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Me again.....Always wanting better Stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why. Just make Star Wars Complete Box-set. Put Star Wars Episodes
I, II, III, IV, V, VI + Star Wars IV-VI Bonus Disc and Star Wars Clone Wars. Volumes 1 and 2.

Anyway. Bye

IS THE STAR WARS TRILOGY A WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD or "LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY"
BRIEFLY STATED:

'THE' classic, modern "Space-Opera Fantasy" for literally everyone. Yes, like many others I find George Lucas a little hard to take, but I do like this trilogy and I just hope he stops tinkering with it.

LUCAS SAID IN AN INTERVIEW - "FILM EDITING IS NEVER FINISHED, IT IS JUST ABANDONED":

Okay, fine, let's not think that this idea of his, to constantly tinker with these, the most profitable films of all time, is motivated by copyright laws that protect each update for the next 50 or 75 years! Well, I am starting to have trouble believing that his tinkering has anything to do with our enjoyment and that is coloring the whole "Star Wars" experience.

ABOUT THE DVD: GREAT SOUND AND VIDEO!

The transfer is sensational and it is in widescreen. It does, however, include changes and additions that are sometimes disturbing. Perhaps, the most disturbing of his tinkerings was at the end of "The Return of The Jedi", where Lucas not only changed the scene, the setting, and the music, but he even changed the face of Anakin Skywalker's ghost to match Hayden Christensen, the 'NEW' and 'IMPROVED' Anakin Skywalker character! There are so many such examples that to enumerate them would probably injure anyone reading this review's enjoyment of the film trilogy.

SPECIAL FEATURES: TOO MANY SPECIAL FEATURES

The main 2.5 hour featurette is for the most part excellent and, though subjective, very interesting. The three other featurettes, however, are another story. They basically tell three 20-minute tales from different viewpoints about how George Lucas was on a "Mercy Mission" of sorts as a filmmaker when he (with the force as his ally) took on the big studios to become a big studio himself. As a sort of parody on his Star Wars franchise, I like to think of the scene in the "Revenge of the Sith" where Ewan McGregor as the new and improved Obi-Wan Kenobi screams, "You were the chosen one --- you were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!", to the new and improved Anakin Skywalker in a dramatic moment. It seems that Mr. Lucas may have followed in Anakin's footsteps.

3 FEATURETTES: PROPAGANDA IS NOT SOMETHING VIEWERS SHOULD PAY FOR

In the featurettes, we saw testimonials from many of "Industrial Light and Magic's" leading customers like James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Ridley Scott. Each in their own words described how Lucas and "Star Wars" revolutionized the motion picture industry and forever improved everything in the world for everybody, but especially for filmmakers and moviegoers.

BOTTOM LINE: I WISH LUCAS WOULD JUST STICK TO FILMMAKING

I wish Lucas -- who is widely known as the proverbial "closed-mouthed man" and as such a very poor communicator who is silent when he should speak and often picks the wrong time to talk -- would learn when not to speak up. These featurettes, though stunningly well made, were clearly the wrong venue for Lucas to go on a personal diatribe while bragging about how he owns all the rights and has made riches beyond measure.

IN THE END: THE STAR WARS TRILOGY IS A WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD

When you look at the movies alone, however, this trilogy is a wonderful work of art that was exceedingly well done when it was made long ago and far away. We might all enjoy and appreciate the films on that basis.



Poor sound on Episode IV
Great discs except that I could barely hear the dialog in the first movie. The music sounded great, but the dialog just sounded faint. And no, I'm not just electronically incompetent - other discs in this set and other discs I own are fine. So it is the disk. It looks fantastic, though. I hope I just had a lemon, and that no one else has the same problem. Very frustrating. I'm a big fan of the original trilogy, and especially love the first film (Episode IV) for sentimental reasons, though I agree with many others that The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the three.

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