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Detailed Changes In Star Wars DVD Release w/Pics
JSDopefish writes "DVD news site dvdanswers.com has written a pretty cool article on the changes in Star Wars: Episode IV. A list of changes is nothing new, but this version has detailed screenshots and comparisons between the 1977 original, the 1997 reissue, and the 2004 DVD version. He plans one for Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi, but they're not out yet."
He managed to get screenshots of the 1977 release, since the one that ended up on video all those years ago wasn't the same as what I saw 50 times in the theatre. I know C3P0 had a tendency to babble, but he did have some great lines that got nixed. Unlike AOTC.
Unless of course, this was something recorded on Beta off of OnTV...go figure...oh, or Laserdisc.
So when is the Hawkeye movie coming out?
They changed the voice of the Emperor (when communicating with Vader) to be consistent with the actor who played him in ROTJ. They also changed the lines so that the less-observant could understand the story more easily. It was a bit disappointing.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
One trick pony. I'm so bored with Lucas. For one thing, I've never understood Star Wars. It's a fun movie. Once. But it's not any better than about 50% of the movies out there. It must be great to be a guy who only has one storyline in his pocket and you can just keep milking the idiots who will buy THE SAME FUCKING MOVIE every 36 months just because you added an animated monster or changed the lighting in one scene or another.
Pathetic!
I thought I was a star wars fan till I found slashdot, now I realise I just thought they were entertaining movies. Its been so long since I have see the originals I doubt I would actually notice the changes or even be aware of them if I had not been forewarned.
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The '77 Star Wars just did it for me. I can't stand artist who can't let go of their work ... imagine Picasso rushing into the museeum to add little bits here and there just because ...
Make new a better movies Mr. Lucas! You have the money and technology now.
Wow, what an enourmous load of horseshit.
I don't see that these quotes strongly support the idea that its about money and ego. While, yes the money quote does list piracy as a readson to release sooner; to combat that all Lucas would have to do is a quick transfer to DVD and put it out. Rather than do that, he went back and did a lot of work cleaning up the quality (color, scratches, noise, etc.) of the film as well as adding/adjusting various special effects. That wasn't free, and likely was done because he wanted to best quality movie available.
As for ego, well, sure, it's his movie so he should have his way. If he couldn't so the effects he wanted in the 70s and 80s and can do them now and insert them, how is that just ego, and not an artist finally fulfilling his vision?
Yes, he may be greedy and very ego driven, but the amount of work that he's put into these movies over the years (even if many fans don't agree with it) indicates his degree of passion.
For the record, I would have loved for Lucas to release the original theatrical versions with a few visual cleanups (matte lines around the TIE fighters, for instance). Just playing devil's advocate here, no flames.
So it is about the art.
The whole point of being an artist/creator is to shape something the way you want it to be made. If that's "ego", it's simply the sort of ego that leads one to create stuff in the first place.
Whether other people also like it, or whether it's commercially successful is entirely separate questions.
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You know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The one thing that bugs me the most about the digital enhancements to Episode IV is the Alderaan and Death Star explosions. That damn ring effect bugs me to no end. If they wanted to show a more realisitic effect, they should have shown both the planet and Death Star fracturing along natural weak points in the structure and whole chunks of them being blown away from the exploding mass.
*It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
Note to readers: MIGHT is important here. If we know the danger of the dark side- like David Brin pointed out- then our future isn't set in stone. We don't have to choose either branch of the flawed family- we can strike out on our own and build something new.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
But then, in "Return of the Jedi," Lucas takes this basic wisdom and perverts it, saying -- "If you get angry -- even at injustice and murder -- it will automatically and immediately transform you into an unalloyedly evil person! All of your opinions and political beliefs will suddenly and magically reverse. Every loyalty will be forsaken and your friends won't be able to draw you back. You will instantly join your sworn enemy as his close pal or apprentice. All because you let yourself get angry at his crimes."
Sounds about right except for the fact that you used the word angry when you should have used hate. I belive it was hate that Yoda warned against, and Luke was trying to not let his hatred get the best of him. There is a big difference between anger and hate, for instance I may get angry at my children because of something they did wrong, but that doesn't mean that I hate them.
That would be lovely if it weren't for the fact that your "coralized" page is still trying to load all the images from the original site.
Ten pages of "Look at this scene: {Broken Image} It was changed to this: (Broken Image) You can clearly see Natalie Portman's nipple in the background here: (Broken Image) But the biggest change is right here: (Broken Image)" really isn't doing it for me.
I was under the impression that perhaps it was a case of the shorter the route, the more difficult it was. Perhaps taking shortcuts through more dangerous areas would require more skill, but could be done faster and in a lesser distance. Therefore a larger distance traveled would imply a lack of skill for taking an easier route.
What I want to know is why Jabba didn't turn Han into a grease spot when he stepped on him. Well, actually, I know the answer: Because Lucas is what, in my teenage years, I would have referred to as a "fucktard". If you stepped on scarface's shoes, you'd have an extra hole in your head in less time than it takes to say "Is that a gun?" Jabba has been known to laugh when his guards are eaten by the Rancor. You think you'd live long if you stepped on him?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You know, normally I pay for my movies. I spent good money on the movies I like..."The Big Lebowski". The entire B5 series. "Bladerunner". A number of others. I've probablygt 40-50 DVDs all told. I also bought the original series on VHS way back when.
I wanted "Star Wars" on DVD. But I don't want the "fixed" crap. I want the "Star Wars" I fell in love with. I'd pay good money for it even though I've already paid Lucas once for the original version on tape and once (to my regret) for the "Special Edition" on DVD.
But Lucas won't sell it to him. So screw 'em. I pulled it off of bittorrent and made my own DVDs of the first three films. I'm not going to pay the bastard for further fucked up versions.
The cake is a pie
And, quote The Critic, "It Stinks".
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I personally find the above comment the most Insightful text about Star Wars I have ever read on Slashdot, certainly more worth reading than every +5 post in this story combined.
I personally think that post was unnecessarily long, pointless and sickening, even to non fans of Star Wars.
I mean, seriously, the guy does a huge dissertation on why he doesn't like a scifi movie that teens liked in the 70s and early 80s. I prefer many times the "it suxx0rs!" troll.
And no, I don't care what the guy does with the rest of his life.
It's no good defending yourself, Brin ;-)
Crap is crap no matter who writes it -- and Sturgeon's Law probably applies to an individual author's output too. Moderators go by content, not authorship.
(BTW, liked the first three "Uplift War" books, but everything's been downhill from there. The Postman seemed pretty derivative of Lucifer's Hammer's "Harry the mailman".)
-- Alastair
:-). Oppression is oppression- and death is death. Sure, Bush hasn't found his scapegoat yet- or has he? He's certainly been working hard to herd the middle class into lower levels of housing (ghettos) and the poor towards homelessness. Even Hitler took a few years before the death camps started.
But you're very right as far as it goes- my point is more that the military industrial complex and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was like Hitler. W is several generations down the path from there.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I'd also point out that I was comparing the FASCISM of Hitler with the FASCISM of Bush, not the evil or the stupidity.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Screw the re-re-re-re-re-re-release. I want the original.
Why did they touch it? Do they think we don't know the film was aired in 1977?
I, personally, know. And I want to see that, nothing more.
Watching A New Hope with 2004 fancy special effects would be like watching Clerks with color and good acting. I mean, seriously, some things shouldn't be changed.
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