Sandman  wrote:   
   :  sgordon@changethisparttohardbat.com wrote:   
   : > In a quality that obfuscates the actual technical achievements.   
   : Much like Bluray.   
      
   One clearly obfuscates considerably more than the other.   
      
   : > And, they are unlikely to be released again, at least under George's watch.   
   : Much like those silent movies...   
      
   And as I said before, I consider both to be unfortunate.   
      
   : > He looks a lot more realistic than the cheesy 90s CGI Jabba...   
   : But the SE Jabba looks more realistic than the ESB-Jabba from 1980. I   
   : don't think "realistic" is a metric you should insert into the   
   : argument here.   
      
   Duggy called the guy in furs "lame" in my response to my scenario   
   in which the Jabba scene was used as an example of bad special effects.   
   "Realistic" is an appropriate term in response to that.   
      
   : > plus, he was not even in the original release.  He was wisely   
   : > edited out... an example of Academy award winning editing being   
   : > undone.   
   : False logic. The Best Film Editing award was not awarded as a result   
   : of that scene being edited out.   
      
   It certainly wasn't awarded for the scene being edited in.   
      
   : > He would probably claim that the choice of making the original disks   
   : > non-anamorphic was an "artistic decision".   
   : No, he has openly claimed that it was a cost issues, as you know.   
      
   It costs money to check the "anamorphic" box in the encoder?   
   The same software does it anamorphic, or non-anamorphic.   
      
   : > My opinion has never been that this is a "conspiracy".  They are simply   
   : > disturbing strategic decisions, and terrible artistic decisions.   
   : I know one way to make a terrible artistic decision; to release a copy   
   : from an old outdated master that would be "decent/watchable" at best.   
      
   Your sarcasm meter must have been turned off.  Of course it would be   
   preferable to release it properly.  I find it hard to believe that it   
   is a cost issue, or an artistic decision.  He simply wants it forgotten,   
   after all the VHS copies deteriorate.  That he has made clear.   
      
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