Originally posted by: KurtFF8
Well I didn't know that he was only inserted in the 90s, I was under the impression that he was already in the shot. That still doesn't mean that he changed the films "just for the fans" as he had always planed to return to them and modify them, and a piece of evidence for that is t he fact that he shot the Jabba scene with the intention of returning to it much later to complete it.
I'm not trying to say that you should like the SEs of course, and I agree that there should be good quality versions of the OOT that are digitally remastered. I'm just saying that I don't see why people complain about most of the changes in the SEs so much and attack GL for it. You can like the SEs and still want the OOT digitally remastered.
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Boba Fett was digitally inserted into that scene as he was not part of the original shoot, having been developed by Joe Johnston in 1978; he was filmed in 1996 and played by an ILM employee IIRC. And yes, he was put there for fan-related reasons.
Well I didn't know that he was only inserted in the 90s, I was under the impression that he was already in the shot. That still doesn't mean that he changed the films "just for the fans" as he had always planed to return to them and modify them, and a piece of evidence for that is t he fact that he shot the Jabba scene with the intention of returning to it much later to complete it.
I'm not trying to say that you should like the SEs of course, and I agree that there should be good quality versions of the OOT that are digitally remastered. I'm just saying that I don't see why people complain about most of the changes in the SEs so much and attack GL for it. You can like the SEs and still want the OOT digitally remastered.
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Lucas says specifically in the ROTJ Commentary on the 2004 DVD, "If I knew that Boba Fett was going to be so popular, I would have given him a cooler death scene." Lucas ADMITS that if he knew the fans love of Boba Fett after all these years, he would have done things differently, hence why he appears, or Jango Fett too appears in AOTC......for the fans, just like Chewbacca in ROTS.
As for complaining about the SE changes, if Lucas would have just made cosmetic changes like the new Jawa Sandcrawler, ObiWans Hutt, The X-Wing Fighters leaving Yavin, etc, I think you would have a small minority that HATE the SE. It is the Greedo shooting first, the exclusion of "Bring my shuttle", Jedi Rocks new song in ROTJ, and of course taking out Sebastian Shaw in the ghost scene in ROTJ, That's the stuff that pisses me off, and led me to hate EVERYTHING about the SE. So in a sense, the more Lucas tried to tie the Saga's together visually in the SE, the more he turned me off as a saga fan. That is pure irony.