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Also, with the 3 versions of MR ARKADIN, this seems equally worthwhile to me.

Looks like you are correct sir. http://cinematreasures.org/blog/2010/6/18/jaws-happy-35th

I agree, I've never seen it but it seems like an important piece of the story that's gone missing.

There's a moment where Indy seems to considering something, maybe something he never took seriously until then. Anyway I think Ford sells it quite well.

Wouldn't Raiders be the only one that needs that kind of repair? It was the only one that expanded and played for months and months (and months) and had wide re-releases, as far as I know the other 2 just had the initial big release and then went into storage?

Oh yeah the "other" end music of THUNDERBALL, I miss that. So, it's unlikely it will be any kind of do-over, just the existing disc?

Is the 2002 version really being erased? I hadn't heard that, only that it wasn't being included now. Remember the first dvd of Close Encounters only had the director's cut, it wasn't until the 30th anniv. you could get all 3. Lord of the Rings did the separate versions thing, the Treks will all...

Yes, exactly.

I was thinking more of the pandering to the old=bad, new=good attitude that runs pretty thick out there.

Isn't there some licensing thing where Warner loses their rights if they don't do something with the property every 4 or 5 years?

For awhile I was hoping both versions would be included, but now I'm glad it's 82 only. Since Lucas, there's been an unfortunate attitude cultivated where flawed old effects are something to be be embarrassed about, and to be hidden away and changed for savvy new 12 year olds and generally anal...

Well, that's the thing. I'm having a very hard time telling where we stand right now. It's good to hold out for quality control and everything, but on the other hand, if catalog blu is in as much trouble as it feels, who knows what the best move is?

meant "first week's worth".

10,000 copies eh? So, the original star wars trilogy, in total, sells about 10% of a week's worth of Scarface. Yeah that sounds right.

The fact that it's now commonplace for multiple versions to be available to the public just makes it worse. And worse still when you have a guy who is actively cultivating a genuine disrespect for film history among a lot of people. (look around you'll see it happening, among supposed film...

I don't want to alarm you but this is a blu-ray forum. We're not entitled to good transfers or fun extras or any of that stuff. Are you giving the "entitlement" lecture to everyone about everything here?

So sorry, I'll try to genuflect before him properly next time.

People can argue about the details of what's involved in getting the originals a decent release. They can be wrong about the cost, the best method, what the steps in the pipeline are. It doesn't matter and there's no reason for Lucas' defenders to be such lawyers about it. It's not their job to...

Sure that would be nice in a perfect world, every movie would get that treatment people are talking about, and there's nothing wrong with hoping for that, but let's keep in mind a really great middle ground exists between the mega-reconstruction and 1993 laserdiscs. (a middle ground proven to...

Ah, well I think that guy is aiming high with that scenario, I'll stick with the existing Blade Runner disc 3/Lauzirika method as my yardstick for this.(as I bet most would. I think you'd have to look far and wide to find someone who had a problem with the way the theatrical Blade Runner disc...

Where are you getting this "millions" thing from? As you say, Blade Runner theatrical certainly didn't cost that much and that's the barometer everyone is using. A reasonable, vanilla catalog release of Star Wars- it's not a big deal. (now please don't do that thing the lucas defense league...

I thought YCM did an old fashioned restoration in 97. (with only the new CG shots going through a computer)

It sounds like a very nice package and I appreciate the technical efforts of Wood and the others. But this level of revisionism, while totally within their rights, is just too incredibly crass and ugly to support. I look forward to Spielberg's Indiana Jones trilogy.

But that's still a financial decision, when to release it and when to hold it back, like with Disney.

Yeah.

This particular topic is different though, isn't it? Has there ever been a home video improvement or feature that wasn't the result of repeated, repetitive requesting/ complaining by the customers?

Ha, that would be great, I want to go there.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea what percentage of theaters in 1975 would have actually showed the movie in 1:66?