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Star Wars Junkie
I have the orignals on Vhs and the special edition why not the dvd's of them I said so I baught it and man it gave me back some memorys of my childhood I love it even though it has new senes in them I am an extrme star wars fan buying every thing star wars as fast as I get my pay check after bills of corse if you are an extreme star wars fan and really don't mind the add ons to it buy this box set and may the force be with you always

Dissapointing at Best
Who remembers a time when Star Wars was magical and unique and each new movie was better than the last (the first time) and really felt as if you knew the characters, as if they were special to only you and no one could evr possibly understand the realtionship you had with Princess Leia? Did you ever get jealous listening to someone bash HAn or angry when someone called Luke a sissy?

I remember those days, but George Lucas obviously does not. The man is insufferable. The dreadful and ....oh god! it gives me shivers just thinkig about them.....heinous, unnecessary changes that were made in 1997 were not enough. As if the crimes of a Jabba the Hutt in Mos Eisley regurgitating Greedo and Han Lines, a replacement for Lapti Nek with Jedi Rocks!?! (Jesus! George were you smoking the reefer?)and the Sarlacc Worm creature that drastically changes that entire scene? Were they no enough George that you had to go and screw it up yet a second time!?!

Well I am sad to say it has happened. Star Wars has hit rock-bottom. Now on top of the abovementioned crimes, we must also endure Hayden Christensen yet again in Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid in Empire, a role he did NOT originally play! and Boba Fett redubbed to sound like Jango from Attack of the Clones! Doesn't anyone else find that wrong? What if someone remastered Gone With the Wind and added new digitally enhanced scenes and redid dialogue? Wouldn't someone be outraged? I would complain to George but I think he's too busy counting all the money he's earned from this release and snorting the booger sugar?
Damn, man get a grip!

I refuse to buy this DVD set, not only because of the trashjob remakesof stellar films but because the special features are...well not at par. You get like four hours of material. Big deal. You want special features? get the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings? At least Peter was kind enough to release both the ORIGINAL and the EXTENDED editions on DVD. Lucas well, he's not so fan-sensitive, we've become aware.

oh, well. I reommend purchasing the VHS versions of the original trilogy. They weren't lying when they said "The Star Wars trilogy...available to own for the very last time." How prophetic. It really is the only way you'll be able to see Star Wars the way we remember, the way we love and not be dissapointed.

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

'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:

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:

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.

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