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Return of the Jedi DVD Detailed Changes
JSDopefish writes "The DVD news site DVDanswers.com is back with its final installment (3 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. Chris has screen captures from the original, the 1997 remaster, and the 2004 DVD versions, plus some audio clips for you to check out. One of the best lists of changes, mostly because of the pictures. Some of the changes listed here are The Sarlacc monster, Lightsaber consistency (again), as well as new things like even more celebrations added to the end, and an appearance by Hayden Christensen. There is an existing Part 1 covering A New Hope, and a Part 2 that covers The Empire Strikes back as well."
Or is this still a sub-release?
need i say more?????
When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
Some of the changes listed here are The Sarlacc monster, Lightsaber consistency (again)...
It's like a geek's wet dream! Seriously, who gives a crap about this sucky movie?!!
That's a great idea. How come no one else has asked for this? Does any one have Lucas' number?
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
That's quite a good run through but theres one thing he's missed. The reason all the vibrancy has been removed from the lightsabres is for added consistency ... with the dialogue.
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...this time, Endor shoots first. Making the whole Rebel attack unnecessary. So to fill in for the gap, Lucas decided to put in an hour of digital dancing Ewoks, to make the film "more in line with the prequels"
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And people say piracy is a bad thing...
"Here we have a shot of Luke Skywalker standing over the Great Pit of Carkoon, nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc. The creature is basically a gigantic mouth, with rows of inwardly facing teeth and a number of sticky tentacles that it uses to snare unsuspecting prey."
Oh come on! It looks like an anus! You know it, and I know it!
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and now he's a powerful Jedi!
I know he's supposed to be making a Star Wars TV Series, but that still won't compare to thoughts on Contract Labor on the Death Star, Silent Bob trying to pick up the tape through the use of the force and so many other references.
Film-crit is a time-honored tradition - DVD-crit is more recent, and possibly debatable.
Here it is in all it's glory, complete with Gungans shouting 'Wesa free!'...
I could just about tolerate everything else he's done to it, but that's the limit.
... and tell me what you think the sarlacc looks like.
Lucas has some serious, uh, issues.
you participate in the slashdotting of a star wars site...
what's even worse is if you use that achievement as a pickup line...
Get your torrents...
That may be the official answer, but of course we all know that the real answer is "Well we changed it because we can, and when we release an 'original' DVD set in a couple of years everyone will rush out and buy it again. Then Lucas will finally have enough money to get a custom made real doll shaped like jar jar."
And Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Moll.
What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
I wish when they re-did ROTJ for the DVD release, someone at ILM noticed that the shadows are completely wrong on the Tatooine segment where Jabba's sail barge moves flys across the dunes.
Look at this photo
Note that on the sail barge, the light source is somewhere forward and to the left.
Look at the dunes in the background. The light source is clearly somewhere behind and to the left.
Well, I suppose Tattooine does have two suns. They're special - one sun only illuminates ships, the other only illuminates natural landscapes. :-)
but really, if that's what they've looked like in your experience, you are SERIOUSLY going to the wrong bars to pick up chicks.
;)
Either that, or you need to get your woman some serious antibiotics!
~jaraxle
Yup. I reread Brave New World recently, and couldn't help but think "Greedo shoots first" when reading that introduction.
Leia: "36"
Han: "Including me?"
Leia: "37"
Han: "37? YOU SUCKED 37 DICKS?"
"George Lucas is your re-master now, he will show you the true meaning of the edit."
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
At the beginning of Jedi Rocks you can clearly hear Sy Snootles' voice while her microphone is still being heald at her side! Clearly evidence that she is jaggarm-synching.
-m
> why would Luke even recognize the young Anakin as his father?
Dude... he's got the force. He just, like, knows, man!
Why would Luke recognize ANYONE as his father. He was never around. Face it, Anakin was a dead beat dad. Even when they did meet, he beat up his son and shot his daughter up with drugs. Sounds like a Springer family to me.
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