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And you don't either so they may have just as many tweaks as the '04 cut. The fact that they are still making changes at all is just completely mind boggling. You'd have thought after 2 attempts he would have finally been able to put in all his "original ideas". Ironically it seems that new ones...

Of course it's completely unreasonable that these movies be given the same treatment as cut scenes. *rolls eyes* But yeah, if it was just going to get this bargain basement release it just shouldn't have been made at all. To be honest I'd have more respect for him if he hadn't done this release...

Since they've already said that many more changes are being made for the box set I don't see how that's an unreasonable assumption.

So basically as long as the director doesn't find a cut worthy they can release it in as low quality as they want and it'll get a pass from you?

That's still 4 cuts and that's probably not the end of this madness.

So beast you going to respond to my post in http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...postcount=2469 yet?

And yet I've made no such comments. I just find it utterly baffling that you think that cut scenes should be treated with more respect than the actual movies themself.

Please, just wait till the 30th anniversary's of ESB and ROTJ. I'm sure he'll discover more of his "original ideas" that need to be included back in.

Which is apparently no longer his preferred version with the '07 tweaks coming. Does he even have a preferred version? He can't even live with his "definitive" version for even 3 years.

So basically scenes that are still cut out of a film are treated better than the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy. This is just baffling that you find it whining to think that the actual movies themself should get the same treatment. I'd be willing to bet money that they probably spent...

He apparently didn't think the scenes cut from Episode 1 were worthy yet millions were spent to finish them up, restore them. Hell they even got anamorphic enhancement.

Yeah I'm not asking for anything unreasonable. I was just expecting that these movies that were the ones who made him all his money and won all those academy awards could be treated on equal grounds as some cut scenes from Episode 1. I don't think that's too unreasonable, do you?

So he pulled that restored, anamorphically enhanced footage from the original cuts out of thin air for the Empire of Dreams documentary?

Yes, asking for industry standard anamorphic enhancement is such an unreasonable thing. God forbid the actual movies that made him his money got the same level of treatment as CUT SCENES from Episode 1. What a horrid demand, right?

They probably spent more to restore, remaster the scenes cut out of Episode 1 than would cost to do a proper release of the original cuts of these movies.

And there are many times more that do.

I don't see anyone asking him to replace his new cuts with the original versions. Again I don't see what is so unreasonable about asking for the original cuts to be released with the minimum of industry standard dvd authoring. Can you please tell me? If other director's can release both the...

I don't know of any fan who was asking for a bargain basement laserdisc to dvd port. So basically he wasn't giving us what we wanted.

There aren't interlacing artifacts, but there is a great amount of aliasing (from shots I've been able to see) which is probably what they were talking about.

So basically you see nothing strange about the fact that LucasFilm will spend probably millions of dollars to finish, remaster and anamorphically enhance cut scenes from Episode 1 but yet you think we are all being complete whiners for expecting a basic anamorphic transfer (which in this day and...

Even still he allowed the original version to be remastered/restored and released on DVD with an anamorphic encode. Again, if Spielberg, and other directors, can do that so can Lucas. The fact that Lucas may or may not hate the original version of his films doesn't give him a pass in releasing...

First of all, why should I be held responsible for the statements of others? Secondly, as I said above Star Wars fans are usually far more vocal so that's why you hear more when it comes to Star Wars then other movies.

Okay, what exactly does that have to do with my statement?

No, the only message that George Lucas is going to get from it not selling well is that no one wants the original trilogy unaltered. The point of releasing it so shoddily is to fulfill this notion he already has in his head. As has been repeated before, if other mediocre movies can get...

I don't see it being selfish at all. If he is not willing to put in the most minimal of effort to release this movie it should not be released at all. I'm sorry, but enabling such unforgiveable behavior is not what we should be doing. Like I said, if directors like Stephen Spielberg can release...

I guess I missed that announcement from Lucasfilm. Care to site them where they have announced such a box? All I've ever heard is the fan rumors of such a box and apparently since it's been repeated enough people somehow assumed that it's definitely going to happen.

It most certainly is. It's rather hypocritical of Lucas to at one point go on and on about how colorizing of films were changing and destroying film history and yet finds no problems with doing basically the same thing to his films. Preserving film history is definitely the core of this issue...

So basically you want them to think it's perfectly acceptable to release DVDs with less quality than you could get back in '98 and '99 at the outset of the format's release? I'm going to have to support Robert Harris on this. If it's not going to be a release of any quality that can't even live...

It might as well just be a VHS release. Seriously, why even make a DVD release of something if its going to be only marginally better than a decades-old release?