Petition for the Theatrical Cuts of the Original Star Wars Trilogy on Blu-ray — Page 3

I didn't say the the petition was pointless, and I certainly don't think is.  I signed the petition.  I am absolutely for the petition and getting the OOT on bluray.    I don't think its likely to happen, but I still think we should send Lucas a message.    I am also for college having a playoff system(read my thread on it) and for me finding a girlfriend.  I just don't any of those is likely.  But, I'd be very glad to be proven wrong.   

I agree with you.

This petition is a great idea and excellently worded.  I added a comment to my signature about staying true to the original colour timing and including all the sound mixes (70mm especially, with its superior dynamics and so forth).

Don't mean to be negative, but some of the comments on the petition really aren't very helpful and kind of undermine its usefulness.  One asks for the original version where Vader doesn't straighten out his TIE fighter at the end.  Huh?  Clearly faulty memory syndrome is at work here.  Others are pushing the boundary between what could be considered respectful and what is insulting (and would make them that much less likely to take it seriously).  Not that they'll get looked at very closely by LFL anyway, but still . . .

Are any of you guys actually gonna buy the blu-ray if it doesn't have the remastered OOT in it?

Fooled me once with dvd, shame on you Lucas. Fool me with the next format, shame on me. That's the problem here. Lucas thinks that "Star Wars in 1080p!" will be enough for even the biggest hater to go out and buy it. The sad thing is that he might be right. Guys, the big message we need to send is all the potential money LFL will be losing if they don't include the OOT. They're gonna have to include an entire additional 50 gig disc with each movie in order to give us what we want anyway. Sure, I'd be thrilled if they gave each movie anything remotely approaching the Blade Runner / CE3K treatment, but this is Star Wars and it has become a mere product after all these years. They put out a four-disc set, charged $70 for it, and made the highest single-day sales in the history of the dvd format.

Blu-ray is a different story. For one thing, we have to wait and see what the deal is with the 3D conversion. I'm really starting to think it won't happen, if only because I just don't get how they're going to re-release SIX MOVIES in theaters and still make a profit after such an expensive conversion process. The industry just standardized 3D blu-ray though, so maybe we haven't heard the last of all this.

We also have to remember that the live-action show will be hitting around the same time and Lucas still doesn't have a distributor for it. I can't help but wonder how 20th Century Fox's distribution rights to the six-film saga is gonna play into all this.

I don't know when the old petition got started, before '04 or after, but this time around we're getting it out there well before the initial blu-ray is hitting (Bill Hunt puts it at 2011 at the earliest). This gives us time to get more signatures.

if only because I just don't get how they're going to re-release SIX MOVIES in theaters and still make a profit after such an expensive conversion process

I hope they would just release the OT.  I don't want people who've never seen SW before, to go see TPM and think SW is stupid. 

I'd put out a re-mastered OT.  No big changes, just visual enhancements, and worry about the PT when Ady gets around to it.

WOW , i go on holiday for a few weeks and i come back to a new looking site with a petition for Star Wars on blu ray. I still have $65 dollars from my holidays i havent changed back into ££££'s yet , i dont mind throwing that into the petition although i dont think we should offer George the whole $65 at first . Maybe $40 at first then the $65 ?

 Think it may help ? 

I got into an argument with someone about the petition in another forum,  tht person gave me a suggestion what he thought we should do instead the petition.    Now, I don't think we should do it instead of the petition, but what do this in addition to the petition: buying stock in Lucasfilm.    I'm not even sure if this is possible to do, but I think its worth looking into.   At  the very least, we could use it as a way to refute all those that try to say we have no say in what version gets released.   If we had stock, we'd be part owners, that would certainly give us a say.   I realize we wouldn't able to buy much.  But I think even owning little my help our arguments.  What does everyone think?   

No, it's a private company. It'll never go public.

I'm surprised how dead this thread is considering .... well, considering what it is.

I created a thread of about the petition in another forum and created a poll in the thread.   21 people, so far, voted that they will sign the petition.  http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=127312

yeah,  I'm fighting a one man battle in my over there right now.   I'm amazed at myself that I've been able to keep it so civil.    I've defended my position without resorting to name calling or personal attacks.  I think I've finally started to be able to control my temper.

That reminds me, I should totally put a link in my avsforum sig. I post over there from time to time (same handle).

How many signatures did the old petition get?

Jay said:

Fang Zei said:

How many signatures did the old petition get?

Over 70,000. The first 10,000 or so came very quickly because lots of major sites were promoting the petition actively.

crap, that actually disheartens me a bit. It'll take a lot to exceed those numbers.