll see another release this year, if only because they'd be hurting their own sales of the just-released digital version. They may also be waiting to see how UHD ("4K") blu-ray shakes out before doing another physical release.
Yes, exactly. Something so sought after as the OOT is not going to debut on HULU Plus.
Generalfrevious: I think you also lose people with your insistence that Lucas is some kind of dictator who sends his SS officers to go and track down the remaining prints of the OT and then destroy them in the most over-the-top way possible. Most of us are pretty disgusted with him too, but you're trying to convince us all that he is Chairman Mao or something. Robert A. Harris himself has said that there is no reason to fear for the OOT materials themselves, and has said that a restoration wouldn't be terribly difficult.
Although this disturbing footage was discovered a couple of years ago...