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Originally Posted by RUB2
Don't mistake narrative quality and content for visual quality.
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I know you don't know this about me, but I have a university education in drama, so I can wax poetic on character development, exposition, denoument, story arcs etc with the best of them. As such, I'm probably the least likely member of this community to ever be credibly accused of such a thing as you allude. But visual quality is precisely what we were discussing; I invoked those films for the simple fact that you invoked your 1970's black & white tv, somehow implying (as I mentioned above) that if something is black & white it's not good.
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Originally Posted by RUB2
It just so happens that I have seen several of those films, in higher resolution on a 4K monitor.
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Good for you. I'm sure it was a breathtaking experience. [/sarcasm]
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The stories remain great and the visual experience is better.
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Guess you missed the part above where I said "'perfect' is often the enemy of 'good enough'". I don't need it, so I'm not going to get it. And you know what? The picture might not be perfectly crisp & clean, but I can still enjoy the movie even with a slightly less defined image on the screen.
Since classic movies are de rigeur for this discussion though, how about this: in 2005, LucasFilm released the original Star Wars trilogy as double discs. The first disc was the "contemporarily updated with all the added changes, reworked scenes & new musical numbers" version. Essentially, the "penultimate" version of each movie the way George Lucas wanted it to look like. In essence, this is what he wished he could have released in 1977/1980/1983 and would have had the technology been available at the time.
The second disc, however, is how each of these movies were originally released. Ep IV was simply called "Star Wars", Han shot first, Jeremy Bulloch voiced Boba Fett, there was a woman with prosthetics mouthing to a man voicing The Emperor who clearly was not The Emperor as he appeared at the second Death Star, Jabba had a modest, relaxed song playing in his palace and there wasn't a galactic celebration mere seconds after that second Death Star was destroyed. Most importantly, the ghost of Anakin Skywalker was played by the same actor who wore the Darth Vader helmet after killing the Emperor, instead of Hayden Christenson from Ep III.
Why do you think these original versions of the Star Wars movies were included in these dvds? Could it be because... In spite of all these technical innovations and updated graphics, people are perfectly ok with stuff as they originally appeared, even though it's not "perfect"? Could it be that... 'perfect' is often the enemy of 'good enough'?
The mind wanders.