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Originally Posted by stimpee
to be utterly nerdy about it, its not a case of Han shooting first but only Han shooting. Greedo doesnt shoot at all.
As for a Classic edition, i've already downloaded OCPmovie's version which has restored the movies to as close as its theatrical release anyway, with cleaned up patches coming from the Laserdisc where necessary. This is the same guy that did Deleted Magic which reveals the original Star Wars storyline. You can snag all of this stuff over at myspleen.net. |
Stimpee's right, there are some great editions that people have assembled over at myspleen.net in addition to other editions floating around at other torrent sites and on usenet where people have taken various LD releases of the film and done their own mastering of the audio and video and assembled bonus discs of the supplements that were included on the laserdisc
Definitive Collection release from the early 90s. The supplements weren't anything terribly special when compared to the LDs Criterion was releasing and releases like James Cameron's longer cut of
Aliens and
The Abyss.
What I find interesting to note about the flanneled one's, Lucasfilm, and the marketing people at FOX too is the double dip of getting fans to buy yet another edition of Star Wars. This is nothing new of course though, I have three versions on Laserdisc. But this DVD release will be coming up on the two year anniversary(if you want to call it that) of when they released the original trilogy on DVD in the Fall of 2004
But having only a Dolby Surround 2.0 soundtrack on these new DVDs as the press release states is a copout on Lucasfilm's part. Perhaps it will change for the next release to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars next year.
Additionally, this seems to be something to tide the mass over for the remainder of the year as with the coming year of 2007 also brings the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. Is that when they release the souped up 3D version of the film thats been mentioned since Showest last year and has cropped up in conversations with ILM gurus like Dennis Murren?