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I vaguely recall a very controversial interview with Lucas from years past, when he said he would not release the original trilogy ever again UNTIL the technology which he desired was finally available. Of course, he never really described such-mentioned technology. Well we all have heard that the apparent reason why he 'tinkered' with the original releases in the first place was because some of the 'technology' he needed to make those 'added' scenes was non-existant back in the 70's (CGI). Apparently those added scenes were in his notes, and just not do-able back then. Again, this is all arguable. But my point here is.....okay Lucas, you added your 'beloved' extra scenes as soon as you were able to. So what about the re-release of the originals? What more could you want from the 'technology' then BLU RAY? It's won the HD war. It is arguably, the future. Do what you said you would do... release the ORIGINALS on blu. And soon! This is finally a format large enough to include everything and anything everyone could possibly want all in 1 place. Satisfy us all by releasing a single blu-ray for each movie that includes every version ever released (they did it for T2!)....and every extra ever released. That would be a SINGLE SET OF 6-7 BLUs (perhaps 1 seperate disk for all of the extras). Not 10 seperate regular dvd sets (and lets not forget those old vhs sets some of us are still hanging on to). The double, triple, and ten-touple dipping has got to stop! Imagine that; product for the people. Your patient fans await! *****Update 8/2010***** So Lucas has announced in Celebration V that all of the episodes will be released on Blu in fall of 2011. Part of me is overjoyed. Part of me is not so sure. Time will tell with what is included. All we know is that it will most definitley be the 'ammended' versions. And, of course, he'll pull footage out of his vault that we've never seen before in the extras. So much for my idea of housing a majority of the previous extras all in one set. :( However, one of Lucas' comments left a bad taste in my mouth and I thought I would share it here. He is quoted for saying at Celebration V that "We've been wanting to do it as soon as we possibly could, but we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it." What exactly is that supposed to mean? Hmmm? My euphemism-detector is about to explode! So in other words "I didn't wanna do it until the opportune amount of people have jumped on the blu-ray bandwagon, so that I may make the most amount of money possible during it's first weeks of sale, therefore making my efforts worth while." Really???? Say it ain't so George!
September 2008 · Movies and TV
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