I don't know. (Off-Topic)

by Funkmon , Friday, December 18, 2015, 19:46 (3266 days ago) @ Xenos

I don't understand how you can't understand it. It's not that the changes are always awful it's a little more basic than that: it changes what we loved.

If it had been changes that were fixing some mistakes or problems (like the see through cockpits on Hoth) nobody would complain. But adding in modern CG in a movie that relied 90% on practical effects, plus actually CHANGING certain scenes (Greedo shooting first, Vader yelling when killing the Emperor) is so incredibly weird and unnecessary. And last of all: I don't think anyone would have nearly as big of an issue with it if they actually made the original version AVAILABLE, which I think is most people's problem with all the changes.

I don't know why because it's not 1996 with the movies out of print. People here give Cody shit for not liking that Destiny is forever changed, but it's something a huge number of Star Wars fans do constantly in regards to these special editions. Plus, you can buy the theatrical editions. It isn't hard.

I understand not liking the changes, which is no problem. It doesn't sufficiently explain to me the derision I see online and IRL, today, though I would understand it were we on usenet in 1999.

If it's something you loved, and you can't get it anymore, I understand. However, I see too often people looking at them with the attitude of "It's different, therefore it's worse!" I can fall into this as well, it's simple...but the talk by Star Wars nerds of the theatrical movies being so obviously superior is absurd. I mean, it's taken for granted, for some reason, and thrown in casually just as a dig at those editions, like "haha look how enlightened I am preferring the original versions." I legitimately do not know why they get the shit they do in the 2010s. Thanks for explaining why you think it is, though. It just doesn't make sense to me.

This is not an attack on Korny, but just a comment on Star Wars fans I talk to in the general populace.