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Post #63863

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R2
Parent topic
Empire Of Dreams Review
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Date created
13-Sep-2004, 7:26 AM
I looked but I couldn't find a thread where everyone was discussing what they thought of the special on A&E.

Well, I thought it was really good. I realize that it will be longer on the DVD set, but from what we saw I think that this is going to be a very good documentary to have. I'm sure that there were things that A&E purposely didn't show so that it didn't impact sales of the DVD set.

The one thing that I thought was really interesting is that all of the clips from the films were of the original versions. I thought these didn't exist anymore. Seeing the original opening crawl after all these years was really interesting. I'm just sorry that they didn't show all of it. But I can guess why they didn't. That would make it too easy for someone to re-insert it back into the film. I also noticed that whatever print of the originals that they were using looked pretty good. I'm guessing that those clips were from the cleaned up prints from 97 before the CGI stuff was added.

I wish that there had been a discussion of deleted scenes or unfilmed footage. That may be on the DVD set. At least I hope so. I don't mean complete deleted scenes but a quick discussion on what was filmed that wasn't used for one reason or another.

It was also cool to see some of the lost cut footage.

I wish that Empire and Jedi had gotten more screen time, but again, that will be on the DVD. All in all it was a great two hours to spend watching TV. It definately made me want to watch the films again.