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Pot calling the kettle black?? George Lucas talks 'The Three Stooges' - remade in color?

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Well, to be fair Lucas already believed that way back in the 80s when he was still the 'genius' behind the original Star Wars trilogy and before he went 'insane' 20 years later.

And besides, unlike Lucas at least they offer the consumer the choice of what they prefer which is a heck of a lot more the he does.
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Right. I feel I'm a film purist to a certain extent, but I'm finding the more I think about it that I have no real qualm with the Stooges release because, as you said Sweyland, they are giving us a choice of which version to watch. It's like those DVDs that offer both wide- and fullscreen versions of the film; I hate fullscreen, and feel it's a waste for the fullscreen to be a separate release, but if it's on the same release as the widescreen (Shrek, Glory, Secondhand Lions, and a number of other releases), I have no problem with it.

Choice is the issue here, I think, and one of the main reasons this site is still up (i.e. that Lucas is giving us no choice).
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I hate fullscreen, and feel it's a waste for the fullscreen to be a separate release, but if it's on the same release as the widescreen


Such unwanted, unneeded, revolting "additional" foolscreen versions use up DVD space that could be filled with some extras or provide more space for e.g. a better quality version of the audio track in the widescreen version. Foolscreen must be squashed and its carcass burned - not just be allowed to coexist along with widescreen. It's a disease that unfortunately infected the whole world and that needs to go.
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It really is, Sammy, but unfortunately, too many people are addicted to the format, and I think there would be a greater chance of phasing it out if it was simply...provided as an option for a while and then pulled completely, rather than continuing to have full and widescreen versions of so many films. I went in to buy The Last Samurai used at my video store the other day, and after I picked up one of the widescreen boxes that had the buy it sticker on it, I had to go on a wild search for a widescreen disc to go with it, since all the widescreen boxes had fullscreen copies of the movies beneath them. A nuisance, but I did get widescreen, and wouldn't have bought it if I couldn't have found it.

Wal-Mart really pisses me off, though. After the first few weeks of a title's release, the widescreen version disappears entirely from the store, and fullscreen is all that's left. Such crap.
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Just trying to keep one topic going .

And I do agree about fullscreen. Though as John Carpenter put it, "Have two releases. Let people who care have widescreen, and give the idiots their pan and scan" (yes, he really did call them idiots).

I really don't see how people prefer pan and scan over widescreen. It's obviously the superior format.

Saying fullscreen is a bit misleading too. Pan and scan is a better word. Fullscreen basically implies that it's 4:3, which is what all movies before the 1950s were. Pan and scan means that the image has been cropped from it's original release; even movies that are "widescreen" can be pan and scanned.

It all comes down to what the director prefers. Kubrick filmed most of his later films in 4:3 and cropped them for theater. He then released them in 4:3, as they were intended to be shown.

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