Nobody owns Star Wars!

[Avalon]

I thought this was going to be a a thread about George Lucas putting Star Wars in the public domain. I mean, my head would have exploded, but that would've been pretty cool.

Huh, I guess my brain works different that everyone else because I expected this thread to be a startling announcement that due to esoteric legal reasons, George Lucas has lost the rights to Star Wars and they are now in the public domain. Shoot.

I had the same thought initially. Oddly enough, now I can't read the title without giving it the same inflection as "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"



Sorry, RoJo. (Checked around but it wasn't on any instant-access things like IMDb or Amazon's Video On Demand.)

 

[J.T.B.]

I think it's friggin' hilarious that for years people were crying about the Special Editions and demanding Lucas release the originals on DVD. Then...he did. And years later, people are still demanding that the originals be released!

Yes, they were released in DVD format, and that's about it. No effort was taken beyond converting the 1993 Laserdisc transfers to a DVD format. No accounting was made for the advances made in home video in the intervening years. If screened on a TV made to today's technological standards they are practically unwatchable. There is no anamorphic conversion, the picture is soft, very grainy and full of processing artifacts.

It kinda' shows the true colours of the SE/PT/Lucas haters, as far as I'm concerned.

How does wanting to be able to view the original releases in a reasonably watchable home video form constitute false colors?

--Justin

 

[captcalhoun]

i have the OT and TPM and AOTC on VHS and ROTS on DVD. and i have 3 working VHS players in the house.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Huh, I guess my brain works different that everyone else because I expected this thread to be a startling announcement that due to esoteric legal reasons, George Lucas has lost the rights to Star Wars and they are now in the public domain. Shoot.

PS, I own no Star Wars movies either, but I'm not really a big buyer of stuff anyway. JJ Abrams' movie was the first Star Trek DVD I've ever owned (yes, including all the TV series too).

I've probably seen the original Star Wars less than everyone else in this thread. I'm not even certain of the count, but it would be no more than 4 or 5 times.

What I was expecting (before I saw that it was Rojo) was some fanboy rant about how no one really owns Star Wars because it belongs to the fans, so, George Lucas shouldn't mess with "our" movie. Have I been here too long if that was my first reaction?

 

[RoJoHen]

Huh, I guess my brain works different that everyone else because I expected this thread to be a startling announcement that due to esoteric legal reasons, George Lucas has lost the rights to Star Wars and they are now in the public domain. Shoot.

PS, I own no Star Wars movies either, but I'm not really a big buyer of stuff anyway. JJ Abrams' movie was the first Star Trek DVD I've ever owned (yes, including all the TV series too).

I've probably seen the original Star Wars less than everyone else in this thread. I'm not even certain of the count, but it would be no more than 4 or 5 times.

What I was expecting (before I saw that it was Rojo) was some fanboy rant about how no one really owns Star Wars because it belongs to the fans, so, George Lucas shouldn't mess with "our" movie. Have I been here too long if that was my first reaction?

Something something shot first something something...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Something like that

 

[RoJoHen]

I can promise I will never care who shot first.

 

[Trent Roman]

Funny, I was thinking about this yesterday at the store, where I spotted the ('a'?) DVD box set. I had the original trilogy, plus Phantom Menace, on VHS, and the last two on DVD. I thought about picking the set up (I'm bypassing Blu-ray, so no worries there), but honestly, it would be out of completionism more than anything else; I watched them so often as a child that watching them now seems redundant. Maybe that's why many other fans haven't bothered upgrading to a new format.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[PsychoPere]

Funny, I was thinking about this yesterday at the store, where I spotted the ('a'?) DVD box set.

"A" box set would be correct. There have been three releases of the original trilogy on DVD: the first box set in 2004 (with the fantastic Empire of Dreams documentary); individual film releases in 2006 (with the 1993 Laserdisc transfers as "special features"); and a 2008 box set (these discs are the same as the 2006 release, meaning no special features disc from the 2004 release).

 

[RoJoHen]

I went into Best Buy today to see what they had available, and I ended up buying the LOTR trilogy instead.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

i have the OT and TPM and AOTC on VHS and ROTS on DVD.

OK. I C.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I can promise I will never care who shot first.

QFT.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I went into Best Buy today to see what they had available, and I ended up buying the LOTR trilogy instead.

Good call. Especially if you eventually plan on getting SW on BR.

 

[Holdfast]

Huh, I guess my brain works different that everyone else because I expected this thread to be a startling announcement that due to esoteric legal reasons, George Lucas has lost the rights to Star Wars and they are now in the public domain. Shoot.

Don't worry; that was my preconception too. The legal fireworks would have been quite something to see.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I'm currently using the prequel trilogy as areas for my Miller Genuine Draft to stand so my desk isn't messed up...

As for the original trilogy...or bi-logy (as I don't really acknowledge ROTJ much these days; and I usually tell people just getting into SW to just watch the first two)....I'm a little behind. There are other movies I need to get on DVD first.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The second one does end with a cliff hanger. Granted ROTJ isn't as good, but it's hard to not at least acknowledge its existence.

 

[sidious618]

I love RotJ. The scenes with the Emperor, Darth Vader and Luke is Star Wars at its absolute best.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's probably because all the movies were out by the time I was born and I had always watched them in marathon form on TV, but I have a hard time distinguishing any of the original trilogy movies from one another. To me, they are all just one big movie.

 

[Skywalker]

I love RotJ. The scenes with the Emperor, Darth Vader and Luke is Star Wars at its absolute best.

Agreed. It's a little slow to get going, and yeah, the Ewoks are lame and the second Death Star's kind of repetitive, but ROTJ definitely deserves to be counted alongside ANH and TESB.

 

[Python Trek]

It's probably because all the movies were out by the time I was born and I had always watched them in marathon form on TV, but I have a hard time distinguishing any of the original trilogy movies from one another. To me, they are all just one big movie.

....trying...not to......say......."whippersnapper".......feel....need to say...."prequels suck!"........ackk! <and Python Trek dies>