I'm betting there's a different version of the exchange with Greedo that would have been used had Jabba not been cut. But when Jabba was reinserted they didn't use it, because they didn't want to remove or fully replace existing scenes.
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Best (official) Star Wars Original Trilogy re-release change?
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I doubt it. It's well known that Star Wars was saved in the edit. I'd be willing to bet George would have left both scenes in, oblivious to the redundancy. After all, that's just what he did in the Special Edition.
The Ben dragon call change is weird.
It got changed for the SE's, then again for the blurays (maybe even another time for the DVD's? Can't remember).
The original was fine, even the SE one is fine, but I dislike the Blurays version. Sounds like a sound effect being run through a digital filter, which is probably exactly what it was
It got changed for the SE's, then again for the blurays (maybe even another time for the DVD's? Can't remember).
The original was fine, even the SE one is fine, but I dislike the Blurays version. Sounds like a sound effect being run through a digital filter, which is probably exactly what it was
That's always been heavily overstated, and what I described is a basic part of filmmaking. That's why these "four hour work print cuts" exist in most cases. Redundancies that give options in the edit. Usually extra minor dialogue and extended exchanges.
Oh, this is one of those sarcastic OPs. Wonderful.
Anyway, it's the CG Yavin ships (the original model shots look awful) and ESB Wampa who looks genuinely scary
Anyway, it's the CG Yavin ships (the original model shots look awful) and ESB Wampa who looks genuinely scary
Yub Nub actually fits better now after the ST
let them have their moment of galactic happiness, don't remind me that somehow Palpatine returns ;___;
Along the same lines: there's a shot when they're in the cloud city where Han is running down a hallway; in the original trilogy, the hallway has a bunch of spots in the wall that look like they could be windows, but they're all covered up, and the re-release opens those windows so you get a nice view of the city that would befit the upper-crust of that society.
I wish Lucas had a decided to add more scenes to the space battle in Jedi so I could vote for that.
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It's this. If you lived in the clouds, you'd have windows.Poll options aren't even anything good! I really like the cloud city changes. I could chuck out the rest of the edits in all 3 though. Maybe the added Wampa shots could be kept.
Revenge of the Sith Palpatine is so fucking awful looking. But, still a good change to put him into Empire. Crazy that so little thought/effort was put into the Emperor's appearance originally.
Ghost Anakin change is also good. Dude who played Anakin in a single short scene, versus the guy that played Anakin for two entire movies. No contest, replacing him was the right call.
Ghost Anakin change is also good. Dude who played Anakin in a single short scene, versus the guy that played Anakin for two entire movies. No contest, replacing him was the right call.
"Remotely necessary". This isn't Twitter, you don't have to shorten things, lose context and gain outrage.
Definitely
Especially if you did had just watched the prequels before chronologically
Cloud city feeling more like a city in the clouds is great too
The emporer being replaced is great as well
I prefer the new ROTJ ending with Coruscant added and yeah I felt that way before the prequels, like I liked it better in 1997. I liked most of the Cloud City stuff too I think.
Wow I didn't realize Coruscant was added to ROTJ before the prequels were made o.O
Why did they have to do it so badly though? Surely they could have shot an actual pickup and not just cropped the head off some costume test and pasted it onto Shaw's body. The eyeline is not even close to where it should be.
Agreed.
also I prefer having Hayden at the end. But that's an unpopular opinion.
Monkey emperor is good, actually. Way better and understated than replacing him with prequels-era full-ham McDiarmid who uses 10 syllables to say "good". Even as a kid I could comprehend that these are movies and sometimes designs change between movies and it's fine.
I'd keep the Cloud City changes and (some) of the Mos Eisley improvements and ditch the rest.
I'd keep the Cloud City changes and (some) of the Mos Eisley improvements and ditch the rest.
Yeah it was actually one of the marketing hooks they were throwing out there "see a planet from Episode I, before Episode I!". Naboo was added after the prequels, I think in the home DVD release like much later.
Are there any fan edits that only keep the good changes? All I know about are the despecialized editions which are great, but I don't necessarily need 100% faithfulness to the extent of putting mistakes back in.
All these changes made the movies actively worse I thought with the exception of updating the force ghost to Young Anakin Skywalker which I thought was kind of a nice touch.
The least objectionable changes were cleaning up some effects. The wholesale additions and CGI shit was not needed. Even then I wouldn't give a shit if they released those "upgraded" versions so long as the unaltered versions were also made available. Doing shit the way Lucas did it sucks, especially when it came to fucking with other director's work. Yeah, chimp face Emperor looks goofy, but it adds to the charm of the series. People loved those movies, warts and all, Lucas shat on them.
Replacing the original Vader actor for Hayden Christianson was fucking stupid. Why did he de-age as a force ghost but Obi Wan and Yoda didn't? He really thought so little of his audience that they wouldn't realise it was Anakin at the end? I know they were made for kids but kids aren't THAT dumb.
Replacing the original Vader actor for Hayden Christianson was fucking stupid. Why did he de-age as a force ghost but Obi Wan and Yoda didn't? He really thought so little of his audience that they wouldn't realise it was Anakin at the end? I know they were made for kids but kids aren't THAT dumb.
This is probably the only one worth anything.Replacing monkey eyes woman with Ian McDiarmid for sure.
I honestly cannot tell what the fuck is going on with the original. What's around his eyes? Is that his face? A mask?Replacing monkey eyes woman with Ian McDiarmid for sure.
I think it was some old woman in a mask or something like that.
But yeah this is probably the best change, with the Cloud City windows change being an unoffensive change.
This is the only one I like. Alternatively, I hate the Jabba scene and wish they'd redo it with proper CG. It looks so cheesy by today's standards.
It's ruined by the strange color choices in the sky that aren't seen reflected in bounce light on the white walls or the actors. It looks like someone cut out some magazine pictures of clouds and glued them onto the film cells.