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Like I mentioned, circa 1999-2000, both Lucas and Spielberg were pretty adamant their "jewels" wouldn't hit DVD until the format reached enough players in use to be sufficiently "market saturated".

I got the LD less due to impatience and more that I thought Lucas implied it'd be a really long time until we got any "Star Wars" on DVD. If I'd known "Menace" would be out on DVD the following year, I'd have waited. I still have the LD somewhere. I should dig it out to compare with the audio...

Yeah, I bought that as well, mainly because I seem to recall comments from Lucas circa 2000 that it'd be a looooong time before we saw any "Star Wars" on DVD. Both he and Spielberg didn't exactly embrace the format early - at least not for their heavy hitters. They wanted X million players out...

Yup - that might've been the first non-used videotape I ever owned. I remember "Star Trek II" was like $40 late 1982/early 1983 - and I think "Officer and a Gentleman" was about the same price. I guess Paramount attempted non-"rental pricing" for a few big 1982 movies. I think you're right...

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"ET" hit VHS in 1988, so 6 years. I also remember that Spielberg said for years that it would never come out on home video. He wanted it to be re-released every generation ala Disney movies. Obviously he changed his mind, but that attitude is why it took until 1988 for the movie to hit VHS...

Yeah, but that was a different universe for home video. Really, "home video" as we understand it didn't exist in 1982 when they released "Star Wars" on VHS. It had blossomed a fair amount by the VHS releases of the next 2, but it still wasn't anything like the home video landscape of the late...

They held a big press event at Skywalker in late August 2001. I got invited and stupidly declined even though I could fly free on American back then! Regretted it instantly. I did go to an event out there for "Sith" 4 years later - I wasn't gonna make that mistake twice! They gave us copies...

Oh, you had a different perspective than I did - I was 32 in 1999! :wacko:

That one disappointed me. I liked "AP" 1 and 3 a lot but 2 tried too hard. They made 1 without any expectations and by 3, they'd proven they could have a true hit. But 2 felt like "oh crap - we're being promoted as a big blockbuster and need to justify the hype!" to me. Some funny stuff but...

Yeah, it was a strong year. Hard to rank years of my lifetime - I'm certainly very fond of 1982 - but 1999 is up there!

Ah, good point about "May the 4th Be With You" - didn't think of that! :)

5/3 puts the re-release up against "Fall Guy", whereas a closer-to-actual-25th 5/24 would put it against "Furiosa" and "Garfield Movie". I guess they thought it'd do better with less competition. I doubt it'll make much money anyway.

Terrifying to release it's now been 3 years longer from "Phantom Menace" to today than it was from "Star Wars" to "Phantom Menace"! :unsure: