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Post #76902

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ADigitalMan
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ROTJ is worse than I remember.
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Date created
9-Nov-2004, 3:06 PM
Whereas I've grown to love ESB as my favorite movie of all time (it was my least favorite SW film as a kid), I've always enjoyed ROTJ too. The Ewoks never offended me as much as they seemed to offend so many. Yes, wookiees would have been better, and yes, GL punked out to serve the kiddie crowd, which I now understand. But the Ewoks still don't offend me. Gungans offend me, but not Ewoks. Hayden not withstanding, the official DVD was the most enjoyable viewing of ROTJ I've seen yet.

Anyway, I found that on the DVD, for the first time in the history of ROTJ, the Rancor scene didn't look like complete crap. They clearly worked to remaster that whole sequence and it doesn't look like a giant blue screen mess anymore. Even the scene where Luke jams the bone it its mouth looks like it should have. This sequence was always the gut-wrencher for me, because it looked so horribly fake before. Now it looks on par with the rest of the FX in the trilogy. It doesn't look like it's been screwed with either. It just seems that the layers were color corrected and recomposited.

That said, I still want an unmolested OT version on DVD. Sometimes you just want to sing Lapti Nek and Yub Yub. Well, maybe not Yub Yub.