SW blu-rays have changes to the films again

[stonester1]

The purchasing decision is simple for me. Will these include the original theatrical cuts? No? Then I have no interest in seeing Greedo shoot first in Blu Ray format. My DVDs with both versions will do just fine.

No doubt Lucas will make a bundle from this. I just won't be a part of it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've never understood all this whining, pissing, and moaning about Lucas deciding to make changes to the SW films because, NEWS FLASH, he owns the things and therefore has the right to make whatever changes he wants. If you don't like what he's done, don't buy the films. It's as simple as that.

Agreed.

Me, I love the Special Editions. Lucas can edit them to his heart's content. As long as it's on Blu-Ray, I'll buy it.

 

[JarodRussell]

I always thought that they added the lightsaber glitches and other obvious blunders that weren't even on the VHS but only on the DVDs just to make sure a couple of more people would buy the blu rays/HD DVDs (or whatever it was assumed to be back then) some day.

 

[Klaus]

Han shooting first is indefensible of course, but the rest is within his rights as creator... I didn't really have a problem with the previous sfx fixes in the SE, especially since the original theatricals are sitting on my shelf on DVD if I want to watch them that way.

I may hate the PT with a burning passion and don't care if he makes porn out of them or whatever, but he can do what he wants w/buffing the OT.

 

[timothy]

well I am picking up the this box set either way. I looking forward to the special features.

 

[stonester1]

Oh, I don't have a problem with Lucas doing that (though I'd prefer him to move onto other projects, Star Wars or not, like it Red Tails is finally coming out). His endless control freakishness about SW isn't going to make my DVDs go away. I just won't buy what I don't want.

It's easy.

I used to rage about such things. Then I realized that such rage was pointless. Why even be mad about it?

 

[Trekker4747]

I've never understood all this whining, pissing, and moaning about Lucas deciding to make changes to the SW films because, NEWS FLASH, he owns the things and therefore has the right to make whatever changes he wants. If you don't like what he's done, don't buy the films. It's as simple as that.

Okay, rant over. I plan on getting the films, and am interested in seeing just how any changes Lucas has chosen to make affect the overall cohesiveness of the saga's two trilogies holding together.

I think the biggest thing is that Lucas' entire fame is based off people watching these movies and there'd be a lot less complaining if he'd simply release the originals that've been cleaned up and remastered for modern-day media.

No CGI bullshit added, nothing changed to try and make the prequels fit-in. Just the original movies on BD in HD.

 

[RandyS]

Wake me when they edit out any reference to Darth Vader, Luke, Leia, or Senator Organa applying for adoption in RotS.

P.S. Han shot first dammit!

No he didn't. He shot, period!

Well, he did.

 

[davejames]

I've never understood all this whining, pissing, and moaning about Lucas deciding to make changes to the SW films because, NEWS FLASH, he owns the things and therefore has the right to make whatever changes he wants. If you don't like what he's done, don't buy the films. It's as simple as that.

Because a great many people grew up on these movies and loved them just the way they were. And because the more they're changed, the harder it is to appreciate them as movies of a particular time and place; instead they start to feel just as slick and artificial as every OTHER scifi movie out there today.

Obviously Lucas has the right to make his changes, but that doesn't mean people can't be annoyed by it-- especially when they're the only high-quality versions we're allowed to have now.

 

[Candlelight]

Colour correction was really the only main issue I noticed with the 2004 DVDs (such as the green tint on Luke's lightsaber in ANH), plus a couple of shots which needed touching up (like the model mounting pole visible under the Millennium Falcon as she escapes the Death Star in ANH).

I'm looking forward to these. Lucas can tweek it all he likes. I'll still watch.

I just have to buy a blu-ray player and TV worthy of a blu-ray player. And get money to do said items.

And find time to sit down and watch them.


Grrrr.

 

[JarodRussell]

His endless control freakishness about SW isn't going to make my DVDs go away. I just won't buy what I don't want.

It did make a DVD or blu ray release of the actual Original Trilogy go away. We will never ever see it.

 

[Yoda]

Of course Lucas has the right to do whatever he wants with his intellectual property. And it also turns out I have the right to laugh at the direction he's taken with Star Wars and lament the fact that we won't get an HD release of the originals which I think are much better.

 

[23skidoo]

I've no objections to Lucas making obvious technical corrections. Where people lost trust in him is when he went beyond technical upgrades and, as noted, made substantial changes to characterization, digitally replacing actors (in the finale of ROTJ) and so forth. I can't see Yoda being redone for Phantom Menace - sounds a bit too much work (though granted Yoda appeared in only the one scene and the rest of the prequel trilogy featured a CGI version, so it wouldn't be a terrible thing to make things consistent - just so long as the puppet wizardry of the original trilogy remained intact.

Alex

 

[davejames]

Yeah I'm sure even HE realizes that replacing the OT Yoda would be going too far.

 

[timothy]

now are the new deleated sceens going to be put back into the movie or are they on a different disc?

 

[DigificWriter]

I've never understood all this whining, pissing, and moaning about Lucas deciding to make changes to the SW films because, NEWS FLASH, he owns the things and therefore has the right to make whatever changes he wants. If you don't like what he's done, don't buy the films. It's as simple as that.

Because a great many people grew up on these movies and loved them just the way they were. And because the more they're changed, the harder it is to appreciate them as movies of a particular time and place; instead they start to feel just as slick and artificial as every OTHER scifi movie out there today.

The fact that many people grew up on the SW films does not in any way give them any say in what Lucas does with said films. It's a simple fact, and whining, pissing, and moaning isn't going to change it.

Obviously Lucas has the right to make his changes, but that doesn't mean people can't be annoyed by it-- especially when they're the only high-quality versions we're allowed to have now.

Umm, yes it does. People don't have any grounds to be annoyed by the changes Lucas makes to the SW films because they have no controlling interest(s) in said films.

 

[I am not Spock]

I just wish Lucas would stop being stingy and do what his mate Francis Ford Coppola did on the Apocalypse Now blu ray (where he included the original 79 theatrical cut, and the 2001 Redux version). I don't mind the changes. As long as the original film is still available. Like with nearly every other major blu ray release.

 

[Yoda]

Obviously Lucas has the right to make his changes, but that doesn't mean people can't be annoyed by it-- especially when they're the only high-quality versions we're allowed to have now.

Umm, yes it does. People don't have any grounds to be annoyed by the changes Lucas makes to the SW films because they have no controlling interest(s) in said films.

I have the right to be annoyed by anything I fucking feel like, including your annoying ass post.

 

[DigificWriter]

^I have the right to be annoyed by anything I fucking feel like, including your annoying ass post.

Be annoyed (with me, with Lucas, with the entire world, for all I care) all you want, but don't expect it to change anything.

And taking offense at/being annoyed by someone or something isn't a 'right'.

 

[davejames]

I have the right to be annoyed by anything I fucking feel like, including your annoying ass post.

Exactly.