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Post #66289

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Obi-wonton
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Amazon Reviews (re the 2004 OT SE DVD release)
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Date created
22-Sep-2004, 3:29 AM
Cool, we need to be active in this. Like I said its the number one site for reviews in the world and a lot of people base their buys (many do not purchase from there) based on criticisms and ratings. The news might says some cursory statements of ignorance, like... "Its the greatest trilogy of all time, now with the DVD treatment and its number one for good reason." Not mentioning audio errors, things missing (more documentaries, deleted scenes), things altered and changed. It should be our mission to help people out there get the word. Further, Lucas needs to see a number of stars and a volume of reviews that reflect greatness and disgust with what trul is the greatest trilogy of all time (changed for the worse). Thanks guys.


BTW to Amazon's credit they do put this in their own summary...

What's Been Changed?
The rumors are true: Lucas made more changes to the films for their DVD debut. Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) has been added to a scene in Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (the Emperor) replaces Clive Revill with slightly revised lines in Empire, Temuera Morrison has rerecorded Boba Fett's minimal dialogue, and some other small details have been altered. Yes, these changes mean that the Star Wars films are no longer the ones you saw 20 years ago, but these brief changes hardly affect the films, and they do make sense in the overall continuity of the two trilogies. It's not like a digitized Ewan McGregor has replaced Alec Guiness's scenes, and the infamous changes made for the 1997 special-edition versions were much more intrusive (of course, those are in the DVD versions as well).