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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 2368118" data-attributes="member: 505">Well, there is a difference in the Shakespeare analogy since you are comparing films which were seen by millions of people long before the special editions with an unknown discovery.  An unproduced play is different from a blockbuster film.  You are right that there aren't that many cases of creators going back and altering their films.  Usually, you end up with a "director's cut" after the movie hits video or DVD, but, in thoses cases, it's usually because the director isn't happy with changes the studio made.One case I can think of when the director simply changed his mind is Donnie Darko.  From what I understand, people seem to like the original much better.  In this case, like the special editions, people would rather watch the original.There is also the John Carpenter example.  He took a film he made, Assault On Precinct 13, and remade it as Ghosts Of Mars.  He also virtually remade Escape From New York when he did Escape From LA.  People like the originals better.In other words, people like the new versions if they are actually better and the orignals if they think they were made worse.  Most people, critics included, don't like the special edition of the first Star Wars as much as the original.  No, I think people do notice the Greedo scene since it just looks so odd.  He's two feet away with his gun aimed at Han's chest, but he fires up in the air?  Kind of like when Van Helsing fired his grappling gun from the top of the castle to a tree 3 miles away.  They just look at the screen and say, "Oh, come on!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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