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Okay, so George Lucas took forever to release the original trilogy on VHS. I still have mine, thank God, since Lucas never released the theatrical versions on DVD. Instead he released his tarted up version. That's his prerogative as director.
He said he wouldn't release the originals until the technology caught up with his vision, or some such nonsense. Okay, Mr. Lucas, Blu-Ray is here. Now will you please release them? You can include your CGI-filled versions and still have plenty of room to include a remastered update of the theatrical versions.
Hell, why not throw in the unremastered versions, too? I get a kick out of seeing some of the imperfect effects and remembering how state-of-the-art it was when I saw it in the 1980's. What's wrong with that? Why should Lucas kill our nostalgia because he can't leave them alone? I know they're his movies but he would make plenty of money from giving us what we want. Considering all the merchandising from Ewoks to Xbox games, he doesn't mind raking in the cash.
Also, on a separate note, Amazon's "First to Know" function is not letting me submit my email to be notified if and when it does come out on Blu-Ray. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Why? Why don't you release Star Wars on Blu-Ray? Your greed has ruined the whole Star Wars experience for me. Are you happy? Go ahead and release a new dvd version with special packaging.
PS: Please add Jar Jar to the original trilogy....He's so funny!!!
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Raise your hand if you remember how long it took for the Star Wars Trilogy (any version at all) to become available on DVD.
For nearly two decades, Star Wars was *the* movie with which to showcase high-end home theater systems. Any store that was selling big-screen TVs and Surround Sound receivers (back when both were prohibitively expensive for the average household) was guaranteed to have a copy of Star Wars on hand, to show off the hardware.
Then DVDs came out and blew VHS and LaserDiscs out of the water. And long after DVDs had firmly been established as the video format of choice, George Lucas still waited years to release any version of Star Wars (even the versions he tampered with) on DVD. It seemed ridiculous that these movies, which were so ahead of their time that they were still being used as the litmus test of home theater technology 20 years later, were only available in an inferior and obsolete format that was rapidly losing market share.
And now, he's doing it again. Giant TVs and high definition video are rapidly becoming the norm. Judging by George Lucas's unprecedented use of spare-no-expense digital movie magic, it's clear he's no purist or technophobe. So what's the hold-up? Why must we *again* wait for what was once the greatest home theater showpiece to play catch-up with the mainstream technology? The entire Star Wars saga should have been one of the first things released on Blu-Ray, not the last. (Though I'd still hold out for a remastered-but-otherwise-un-tampered-with version of the original trilogy. I don't much care for the edited versions or the new trilogy).
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I hope they don't release this in a trilogy...I want the full boxed set, episodes I - VI.
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Of course, I would love to see the original trilogy on blu ray. But I didn't mind SOME of the changes Lucas made - until I saw Hayden Christensen standing in the place of Sebastian Shaw at the end of Return of the Jedi. That ruins the entire trilogy for me!
And I think the latest trilogy (episodes I-III) was simply Lucas' transition into producing cartoons (i.e. Clone Wars). But hey, what can we do, it's his baby, not ours (just like politicians will do what they want, regardless of what "we the people" want).
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