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If you repaint your house and I no longer like the look of it as much, I have not done anything offensive to you. I?m simply expressing my aesthetic view, which is mine alone and has no bearing on anyone else. It is my right to bitch about it.

Let?s say that I like your blue house but that you re-paint it green? but wait, let?s not. You aren?t asking me to buy your house. In fact, a house is a utilitarian object, and not really comparable to a work of art.

Let?s instead say that I like your movie, quite a lot. Then one day you re-edit your movie in a way that I do not like. You change plot points and character development. Then you take the original version of the movie off the market and replace it with the new version that I dislike. Then you make a series of sequels in which you change key concepts that were important to the first film. And, let?s say I don?t like the changes you?ve made here either.

Then I don?t have to buy your movie any more. And, if I wish, I can bitch about it.

If you don't like my updated movie, then don't buy it. It's no skin off my teeth. I'm already rich beyond belief from the first time I did it. To be honest, I don't really need your money.



If you want to bitch about, go right ahead. I made the new version for myself and not for you. I didn't expect everyone to like it. The original version still exists in the forms that it always existed in. It is not my responsibility to archive my art for you in a format that you find acceptable.



If my name were Rothko or Pollock, (or maybe even Kaufman) you'd be applauding my antics.

Only one quibble: it does not (in the case of Star Wars) still exist in the form in always existed in: Lucas had the original negatives destroyed.


And yes, If you were Rothko, I might applaud your antics. But then, I discovered Mark Rothko as an adult. Star Was was, and always will be, a cherished memory of my childdhood that I can no longer enjoy in the way I once did.

I have the original copies on VHS. You need a disc?

Okay, I see what you are getting at. I have them on laser disc and VHS. My gripe has always been that when those wear out, I will be unable to get new copies.

That's why the re-work of E.T. didn't bother me: Spielberg pledged to keep both versions available.

There is a limited release of the trilogy on individual dvd's that contain a bonus disc which is a rip of the laserdisc release.

Not that you'll ever get to see them in HD or anything. Of course, it took years to get even the special edition on DVD, so...