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   Duggy  wrote:   
   : On Nov 23, 9:40?am, sgor...@changethisparttohardbat.com wrote:   
   : > and so I think it is unfortunate that we can't see the effects   
   : > and the editing that won the oscars in 1977.   
   : We can.  They are available on DVD.   
      
   In a quality that obfuscates the actual technical achievements.   
   And, they are unlikely to be released again, at least under George's watch.   
      
   : > I think a far more accurate description, is that there are very few people   
   : > that even realize that the new releases aren't the theatrical versions.   
   : Really?  You honestly think that?  That people can't tell the   
   : difference?   
      
   I gave the example below.   
      
   : > I was listening to the radio while driving last year (a daytime talk show),   
   : > and the co-hosts were talking about how inferior the 1977 effects were to   
   : > the prequel effects, and they used the Jabba scene from the SE as their   
   : > example of a bad 1977 effect!  And these are alleged Star Wars fans.   
   : That guy in furs was pretty lame.   
      
   He looks a lot more realistic than the cheesy 90s CGI Jabba... plus, he   
   was not even in the original release.  He was wisely edited out... an   
   example of Academy award winning editing being undone.  Now we get Solo's   
   spacecraft reveal prematurely.   
      
   : > Most fans I know prefer the original versions.  But you and I probably hang   
   : > with a set of differently-inclined fans, so I'm not sure either of us could   
   : > lay claim to which is more popular.   
   : Sales figures?   
      
   I don't see how sales figures could be used to compare relative popularity,   
   when the two versions can't be bought separately.   
      
   : > to one that many believe was intentionally made non-anamorphic so   
   : > that it would suffer by comparison.   
   : Conspiracy!   
      
   The word "conspiracy" comes from the word "conspire".  As I've said many   
   times, I don't think this is a conspiracy at all.  It's one person's   
   decisions and he is doing them openly.  He would probably claim that the   
   choice of making the original disks non-anamorphic was an "artistic decision".   
   My opinion has never been that this is a "conspiracy".  They are simply   
   disturbing strategic decisions, and terrible artistic decisions.   
      
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