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Haven’t been able to sleep since I slipped that batch onto Alderaan a few decades back.

SilverWook said:

Impressive! Most impressive. You do this for a living? 😃

Used to, kinda sorta.

Hey, Wook, lent your letter my editorial talents. I didn’t cut any sections—we can let collective opinion decide that—but I did tighten the language, which saves some space:

*Dear Disney and Lucasfilm,

Today is the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, the film that started it all. Yet, where is that film? No, not the special edition, the original 1977 film. The one we grew up with. The film that changed our lives forever.

Saying this isn’t hyperbole. Those of us who were there that incredible summer of '77 had never seen anything like it. It was a major event in our lives. Some of us came away wanting to know how it was made. It prompted a desire in some of us to make movies or tell stories of our own. No matter the path we chose, George Lucas lit a spark that remains within us today.

One thing we all share are the memories of where and with whom we saw Star Wars, and even of shooting down imaginary TIE fighters out the back window of the car on the way home. For others, it was a brightly shining light in the middle of a turbulent childhood. If Luke and his friends could triumph over their trials, maybe we could too.

We saw the movie over and over again, probably more than any movie before or since. We know the lines by heart; we love the characters. Seeing our heroes again on the screen for the first time in 32 years was like reuniting with family. Star Wars is a very emotional thing for us.

All these years later, we would love to revisit the Original Trilogy that we remember, to recapture those memories of a long time ago, in a movie theater far far away. Those of us with families want to be able to show our kids exactly what we saw when we were their age and relive it with them. It should be such a simple thing to do.

Only it isn’t.

We’re limited in our choices to outdated video formats that are increasingly difficult to obtain and inch closer to extinction each year. And the now out of print bonus DVDs from 2006, which utilize ancient video transfers from 1993, are hardly better, if one can find them at all.

None of us ever imagined as kids that we would have to resort to “alternative methods” to keep these historic versions from fading to memory and, ultimately, disappearing from the collective consciousness altogether. We live in an era in which even “bad” movies are respected enough to be meticulously restored and made publically available.

We don’t bemoan the Special Edition’s existence. It simply isn’t the version of the trilogy we fell in love with. The Original Original Trilogy, or OOT, deserves to be seen in the absolute best quality afforded by modern cinema and 21st-centruy home video formats so that it can be loved again by all.

There is room for both versions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of The Jedi to coexist. And we want to give you our money for them; we really do! Please give us that opportunity. At least give us hope that we will be able to do so soon. Some of us aren’t getting any younger! That is all we ask.

Sincerely yours,
The Staff and Members of Originaltrilogy.com*

I like your lady

they were remastered a couple years ago for the Sony boxset, but the remaster is only available on Vinyl and digital download.

Haarspalter said:

SilverWook said:

nickyd47 said:

MisterRey said:

Fang Zei said:

Lets at least wait until 9:41 PM EST 😉

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-05-03-star-wars_x.htm

And then until May 25 😃

Nah, let’s freeze ourselves till 2077

And then we have to battle a bunch of evolved otters for the last surviving copy of the OOT? 😉

George Lucas will show up in his own homemade General Grievous lifesupport suit with four actual lightsabers:

“Now i will fulfill my ‘final’ cut!”

DrDre said:

For those of you expecting a special announcement with regards to the Star Wars blurays for May the 4th, here it is:

“Save $40 on the Star Wars Complete Saga Blu-ray box set”

http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-day-2017-deals

Star Wars had been steeply discounted at Best Buy for weeks. I don’t see how this precludes anything. Probably just an intern looking up what’s on sale at Best Buy.

timdiggerm said:

When the Death Star, under command the command of Grand Moff Tarkin, followed the Millennium Falcon to Yavin via tracking device and was subsequently destroyed, it is almost certain that they did not keep the location of the Rebel Base a total secret from the rest of the Imperial Navy. As such, even though the Death Star was destroyed, the Base’s location was no longer secret. How, then, did the Rebellion have time for an awards ceremony before evacuating? Surely the arrival of some portion of the Imperial Navy was imminent.

Dramatic license

I wouldn’t be surprised if we never see another Complete Saga set and they just sell individual trilogies from now on

SilverWook said:

Never say never. 😉

Again

Abyss is supposedly coming this year. The 4K HDR transfer was supposedly done last year, according to the man himself. What the holdup is is beyond me.

TV’s Frink said:

Haven’t let them watch RO yet.

Why not?

1. Penicillin
2. Motrin
3. Sudafed
4. Delsym
5. Tylenol

I just despise his existence.

First he needs to set up meeting with Ocean Spray and Sunkist executives to discuss preserving the fruit for future generations to enjoy.

Word on the street is they’re not that interested.

joefavs said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

That burping toad creature in ROTJ. I always assumed that was an SE addition until I saw DE for the first time last summer.

Same. Something about the way it moves looks like CGI. The Wookieepedia page says it was a puppet; does anyone know if it was shot at a weird framerate or something like that?

wouldn’t be surprised if it was shot at a slow frame rate. It’s a pretty quick effect.

That burping toad creature in ROTJ. I always assumed that was an SE addition until I saw DE for the first time last summer.

Little red Corvette

IsanRido said:

The Younglings. Every single one of them.

At first glance I read “Yuenglings” and became suddenly thirsty.

The latter

U2 Songs of Innocence

The residents of Alderaan. No character development. None!

rodneyfaile said:

TV’s Frink said:

I might have an orange in my desk drawer right now. Or I might not.

Discuss.

Is it an original orange or a special edition like a tangelo or a clementine?

Is it properly color-timed, or is it a blood orange?

rodneyfaile said:

TV’s Frink said:

I might have an orange in my desk drawer right now. Or I might not.

Discuss.

Is it an original orange or a special edition like a tangelo or a clementine?

Is it properly color-timed, or is it a blood orange?