hairy_hen said:
And the 70mm version never had 'close the blast doors'. This was only dubbed in for the mono version, made after the first two mixes were already playing in theatres. Aside from much greater dynamics and the addition of powerful bass, the only differences in content between the 70mm and the stereo mix are some explosive sounds added to the battle at the end. Personally I prefer 'close the blast doors' to be absent, because it makes the stormtroopers appear to be incompetent buffoons, not to mention it is dubbed in a voice entirely different than the one that says to open the doors a few seconds later, which I find jarringly discordant.
Only one of them is allowed to yell out a command to the stiff with slow reflexes sitting on his butt in blast door control? There should be a fan film about that guy!
The entire lot of them ran after Han shoots one down and yells like a maniac, and only grow spines after hitting a dead end hallway. Incompetent buffoons? Maybe. Yellow stripe under the armor? Yes!
These guys are cannon fodder for the Empire, and they know it. ;)