Lucas announces Star Wars Saga Release
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Acemace,
Posted on: 2011-01-06 14:52 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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No. He. Didn't.|
Originally Posted by Nericus
3. HAN SHOT FIRST!
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To say "Han shot first" is to imply that Greedo shot second. But Greedo didn't shoot at all cuz he was deaders. Han shot. Period.
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves." -Tolstoy
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Somebody must have read up that 5 page long rant I did on Joshua Jericho's Old WTHComics forum :P
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Originally Posted by GATE-keeper
No. He. Didn't.
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i always figured he did it to stop folks from buying the DVD transfers people were already making and selling of the laserdiscs. A friend of mine was one of those people. heh.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
no he did it because of the whinning of the internet fans that claimed the first dvds should have had both SEs and original versions on the disc.
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Well I guess the bright side to this new Blu Ray set is that it is very unlikely the Star Wars Holiday Special will be in it as a bonus 
We all know how Lucas feels about that particular monstrosity
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Actually no it didnt. The DVDs were availible at all stores, i got mine at target, it was only the editions packaged with the comics that was a walmart exclusive. The original movies are bonus discs for 2 reasons... 1. Lucas maintains that at the time he created the special editions those became the original movies. Essentially saying that the original trilogy as originally viewed in theaters was at that point obsolete. and 2. the original editions on those discs are created from a laser disc mastering because the original negative of the movies was destroyed in editing it and digitizing it for the creation of the special editions.
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Originally Posted by je_saist
Actually that only happened because Wal-Mart threatened with not promoting or stocking Star Wars unless Wal-Mart got to sell DVD editions of the original, pre-special edition trilogy. LucasArts countered with requiring that the DVD prints be sold as bonus discs with the special editions, rather than allowing Wal-Mart to sell the originals without the special editions.
Or did you just forget the whole thing with those DVD editions of the original, pre-special edition trilogy being a Wal-Mart exclusive: http://jediinsider.com/index.php?catid=243&itemid=9773 |
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So lucas shouldn't re-release Star Wars on any new formatts? I mean there is no Star Wars on Blu ray, what about those who want to have a blu ray addition?|
Originally Posted by Dark One
Yes, it does.
There's only so much you can do with material that was recorded on actual film and is 30+ years old. Not to mention the plethora of iterations prior to Blu-Ray. Look, I like Star Wars as much as the next geek (have an original Millenium Falcon + an original AT-AT sitting in my geek den along with a AT-ST that I had as a kid), but there comes a point when it's time to say Enough is Enough. |
And they can do plenty since they aren't working with the film anymore, they are working with digital copies of it, they can do a LOT to change it in a number of ways, look at the 2004 edition vs the original, tell me those don't look completely different...
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker
Lucas maintains that when they went to make the SEs he took the opprotunity to upgrade the failing negatives and convert them into a digital print. Thus basicly the THX process he put the movies through destroyed the original film negatives that were in archived. So when people claimed "why didnt you remaster the original theatrical versions" his response was that in 97 they were destroyed and no original negative of the original versions still existed.
Of course every cry baby still said that they wanted the originals so they made dvd masters off the laser disc which was the closest to the originals they had availible and put out a new set with both versions.
As to Dark One's question... He will keep putting them out so long as people keep buying them, and so long as AV equipment keeps progressing that creates a new market in a new format. I think its kinda funny that there was atleast 3-4 releases of them on VHS, and people bought them and kept still complaining for years that they wanted them on DVD on top of that. And he finally released them on dvd after years of dvd being the primary format in most homes.
Yet people are still converting to bluray but he makes them availible much more quickly this time and the complaints are "OMG again with a new release..." guess just proves cant keep everyone happy and us internet fanbois just love to have something to ***** about.