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Return of the Jedi DVD Detailed Changes

Posted by timothy on from the things-that-matter-a-lot dept.

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."

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  1. Hated End Part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The worst change by far is the adding of Hayden Christiansen to the 3 ghosts Luke sees at the end of the movie. Obi Wan didn't look like Ewan McGregor after he died, why did they make Anakin look like Hayden? Awful.

    1. Re:Hated End Part by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The corollary to that is that Darth Vader redeemed himself before he died (by heaving the Emperor into a big hole) and therefore he *should* appear as the Sebastian Shaw version of Anakin.

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  2. Re:Can you still get the original trilogy? by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe there is a .torrent floating around that was ripped from the original laserdiscs, all ready for burning to DVD.

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  3. Re:Can you still get the original trilogy? by nearlygod · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a great idea. How come no one else has asked for this? Does any one have Lucas' number?

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  4. Re:Return of the Slashdotted Server by onion2k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not at all. I work with Mal who authors the DVDanswers site. The server is mighty busy at the moment, but hes cleverly made the code automatically switch over to the lower bandwidth, non-dynamic, advert laiden version when the traffic increases beyond a particular threshold.

    When your site gets slashdotted 3 times in a couple of months you're prompted to take such measures.

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  5. you know you're cool when... by torrents · · Score: 5, Funny

    you participate in the slashdotting of a star wars site...

    what's even worse is if you use that achievement as a pickup line...

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  6. The shadows are wrong by Jim+Hall · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. :-)