Just watched ESB again. I must say, Yoda looks great, except for the eyes, they are too static, not always looking into the right direction, eyelids could also be slightly improved. I have noticed what bothered me the most - Yoda's ears. They shake all the time at the tips, which makes them look really unnatural.

-Also, the cockpit doors on Luke's Hoth fighter and even more on Luke's X-wing at Dagobah are wobbly/shaking like they were made of plastic. It looks cheap!

I knew I should have kept notes during the movie, now I feel I forgot all things I noticed that bugged me. Well, I'll have to watch it again!

- Imperial walkers on Hoth move very choppy, you can tell the use of stop motion technique.

- The sound the M. Falcon makes after failing to go to the light speed at the end of the movie, sounds to much like a malfunctioning car, probably intentionaly, but sounds off to me.

- Luke's jump from the carbon freezing hole is a little bit too fast.

- The 2 guards at the end of the scene where Vader leaves the bridge at the end of the movie, have those large stupid looking helmets. The could be erased. We already see a lot of personel, and I feel those over-sized helmets look horrible.

- When the general what's his name contacts Vader in his chamber via large screen, the transmission starts with a TV like static. I would change that to a clean transmission or something like that.


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But what's a proper speed for a Jedi jumping? Even Obi-Wan jumped mega fast and very high in Episode I, so I doubt there is a correct speed for jumping up.

Bearing in mind that the Star Destroyer was in an asteroid field and Vader tells them to move to a clear location for transmission, there is a plausible explanation for why there is a bit of static on connection...

Redoing the animation on the AT AT Walkers would be a massively big piece of re-animation and would probably be a lot more work than the end result would be worth. They are very big slow moving pieces of heavy equipment. I think the stop-motion animation suits them.

As for Solo's restraints before he's frozen...perhaps the Ugnaughts who crowd him actually undo them so that he's able to move his hands as the process begins...?

To be honest, there isn't much I'd change about ESB. Maybe give Yoda a little more expression but even the puppet is more expressive than the horrible CGI stuff that came after. I'd chop the redundant 'Bring my shuttle' scene as it also uses the opening shuttle landing from ROTJ...it's an unnecessary addition and also doesn't match properly. No matter what anyone says, that is not James Earl Jones' voice.

For Jedi, I'd drop the song in Jabba's palace and bring back the old one and get rid of some of the more blatant 'muppet style' runs into the camera. Again, unnecessary additions when he could have fixed the matte lines around the Rancor and the Ewoks need to be fixed in some way. Jabba could do with a bit of fixing too, but then that's the problem with using puppets over CGI...the eyes will always look a little lifeless whereas CGI eyes will be given some life if done right.

I agree, Vader in the shuttle scene doesn't sound like James Earl Jones, no way. It sound very different from the rest of Vader lines.

OK, who is to say what the right force jump speed is. I'm just saying it 'looked' a bit too fast, like Luke was being sucked up in a hose or something.

Okay, first of all besides the basic sound and picture quality improvements not much needs to be done to ESB and ROTJ. Second, The PT should be made to fit the OT, NOT the other way around. No stupid additions to the OT just because they're in the PT. That being said here's my list.

ESB
- Restore Boba Fett's original voice, played by actor Jason Wingreen. I know thanks to Lucas f-ing around in the prequels Boba is now a clone of Jango Fett, but Temuera Morrison's voice stinks. Listen to both voices and I dare anyone to say that Morrison's performance is better than Mr. Wingreen's. Even if Boba is a clone that doesn't mean he has to sound exactly like Jango. Age, warfare, and hard living can all contribute to the change. Also, why can't Boba have a voice scrambler in his helmet just like Vader?

- On Dagobah restore Luke's original line of "you're lucky you don't taste very good." This line was funny and fit with the humor of the OT.

- Fix the lightsabers. The color on the blades of the sabers is grossly faded out and they bleed together when clashing.

- I'm with astromech, restore Vader's original line of "Bring my shuttle" and delete the shot of Vader walking towards a shuttle on Bespin.

- I like Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor but the dialog in the new Vader/Emperor scene is completely retarded now and needs to be edited to more closely fit the original lines. I've discussed this with Adywan before and I've come with a pretty good way of repairing this scene.

ROTJ
- Again fix the lightsabers. Same problem as in ESB.

- Get rid of the Harmonica Frog and the whole Jedi Rocks sequence with all the new extras and please restore Lapti Nek. Honestly both the old puppets and the new CGI characters aren't perfect but the new music is just terrible. Lapti Nek sounds much more Star Wars-esque.

- At the Sarlaac pit delete Solo's new line of "It's okay, I can see a lot better" and restore his original line of "Trust me." The new line just seems like a mouthful to say in that moment. Besides, 'trust me' is kind of Solo's slogan in the OT. It's funny and fits Solo's attitude in these commonly risky situations he finds himself in the OT.

- During the celebration sequence on Coruscant, for the 2004 DVD editions Lucas added the old Senate building and the Jedi Temple in the background. These weren't present for the 1997 Special Editions. This change seems entirely illogical to me. If I were an evil Sith Master, like Palpatine, I'd burn these buildings to the ground and not let them remain standing. The Senate was disbanded in ANH and the Jedi Temple should have been destroyed in ROTS?

- Another celebration change, I don't like the entire planet Naboo added to the sequence, but I know I'm probably in the minority on that. So at the very least delete the Gungans dancing on top of the temple and the "Weesa Free" screaming. Gungans are the worst characters added to the Star Wars saga.

Actually, the problem your seeing here is because the picture quality is too good. Originally in SW and ESB, model shots tended to be used for scenes like that, however, when they were shooting ROTJ, they happened to have a really good matte painter working in the crew, so they used him to create matte paintings for many scenes (ex. Emperor's Death, Scene When Han Looks out at the Falcon from Tyderium cockpit). During the original release, this looked great (and it looked even better on your VHS copies) because the depth of field loss was hidden by film grain, etc. However when it was cleaned up for DVD presentation, they did such a good job with the clarity that you can actually see the texture in the paint used, making the matte shots stand out.

There is a similar example to this problem in the ESB DVD release as well. During the battle of Hoth, when one of the Walkers is destroyed you see it fall forward into a cloud of snow. Originally this looked great, but now the picture quality has been fixed up enough you can see far too clearly that it is a model being dropped into artificial miniature snow.

Those are shots I'd love to see "fixed" but as to how you would fix that, I have no idea.

Whatever they did for the Close Encounters bluray would be ideal for me. It looks great, yet maintains its "film texture" (the effects shots still look great)

Marginaly funny to me. There a couple of great funny inserts in this movie, and I like them, but it is still an advanture SF movie, not a comedy. But it is up to the person who will be doing the edit - Adywan (I hope).

I would like to see (hear) Threepio's line from the radio drama where he introduces the Ewoks by name.

"I believe they are called... Ewoks."

I dont know, I like what the SE did to Bespin. It made it seem like it was much bigger by adding windows. Also it no longer looked like a set. And the clouds match the rest of the outdoor shots we see later.

I dont know how I feel about this change...I would love to have the OT make some mention of her rather than the weird exchange between luke and leia on Endor. But I feel like Vader wouldnt bring up padme so lightly. I like to think that he never thinks of her and its only watching luke's torture that he officially starts to connect with anakin again. though it makes more sense in light of the prequels it seems out of character.

to each his own though...

"Your mother once thought as you do."

I don't like this idea. It is unnecessary in my opinion. As stossmo said, some mention of her during Luke's and Leia's talk on Endor would be better. Maybe Oragana's told Lea some things about her mother, and also perhaps Lars and Beru told some things to Luke. No the truth of course, but certain things they thougt it was safe to tell.

how would you get extra dialog between Luke and Leia?

Again, a couple more ideas:

- when R2D2 shoots the lightsaber into the air, and Luke is waiting with his hand in the air for it, this could be shortened just a little bit, so it would seem even more synchronized, a real Jedi move.
- of course, in the Vader-Emperor dialog in ESB, Vader must already know about being Luke's father! The actual dialog will normally depend on the available sources to use in the scene.
- now a bolder suggestion: emperor's minions could perhaps (if technically possible) changed from humans to neimoidians. There is plenty of neimoidian footage in the PT. This would be really a minor change since emperor's minions play no real role in the OT, but as neimoidian opportunistic nature suggests, they stay close to the ruling party - the emperor.

But after he becomes Emperor, isn't Palpatine supposed to become a 'specist', which is why the Empire is entirely human? Because he has a disdain for non-humans.


Anyway, some humble suggestions from me...

ESB:
Change Captain Needa's shuttle to a Tydirium model...I hate the stupid block thing that they left in for the SE

Get rid of that terrible new Wampa footage. It doesn't even remotely match the original stuff...the lighting, the creature design, none of it. I also think the scene is more effective without the added footage.

Maybe articulate Yoda a little more to make him look more like the CG version in the PT.

Something should be done about the Emperor scene, but retaining McDiamird as the Emperor IMO is a must.

If this edit is made to fit into the PT canon, Fett's voice should probably stay as Morrison. Unless you can 'fanon' it and make up some thing about his larynx being damaged or something. Or like Gorilla said a voice scrambler. Maybe you can even alter Wingreen's versions to sound either more digital or like Morrison's voice, because Morrison's delivery was really weak here.

I don't mind the added Star Destroyer stuff, but maybe you can just cut the landing scene so we see the shuttle coming in to land, but never actually land. That, or find a way to make the landing footage new...could be extremely difficult. As for Vader's lines...well doesn't the original 'Prepare my shuttle' line from the OOT version make sense even with the added footage? Couldn't you just use that instead of the pointless changed line?

ROTJ:

Lapti Nek and YubNub need to make a serious comeback. But if you use the original puppet footage, maybe remove Sy Snootle's 'snot', the string that goes from her mouth to the microphone (I assume) to control the effect. It's so obvious that I even noticed it when I was a kid.

The Sarlaac pit needs to go back to it's beakless state.

Don something about Yoda's finger/hand bending during his death scene...it's an obvious rubber hand.

Leave the poor Ewoks alone, I never minded them.

I actually like Hayden appearing as a ghost. It's a kind of visualization for the "Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin" thing and to me, it just makes sense that his spirit would be that of who he was before he went to the Dark Side.