ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY COMES TO DVD!!!

Originally Posted by VeryLaZ

Then dont buy it.

Put yourself in his shoes, buy releasing this, he pleases many fans, and makes alot of money in the process.

Which he could have done in the first place when he released them on DVD. You think it took them all this time to "find" source material they could use for a DVD release? They were working with it the whole time when they made all the changes to the movie in the first place.

I mean, for god's sake, he's releasing a 2 disc edition with both versions of the film. It's obvious it could have been done from the beginning and still manage to make plenty of profit on it.

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There is only one version on DVD my friend.

You mean this one or this one?

And VHS and theater releases count too. You can't say he didn't rerelease it when he obviously did.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

but in the grand scheme of things, THEY'RE HIS FUCKING FILMS AND HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS WITH THEM.

Although truthfully, they're no more his films than the directors he chose to stand in on Empire and Return, or the actors that made up all of the characters we know and love. Etc.

He simply is in a position to ask for more money. What is there to be said? He's a fucking vampire. He may have the "right" to do whatever he wants with the film, but that doesn't mean everyone else should stop calling him a profiteering asshole for it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Karasu

I'm curious though...just this past christmas they released a different trilogy, it had a colored drawing pic of the original Star Wars cast on the cover of it. I thought that version of the trilogy was the original one, without all the special editions stuff?

Not at all. For all intents and purposes, it was the 2004 release without the 4th bonus disc, and different artwork. It was an excuse to sell more copies, and no doubt to trick people such as yourself into buying it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Tellurian

Here's what I don't get: Shouldn't it be possible to release the original (cleaned up but original content) version alongside with the SE version on the same DVD?
Other movies manage to do that. Why - short of cashing in even more - can't Star Wars do that?

That's actually the plan, unless I'm reading the article wrong. Individual film releases, with 2 discs each of original and special edition both included.

It begs the question of why they weren't both released initially, though. I'm not entirely sure I buy the explanation that it would cost millions to have done it simultaneously with the production of the 2004 release. They had to clean up the original footage to make the 1997 theatrical release, so someone in the industry has to have the unrevised, cleaned footage. The sound production is the same situation. Nothing would have needed to go to the studio if they had just kept the footage on file. From there it would just be a matter of consumer-end costs like packaging and promotion (Promotion? Ha! As if it would have been necessary.)

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