Mike O

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Heh, yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I saw Superman Returns Sunday night.

Originally posted by: JediFlyer06
For those in the know...how much would a restoration of the film cost, roughly? We know that there are prints in collectors' hands. How much of a grassroots movement from the fanbase would it take to generate money through donations and such in order to have a good print restored and trasnferred to dvd, and distributed not for profit? Pie in the sky...I know. But seriously, put a dollar amount on it. Could we (the fans) generate it?

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I like Star Trek. I'd like to see them do something with Christopher Pike, the Enterprise captain from the abandoned 1960s pilot "The Cage" played by the late Jeffrey Hunter. But it probably won't happen.

I didn't like how, as the Next Generation films went along, Picard seemed to morph into Kirk. I like Kirk, in fact I prefer Kirk Trek over TNG Trek, but if I'm going to sit down and watch a Picard Trek, I expect Picard to act like Picard and not like Kirk.

Oh boy; Trek talk! This should be interesting. Geek time! Just kidding. Hasn't Jeffery Hunter passed away?

Rick Berman should be jailed for cruelty to animals. Specifically: Beating a dead horse.

That wasn't a flame thrown your way Mike just so there is no misunderstandings between us.

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Altar to Baal (The Artist formerly known as George Lucas) Special Collectors Edition
The Definitive Baal Autobiography “How Art should be modified to suit the tastes of changing viewers” or “Nothing is timeless” by Baal (The Artist formerly known as George Lucas)
Gusher Edition Knee Pads for sucking Baal (George) Cock.

Its not your movie, never was, never will be.

Its not that hard Mike.

Take it easy!

Originally posted by: zombie84
They just want another excuse to sell you the SE. But people won't buy it without a very good reason to (as evidenced by the failure of the 2005 release) so they are slapping on a laserdisk transfer and marketing that. Sansweet himself admitted the initial purpose was to re-sell the SE films individually. That is why the OOT is bonus material--its the bonus on the SE films to get you to buy it. The marketing focusing ONLY on the OOT release is obviously because that is the sets selling point. A proper release of the OOT will come out eventually but if they say this is the last time it will be available then we buy it now instead of waiting.

Originally posted by: yanksno1


This whole thing doesn't make any logical sense. Something here doesn't add up. The comments from LFL and Sansweet state that this was just an attempt to release the SEs individually. But the marketing campaign keeps streesing that the originals will be in the set, as though that is the reason to buy it. Then there are the conflicting reports. "We have no plans, now or in the future, to restore the earlier versions (they're the originals guys)." Then we have Lucas himself. "It's just the originals, as they were. We didn't do anything to them at all (no, you certainly didn't). We;re not sure how many people want that. Now (notice this word) we'll find out wheter people really (that word was italicized in the original interview) wanted the originals, or whether he wanted the improved version." Now, here's the interesting part. "It will all come out in the end." Now, this could mean an number of things. Lucas could just be talking to here his own voice. In other words, it might not mean anthing. It could mean that he wants to appease the minority (from his point of view) who want the OOT so that we will shut (which we of course won't until we get a release that treats the films with the respect which they deserve). There is, however, a third, very remote possibility. Perhaps, just perhaps, LFL were going to releae the films individually and then decided to include the originals to test the waters to see if there is a market for these versions, possibly for the 30th anniversary? Of course, LFL might have also just attached the OOT to sell the discs of the SEs, and really have no plans to include the originals ever again. And then there is the bizzare possibility that the latter was the original plan, and the former has become a side effect. There's just something here that doesn't add up. God willing, the situation will work out well. Maybe Ozkeeper's post and the Comicon situation just exacerbated the problem or put up in black and what what I already knew. I don't know yet. But come the 30th anniversary, if the discs aren't in it, which I for some reason doubt that they will (which is the opposite of what I thought a mere few days ago), then I just don't know. Maybe it will be over and maybe not. This whole thing is so confusing. But I have this nagging feeling that, with this release, Lucas has blown the doors on the situation wide open, and with Mark Hammil and, most particulary, Gary Kurtz, having a go at him in the press, it seems that, at the very least, this release has made a bit of noise, although whether that is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen. I guess that it depends on how pessimistic or optimistic you want to be. All that we can do now is wait and hope. Again.

Besides, they need to clear out the old stock so they can have an excuse to fix more problems and have a new release for '07. And by problems, I mean not fixing the matte lines or miscolored lightsabers, but adding dinosaurs to more scenes. And spaceships and characters from the comicbooks and video games. You know, his 'original vision'.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
For me, the worst that could happen is that it would only be included as part of some $300 boxset that I don't need or want.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
This is what I've been fearing ever since it was first announced. That they were simply going to paint away the "Episode IV: A New Hope." And sure enough, every worst case scenario comes to fruition. Okay, so I'm definitely not buying these releases. If the picture quality had been shown to be halfway decent, I probably would have bought it. Had it just been them relegating it to the second disc as bonus material, I most likely would have bought it.

But this, this is the one thing I absolutely refuse to tolerate. In their initial press release, that was one of the things they originally touted. I knew there was a reason to get suspicious when that paragraph mysteriously disappeared for a few hours. This is just flat-out lying. This isn't even lying due to minds changing or business practices changing. And I refuse to cater or give my money to a company that is clearly lying. Obviously the footage exists! It was on Empire of Dreams for crying out loud! Wouldn't it have been easier to splice the original crawl in rather than paint out the "most offensive" element?

I'm sure most people won't be able to tell the difference. And I'm sure George and his Merry Men will be snickering about it. "Coming soon! The original theatrical cuts! Or close enough that you George vision-haters won't be able to tell the difference! Nyah-nyah!" Well, suck on this, George. You are not getting another red cent from me until you actually start producing quality products and stop lying about the less-than-quality ones you are releasing.

So technically it is false advertising to claim this is the unaltered 1977 theatrical version. Because its not.

Originally posted by: Hal 9000
Come on... now people will think I'm a trekkie when I say I like Star Wars.

Do I *really* have to specify like this: "I am a fan of the (original) Star Wars Trilogy."?

We're going to get fine DVDs of the OOT as part of a retrospective collection, you mark my words! I will not be palmed off with these September Discs!

And then, I suppose, there's John Waters gay.

And yes, Mike O, I am British!!