heya
pictured here are the covers for the original versions of the Star Wars films, due in September 2006. the most excellent Star Wars box set was released last year (or the year before), but as you may be aware, a lot of people cried about the fact that they were the "Special Editions" and not the original cinematic versions. after a lot of crying and whingeing (some people claiming that George Lucas had "destroyed their childhood" and worse), they have released the original versions. and people are still not happy!!
OK, i am quite the fan of different versions of films; for that see my comments in regards of Apocalypse Now. i am delighted to be able to buy these versions of Star Wars. you would have thought that these "purists" would be too. nope.
first off, some of them are complaining about the covers. yes, the covers!!!! how sad is that? like you are not going to buy a film or cd or whatever because of the cover?? get real??
following on from that, there seems to be a great deal of crying over the lack of a 5.1, DTS or whatever they are soundtracks, and then this whole "anamorphic" transfer to DVD either happening or not happening. oh, grow up!!!
if you want the "original" experience of Star Wars beyond these releases, go buy yourself a feal-bitten old cinema and run a print of the film that has been scratched and fixed from here to eternity. failing that, go get a BETAMAX or V2000 and watch them on that. this is the 21st Century, you know!
from my side, not that they will read this, cheers to George Lucas and 20th Century Fox for making these releases possible. if nothing else it will kill off the horrid bootleg market for these versions.
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