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Detailed Empire Strikes Back DVD Change List
JSDopefish writes "The DVD news site DVDanswers.com is back with Part 2 (of 3) of the series by Chris Gould showing in detail the changes between some the various iterations of the Star Wars original trilogy movies. In Part 2, Chris covers The Empire Strikes Back, showing such important changes as the color of Han Solo's jacket before he's frozen in carbonite, as well as other things like the change in actor for the Emperor, and more on light saber colors. Chris has screen captures from the original, the 1997 remaster, and the 2004 DVD versions, plus some audio clips for you to check out. There is an existing Part 1 covering A New Hope, and a forthcoming Part 3 covering Return of the Jedi." Very detailed synopsis. Worth a read if... well, you're me.
Does Boba get swallowed (by the Sarlacc) first???
The first story from that site with their Ep IV breakdown killed the server before a handful of comments were up. Noooo... let's try it again with another link to the Ep V review! Surely it'll be better this time around!
Sheesh...
Trolling is a art,
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if suddenly a web server had thousands of requests, cried out, and then went silent.
Three minutes and the server has already been blow to bits by the Death Star-like fanboys (and fangirls) of Slashdot.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
Site's been slash-elipsized ("/....").
sigs, as if you care.
So apparently the entire movie was replaced with a splash screen?
... that this topic will be 95% filled with people complaining about Lucas.
Before - After
i suspect that my definition of "important" seems to vary considerably from that of the submitter.
"showing such important changes as the color of Han Solo's jacket before he's frozen in carbonite"
OK, it's official: Someone is in desperate need of a girlfriend.
Tip for first date - don't wear the Y-Wing pilot uniform, try a t-shirt. Also Yoda-speak does not make ladies hot. Unless they're into small green muppets. In which case send me their phone number.
I was thinking, maybe George Lucas can use his magic movie editing powers for good instead of evil.
For example, instead of doing idiotic things like making Greedo shoot first or inserting Jabba the hut into a scene that was rightfully left out from the original Episode IV, perhaps Mr Lucas can remove Jarjar Binks entirely from Episodes I and II.
Or maybe he can graft some character onto Anakin Skywalker in Episode II.
You listening George??
Here we see the original approach to Cloud City, as the Millennium Falcon, flanked by a pair of clod cars, makes its way towards the floating city.
I want my flying cars you insensitive clods!
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Now that we know the changes, can we back this one out?
Am I the only one who thinks the Wampa (ice creature) looks an awful lot like the abonimable snowman from the children's Christmas special?
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
"maybe George Lucas can use his magic movie editing powers for good instead of evil."
He could, except that he's evil.
What we need now is for his apprentice to throw him over the edge into the Death Star 2.0's core, and restore balance to the Force.
But the clod cars weren't insensitive enough...
Karma: Good. I'm hoping in the same way as pizza is 'good'...
I never noticed that partilar shot where Princess Leia's bikini thing fell off for a second...
:)
Oh, the site is Slashdotted now? Too bad...sorry guys, that's a shame.
Original version:
"Join me Luke, we can rule the galaxy"
DVD version
"Get a life. Move out of your parents basement. You've turned a movie from 1977 into a colossal waste of time"
I'm sure that on the 23,127th frame the shadow behind the guy standing 3/4 of the way across the frame is now casting a shadow that has a slightly bigger blue component than in the original movie. But I may have misremembered it.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Now I have to sulk about how he is so heroic in every way and I can never be a good Jedi like him and will have to turn to the dark side instead.
I think that this pretty much says it all.
Next they will have the secret hidden sex scene with the princess and the wookie!!! On a serious note: pretty soon SW will outstrip dracula for remakes/revisions.