Phylo606

Most of the special effects enhancements don’t bother me too much although I really don’t like the replacement of practical models with CGI during the space battles. People worked hard on those. They won Oscars for that hard work. The revisions take that away from the films. Most of the CGI shots are outdated now as it is.

One change I really don’t like is the replacement of Clive Revill and Elaine Baker’s work as the Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s certainly true that Ian McDiarmid’s performance in Return of the Jedi was hauntingly delightful and that his work in Revenge of the Sith was the film’s best asset, but I just don’t like seeing peoples’ roles in films get erased from history just for the sake of something so minor as inter-textual consistency. I feel the same way about the stock footage of Hayden Christensen that was used to replace Sebastian Shaw’s Anakin Skywalker. Shouldn’t have been done.

I like the updating of the lightsaber and blaster effects though. That stuff’s so minor it doesn’t really matter.

I think the reason they replaced the “Bring my shuttle” line with “Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival” was because the length of the shot of Vader walking through Cloud City meant that there was a notably long pause between when he finished speaking and the cut to the next shot. They did a fine job filling it in with John Williams’ score in my humble opinion, but I can see why they wanted to replace the line with something that filled out the sound mix a bit better, albeit one that seems tonally inconsistent with Vader’s seething tone of voice in the duel sequence.