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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
True. It's always struck me as weird that people still bang their pitchforks, "DAMN George Lucas for never releasing the original, unedited original trilogy!!!" Uh, he did. After he said he wouldn't, even. It's like even he did what everyone wanted and nobody wanted to or was able to even acknowledge it. Sure, it's the laserdisc version repurposed. But so what? It's out there, on DVD, and it looks way better than the "Final" version that saw VHS release. You can go and track it down and watch the lame Death Star explosion and TIE Fighters whooshing around with big green boxes around them to your heart's content.
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What ticks people off is that there was no reason to use a Laserdisc transfer for those DVDs. Prints of the original film still exist; it would have been easy to locate and digitize them. But because Lucas prefers his CGI ronto humor, he didn't expend any effort to give the original versions and sort of attention. They were low-quality releases. They could and should have looked better, and there are people today who have, on their own, gone and started the process the right way (look up '4k77').
04-14-2017, 11:32 AM
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