First of all, let me say that i'm a fanatic just like the rest of you. I'm all for the original trilogy and hate that lucas had to mess with it. On the other hand, I like to be entertained, and if with all these changes he can still entertain me, then i'm happy to own the DVD.
That being said, lets get back to the greedo scene! OK, so he wanted to make Han less of a cold blooded killer and needed to make Greedo shoot first. I disagree, but ok. I can deal with it. He makes them shoot almost at the same time so it looks like Han has better reflexes. FINE. Looks a little off, but FINE. They want to make Han move out of the way so that Greedo missing from 3' away is more realistic. GREAT! That's what we want. The major PROBLEM here is that with all the equipment at their disposal, they didn't get it to look realistic. Don't get me wrong, i can't even begin to imagine how difficult it would be to make Han look as though he was NATURALLY moving out of the way. The result, though, looked like my DVD skipped. It was as Han teleported positions. I watched it 20 times before I finally called in one of my roomates to look at it. I figured maybe i was biased because I know Star Wars. She, on the other hand, does not.
Me: "Tell me what you think of this scene"
(we watch it)
Roomate: "What was I looking for?"
Me: "Anything"
Roomate: "You mean how the disc skipped?"
Me: "The disc skipped? Show me"
(I play it again. . .right as we get to the shooting part. . .)
Roomate: "THERE. . .the disc skipped. . .right? Is that what you're asking?"
There you have it. Someone who had never seen the movie before. She saw that scene. . .Han moving was SO jumpy that she thought the DVD skipped.
THAT's what bothers me. I hope the rest of the discs don't have things that annoying on them!
-James