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Summary: MASTERPIECE
Review: One of the greatest movies of all time. If you don't like it, you have to at least respect it for it's greatness.The plot is brilliant, the acting is good, and the special effects are amazing for their date and age.
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Summary: I don't really care what version is on DVD....
Review: I seriously couldn't care what version is on DVD. If they release the Special Editions (which they ended up doing) awesome. If they release the original versions (which they didn't, dang!) even better. But seriously, why are you complaining. IT IS THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS ON DVD!!!!!! BE HAPPY!!!!! I am overly excited. I've been watching the movies since I was 8 (I am 16 now, and still enjoying my VHS tapes) and I really enjoyed the Special Edition versions and thought they were nice. Some Special Editions or Director's Cuts aren't as nice. Ex: In E.T. 20th Anniversary, when they took away the guns out of the police men's hands and put walkie talkies, THAT WAS THE DUMBEST THING EVER!!!!! That ruined a classic. I am so glad that Spielberg (my second favorite director) put the original version in the DVD set, that way I can pick that one over the new version. Anyway, I am so happy with the Star Wars movies on DVD. Now I don't have to search on eBay for those bootleg DVDs or the original laserdiscs (which I was going to get if I had to wait one more year for a Star Wars Trilogy DVD Set) I only have one complaint about this set: why not have individual second discs for each film like with the Alien Quadrilogy set? Lucasfilm and Fox getting a little cheap with us? Since it will only be 4 discs, the 4th one better have lots of good stuff on it, besides that 2 hour documentary which I am sure will be very nice. Just wait patiently fans, (and to you fanboys who are upset about the Special Editions being the ones on DVD, GET OVER IT!!! You wanted the movies, YOU GOT THEM! Just buy it, have it in your collection! Jeez man! You don't see me complaining!
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Summary: Good news:Star Wars on DVD. Bad news:
Review: It's hard to get excited about the release of Star Wars on DVD when it's the inferior "special" edition that Lucas released a few years back. To me, adding CGI to this film is like painting a beard on the Mona Lisa. The Greedo-shoots-first thing is annoying, but I find the Jabba scene to be much worse. A CGI Jabba is superimposed over the original actor who played the part, and through the "magic" of computer special effects, we get to see a ridiculous moment with Han walking over Jabba's tail (this was done because Ford walked behind the actor in the original scene, something that proved problematic when the CGI Jabba was added). So much for the most feared criminal in the galaxy. It's a shame that Lucas won't (at this stage, anyway) make the original theatrical version available alongside the "special" edition. It'd make every Star Wars fan deliriously happy, but it seems that Lucas doesn't care about the fans who grew up with the film as it originally was. It's also a huge slap in the face to the many filmgoers who saw this film repeatedly over the years and who purchased it in its various video/laserdisc incarnations. If Lucas sticks to ditching the original version and only releases the SE on DVD, then I won't be buying it.
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Summary: It will play well in Lucas's living room...
Review: The revisions Lucas made to the original Star Wars trilogy for the Special Editions remain cheezy and degrading. There is no question that these changes will appear just as corny in DVD format as they did in VHS not to mention on the big screen.
From Greedo's lack of point blank marksmanship to Luke's suicide Tarzan yell as he plummets down the shaft of Cloud City, these revisions effortlessly turn Sci Fi classics into student film comedies.
I find it infuriating that Lucas has refused to listen to the outcry from Star Wars fans for the past 5 years to include the original versions on the DVD. Where would these films be without the people who paid cash to go see them 20 times back in the 70's and 80's?
Keep your S.E. version, George. I'm not buying. Just know that to many Star Wars fans, the "S" does not refer to the word "Special".
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Summary: Star Wars is great, but...
Review: Lucas changed it so Greedo shoots first? What's up with that?
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Summary: STAR WARS Trilogy available Sep 21st 2004!!!!!
Review: Big news came out on 11 February. The Original Star Wars Trilogy will be released on DVD, finally! I am surprised it wasn't immediately reflected on the Amazon.com website, but I am sure that the details for this are forthcoming. Based on the EP 1 and 2 DVD's, I trust we can expect some real quality DVD's. So the Five Stars is a guess right now. It is supposed to be a four disk set with commentary, and normal DVD extras and also a "most comprehensive feature-length documentary ever produced about the Star Wars saga and never-before-seen footage from the making of all three films". I expect superior quality sound and video, like we have come to expect. But they are older films, so we'll have to wait and see just how good they look on DVD. And lastly, it should be the Special Edition versions, which came out in the late 90's. Sure, this is a lot of guesses right now, but the timing for a Sep release of the original trilogy lines up nicely with the May 2005 premier of the Episode 3. . . something to watch for.
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Summary: shocking disregad for the audience and for history
Review: I grew up with this movie. Lots of people did. STAR WARS was a major event in the history of cinema. Now George Lucas is releasing it all on DVD, but he is ONLY releasing the "special editions" of a few years back. In fact, Jim Ward, a Lucasfilm vice president, was quoted in the New York Post as saying that the "special edition" is "the sole version [Lucas] wants available." Never mind that the special editions are horribly bad; I acknowledge that this is just one man's opinion. (Well, many people's opinion, but opinion nonetheless.) And of course it's true (as Ward says in the article) that it's Lucas's choice and he of course has the right to do whatever he wants with his property. But what a choice! To take part of film history, part of people's childhoods, and to replace it willfully and intentionally with an updated version, with something clearly, materially, aesthetically different from the original? It is easy to release a DVD with both versions, original and updated; people do it all the time. Lucas could release a special archival version for $100 more. He could even call it "The Bad, Vastly Inferior Version" or denounce it publicly. But for crying out loud, at least you could release it! Lucas is saying that he will do his best to prevent people from having access to the original film that made history and that influenced the early childhoods of so many 20-somethings today. At the risk of exaggeration, I'm going to go ahead and call this criminal.
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Summary: Coming in September!
Review: Yes the last of the hold-out DVD are coming in September, sadly they are the " special edition " copies of the first 3 ( last 3? ) movies where George-I can do what I want-Lucas added alot of less than state-of-the-art CGI ( notice how liquidy jabba looks in the hanger ) They will sound nice and look very good Im sure. However if you want to see the classics save your VHS tapes or if your truely blessed the Lazerdiscs of the original films. "The force will be with you, always" Obi-wan to Luke in Episode IV
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Summary: COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2004!!!!!!!
Review: I just found out that all of the originals will be coming out on September 21,2004 in a 4 disc set.
They will be the special editions only,per lucas's request...
I think the special editions are the best versions of the films,so I love the fact that George Lucas feels the same way.
Thank You Mr. Lucas
I just wish he would put the dvd's in a replica of the death star,with enough slots to put the dvd's for episode 1,2,& 3
and a poster,and anything else he could think of to put in with it.I would pay whatever price they want for something like that.
I think that would kick ass.......
May the force be with you
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Summary: The DVDs are coming...
Review: A New Hope, the harbinger of the Star Wars saga, and the rest of the original trilogy will hit stores tentatively on September 21, 2004. A mere 7 months are all that waits fans around the world. ...and so the countdown begins...
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