Well, last Tuesday I picked up the Original Trilogy on DVD, but I didn’t have time to watch it all before I went to New Brunswick. I watched Episode IV last Wednesday while packing and cleaning up. I also was watching with the audio comentary on.
I was stunned with how good the DVD version looked — but because I wasn’t watching too closely, I missed some things. For example the new scenes with Jabba and Han have been re-done again. I checked this morning and the newest Jabba looks much better than the new-young looking-Jabba of the 1997 Special Edition.
There are other things that are cleaned up a bit and slightly massaged that make the movies look better, in my opinion. The biggest mistake change that was made in this 2004 DVD release is in Jedi as you can see. When I saw this online this morning, I was certain it was a hoax. But unfortunately it’s not. Wow.
It only lasts a couple of seconds, but what a change! What a surprize. What a disapointment? I wasn’t very keen when the 1997 release changed the Ewok celebration music to the choir and symphony. I understand why it was done — we need to know that it’s a galactic celebration of liberation from the Empire and not just limited to Endor or the Rebellion — but I didn’t like it. But why show the young Anakin? Ben and Yoda are shown (more or less) as they were when they died. Silly I think.
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