The Official Boycott Star Wars Bluray thread

I haven't been trying to force GL's hand to do something I want through a boycott, I just have not bought the SE BR for 2 reasons, #1, I already have a hacked-up version of the film on DVD, had I known he would keep messing with it I would have gotten the DVDs before Hayden showed up in Jedi. #2, I don't have anything to play blue ray discs on :lol! I'll be getting a player soon, but I'll wait to see what the Mouse does with SW, if he sees enough money to be made in a blue ray release of a remastered original trilogy without all the BS, then he'll release it. The Mouse is a capitalist more than anything else! :lol
 
I wouldn't be holding my breath if I were any of you.

LFL is still calling it's own shots just like Marvel still is. This decision is in KK's hands now, not disney's. The only thing that could change that is that GL's long held reason would be that it's too expensive, and disney could just say 'we'll foot the bill'. I wouldn't expect LFL themselves to up and change that decision. But since the unaltered version is only on DVD and not spruced up - it's a possibility it could be redone for BR - but as I understand it they've got substantially larger SW fish to fry right now :)
 
James Kenobi 1138 said:
Oh yeah, you guys were going to boycott the Blu-ray edition unless George releases the original editions on Blu-ray.

So, how did that work out for you guys ?
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I don't own them and don't need them. If I want to watch the OT, I have these (and yes still have the players available)
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James Kenobi 1138 said:
Oh yeah, you guys were going to boycott the Blu-ray edition unless George releases the original editions on Blu-ray.

So, how did that work out for you guys ?
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working out great, still have the originals on bootleg dvd spank u very much

cboath said:
I wouldn't be holding my breath if I were any of you.

LFL is still calling it's own shots just like Marvel still is. This decision is in KK's hands now, not disney's. The only thing that could change that is that GL's long held reason would be that it's too expensive, and disney could just say 'we'll foot the bill'. I wouldn't expect LFL themselves to up and change that decision. But since the unaltered version is only on DVD and not spruced up - it's a possibility it could be redone for BR - but as I understand it they've got substantially larger SW fish to fry right now :)
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foot the bill.............. **** that!

GL could have paid for it out of the pocket change in his couch. hes worth billions. even more so that di$ney's gave him 2 billion cash and stocks. hes got NO excuse. di$ney would have no excuse to release them if they wanted to either.
 
cboath said:
This decision is in KK's hands now, not disney's. The only thing that could change that is that GL's long held reason would be that it's too expensive, and disney could just say 'we'll foot the bill'.
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Yes, but the $ excuse was BS from the start. The real reason was because this was what George wanted for his films. Now that the artist is out there's nobody holding that release back.

I'm not holding my breath and I'm not boycotting anything but the only OT I'll buy is an original one. I've got the Laserdisc rips from the DVD set as my trilogy.
 
Solo4114 said:
It's different, though. This isn't social embarrassment. This is art. I'm sure the guys in KISS are deeply embarrassed about their brief flirtation with disco. I'll bet Harrison Ford regrets making K-19 The Widowmaker. Hell, I'd bet there were paintings that Picasso did where he went back and said "Man, this is a piece of CRAP."

But you know what? You don't then go back and add a pink robot to Guernica just because you felt creatively limited by the unavailability of the one pink pigment you needed to really pull it off at the time. You don't turn Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 into a teetotaler because you don't like sending a message to the kids that it's ok to be a drunk.

You don't do these things because it's bad to **** with art, even if you're the original artist. These things exist BEYOND the artist, and that's the thing Lucas has never gotten or at least never cared about. I mean, yeah, legally he can do what he wants. But ethically? I think it's a mistake to not merely change but also suppress past versions long after you've released them, just because you got a wild hare up your ass about how you want all the colors to be brighter or whatever.
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Well, I know all that... I mean we've been over it before. All I was meaning was that perhaps Lucas's subjective feelings equate to those that attach to acute social embarassment... I'm looking for some psychological factor that'd you know sort of explain his attitude a bit...

I've always been unable to fathom how he could have been so bitterly disappointed in 1977 with the film's effects (he gave points in the film's profits to the main actors, to the composer, to the production designer etc. but none to anyone at ILM). His sense of quality control must've been absolutely rabid, ruthless, to have only given a reluctant pass to fx shots which constituted the greatest fx in history at that point. See, to my mind, the strangeness we see in his attitude today goes right back to the making of Star Wars itself.... and was a necessary factor in bringing the original film up to the standard of excellence it has. The wild weed he has up his ass today over 'perfecting his vision' is only the same weed that caused him to deliver a masterpiece in '77 instead of a piece of garbage. It's a double-edged sword that brought us joy in '77 and misery in '97, but it's the same sword....though maybe it's, you know, gone a bit rusty, lol...
 
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Your points would be much more clear to me if you presented them in full 1080pHD like my Blu-ray of ESB.

(ooh, it's the Carbon Freezing Chamber scene- check out that detail on the side panels !)
 
James Kenobi 1138 said:
Your points would be much more clear to me if you presented them in full 1080pHD like my Blu-ray of ESB.

(ooh, it's the Carbon Freezing Chamber scene- check out that detail on the side panels !)
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Oh, I see. Are we playing the snarky game? Ok, well, enjoy Greedo's miserable aim, Loony Toons color timing, the awful ROTJ musical number, and "Awkward Anakin" and "Weesa freeeee!" at the end there.

I'd ask you if any of this bothers you, but I'm sure you'd just say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" like Vader does before chucking Palpatine down a reactor chute.
 
Yeah, I was just having a bit of fun.

I do like the BR versions, but I still love the originals too. To me it's almost 2 different movies- the regular and the 'directors cut'.

I like and dislike different things about both versions.
 
James Kenobi 1138 said:
Yeah, I was just having a bit of fun.

I do like the BR versions, but I still love the originals too. To me it's almost 2 different movies- the regular and the 'directors cut'.

I like and dislike different things about both versions.
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:thumbsup

I'm with you on that. There's still stuff in the original OT that I look at and thing "well that was kinda goofy..." The wolfman costume, for example, in the Cantina.

As I've said, I'd love to see a package that lets you choose among the versions you want to see, or better still, let's you "custom build" your preferred version and then plays it seamlessly. Guess we'd need streaming content for that.
 
Is there a re-mastered version on DVD without Hayden? without "NOOOOOOO" and without the greedo screwup? If so when did it get released?
 
Bigdaddy said:
Is there a re-mastered version on DVD without Hayden? without "NOOOOOOO" and without the greedo screwup? If so when did it get released?
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Nope.

There was a DVD release a few years back that had a bonus disc with the original cut on it but it was just a rip of the laserdisc.
 
Orange_Blend said:
Ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, the original SE didn't have Hayden and "Nooo".
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Right, but the original SE hasn't been released on DVD. The only DVD releases were the 2004 ones, and the 2006 ones. and the only difference between the 2004 and 2006 versions was the extra "official ebay copy" of the OT. It was (in my estimation) released to help combat the thriving business on ebay of people selling exactly what it was: rips of the laserdisc.

The '93 laserdisc, at 480p and letterboxed, is unfortunately the highest resolution version we have available. You can read more about it (and why it sucks for modern home theaters) here.

On May 25 of this year, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars' opening night, I sat down and watched the "ebay rip" version. The film itself is still great fun and had me grinning throughout. The viewing experience, though, is a different story. I was watching it on a widescreen computer monitor, and even then, it's really lousy resolution, and the 4:3 letterboxed issue is a pain in the ass. You either get a completely shrunken image, a weirdly warped image, or a cut off image. Those are your options.

This is what it looks like if you don't zoom:

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That's why folks are hoping for better following the Disney buyout.
 
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