Star Wars Trilogy on DVD - Just Annnounced

[Titan]

This DVD set will be awesome but I really don\'t see why they didn\'t include the originals in with the SE.

[Living-In-Clip]

Because Lucas is a Nazi?

[Titan]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Because Lucas is a Nazi?

Heh. *runs off to make an online petition*

Its Lucas\'s loss really. If he released the two versions in the box set, people would still pay it....I think. But it would also be cool to compare the original and the Special Edition.

[videoholic]

They also added a couple extra scenes didn\'t they?  I mean from the original.  THere are a couple scenes I just didn\'t remember.  I never remembered Jaba the Hut being in Episode IV.  The scene with Han and Jaba before they take off where Jaba says he needs his money just didn\'t look right.  I mean obviously the original wasn\'t CG, but I don\'t remember the scene at all.

[Titan]

Originally posted by videoholic
They also added a couple extra scenes didn\'t they?  I mean from the original.  THere are a couple scenes I just didn\'t remember.  I never remembered Jaba the Hut being in Episode IV.  The scene with Han and Jaba before they take off where Jaba says he needs his money just didn\'t look right.  I mean obviously the original wasn\'t CG, but I don\'t remember the scene at all.

[asthmatic starwars geek] The scene you are refering to was not in the original but was later added to the Special Edition. It gave you a better understanding who Han owed money to and why he had to get money fast and what he was smuggling. They should send you to live in isolation on Endor for not knowing that.[/asthmatic starwars geek]

Here\'s a question for old-timer Star Wars viewers.  Those who saw the first film in it\'s original release in 1977, or the rerelease a couple years later.

True or False:  The opening text crawl did NOT include the name "Episode IV: A New Hope."

I honestly don\'t know for sure.  I don\'t remember seeing that back in 1977, and I don\'t think it was there.

It seems that a lot of the history of the Star Wars productions has been rewritten by Lucas himself, especially in the documentary on Disk 4 of the DVD release.  For example, he states again that he had all three stories written before the script for the first film was finished.  He says he decided to shorten it, and only film the first 1/3 of the story to begin with.  I don\'t believe that, and I\'ve never believed it.  It\'s obvious from the way he wrote the Luke and Leia characters that he didn\'t know they were going to be brother and sister until after the first film was released.

True or False: The opening text crawl did NOT include the name "Episode IV: A New Hope."

True, it was not included.  You can see this in the "Empire of Dreams" documentary on the fourth disk full of special features.  They don\'t point it out, but seeing it missing (Episode IV) was enough to confirm it.

They also added a couple extra scenes didn\'t they? I mean from the original. THere are a couple scenes I just didn\'t remember. I never remembered Jaba the Hut being in Episode IV. The scene with Han and Jaba before they take off where Jaba says he needs his money just didn\'t look right. I mean obviously the original wasn\'t CG, but I don\'t remember the scene at all.

Correct.  The 1995 special editions released in theatres contained a number of additional shots, scenes, and remakes of already incorporated scenes.  Jabba the Hutt was reedited into the film over a large fat man who was to be the original Jabba the Hutt before they made him a large slug in Return of the Jedi.  The 1995 CG looked great back in the day, but in 2004, it looked horrible and they went ahead and redid him again.  He still looks flaky to me, but eh, how can you make a walking talking slug look photo realistic?

[videoholic]

I didn\'t think I remembered it being episode 4 in the beginning.

I have to say it was fun watching the first two again.  All the references they make to what happened in Episodes 1 and 2 were interesting.

NOoooooooooooooo!



Damn.. Cant you see the original movie on the DVD with out that homo?
I was thinking of buying the box.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

^ yea that kinda ruins it. Its meant to be what he was before he turned to the dark side, but wouldn\'t u think luke turning him back to the light side would have been enough to just leave the original actor there.



morons.

[videoholic]

I haven\'t seen return of the jedi yet since I was a kid.  Is that near the end after poppa dies?

Vid if my memory serves me it up on the Pathways of the ewoks city when Luke tells Lea they are bro and sis and then han comes along and they all make pretty and then it pans over there to see those three smiling about it... Of course I havent seen it since it came out so I might be wrong.

I hated this one the most the damn ewoks ruined it kinda like Jar Jar ruined the new ones.

[videoholic]

I have no idea what you\'ve said.  Your avatar has my attention.

I said she loves sucking on tounge can you tell?

Hayden is there for good reason and it\'s explained in the commentary why.  It does make sense.  That doesn\'t mean I think the change is some great idea or anything like that, but I understand the reasoning behind it, especially since it serves continuity purposes.