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Oh, George, just stick a vaccum cleaner hose in my wallet!


http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/04/film.starwars.reut/index.html

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -- The original theatrical versions of the first three "Star Wars" films are finally coming to DVD on September 12, two years after diehard fans blasted George Lucas for releasing only the digitally modified 2004 versions of the celebrated trilogy in a boxed collection.

This time, "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" will be available individually and appear on DVD exactly as they did in their respective theatrical runs in 1977, 1980 and 1983.

Each release, distributed by 20th Century Fox, will be a two-disc set that also includes the digitally tweaked 2004 edition.

The DVDs will be available only through December 31.
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Sure, like I want to buy them again!!

Bought 'em on VHS, bought 'em again when the VHS special edition box set came out, bought 'em one more time when the first DVDs came out......
Now he wants me to buy another set:jerkit: :jerkit:

Love the movies, but geez....this is silly.

Bob T.
 
When is he going to catch on and learn that most fans don't mind him fixing stupid bloopers (poor effects, film being reversed etc.) but can't stand when he adds and deletes whole scenes/modifies them significantly?
 
Well, I saw Star Wars in the theater, just after it was first released. I was 11 years old then...:eek: For a kid that age, it was pretty much the best thing I had ever seen in my life. I spent some hard-earned paper route money to go a second time. But I've only seen it maybe once or twice since then, and never owned it on any media. Guess this means I lose some major geek points...:confused:
 
You may lose geek points, but you had the real experience, the right way. All you've really missed since is .... the marketing.
 
NeedleRemorse said:
When is he going to catch on and learn that most fans don't mind him fixing stupid bloopers (poor effects, film being reversed etc.) but can't stand when he adds and deletes whole scenes/modifies them significantly?
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I know what you are talking about. All the crap he added to the first dvd version was distracting. Sometimes stupid even. The scene with Han telling Jabba he was going to pay him off soon in the first starwars movie. They originally shot it with an actor as Jabba. Han scarcastically tells Jabba he's a wonderful human being.
the scene was cut from the original release.
In the added scene from the dvd release they had a CGI giant Jabba slug. Han can understand Jabbas language but answers in english, Jabba can understand Han's language but answers in Jabba. No interpeters like in the third movie. What gives? It was stupid to add that scene, It didn't advance the plot or move the story along or answer any questions.

If Lucas want's to improve his movies he should use CGI to remove the insultingly panderingly stupid teddy bears (ewoks) from Return of the Jedi and replace them with aboriginal humans.

On the plus side hollywood gets less and less creative every year and relies on remakes of old movies more and more. Perhaps in 20 years someone will remake the starwars movies and Bounty hunters will be ruthless, gangster muscle will rough a guy up before they turn him loose and they will have more scenes with princess Leah in the slave girl bikini
 
One of the things that really took me out of the film and annoyed me was him saying "Even I get boarded sometimes" to Greedo and then saying "Even I get boarded sometimes" to Jabba a minute later. Horrendous. I don't care if Han Solo shoots Greedo's five-year-old son in the face and throws his own grandmother into the Sarlaac, but don't edit his face jerking away from Greedo's shot like he's in "Night at the Roxbury".
 
I like Star Wars, but I have two vhs sets.... cant we illegally download them from somewhere?

;):rolleyes:
 
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