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See Also: Star Wars.

Oh geez the Star Wars special edition is one of the stronger arguments in favor of immutability

Seriously. Like how on Earth did he think blocking the whole screen with a CGI dinosaur was an improvement? (https://youtu.be/OEch4j4KyoU?t=353)

Because the Special Editions aren't for you. They're an advert for ILM's services. The target audience is movie makers, producers, directors, executives etc. They can see all the whizz-bang effects that ILM are able to produce - and how they can revitalise old movies.

But that shot just looks awful.

And also a warm-up to see what ILM could do in Episode I. The people working on the SE pretty much rolled right into working on TPM when it was finished.

Interesting

> Luke's lightsaber During the training scene aboard the Millennium Falcon, Luke's lightsaber—which in some releases had erroneously appeared green—was corrected to blue for the 2019 release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releas...

See Also: Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. That's a good reason to not take a hardline stance on film immutability.

A key point being that both versions are available with the same quality of image and are both remastered with equal care on re-releases. By contrast, something resembling the theatrical versions of Star Wars not been available since laserdisc.
I say change whatever you want about your movie; but please make available the version of the movie we fell in love with.

There was a hasty and poorly implemented transfer of the LD's included as a bonus feature on a DVD release. No up-res so LD is the latest version according to moi.

Please? We don't need to grovel. The Internet never forgets. Watch Harmy's Despecialized Edition. It was made by this school teacher from Czechoslovakia and he's got more talent Industrial Light & Magic. I'm surprised ILM hasn't renamed itself like Xe and Meta after what Lucas did.

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