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Summary: Not the original version
Review: Just to reiterate, this is not the original version, this is the edited (...) version. Plot points have been changed and you lose the history of this great movie. Yes, the CGI is better but you will never see the work that won oscars for Best Art and Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. That is a travesty. Boycott this version and hope that Lucas comes to his senses and releases the REAL Star Wars trilogy.
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Summary: best movie of all time
Review: I like the story in the beginning because it talks about how it all started. And the ending was sad but great. But I would reccommend this movie to anyone who is a starwars fan. And I can't wait for the final sequel.
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Summary: Let's hope a "Special Feature" will be Greedo firing FIRST
Review: I love Star Wars. It's the first movie I ever saw on a VCR, I find occassion to quote it every day, and, heck it even helped save my life once. So yeah of course I'm pre-ordering this DVD set, buying a movie trilogy I've already purchased 3 or 4 times.The only thing I want--the only thing I hope to Yoda will be on these discs--is an option to remove some of George's "enhancements". You know the ones. The little tweaks that he put in back when he first started to lose his mind. Like that awful Jabba scene. And Biggs. And... Greedo firing first. These changes heralded the Dark Times, when George started to fall to the temptations of The Dark Side: computer graphics. Such technological terrors were the harbingers of Jar Jar Binks, the Dark Lord himself. I pray that George will include the original cantina scene, unspolit and uncorrupted. And, failing that, I pray DVD-R technology will have advanced enough by the time this set comes out that such a restoration is made possible for home use. :) May the force be with us,
Mike Fehlauer ps: actual quote from a friend and new father, to whom I sent a "Share the Love" notification after I purchased this set: "Dude, I'm so torn on this. I mean I want to own them
... but I don't want Greedo shooting first. I mean, is
that the version of the movie I want my son seeing? Curse you George Lucas!"
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Summary: info?
Review: the movies are great, yeah yeah... but is it true that the only version available on dvd will be the 1990's special editions? that's a travesty if its true, as i suspect it is. i hope everyone knows by now that george lucas is one of the shadiest figures in the history of film. i hope he doesn't own any famous paintings or anything - he may want to update a da vinci or picasso with some photoshop technology that wasn't available during the artists' lifetime.
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Summary: The Film 1000+ stars; the DVD release 1 star (...)
Review: Let me start off by saying that Star Wars is my favorite film of all time. Nothing else even comes close. Let me also point out that it is the most watched film of all time in the theaters (most tickets sold) despite Titanic "outgrossing" it in dollars. How can anyone compare 1997 ticket prices to 1977 ticket prices. I read the figures somewhere, and can't recall the exact numbers, but the number of theaters Titanic opened in when it first came out was in the 10,000+ range, while I believe Star Wars in 1977 opened on about 500 screens. Then, if Star Wars ticket prices were about $2.50 back then, and it still was able to come in just behind Titanic in grossed $'s, (where Titanic tickets sold at an average of $7.50) that makes the number of tickets sold, and the number of patrons who actually saw and paid for Star Wars in the theater, astronomically higher than any other film in history. Now, onto the DVD release. I give it one Amazon star for the fact that the original released films are not going to be available. Only the "special edition" footage within are the ones coming out on DVD. With all the technology avaiable to Lucas, you mean he couldn't offer both versions!!!! Even have the option of pressing the "MULTI ANGLE" feature at the time where a change has been made, to let us be able to switch back and forth between both versions. The technology is there, but Lucas chooses not to use it. I only hope Ep. III can return SW to it's original glory. A glory that AOTC stole. If not, I'll be sticking to my VHS widescreen non-special edition videos and my Phantom Menace DVD. One last note, this release gets -5 stars and not even a rating if Lucas leaves out what myself and millions of fans have been waiting for forever!!!! THE UNSEEN FOOTAGE FROM THE ORIGINAL FILMS NOT PUT BACK INTO THE SPECIAL EDITIONS. These deleted scenes had better be on this DVD or I will not even purchase it. I'm talking about scenes like the originally filmed opened scene to Star Wars where Luke, Biggs, and a female friend are hanging out on Tatooine. It was filmed, it exists, and if it doesn't make it's way onto this DVD release, we shall never get to see it!
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Summary: The Star Wars Trilogy
Review: This three-pack is a must have. It includes all the REAL "Star Wars" movies (the ones that tell the story of how Luke Skywalker gets to be a Jedi Knight, like his father), and by Episode VI all the loose ends are answered. Truly great cinema, with great special effects.
This three classics must not be missed!
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Summary: Greatest Sci-fi trilogy-coming in september!!
Review: Yes, LOTR has become the greatest movie trilogy. Star Wars is a must own on dvd. I know some of Lucas's changes and methods are very frustrating but this is the best he is going to give us. To have these films in brilliant widescreen with booming surround sound is going to be great. The extra's will be very interesting as well. Star Wars is a brilliant beginning to the trilogy. Empire Strikes back is the best of the series, a great story, fantastic acting, full of emotion and great battle scenes. Return of the Jedi, whilst still being wonderfully entertaining is the weekest of the series. Buy, and let your surround sound take you to a galaxy far, far away!!
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Summary: Yes, it's finally coming to DVD, but ignore the rumors.
Review: Well first off LucasFilm has offically confirmed that the Star Wars trilogy is coming to DVD. It will be in a four issue DVD disk boxed set (similar to the Indiana Jones DVD boxed set). Containing the 1997 rereleased films of Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi with the new footage and new effects work done on them. It is false that these movies will be twerked yet again for the DVD release. The movies are finished and the version of them we all saw at theaters in 97 is the final cut done with wach movie.(...)
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Summary: Not-So-Special Edition
Review: I hate the new 'Special Edition' versions of these three films. The original versions should have been left how they were. Anyways, the first two movies are great and both deserve five stars. Return of the Jedi, however, deserves three stars at the most. The final and concluding film has unfortunately already been made, and no matter how good any of the prequel films are, it is still frustrating that it ends with Return of the Jedi. First of all, I love the Emperor. He is pure evil. What I can't stand about Episode Six is this: They are so incredibly unoriginal and without any decent idea that they make another Death Star, and blow it up AGAIN! The same thing we already saw in Episode Four! Very unexciting and anticlimatic to see it done a second time. They should have failed to blow it up in Episode Four so that it was still a menace, and then they should have had it blowing stuff up in Episode Five with it looking hopeless that it could ever be defeated, and THEN in Episode Six they should have finally blown it up. That would have changed the story quite a bit but it would have been a lot better. Think of Lord of the Rings if in the first movie they got rid of the ring, but then Saruon came back to power and they got rid of it again. That is kind of how this Star Wars trilogy is to me.
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Summary: The "new" Special Editions on DVD
Review: OK, first of all, for all you folks who puke on the '97 Special Editions, you're really not gonna like the new DVD versions. Word has it that the crew at Skywalker Ranch have continued to tweak and improve these classic films. Meaning that the '97 versions were mearly "work in progress" releases. And even after they're released on DVD this September, they'll continue being tweaked for the rumored Ultimate Editions that will come out later in an ultimate 6-movie box set. Now don't get me wrong, I was born 3 years before the original Star Wars film hit theaters in May 1977, and I welcomed the Special Editions in '97 with open arms, because unlike many film purists, I feel I'm the true 'progressive' on these matters and I'm a Republican. Imagine that! I have always felt that the original films needed cleaning up and brought up to date with the emergence of computer enhanced effects. I don't know, call me crazy for not wanting to see flashing "blue screen" boxes around the TIE Fighters as they streak across the screen. I feel the one thing that kills realism in the movies is bad blue screen effects. So I was more than happy that Lucas and ILM cleaned up the blue screen artifacts. I also welcomed the additional CGI shots dispersed through-out the films. The additional Mos Eisley shots, although they probably need additional work on them to clean them up a bit as the CG work was a bit primitive at the time in ~'96. However the additional shots of X-Wings 'n stuff from the Battle of Yavin IV were especially cool. But being fair and balanced, I did have a few objections to a few changes, like for instance some dialogue changes and other scenes, but at the same time, I wished they had added more scenes in certain places. But enough about the SE contraversy. So what about the DVDs? Well, as I said before, these DVD versions will still yet again be different than the '97 versions. What has changed? Well, rumors have it that the light sabre effects have been enhanced. One thing that always bothered me about ANH was the seemingly "white-looking" light sabre that Luke used in Obi-wans home and in the Falcon during the remote drone training. So instead of the white blade, we might be getting a solid glowing blue sabre. Another thing that bothered me was the 'dated' computer screens on the Death Star and on Yavin IV. I mean they screamed 1977! Much like the TV screens in the series Babylon 5 that screamed early '90s. I'd like to see (if possible) new screens that would go along more with established continuity in the Prequal movies.
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