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The Last Jedi Digital/Blu-Ray Release: NOT Theatrical Cut?

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While listening to the isolated score track that is available with the digital release of TLJ today, I believe I may have caught a change from the film that was released theatrically and the digital/Blu-Ray release. When seeing the film for the first time I swear I heard Yoda’s theme in the end credits. The theme is in the “Finale” track on the official soundtrack, but not in the isolated score audio track or my digital copy that I bought. Can anyone else confirm that Yoda is in the credits or am I just crazy? Also, has anyone found anything that would make the theatrical release different to the digital/blu-ray release?

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I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the end credits music in the film was different from the one on the soundtrack. For some reason, there has been this long-standing thing about changing the end credits in every single Star Wars film, with the exception of A New Hope (the end credits on both the film and the soundtrack are the same; unless you count the Special Edition’s film end credits, which wound up having sections repeated because of the added credits). Boggles the mind. Oh well, that just creates for us a sort of bonus track, doesn’t it?

One thing I like about the Star Wars saga are the planets, especially the ones wet with rain, hahaha! Kamino, Eadu, and Ach-To - all three of them have enormous amounts of rain, it seems. 😃

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Forceboat said:

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the end credits music in the film was different from the one on the soundtrack. For some reason, there has been this long-standing thing about changing the end credits in every single Star Wars film, with the exception of A New Hope (the end credits on both the film and the soundtrack are the same; unless you count the Special Edition’s film end credits, which wound up having sections repeated because of the added credits). Boggles the mind. Oh well, that just creates for us a sort of bonus track, doesn’t it?

I don’t remember the PT soundtracks other than ROTS, which had longer version on the soundtrack, but I’m pretty sure TESB and ROTJ have the same music on the soundtracks that are in the films?

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LexX said:

Forceboat said:

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the end credits music in the film was different from the one on the soundtrack. For some reason, there has been this long-standing thing about changing the end credits in every single Star Wars film, with the exception of A New Hope (the end credits on both the film and the soundtrack are the same; unless you count the Special Edition’s film end credits, which wound up having sections repeated because of the added credits). Boggles the mind. Oh well, that just creates for us a sort of bonus track, doesn’t it?

I don’t remember the PT soundtracks other than ROTS, which had longer version on the soundtrack, but I’m pretty sure TESB and ROTJ have the same music on the soundtracks that are in the films?

Pretty sure TESB’s is the same. Not sure about RotJ though.

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Collipso said:

LexX said:

Forceboat said:

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the end credits music in the film was different from the one on the soundtrack. For some reason, there has been this long-standing thing about changing the end credits in every single Star Wars film, with the exception of A New Hope (the end credits on both the film and the soundtrack are the same; unless you count the Special Edition’s film end credits, which wound up having sections repeated because of the added credits). Boggles the mind. Oh well, that just creates for us a sort of bonus track, doesn’t it?

I don’t remember the PT soundtracks other than ROTS, which had longer version on the soundtrack, but I’m pretty sure TESB and ROTJ have the same music on the soundtracks that are in the films?

Pretty sure TESB’s is the same. Not sure about RotJ though.

Actually, you would be surprised. I have burned discs for myself of all the “extra music” from each of the OT movies, and there are definitely some differences in the Finale/End Credits for TESB. For some curious reason, first off, the statement of the Han Solo and The Princess theme (both on the original 1980 LP and Special Edition soundtrack) was NOT in the film version. Then, the transition bit just before the end credits is different from the album presentations. And here’s a real doozy: there are TWO film versions of the end credits, one a bit faster than the other (the one on the Special Edition soundtrack). And an even odder thing, the original 1980 album actually spliced in the last half of The Imperial March into its version of the end credits, instead of the one used in the common end credits. (???)

As for ROTJ, the first few seconds of the end credits WERE on the original album and in the movie, but now they were replaced for the Special Edition soundtrack. Don’t know what that is all about. Tinkering and changing, I don’t know why. Oh well.

One thing I like about the Star Wars saga are the planets, especially the ones wet with rain, hahaha! Kamino, Eadu, and Ach-To - all three of them have enormous amounts of rain, it seems. 😃

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I’m pretty sure they changed the Superman scene slightly. Looked less like unfreezing, more like waking up and twitching a little.

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nightstalkerpoet said:

I’m pretty sure they changed the Superman scene slightly. Looked less like unfreezing, more like waking up and twitching a little.

I doubt that. I haven’t seen the home release, but all you did was describe what happened in theaters.

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DominicCobb said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

I’m pretty sure they changed the Superman scene slightly. Looked less like unfreezing, more like waking up and twitching a little.

I doubt that. I haven’t seen the home release, but all you did was describe what happened in theaters.

Yeah, that sounds exactly like the movie I saw in the theater 4+ times.

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In theaters her skin had almost the Twilight sparkly vampire thing going on. In that moment, they looked like ice crystals, which made sense in the cold of space. The digital copy appears to have reduced that effect enough that I found her survival more believable than someone that instantly started freezing in space.

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Or the theater had a higher resolution projection and you could see more icyness.

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Lol. People’s memories are so bad that they’re allowing them to be distorted by everything they’ve heard since they saw the movie about how horrible that scene was, all blown completely out of proportion of course, to the point that they’ve convinced themselves the movie has literally been changed when they actually see it again and realize it isn’t really that bad. Well, guess what: It wasn’t that bad in the theater either.

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But she flew! Digitally erasing the umbrella for the Blu-Ray was an obvious face-saving move for Rian.

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Density said:

Lol. People’s memories are so bad that they’re allowing them to be distorted by everything they’ve heard since they saw the movie about how horrible that scene was, all blown completely out of proportion of course, to the point that they’ve convinced themselves the movie has literally been changed when they actually see it again and realize it isn’t really that bad. Well, guess what: It wasn’t that bad in the theater either.

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It isn’t a terribly well-executed scene, but it was never that horrifyingly awful and certainly hasn’t been changed.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

But she flew! Digitally erasing the umbrella for the Blu-Ray was an obvious face-saving move for Rian.

i remember that umbrella. it stood out to me because i was like, why does she have an umbrella?