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[Mongrel]

They did. I have the originals on DVD myself (waited a long fucking time for that, let me tell you). It was a fairly limited release and you had to buy this giant fancy boxed set that came with the CGI'd up versions as well (so six discs in total).

The funny part is that in the boxed set, the three revised DVDs are labelled as the movies, while the original theatrical cut DVDs were each simply labelled "Bonus Disc".

[Mongrel]

It's kind of funny also that I was originally one of the people who didn't mind the Special Edition at all (I mean, I do like Han shooting first, but I wasn't HORRIBLY OFFENDED, OMG). It was the retroactive prequel edits that pushed me over the edge and made me a purist.

[Brentai]

At the time I wasn't terribly put off except of course by Hayden Christensen as Anakin's ghost.  That shit makes no sense at all.

As time goes on though you start to realize the funny litle thing about CG: no matter how advanced it is when you use it, in about 5 years it will start looking a little dated.  I'm kind of worried about the current trend of shooting movies almost entirely against a green screen for this reason.  Anyway, it basically means at this point the remakes are kind of shitty looking and look shittier all the time, especially considering the way it flips sporadically from the still impressive looking models to the cheesy not-very-well-shaded renders.

[Royal☭]

Yeah, Jabba the Hutt in the first one is ugly.  I also hate the random, pointless inclusion of Boba Fett (who wasn't in the original scene, just added later when they were doing the Special Editions for theater).

Really, I just like the original films.  The CG often looks out of place, is spastic, and doesn't age well.  So hopefully he'll wizen up and release the originals on Blu-Ray, someday.  It's strange that he won't, since there's clearly a demand for them, and it would make him money.  It's like he has to prove that deep down his CGI additions are improvements.

[Classic]

I actually kind of liked the slightly longer establishing shots for some of the locales. Unfortunately, these establishing shots are only useful for places that aren't somehow more important to the Star Wars story than Coruscant.

[Brentai]

It's strange that he won't, since there's clearly a demand for them, and it would make him money.  It's like he has to prove that deep down his CGI additions are improvements.

I think that's Paramount's decision, not Lucas's.  Lucas could give a fuck.  He's just going to sign off on whatever gives him a bigger royalty cheque, and unfortunately Paramount has rightly figured out that if they put out the cockfucked version first, they can sell the thing twice to gullible fans.

[Royal☭]

Ha ha, I would place good money on the fact that Lucas probably has tight control over which ones are released, not Paramount.  Paramount knows that any Star Wars they put out there will net them mountains of cash.  Plus Lucas has stated multiple times that he thinks people should be getting the Special Editions.  So, whatevers.

[Mongrel]

Well, two things.

1: All the arguments about why the Original Trilogy will not be released on Blu-Ray are the same arguments made against the OT being released on DVD, but they still released it (eventually, with a limited release).

2: I've actually seen quite a few scenes from the trilogy at ultra high-def. Like any old sci-fi movie, some things do not look so good when seen under the electron microscope.

And Lucas with his CGI re-edits is like one of those aging beauty queens who decides one plastic surgery operation is okay, then another, and another, and before you know it she looks like Vader with the helmet off.

[Brentai]

2: I've actually seen quite a few scenes from the trilogy at ultra high-def. Like any old sci-fi movie, some things do not look so good when seen under the electron microscope.

That is a constant problem with BD but I was kind of hoping they'd take to time to do this remaster correctly.  I don't know what made me so optimistic.

I think the real problem is that 1080p is just too damned sharp of an image.  We need to junk that standard and make 720p the upper limit forever.  You're never going to convince the masses that they don't need BIGGER P'S though.

[Mongrel]

Yeah, if nothing else, it's no fun seeing the pancaked-on layers of bad makeup.

[Detonator]

It's strange that he won't, since there's clearly a demand for them, and it would make him money.  It's like he has to prove that deep down his CGI additions are improvements.

I think that's Paramount's decision, not Lucas's.  Lucas could give a fuck.  He's just going to sign off on whatever gives him a bigger royalty cheque, and unfortunately Paramount has rightly figured out that if they put out the cockfucked version first, they can sell the thing twice to gullible fans.

Ha ha, I would place good money on the fact that Lucas probably has tight control over which ones are released, not Paramount.  Paramount knows that any Star Wars they put out there will net them mountains of cash.  Plus Lucas has stated multiple times that he thinks people should be getting the Special Editions.  So, whatevers.

Star Wars is distributed by 20th Century Fox, not Paramount.

...I'll move along

[Mongrel]

I think Paramount are the distributors for the Star Trek franchise, though I've been on the Trek wagon for over a decade, so I don't know if they still are.

[Royal☭]

Well, same argument, names changed.

[Brentai]

Whoops.  Thanks for catching that.

If that's the case then it's hard to imagine any scenario in which Fox is involved and it's not somehow their fault that people are getting screwed.

[Ted Belmont]

The Dead Like Me movie really doesn't live up to the potential of the series.

 

[Thad]

As time goes on though you start to realize the funny litle thing about CG: no matter how advanced it is when you use it, in about 5 years it will start looking a little dated.

Which is one more excuse to keep re-re-re-re-remastering them every 5 years.

The Jabba who was in the theatrical Special Editions looked goofy by the time the DVD's came out, so they redid it with a new model.

I'm guessing the BD version tweaks a bunch of shit too.

Not saying I like it, but there it is.

[A²]

This releases in my birth month, and I could have sworn I read somewhere that it was being released around my birthday.

So now I have to never preorder it because I know someone in my family will give it to me.

[teg]

Got a fifty dollar gift card for winning a contest at work and used it to buy the special edition of Avatar on Blu-Ray. It's quite nice. I'm halfway through the director's cut (the one that's 16 minutes longer)
The new intro really adds a lot, surprisingly. Little glimpses of Jake's life before he left Blade Runner world to Dance With Wolves. Kinda' neat.
It's also fucking gorgeous.


This movie is like the new Lord Of The Rings:

-somehow massively popular despite being a nerd genre piece (check)
-merely passable script (check)
-incredible special effects that will look terrible in less than a decade (pending)
-huge when it came out and then nobody cared (checkeroo)
-multiple releases of increasingly elaborate collector's editions (check; this one came in that "eco-friendly" packaging with no plastic bits... yet it still needs two seperate slipcovers for some reason)

[teg]

Jesus Christ the special edition of TRON Legacy.

[Disposable Ninja]

I finally watched Blade Runner. Yeah, one of the most prolific sci-fi movies ever created, and I've never seen it. Well, I just now rectified that.

It's... not quite what I expected. I didn't expect that much cheesy 80's synthesizer music, at the very least. I'm not sure what more to think about it beyond that. I certainly didn't get the feeling that the main character might have been a Replicant himself.