I agree with the reviewer who complained about messing with the original. I want to see the films that I saw as a young boy. As a ten year old I sat transfixed as the the Imperial cruiser rolled over the screen in the first scene, I sat in awe as the rebel ships attacked the death star despite the sometimes (by modern standards) dodgy effects. Thats the film I want to see in all its glorious imperfections. To me tinkering with these films is like altering your wedding video because you don't like your original hair cut or your wifes wedding dress now looks unfashionable. Please release the originals!
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Great for sinking back to childhood thougths, 1 Oct 2004
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I really enjoyed watching the films, though episode VI is a joke really to say it mildly. Empire strikes back is awesome and at one point i almost had tears in my eyes and got emotional. It had nothing to do with the film as such but all of the sudden all these memories popped into my head of things i did as a kid during the star wars period.......
I grew up with the whole video game development and thats why i as a 34 year old still today like to play video games every now and then, but was very disappointed when i inserted the bonus disc into my xbox. There is a playable demo of starwars battlefront on the disc, but my xbox just wouldnt read the disc. Bonus Disc works just fine in a dvd player and pc and my xbox works fine with every dvd and game i have. But that Bonus disc just blody doesent work on xbox and cant play the demo....and it just makes me angry cause feel the set is not complete. I wonder if i can get it changed because of that.
Also i am a bit disapointed about the Box. Inside are just cheaply boxed single discs. They should have done a beautiful box similar to Godfather trilogies or similar. It just would feel more like you bought one phenomenon, and not 4 individual discs......
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...surely this is the one, major opportunity for George Lucas to release his vision of the three films completed, to run happily as one big story, and totally tinkered with, but with the original versions of the films in this DVD set too?! When was the last time the text in Much Ado About Nothing" was altered, or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata had an electric guitar solo introduced into it?
The originals were classic films. I'd buy them on DVD - As for these, well, I don't know - I was a bit disgruntled by the changes for the "special" editions - Really BAD cheese filled ending to Return of the Jedi anyone? - Too much tinkering makes a pigs breakfast out of what should be bacon and eggs......
And if they release the originals on yet another DVD collection for another £50, well, I'd expect the world too sick of the commercialism of it all by then to fall for it yet again......
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GEORGE LUCAS - can he stop messing with the films, endless jiggery pokery with the special effects the latest rumour is that at the end of Jedi he's doing away with the old guy who plays Annakin and replacing it with a computer enhanced version of the current Annakin
AND LET US NOT FORGET - GREEDO DIDN'T SHOOT FIRST !!!
Ps. The 3 stars are for the memory of the proper versions of the films and the good looking extras
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Of course the films themselves would warrant 5 stars. As would the DVD extras.
But for some reason they have chosen to use the Special Editions on this DVD. The graphics (especially in Ep IV, where most was changed by the Special Editions) now look so dated that parts are cringeworthy. It really did distract from the film.
Episodes V and VI were not changed a great deal and so remain excellent films, and I actually quite liked updating Fett's voice and Anakin's ghost image to add coherency.
But, as far as I know, this is the only way to have the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD and so I would still recommend purchasing. Maybe, one day, Lucas will see the error of his ways and release a DVD version that does proper justice to the quality of the original films. But that might be too much to ask...
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Ok, first off I do love Star Wars. And I have no problem with the added scenes on the whole (with the possible exception of one or two). But I have never been convinced by CGI. Ok so it is a step up from Tron, but it still never looks as real as reality. The ships were originally done with models, and they loom and glide across the screen with perfect motion and play of light on their flanks. The CGI versions however always seem to flicker and jerk ever so slightly, never truely allowing proper suspension of disbelief.
And don't get me started on CGI animals. The only CGI that seems to work for living creatures is motion capture (Gollum in LOTR was excpetionally good).
For me the inclusion of so much CGI in these new versions has spoilt them. I can be watching the films quite happily when suddenly CGI rears it's ugly head and... boom. No longer engrossed in a galaxy far far away, but sitting in my living room watching a film again. The same affliction messed up the last couple of Red Dwarf series. This is a shame as the special effects on the original films, while Lucas may have felt limited by them, are some of the best and most realistic ever produced.
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Im not saying that these wont be good movies, all im saying is that they are not going to be the movies that I grew up watching, and continue to want to watch. I can understand GL wanting to put across his original vision, however as it was painfully clear with the prequels, his vision is not always what we want to see. Im not even saying dont mess around with the originals, all Im saying is at least give us the chance to buy them, bring out both versions, its not like he hasnt been accused of creaming the market for money before anyway (I must have about 4 different versions of each on video). Saying that, id probably end up buying both versions anyway.
So in short, Im sure that there will be plenty of people wanting to see the Special Editions, but there will also be a large amount of people wanting to see these great movies in their original glory/error ridden form.
Oh, and please stop going on about "true fans", "I bet they wearnt even born when the 1st movie came out" rubbish, it just makes you look stupid and invalidates your entire argument.
Either way, enjoy the movies.
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"Star Wars" all you have to do is say the words and you are guaranteed toget a response and it doesn't matter who you talk to, young or oldeveryone loves Star Wars For me and quite a few other people it is forever part of my fondlyremembered childhood, the light saber wars in the playground, reading theMarvel UK weekly comic and much more. Such is the enthusiasm associated with the movie that it has itself becamea myth, just like the story the movie tells. These characters in the original trilogy are all a part of us, everyonewanted to be Han Solo or Luke Skywalker and in many ways we where Star Wars was joyous escapism at its best and nothing since has beenanywhere near as good And nothing is like seeing the movie for the first time I am among the many thousands who have kept a hold of Star Wars in mymemory as a treasured part of my experiences in my life I'd like nothing better than to be able to bottle that experience and keepit forever and that's precisely what this DVD box set aims to offer But nothing can turn back the clock and allow me to see these movies againfor the first time; they are forever entrenched in my memory, detailsburning like a flame And herein lies the problem. The DVD's that are finally going to bereleased after what seems like an eternity of waiting are not going to begood enough In all fairness, it probably wouldn't matter how good the DVD's where orhow extensive the features are because like I said, nothing can bring backthe experience of seeing the movie for the first time But having said that, the movies should have been left well alone. This is my and thousands and others of peoples personal experiences thatare being ignored, its almost like someone decided to take away my StarWars bed cover I had while I was still a child and replace it with a fancyhigh tech replacement. It wouldn't matter how good the replacement was, it just wouldn't be thesame I want what I had not some second hand "improvement" And in a nutshell this is what we have, a skewed representation of ourfondest memories, post modernised and updated to suit a generation whonever knew what Star Wars was originally only what it is now, a ghost ofits former self, a massive indulgence in cgi effects with little regardfor characters This is why there is and always will be so much debate over what's on aStar Wars DVD. For my money, I'd much rather have the DVD version of thefantastic Laser Disc box set fox did of the original movies way back whenthat came in a massive leather box At least then the memories will be true to what they always have been I'm not surprised that it has been decided to release what will bereleased. But nothing can take the place of the original no matter howfancy it is So i'm waiting for the day that someone somwhere remembers that ourexperinces our important, our childhood is forever a part of us andnothing and no-one can change that
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I have the trilogy in its first release on video, and I am a big fan of the Star Wars epic. I am totaly disapionted that George Lucas feels the need to mess with the ending every time he releases the film. In the special edition on video we see a changed ending with new shots and new music, however, In the DVD release Mr Lucas feels the need to put an actor in at the end that does not appear in the first trilogy (or is that the 2nd??)and Young luke skywalker nods at an image he has never seen. WHY can't he just leave them alone. When they are released as a six film boxset will he change the ending again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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if you are not a fan of films that look dated and the special effects are not even mediocre, then don't watch this film.
The story is okay, but slightly annoying. The acting is quite over the top and grates a bit after a while. The love story may appeal to women and the action may appeal to men.
The main problem with watching these films is that with the CGI we have at our disposal now, the effects in this film seem almost embaressing. The whole film looks its age and i'm afraid that after the 30 years since it was made, many people have watched it and probably enjoyed it, but now it just wastes the 2 - 2 and a half hours needed to watch each film.
Good, classic film, but embarresing special effects make it a struggle to watch it without laughing.
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