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Post #54890

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buddy-x-wing
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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Date created
14-Jul-2004, 4:58 AM
the only change I ever wanted to see in any special addition, would be to improve the look of the Rancor Scene in ROTJ, the shot where Luke is crouched under a rock and the rancor's hand comes into shot to pick him up, i've always felt it was one of the sloppiest piece of blue-screen effects in the whole trilogy, and could never understand why it wasn't the first thing they fixed up in the original special editions (surely it was more important than the Muppet Musical production of 'Jedi Rocks) surely it wouldn't be too hard to either colour correct the scene, or recreate the rancors hand in cgi so that it blended into the scene better, Even better still if they could recreate the cut scene of luke falling onto the monster's eye from the grate.

and i wish they had of redone the shot of the trash compactor monster's eye popping out of the water, the way the shot was lit differently makes it look like an old piece of 'stock footage' ripped from a 'B' monster movie, it always looked like it had been addded as an after-thought.

hope this doesn't sound like I'm in favour of the special editions, I just wish George had tweaked some of the existing effects that needed work, without adding all the cheap visual gags that were designed to show off ILM's skills, rather than advance the story any further.

Bring back Lapti nek and the Ewok Nub yub song!!!