Tracking all of the changes in Star Wars
This year, they’re re-re-re-releasing “Star Wars” on DVD. This time, it’s the “original” version bundled together with the special edition. (Of course, it’s not done with all the digital bells and whistles to clean up the sound and picture, so expect another release at some point in the future as Lucas milks this particular cow to the point of being abusive.)
While one could, in theory, run the two movies side by side and watch all the things that have changed (most notably freaking Greedo shooting first for no reason I can wrap my head around), one of Lucas’ Stormtroopers has done the work for you, with a shot-by-shot comparison of what was changed between 1977 and the 2004 Special Edition (Now With All Character Growth Removed For Your Protection).
Hopefully the rumors of a similar set of changes being made to “Jaws” are just a rumor.
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I liked a lot of the cosmetic improvements and fixes they made, like fixing the glow on the lightsabers in some places and replacing models with more animated CG effects, but like 25 of the shots are “Hey, here’s another picture of a digital tunnel in the Death Star we made to replace a matte painting. You probably never noticed anything wrong with it in the original, but we fixed it and boy was it challenging!”
Comment by Widge — August 30, 2006 @ 9:39
I swear to God that Lucas has sucked all the joy out of these for me. What a bastard.
J
Comment by John — August 30, 2006 @ 13:06
Lucas is dead to me.
Comment by Nicole — August 31, 2006 @ 12:21