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Post #992906

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tomcat32
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'97 vs. '04 (and '11) - Your preference?
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Date created
14-Sep-2016, 12:51 PM

Has to be the '97 editions for me.

All of the SE’s have some ridiculous alterations of course, but the reasons I keep going back to '97 are that

  • the colour grading is at least on par with an actual restoration, and not a quick, botched effort to modernise the films. This is a biggie for me, as I recall that when the SE was first released, it truly was the best the films had ever looked and thus I’m sentimental towards the ‘look’,

  • R2-D2 does not miraculously hide behind a large rock,

  • the lightsabers are fine,

  • fewer ‘prequalisations’; Boba Fett has his original voice, NO HAYDEN at the end of RoTJ,

  • Vader doesn’t yell “NooOoOoOooOooo!”

  • Vader has eyebrows, aha…