Frank your Majesty said:
Coming to a site called originaltrilogy.com.
Being offended when most people prefer the original trilogy.
Nobody thought that this could happen.
Who's offended? I like original trilogy too, I bought the 2006 limited dvds and I'm proud of that part of the collection...
What "offends" me are nonsense comments like towne32 ones, who's evidently having a conversation with himself, because he didn't understand a thing of what I said. And he thinks he's funny too...
FrankT said:
But don't you see? Movies don't change with the times. They can't! You can't just put new stuff on top of a 20-year-old movie and hope people will just roll with it, that's not how it works! (Cleaning up matte lines is an exception, to a degree.)
Blade Runner changed, and guess what: many people prefer the Final Cut over the theatrical.
In cases like these we're not talking about simple upgrades, we're talking about director's cut. Lucas and Scott couldn't achieve what they wanted back when they shot those movies; producers interference, budget limitations, underdeveloped technology, these are some of the reasons.
If you complain about SW SE, you should hate every director's cut done. The principle at the base of the SE is the same.
I'm not defending every single shot Lucas changed, but many of them were conceived that way from the beginning. He just used renewed technology to fix things he couldn't fix originally (but always wanted to).
I can't see why this raises so much hatred towards him, except for personal tastes. It's his movie, he has the right to change it if he feels the need, just like every other director did when he got the chance to create a new cut for his work.
If you want to grumble for serious things, be honest and just say that it wasn't fair to release special editions only; I agree with that, that's Lucas true mistake (while Scott for example got it right, with the 30th anniversary blu-ray).