XPost: alt.fan.starwars, alt.startrek, rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc   
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   From: jax@knickersjaxtrawstudios.com   
      
   "C'Pi"  wrote in message   
   news:4391c031$0$90070$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...   
   > The Merry Piper wrote:   
   > > On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:09:17 -0000, "Jaxtraw"   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>   
   > >> I'd think for the same reason as if, say, Paramount went back to TOS   
   > >> and redid all the special effects- that would be an interesting   
   > >> thing to see. But I'd still want the originals as broadcast to watch   
   > >> as well.   
   > >   
   > > I think I understand your point, but ... the changes to the films seem   
   > > minor.  I'm not trying to belittle your point of view, mind you, I'm   
   > > just saying the upgraded version of the SW films are basically what   
   > > they were before.  The average person, having seen the SW:ANH when it   
   > > aired in 1977 and the new version would have been hard-pressed to tell   
   > > someone what the changes were.   
   >   
   > Ah, yes, but the average person isn't an anal retentive fanboy.   
   >   
   > C'Pi   
   >   
   >   
   Well maybe. I'm not a big Star Wars fan- haven't seen The Phantom Menace for   
   instance. But to me, Star Wars was a magical experience I had as an 11 year   
   old boy who had only up to that point seen clunky sci-fi movies with dodgy   
   special effects. TOS was the most advanced SFX I'd ever seen, I think. So   
   sitting in the ABC cinema Northampton, having queued around the block for   
   *ages* with my dad, watching this at that time near-miraculous spectacle is   
   one of those Great Personal Memories.   
      
   Of course we all got pretty jaded pretty quickly after that. The slew of   
   sci-fi that followed Star Wars saw to that. But that moment- seeing Star   
   Wars for the first time. Phenomenal. I think these things matter, in a small   
   way.   
      
   I don't like some of Lucas's use of CGI. Some of it looks great. But the CGI   
   aliens and creatures shoved into Star Wars look fake and cartoonish; fake in   
   a way that the rubber mask aliens of the original don't. It's a more   
   different, jarring kind of fake. I can look at the muppet Yoda and suspend   
   belief. But the tricksy stuff going on in the background when Luke enters   
   Mos Eisley, for instance, it just doesn't work for me at all. As such, I   
   think I'd prefer to watch the original, without the updated special effects.   
   As I say tho, not a huge fan of Star Wars per se anyway, so it's not really   
   something I stay awake nights worrying about.   
      
   Ian   
      
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