Star Wars DVD: What's different?

[Dark Psion]

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The above site has a list and some screen captures of some of the changes made in the upcoming Star Wars DVD set, some good, some not so good.

Click on the roman numeral of your choice.

 

[Wolf72]

here's hoping the new editing of han v greedo really does look better ... (the spec ed scene is horrible)

 

[mojo1701]

here's hoping the new editing of han v greedo really does look better ... (the spec ed scene is horrible)

Now they shoot at more or less at the same time. At least it makes more sense (although I can't say why Greedo shooting first is such a disgrace in the first place...).

 

[Rackhir]

Now they shoot at more or less at the same time. At least it makes more sense (although I can't say why Greedo shooting first is such a disgrace in the first place...).

It's not so much the order of shooting it's self, more the fact that Lucas felt it necessary to have Greedo shoot first "Because Han Solo is a hero and heroes don't shoot people first".

It's the same kind of obnoxious nambi-pambi whitewashing of things that led Spielberg to CGI the guns out of the hands of the military and police in the escape sequence near the end of ET.

It's annoying to have them change things basically because they think something is too "nasty" or "bad" for people to cope with. It's treating the audience like children that have to be protected from things because they can't "handle the truth".

 

[Darth K'Trava]

It's not so much the order of shooting it's self, more the fact that Lucas felt it necessary to have Greedo shoot first "Because Han Solo is a hero and heroes don't shoot people first".

::mutters a string of expletives at Lucas::

It was supposed to be Han being a rogue who did what he had to to stay alive. He was a mercenary and a smuggler. They don't live up to most people's ideals of morality. And then he slowly changed to the hero we most know him for. He evolved, perhaps the most of any of the characters. Even Luke. Who was a whiny little bastich who became a Jedi.

 

[Ranger REG]

Discussing politics makes admins very, very irritated. Please don't discuss politics.

~ Piratecat

 

[Rackhir]

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Ah....Please remember no politics. We don't need a discusion on that sort of topic.

 

[ddvmor]

...Even Luke. Who was a whiny little bastich who became a Jedi.

Should this not read "Even Luke. Who was a whiny little bastich who became a whiny little bastich of a Jedi"?

 

[Ranger REG]

So shut up then.

Mmm. Nope.

But I will end that subject and focus on Star Wars if you don't mind (then again, I really don't care if you do).



Still, I don't see all the fuss. "Han shoots first." "Greedo shoots first." Does one scene make the character any better?

Perhaps my own gripe of Georgie-boy invoking his "artist's right" is the cut-and-paste of Hayden Christensen as Anakin (instead of the original actor) into a few scenes from ROTJ, notably the unmasking of Vader and the "Jedi spirits" at Anakin's funeral pyre. One can hope they include the original scene as part of the "deleted scenes" or "alternate ending" DVD feature.

 

[satori01]

Bah who cares about the actor the played the meatloaf version of Darth Vader.
I am fine with George changing the bookmark actor holding the place for Hayden. Likewise I am fine with changing the holographic emperor in Empire for the "real" emperor. These are good continuity fixes.

I wish he would remove his extended musical scene in Return of the Jedi, the SE edit completely ruins the tension of the scene. Raucous sythsized music and Boba Fett getting his swerve on is not better than the orignial cut where the focus of the scene is clearly on Joba and the slave twilek.