So according to the Sunday ads last week, Best Buy had a unique metal-tin set version of the re-re-re-released original Trilogy, and the ad specifically stated limited quantities, ONLY 20 per store!
Just let that sink in for a while, while i take a shower
So I skipped out of work to get to Best Buy when they opened on Tuesday to get my limited edition tin at the special tuesday price. Well, there was no line, and there were a bleedy 80-some copies of the tin. So I'm mad a best buy for lying to me in their ad.
:flamethrower:
But most of all I'm made at myself for letting George Lucas rape me. Of course, what we've all been begging for for the last 10 years was here, DVD versions of the original theatrical unbutchered trilogy. Despite Wacko Luko's promise to the contrary.
But does he even have the audacity to release them as they are? No, they have to be bundled with like the 4th re-re-re-re-release of the re-re-mastered trilogy with Meow Skywalker and the gay Boba Fett. And on top of that, they're only in like 300 lines of resolution instead of 720p.
Of course until this happened, I was just planning to purchase a bootleg off of E-bay which is just the Laserdisc Definititve Edition Dolby 2.0, which is exactly what this is, and I would have been completely satisfied with that. But being that Lucas was making a true official release, why the hell not bother to give us original theatrical resolution (as for some people's complaints about the 5.1, it wasn't originally that way anyway, and my receiver can create 6.1 from stereo anyway).
So, why did I buy it? For the simple fact that getting a legit copy didn't cost that much more than a bootleg, plus I didn't have to worry that I'd pick the wrong auction and end up with one of those VHS transfers. But mostly, but make sure best buy, the media industry, and george lucas got one more tick on the chart to show that people DO want the originals.
But it was still a raping. He didn't do it becuase he cared about the fact that he is erasing two wonderful ROTJ songs from history and replacing them with utter crap, and that he accidentally came to work one day high on PCP and having homo-erotic daydreams and gave Sarlacc a giant fallace. He did it because he knew we're buying bootlegs off of e-bay, and he knows that if he builds it, we will buy it. Mmmm money. So he makes a quick buck off of everybody.
And then within 2 years, guaranteed, he releases the original theatrical trilogy with full HD video and 9.3 audio (or whatever they think we'll need to have by then), and he knows that we'll all go buy it again. His marketting cunning allows him to make the entire population of geekdom purchase the SAME MOVIE TWICE just like people of lesser morals bought all three releases of the butchered trilogy just because he kept coming out with a new one.
:rant
Ah yeah. So there's not enough posts going on on SegaXtreme lately. And what'st he deal with a 4-smiley limit on posts? I can't possibly conveigh my mood with only 4 smilies.
Just let that sink in for a while, while i take a shower
So I skipped out of work to get to Best Buy when they opened on Tuesday to get my limited edition tin at the special tuesday price. Well, there was no line, and there were a bleedy 80-some copies of the tin. So I'm mad a best buy for lying to me in their ad.
:flamethrower:
But most of all I'm made at myself for letting George Lucas rape me. Of course, what we've all been begging for for the last 10 years was here, DVD versions of the original theatrical unbutchered trilogy. Despite Wacko Luko's promise to the contrary.
But does he even have the audacity to release them as they are? No, they have to be bundled with like the 4th re-re-re-re-release of the re-re-mastered trilogy with Meow Skywalker and the gay Boba Fett. And on top of that, they're only in like 300 lines of resolution instead of 720p.
Of course until this happened, I was just planning to purchase a bootleg off of E-bay which is just the Laserdisc Definititve Edition Dolby 2.0, which is exactly what this is, and I would have been completely satisfied with that. But being that Lucas was making a true official release, why the hell not bother to give us original theatrical resolution (as for some people's complaints about the 5.1, it wasn't originally that way anyway, and my receiver can create 6.1 from stereo anyway).
So, why did I buy it? For the simple fact that getting a legit copy didn't cost that much more than a bootleg, plus I didn't have to worry that I'd pick the wrong auction and end up with one of those VHS transfers. But mostly, but make sure best buy, the media industry, and george lucas got one more tick on the chart to show that people DO want the originals.
But it was still a raping. He didn't do it becuase he cared about the fact that he is erasing two wonderful ROTJ songs from history and replacing them with utter crap, and that he accidentally came to work one day high on PCP and having homo-erotic daydreams and gave Sarlacc a giant fallace. He did it because he knew we're buying bootlegs off of e-bay, and he knows that if he builds it, we will buy it. Mmmm money. So he makes a quick buck off of everybody.
And then within 2 years, guaranteed, he releases the original theatrical trilogy with full HD video and 9.3 audio (or whatever they think we'll need to have by then), and he knows that we'll all go buy it again. His marketting cunning allows him to make the entire population of geekdom purchase the SAME MOVIE TWICE just like people of lesser morals bought all three releases of the butchered trilogy just because he kept coming out with a new one.
:rant
Ah yeah. So there's not enough posts going on on SegaXtreme lately. And what'st he deal with a 4-smiley limit on posts? I can't possibly conveigh my mood with only 4 smilies.
