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Post #529552

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MV64
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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31-Aug-2011, 4:42 PM

I've had issues with Lucas' changes over the years, but I always felt it was over substantial stuff.  I'm not a hater, maybe a skeptic. I liked the changes (some of them) he's made over the years, extra scenes, the Palpatine change in ESB, etc., so I can't say I have ever used the "I won't buy these" righteous anger before.

But the poor, shoddy worksmanship shows.  They promised us great blu-rays.  And instead they don't even clean up obvious, easy fixes?  Wires, lightsabers, etc.  Fans can do these fixes in an hour or two half the time.  But what is most insulting is the Vader change in the damn climax.

I'm disappointed because I really, really wanted these discs, right up until last night.  I want the trilogy on blu-ray and don't really enjoy the fan edits (there always seem to be terrible things left in or shoddy edits).  But I guess I'll have to settle for grabbing the deleted scenes somewhere else and keeping my DVDs. 

I know this may not seem unusual to any of you, because some of you have hated George and the films for years, but I really thought this time they were going to listen to the fans and at least clean up the SEs like they said they would. 

The more this sinks in, the more I'm angry that they promised one thing and delivered something that was so obviously not wanted that any "quality control" should have caught these changes.  Seriously, those audio changes sound like someone was sitting in their bedroom recording their voice with some buddies and throwing them on the films.

And Vader's no doesn't even sound like Vader.  Completely ruins the power of the moment.