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Post #667736

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deepanddark20
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Date created
27-Oct-2013, 10:58 PM

Harmy, you are amazing. I know I've thanked you before, but it can never be said enough.

I have one little issue with Star Wars Despecialized Edition v2.5. The scene when Luke goes outside to stare at the twin sunset on Tatooine looks like it's too bright in my opinion. I've compared it with several other copies I have of the pre-special edition movie, and yours sticks out as being lighter, almost like it's earlier in the day than the other copies I've seen.

However I do have to praise your awesome job of color correcting the suns, and the mountain's reappearance in the shot is seamless.

I suppose while I'm on this thread I'll mention one more little personal issue I have, but this next thing I'm about to mention is not specifically an issue with your despecialized edition but with a general trend I've noticed in fan preservations. It's the lack of "Episode IV A New Hope" in the opening title crawl.

I know, I know, the original theatrical presentation in 1977 didn't have those words. But surely almost everybody grew up watching copies that did, right? Those words were not a "Special Edition" alteration, so if your goal is to remove "Special Edition" changes, you don't have to remove those words.

To be honest, when I watch the opening crawl without those words, it's just as foreign to me as Han stepping on Jabba's tail or Greedo shooting first. As far as I know, before the GOUT DVDs in 2006, everybody's home video version of Star Wars said "A New Hope" at the beginning. People watched it once (or a few times) in the theater in 1977 without those words, but then spent the rest of the next two decades watching it with those words included in their homes over and over and over. So Star Wars hasn't been restored to what I grew up with unless Jabba is taken out, Han shoots first, and "A New Hope" is put back in.

But anyway, my main concern in this post is the brightness of the Tatooine sunset, since I really think it's supposed to be darker. Thank you again for how amazing you are!