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Post #328994

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Janskeet
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Why was the '04 DVD set such a botched release?
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Date created
4-Sep-2008, 12:02 AM

The color changes were odd, most of the scenes seem to have a slight turquoise/teal tone added to them. The Hoth scenes have a heavy blue tone added to them. Now, I wouldn't mind the blue tone if it was subtle, but they added too heavy of a blue tone to it. Lucasfilm doesn't seem to be capable of subtlety anymore.

Almost all of the continuity errors were left in the movie, only a few were addressed. Like Han's shirt in ESB, english text translated to their sci-fi text, and that's about it. 

The censoring of blaster shots was a stupid, pointless change aimed at the kiddies to make the movie more "child friendly." A lot of shots of characters being shot by blasters was shortened to make the shot hitting them less visible and we all know about the infamous Greedo shooting first scene.

A lot of the special effects and continuity errors were not addressed. Like the pinkish squares surrounding the tie fighters.

Who did the restoration of the movies? Was LFL the ones who restored the movies or did they have a separate company restore them. When they did the '04 DVD restoration, did they restore the OOT film prints and then reinsert the '97 SE changes to that, or did they just work with the '97 prints and expand from them?

Why did Lucas pay so much attention to strange and unnecessary changes while continuity errors were left intact? Why didn't Lucas explain these changes in the '04 DVD commentary? How could the most popular Science Fiction films in history get such poor treatment?

Feel free to point out other poor changes and errors that weren't addressed.