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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [qb] As for SW, the pre-spec ed laserdisk box sets for the films are really awful in this way, esp some of JEDI. But I can't imagine swapping them for what followed, considering the tampering I'd have to live with.[/qb][/QUOTE]Because the changes made to Empire and Jedi were radical in the extreme and destroy classic movies? I have no great love for Crazy New Dance Number, but if you think that it ruins a movie which has several moments of Ewok partying, then you have strange and foreign tastes. [/qb][/QUOTE]When I say "what followed," I'm referring to the SEs of all three movies, not to the sequels to ANH. So with that in mind ... I haven't been able to watch JEDI all the way through since 1983, and never even tried to see the SpecEd of it. I think it is a shitty movie on just about all levels, with only some good spaceship stuff to offset the awfullness. (I ain't that big an enthusiast of SW period ... if there was a film that should be a classic example of using Campbell and mythology, it would be THE PRINCESS BRIDE, which stands much taller than Vader's shadow IMO.) My objection to the way the films were reworked for the SpecEds was that they were reworked at all, and moreover, that said reworking was MUCH more than just digital recomping to lose matte lines, a process I can sorta live with as being something akin to cleaning up the negative. I don't think that being able to see the x-wings sweep around camera to approach deathstar in one shot (in the se) to be an improvement in any way compared to the pair of excellent model shots that they replaced -- all I see is a B5-ish fleet of ships which don't have the dynamic range in the imagery that was present in the miniature photography. Most of the other changes in the SEs I've seen (I saw EMPIRE SE in the theatre and have seen bits of ANH SE on TBS) seem to be disimprovements as well ... for every couple bigger vistas provided, there is either a sacrifice in visual credibility (see dynamic range above) or in storytelling (Han not shooting first.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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