Plus you're forgetting every single DS dogfight shot has been removed!
That is simply not true.
Plus you're forgetting every single DS dogfight shot has been removed!
This won't wash.
Much more of the movie looks like pigswill than you make out. Even the sets and backgrounds (see Falcon in Bay 94) have been tweaked to the point that they look like a gooey digital painting. The Falcon in Bay 94 looks totally different to how it appears in the original - and far less believable.
Plus you're forgetting every single DS dogfight shot has been removed! ...
Really!!!?!?!?
I guess the endless droning diatribes about how much they suck don't count so much.
Except of course, if you take out the added scenes from Star Wars and add up all the changed stuff it equals less than 3 minutes of a 121 minutes worth of movie.
You effectively HAVE 95% of the movie on Blu-ray.
How about you just blink every now and again at just the right moments. It would be a lot simpler that whining about it all the time.
Well, it´s possible that they look the way they do because they were never meant to be seen in HD? Remove "digital" from your sentence and voilá, you are at the core of several special effects shot elements.
Yeah, right. I've got 200 $ to blow on basically getting hold of one movie and the means to watch it.
Uh, what? Really?! First I read about that! Quick, where´s a shot by shot comparison list of the various releases?! Now its getting interesting. A little.
That is simply not true.
I think this is the answer right here. It would cost money to fix the original effects (that have already been fixed how GL wants them with the digital footage). GL would have to spend money to make something that would look like like crap compared to the current version to 99% of the viewers. It just would not be a good business move despite what we think (of course I like the Original Version, that is why I bough the laser disk set, so that I could watch it that way).
Before we see an HD release of the unedited editions (to most people they would not be as good as the reissues) there would have to be proof that they could recover the costs and make money off of the project. Who would it be marketed for? Us 40+ people who are not only nostalgic but would actually know the difference and think the old version was better.
This says it all, the current BluRay of Star Wars is about $100.00, so we are not dedicated enough to stick another hundred bucks into seeing the version of the movie we want but we expect Lucas to spend millions polishing what he considers a turd? I just can't see it (although I too would love to have that origenal version on BluRay). lol:lol
I have the original trilogy ripped from a laserdisc and transfered to DVD. That's the only version I ever watch.
The same person who made that for me also made a side-by-side exact match, on the left, the laserdisc version. On the right, the DVD version. Very interesting to see how very different the two are. If you think "just blink every now and again at just the right moments" is all it takes to see the original, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. :rolleyes
Well, it´s possible that they look the way they do because they were never meant to be seen in HD? Remove "digital" from your sentence and voilá, you are at the core of several special effects shot elements.