logo Sign In

Most pointless Special Edition change? — Page 2

Author
Time

My bad.

It’s way better than the 2011 SE of the OT crap on the Bluray.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

I know, they did turn out good in TFA. They just need to fix Luke Skywalker’s blade color in A New Hope to match the rest of the Saga.

Author
Time

yhwx said:

I still think TFA has the most beautiful lightsabers in the saga.
Way better than that crap on the BluRay.

That’s partly because they had lightsaber props with actual light. The BD sabers were basically a mistake that got through.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Frank your Majesty said:

Probably this:

Well, when George Lucas first made Star Wars, the technology just didn’t exist for the alien to have red sleeves. Now, George’s original vision has finally come to light.

Not enough people read the EU.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Can we answer with the prequels? They’re not Special Editions, but I can get the logic between pretty much every SE change. I don’t agree with the logic, but I at least get it. What I don’t get the logic behind is changing the order of a few shots at the end of AotC.

Reading R + L ≠ J theories

Author
Time

SparkySywer said:

Can we answer with the prequels? They’re not Special Editions, but I can get the logic between pretty much every SE change.

You can’t get any logic out of this:

Frank your Majesty said:

Probably this:

So,

ray_afraid said:

Lizard-guys shirt changed from green to red is the current winner.
Obi-Wans new scream a close second. (it’s more obnoxious, but the color change isn’t even noticeable, making it more pointless)

This is still the score.

Ray’s Lounge
Biggs in ANH edit idea
ROTJ opening edit idea

Author
Time
 (Edited)

yhwx said:

I still think TFA has the most beautiful lightsabers in the saga.

TFA Lightsabers

Way better than that crap on the BluRay.

Oh that looks awesome!!

When’s something gonna happen?

Author
Time

Spuffure said:

yhwx said:

I still think TFA has the most beautiful lightsabers in the saga.

TFA Lightsabers

Way better than that crap on the BluRay.

Oh that looks awesome!!

Yes, it is. Have you seen the film? It’s quite good.

Author
Time

DominicCobb said:

Spuffure said:

yhwx said:

I still think TFA has the most beautiful lightsabers in the saga.

TFA Lightsabers

Way better than that crap on the BluRay.

Oh that looks awesome!!

Yes, it is. Have you seen the film? It’s quite good.

It is. Except Han Solo died! (Cries in corner)

When’s something gonna happen?

Author
Time

Cgi filled mos eisley. Just looked like cgi creatures were vomited into mos eisley. Didn’t do anything to add to the movie or improve. In fact, it took away from mos eisley being characterized as a sketchy sorta tougher place.

Author
Time

Cgi filled mos eisley. Just looked like cgi creatures were vomited into mos eisley. Didn’t do anything to add to the movie or improve. In fact, it took away from mos eisley being characterized as a sketchy sorta tougher place.

Author
Time

The lightsabers really do look good in the The Force Awakens. I agree.

Most pointless change? There are many I hate much more, but I will go with stuff like the Luke/R2 line in ESB:

You’re lucky you don’t taste so good/
You’re lucky you got out of there alive/

Or however it goes.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

I say it was the removal of the wolf guy, the SE color saturations, and CGI jabba. Jabba is here because we were supposed to build up suspense to see what jabba looked like in ROTJ but the surprise had to be ruined, right george?

Author
Time

Kind of in topic, but with all the changes George made to “improve” the original films, the one thing he never did that I never understood involves the wampa cave after Luke dismembered the wampa and goes to leave. You hear his lightsaber shut off but it’s clearly still on. Either edit out the blade or remove the sound effect.

Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Slightly off topic but I just stumbled on this 1997 interview with Lucas after the first SEs came out. Funny how he says there’s more he’d like to make but there’s ‘no plans’ to change them again. Interesting how he also brings up that enhanced versions of the Indiana Jones films were gonna be done which fortunately we never got.

http://protonforce.tripod.com/lucas_online.html

Author
Time

crissrudd4554 said:

Slightly off topic but I just stumbled on this 1997 interview with Lucas after the first SEs came out. Funny how he says there’s more he’d like to make but there’s ‘no plans’ to change them again. Interesting how he also brings up that enhanced versions of the Indiana Jones films were gonna be done which fortunately we never got.

http://protonforce.tripod.com/lucas_online.html

They started to tinker with Raiders, replacing cliffs with CG work and such. Those things have been rolled back, probably because Spielberg realized what an enormous mistake ET SE was. The glass reflection on the one snake shot is still removed, but nothing too atrocious.

Author
Time

The guide bar for the boulder was also digitally removed.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

crissrudd4554 said:

Slightly off topic but I just stumbled on this 1997 interview with Lucas after the first SEs came out. Funny how he says there’s more he’d like to make but there’s ‘no plans’ to change them again. Interesting how he also brings up that enhanced versions of the Indiana Jones films were gonna be done which fortunately we never got.

http://protonforce.tripod.com/lucas_online.html

I love this little bit:

George Lucas said:

“How can the prequel possibly meet the expectations that the fans and public have for it?” Mike Gruber-- Fresno, CA

"The audiece will see visual effects unlike anything that has ever been put on film before. This film will have beyond state-of-the-art digital effects. And also the story arc in the prequels is stronger and more complex than that seen in the original trilogy. I am making the kind of Star Wars film that I want to see and it’s the one that has been playing in my mind for the past twenty years. When the film is released, it will be the best Star Wars film that I know how to make. Will that be enough? We’ll just have to wait and see . . . "

FOTFLMAO

Author
Time

Yeah, I concur, the Lizard’s shirt colour is the most pointless SE change.

Author
Time

Another change I never fully understood was the gas refinery or whatever the hell its called that was added to the outside of Cloud City. If you had the Pan and Scan version of the SE you couldn’t see this anyways.