BuddhaMaster said:
I usually spot microscopic color deviations, others wouldn't even realize at all. Here are a few things that need to be adjusted, those differences are pretty obvious, so please change them: The color of the party-ship is grey in the original (you reverted R2D2 back to gray), in your DeSpe it's as red as in the SE! Please return to grey. Or reduce the artificial looking shimmer that makes it look too much like plastic. The Falcon is just as green in your DeSpe as it is in the SE. Please, please return it to a neutral grey (warm grey) as in GOUT. Also the planet needs to a bit more red. It almost seems as if there is a bit of green tint all over the picture. Just reduce green a notch and shit a bit towards blue/purple on the Falcon. [Further demands from BuddhaMaster edited out]
Wrong. Wrong on all counts. Astonishingly wrong. A magnificent achievement of wrongness that will live on in infamy. Harmy does not need to adjust the colours or reduce artificial shimmer or return anything to gray or add in a bit of red or remove the green tint -- he doesn't need to do any of the things you say because he doesn't work for you.
You are not the customer. You are not the client. You are not the employer. Harmy does the fan-edits out of personal enthusiasm and chooses to share his efforts. If you don't like something, you certainly have the right to comment on whether or not something worked for you personally, but not to tell him what he has to do.
He doesn't have to do anything!
Originally, Harmy asked that people not criticize his work outside of personal messages, saying that many of the flaws went unnoticed and pointing them out would distract from the viewing experience and ruin it for people who hadn't seen mismatches of footage or colouring errors or video encoding problems. He's changed his mind as he doesn't want to censor criticism and reactions -- but I suppose that also opened him up to receiving demands from people who've no business providing anything but criticism and reactions.
I really like Harmy's work on RETURN OF THE JEDI. However, he's mentioned a few future changes that I'm not too enthusiastic about, personally -- he says that he'd like to restore the visible matte lines to the rancor, matte lines that were removed for the DVD edition. Personally, I think that the matte lines were bad in the standard definition picture. In a high-definition release, the matte lines would be even more distracting. I agree that they're part of the original theatrical cut, and if that's what Harmy wants to rebuild, then the matte lines are something to be included. But they would be a massive distraction from the viewing experience. What Harmy's done with his Despecialization is to remove distractions that alter the tone and atmosphere and visual appeal of the original films. The matte lines have never appealed and the clean-up job for DVD was one of the few post-post-release changes that have improved rather than detracted.
Any HD version of the original cuts of the trilogy in the future would likely keep the cleaned-up version of the rancor. The simplest route to producing an HD version of the films would be to take the current editions and re-edit them into reconstructed theatrical cuts, with only missing shots re-transferred from the original elements. They'd probably avoid replacing the shot of the rancor on the grounds that the new version is simply the old version, but cleaned up.
Harmy has released his first RETURN OF THE JEDI with the cleaned up rancor scene, and even if his later versions put the old effects back in, I'll still have his first version. He can do what he likes. This is just my opinion.