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Post #65446

Author
sweyland
Parent topic
Empire Of Dreams Review
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Date created
19-Sep-2004, 11:22 PM
The material about the making of the original trilogy was definitely fascinating stuff. It was nice to see the original crew talk about the days so long ago when they were literally making movie history. I know it was truncated, but according to Kevin Burns, even the full version doesn't touch how much stuff Lucas still has in the vaults, so there's still lots of footage from back then that hasn't seen the light of day.

But that's not my problem with it. Described as a warts and all documentary, everything post original trilogy was the same ol' Lucas company line, about "nows my chance to do the stuff I couldn't do back then" (paraphrasing) didn't touch any thing even remotely controversial about the special edition or 2004 changes. Not even a person questioning it, or the validity of Lucas' denial of the originals. Maybe not everyone or even the majority feels that way, but certainly enough people to make it at least worthy of mentioning? Or is it just more of sweeping it under the rug, so now when people see the Star Wars Trilogy 2004, that's just all there is to the OT and that's it. That last chunk was just an advert for Lucas and Ep 3. Pathetic.