09-14-2004, 01:31 PM
MEAT,Sep 14 2004, 01:01 AM Wrote:What pisses me off is how the Star Wars marketing team has intentionally held off on the 'deleted' scenes of episode 4-6 for a final release of all six combined movies in 2007. That bastard knows we will all buy the package too, if anything just for the deleted scenes!Ever since 20th Century Fox granted Lucas sole merchandising rights to the first Star Wars film, he's been making a buck from clever (and not-so-clever) marketing strategies ever since. (Fox's reason for their multibillion-dollar blunder: the head honchos thought Star Wars would flop at the box office. ;))
I'm making bootleg DVDs from the good copies of the original 4-6. (Remember the re-release of the originals right before Phantom Menace came out? Also saw all three movies at the local dollar theater before it went out of business; again, this was clever marketing strategy for Team Lucas, letting the public remember the originals before the edited films and before Phantom Menace.)
The man may need a leash now, but he could make a fine movie once upon a time.
UPDATE: Spamblaster.