If there was one thing Lucas should have fixed was the boxes around some of the ship in space. Why didn’t he fix this? I would think this would be easy to fix?. Anybody know CGI well enough to know why this wouldn’t be easy to fix?
He didn’t fix this yet? How about the little black blob next to the Emporer’s right eye in the throne room scenes?
Of course, I’ll find out in a few days. My Amazon order is on the way.
I wonder if he’s finally color-corrected R2 in the shots where he’s in Luke’s X-wing in space.
Or those creatures they rode on Hoth. The clay-mation looks so dated now. And since Lucas seems like he’s on a roll, he might as well go back and re-do the Battle of hoth as well to make the Walker’s movements more fluid.
I’m just waiting for the retrofix where the scanner grid Han Solo gets zapped with in Empire tickles him instead.
'Cause, y’know, screaming is scary.
I popped in disc 1 last night just to check on the added Jabba the Hutt scene, which was apparently cleaned up, and to my suprise, it actually was!
It’s still a bit of a strecth to buy into but it doesn’t stand out as bad anymore.
Didn’t get a chance to go through any other chapters.
Watched New Hope last night. Out of 100 times plus, that the first time i’ve ever noticed green boxes around the Tie Fighters whilst attacking the Millenium Falcon once they escape the Death Star. WTF? Were they there in the original cut?
Also: The lightsaber rotoscoping seems worse than the originals for flickering.
And the first thing I would have fixed above all else is the computer simulations: the targeting computers and the schematics of the Death Star being prime examples. How hard would it be to tweak them from analogue style to something a bit more advanced.
I was quite disappointd to be honest. Watching Empire tonight, a film thats impossible to fuck up.
Almost word for word, I agree with paulberserker. And I’d like to add that some of teh sound differences between shots was much more marked in surround sound 5.1 than in the old VHS mono.
I thought that the thread was going to talk about how he fixed the wooden acting, the crappy dialogue, the sappy plot, and the stupid silly-talking characters.
Oh wait. . .I forgot. . .that’s what makes the original so “charming”. Those are only problems in Episodes I & II.
And I thought the thread was going to be about taking the old actor’s face out and putting kChristensen’s face in at the very end. Doesn’t the actors union have rules about stuff like that?
LOL! Spot on! And I wonder why other Star Wars fans look at me funny when I say that I like the prequals.
I found a bug on the special features disc. I went to the trailers section and watched the Release trailer for A New Hope :rolleyes: and then went to watch the teaser for it and the DVD jumped to the middle of a documentary. I did like how the teaser trailer for the third movies was for Revenge of the Jedi.
This and all the other discussions on “fixes” just go to show you that once you’ve created a work of art you shouldn’t go back and fix it at all.
I mean, he’s even trying to change the damned TITLE.
A lot of people got a big case of binks think* when the new ones came out and were unable to enjoy them on the appropriate level.
- similar to “group think” but it involved hating the entire trilogy before seeing 1 minute of it when they heard about midi-chlorides and “yippee”.
Trunk, I gather that you are not a fan. That’s fine. But the thing is this: the original trilogy was formative and important for a lot of folks. It was ground breaking at the time, and turned a lot of us on to the Science Fiction genre as a whole. It would be fair to say that without Star Wars a lot of us would have quite different tastes and even lives.
Sure, a lot of it has to do with the fact that we were at just the right age when they hit, and yes, they have not held up that well over time.
What is upsetting to a lot of us about this tinkering is that it is lot like a precious memory being altered capriciously. A good analogy would be if someone went back and colorized the first 15 minutes of the Wizard of Oz. It seems to me that at some point, something should belong to the culture and not to some revisionist hack.
You gather 1 hundred percent wrong.
Hell, I even hated the kiddie-fication of Return of the Jedi when it was released, and I was 13 at the time. Star Wars (aka Ep. 4, A New Hope) was decent space opera, Empire Strikes Back was really entertaining - and after that point it started a downhill slide (though Ep. 2 was better than 1). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the best film of the lot was the one Lucas had the least influence over. If someone kept him occupied while the writers/producers of the videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic went in and “edited” Episode 3, I’d be a happy woman.
Fair enough, it just seemed (from the tone of your earlier posts) that you were being dismissive of the concerns that folks have voiced about the changes that are being made.
“I have altered the trilogy. Pray I do not alter it any further…”
Funny, I didn’t notice the yellow TIE boxes this time and I was really looking for them. One thing I did watch for and was changed (correctly so) was the Tractor Beam controls are no longer in English but in Imperial Basic.
Other than that I didn’t notice to much really screwed up with Star Wars that didn’t enhance it (other than the two obvious Greedo and Jabba scenes.)
Now then can someone confirm that the Emperor’s dialog with Darth in Empire has been tweaked. I know it was reshot with Ian Mcwhatsisname, but the actual script seems a little, yet noticibly, different. Anyone else?