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#224978
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What is meant by 'Special Edition'?
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Originally posted by: Mike O
Originally posted by: Mielr
Yeah I thought it was really sneaky of them to make no mention on the 2004 boxed set, that they were the Special Editions (or this week's version of the Special Editions, anyway).


What, you mean you wanted a high-quality choice between both versions? Like the DVDs of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Alien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Aliens, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Alien 3, Vanishing Point, Alien Resurrection, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Brazil, Braindead, and The Leopard, to name a few DVDs? Is that what you mean?
To be fair, The Abyss and Brazil are both non-anamorphic LD transfers, like what we're getting with the new SW discs. Brazil will, however, be released in September with a new transfer. Fox has yet to get off their asses and put out a better edition of the Abyss though. They've been peddling and rereleasing the same non-anamorphic disc for the past few years. The only edition of Blade Runner available on DVD is the director's cut in a lousy LD transfer. This should be rectified next year though.
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#224968
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Lucas talks about the Sept 12th Release of the O-OT
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Originally posted by: Mielr
All the ads for Amazon list "easter egg-credit roll" as a feature of these new DVDs- what the heck are they talking about? Are those new easter eggs or are they also on the 2004 discs? The only easter egg I was aware of from the 2004 set was the one on the bonus disc, of the DVD credits/blooper reel.
When the '04 DVDs were originally announced, many sites listed that each movie disc featured an "easter egg credit roll". Perhaps it's a mistake leftover from the '04 announcement, or maybe Lucasfilm did re-edit the credit roll for each individual film.
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#224964
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An exact quote from Lucas on Greedo shooting first.
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Originally posted by: Mielr
Why doesn't he just admit that he changed his mind and wanted to alter the scene?
He did. Or at least back when the SEs came out. Here's what he said back in '96/'97 regarding the issue. The video can be found on the "Making Magic" CD-ROM.

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Lucas: "Well, the change in the Greedo scene: it's always been a little difficult exactly how Han shoots Greedo and what Greedo does to provoke that. And obviously, the situation was that Geedo's gonna shoot Han, Han outdraws him and kills him. But in the film, it sort of appeared that Han shot him without Greedo knowing what was going on. That always bothered me so we added a new shot - a wider shot - where you see Greedo fire his gun and have it richochet off the wall, and then Han shoots him so it doesn't look like Han shot him in cold blood. We did have some difficulty in the timing of the laser so that it looks believable that Greedo could have fired the gun and then Han would have fired shortly thereafter but still have it far enough apart for it to read, for an audience to see that there were two separate gun shots going on."
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#224963
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BFI preserving OOT!!
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Originally posted by: zombie84
Very interesting indeed. More weight to the "Marquand was a puppet director" theory. Any additional sources other than dodgy IMDB?
IMDB was my source as well, so I don't know how official it is either. I was checking up on some of the SW crew for a really geeky list of people I would like/expect to see on a future DVD documentary if Lucasfilm ever did the proper SEs that the films deserve.

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#224510
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Idea: Superman Returns - Spoilers... for a fan edit
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I actually had this in mind as I was watching it in theaters. I hated the first 20 minutes or so. Just plain dull. But after the plane sequence, the film had me and I loved the rest of it. So maybe I'd just lop off most of those opening scenes.

- If the DVD doesn't come with an extended version, I would edit some of the deleted material back into the film, especially Superman's visit to Krypton and the Smallville scenes. Apparently, these were really needed to reinforce the film's theme of isolation and the world moving on w/o Superman.
- I'd edit most of the opening. The first scene with Lex is unnecessary. I'd try to cut down on his trip to the Fortress of Solitude, etc.
- I'd cut the young Clark flashback unless deleted scenes make it more important (the scene originally had young Clark finding the crystal for the first time, I think).
- Then I'd just trim a few of the film's excesses here and there.
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#222595
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Ages of Luke & Leia
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: ShiftyEyes
Leia's memory of Padme can be explained by Yoda in ESB:

"Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future... the past. Old friends long gone."


Which, once again, is refuted by Lucas himself, back in the 1980s who said that he wanted one of the twins to have memories of their mother. Not Force-induced visions, but actual memories. There's a huge difference. To make ourselves feel better, sure, we can rationalize it, but if you want to get to the nitty-gritty, George dropped the ball, and that's all there is to it.
Sure it's a rationalization, but you're basing this off something Lucas said 20+ years ago? Heaven knows the guy's changed his mind more often on the backstory than that.

And of course Lucas made up Leia being Luke's sister as he was going along!