Intentionally Left Blank

I'm planning to pick them up on my lunchbreak on Tuesday, since they're going to be available pretty much anywhere, and there are multiple anywheres near the office.

I'm also pretty much resigned to the idea that I'll wind up purchasing the films again at some point. Lucas will discover that the original negatives have been stored behind the breakfast cereal in the ILM break room cabinets for the last ten years, and then we'll get a remastered version, sans extra crap. Or maybe we'll finally get the ability to choose which bits get to be enhanced by the edits in the special and extra-special editions.

OK, maybe if I can have everything I want in format I'm not likely to abandon for a few years, I might consider buying again. But otherwise what is on its way will suffice.

Give it time. I only *just* purchased the LotR movies with the most recent release of those. That's taken three years since the last one was in theaters, and, really, they've been very aggressive with those releases.

(I always get mad when I think about this, though. Why does it take two DVDs to give me different edits of a film? As long as the source footage is all of roughly equivalent quality--and it isn't with the Star Wars release, but it really should be--why can't the DVD build a play list in software to include or skip different sequences? I know my player has a facility to skip scenes or use different angles for footage which doesn't meet the player's default rating, which is a user-settable option. I don't think anything actually uses this feature, though. God forbid I should sully the film maker's pristine artistic vision.)

In particular, I imagine somebody will do something with it when the next convenient anniversary rolls around, there will be a new edition with new(ish) (combinations of) features that haven't been available before (in this format, combination and/or decade).