Snaketibe

Really impressive work!

Superb work as always! What an improvement!

Thanks so much for this. It looks absolutely gorgeous 😃

Once again I am in awe at your skill, generosity and dedication. This is fantastic news about the 1080p release, but enjoy that well-earned break first!

What an improvement! It never ceases to amaze me how the official releases manage to get these things so wrong, or how dedicated you are to fixing them!

Splendid work!

Thanks for the updates. That’s some tremendous work fixing the colour, and the out of focus shot.

You really do pour your heart and soul into these Revisited films, and it really is very much appreciated. The end results are always superb, so thank you for caring enough and having the talent to fix them, not to mention the unadulterated generosity to share your hard work with a grateful world.

ray_afraid said:

My only problem with Han in Jedi is his jealousy at Luke.
Han & Leia fell in love in Empire and even tell each other!
Leia’s first word’s to Han in Jedi is “…Someone who loves you.” !!!
Then Han spends the rest of the film jealous & suspicious of LukenLeia.
It’s really stupid.

True, but who said love was always sensible? 😃

Thanks for the update. Your proposed changes sound great and make a lot of sense.

More spectacular work on the colour grading! It looks gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the comparison video.

Magnificent work as always!

Amazing effort you put in Ady, as always!

Brilliant work!

I’m really sorry to hear about the latest problems you’ve had to deal with, Ady. You deserve far better than that after all you’ve done for Star Wars fans everywhere. The scammers should be utterly ashamed of themselves, and I completely agree that naming the git who messed you about with the helmet seems like a perfectly fair and reasonable response!

Thanks for the comparison shots. The 4k83 version really shows how bad the Blu-ray was.

adywan said:

Snaketibe said:

adywan said:

Darth Hade said:

Please keep the scene where Boba is flirting with the girl in Jabba’s palace.

It is the only good addition to the Return of the Jedi Special Edition.

Sorry, all of the “Special Edition” additions to that scene will be going. They’re so awful.

Agreed, they are awful (CGI Sy Snootles, the new band members, the 3 dancing girls, etc.). However, I thought the new scenes they filmed with Femi Taylor reprising her role as Oola were actually pretty good. She looked exactly the same as she did 15 years earlier and I’ve always liked her extra scenes in the rancor pit.

Will you be keeping Oola’s extra scenes or will your edit return her involvement closer to the original version?

Oola in the pit is likely to go.

Thanks for answering. If her scene in the pit does go, I will miss it, but I’m still very much looking forward to seeing your edit.

Also, great work on the colour grading 😃

adywan said:

Darth Hade said:

Please keep the scene where Boba is flirting with the girl in Jabba’s palace.

It is the only good addition to the Return of the Jedi Special Edition.

Sorry, all of the “Special Edition” additions to that scene will be going. They’re so awful.

Agreed, they are awful (CGI Sy Snootles, the new band members, the 3 dancing girls, etc.). However, I thought the new scenes they filmed with Femi Taylor reprising her role as Oola were actually pretty good. She looked exactly the same as she did 15 years earlier and I’ve always liked her extra scenes in the rancor pit.

Will you be keeping Oola’s extra scenes or will your edit return her involvement closer to the original version?

Superb work on the colour grading. It looks about a thousand times better than the blu-ray.

doubleofive said:

I think a human/cyborg relations droid expressing pain is different from a box with legs that I think is basically a walking battery?

Again, if that’s your opinion, you’re perfectly entitled to it 😃. Since there is no right or wrong answer to this hypothetical question, you’re not wrong because you can’t be. Neither can I. However, personally I find it an extraordinary and implausible distinction since they’re both basically machines. If we try to apply some logic to the Star Wars universe (which I’ll be the first to admit is always a bad idea! 😉), since the droids we see throughout the saga are clearly sentient, if they’re capable of being programmed to feel pain, then there’s absolutely no reason not to do it. The benefit to the droid is obvious, and it’s the same reason humans feel pain; to know when they’re being injured so they can try to do something to stop it. On that basis, the gonk droid would be able to feel pain and hence that ability could be exploited to torture it.

I’m not going to claim it’s my favourite scene of the saga, or even Jedi, but I certainly don’t hate it. There are far more deserving candidates for excision, IMHO, namely almost all of the Special Edition changes apart from Oola’s scenes and the animated Sarlaac arms (but not the beak, obviously; that abomination can be binned and won’t be missed by anybody).

timdiggerm said:

Another reason that shot is awful: It’s comes off as funny, but it shows torture.

They may be kids films, but torture has been part of Star Wars from the beginning; arms or hands being chopped off in every film, Leia’s interrogation droid / mind probe in Star Wars, Han on the torture rack in Empire, Han being bound and nearly eaten by the ewoks in Jedi, and of course the ultimate torture scene of the saga, the Emperor using force lightning on Luke at the end of Jedi.

How is the gonk torture scene fundamentally any different? Torture is torture. You say that to you it comes off as being funny, and if that is your opinion, I believe you. However, it never seemed that way to me, either watching it as a kid in 1983 or as an adult today. The scene is there to show the jeopardy Threepio and Artoo find themselves in at Jabba’s Palace. Of course if Ady doesn’t like it, it’s his edit and so he has a perfect right to remove it, but I for one would miss it.

adywan said:

Ever since i first saw the movie in 1983, i have hated that scene. A gonk droid feeling pain? Seriously? Pretty much sums up the things wrong with that movie.

I really hate to say this, but droids feeling pain has already been established as canon in ESB Revisted. At 1:56:44 when R2-D2 is welding C-3PO’s foot, Threepio says, ‘Ouch! Pay attention to what you’re doing!’ when Artoo’s welding goes slightly awry.

If Threepio can feel pain, it’s not unreasonable to think other droids can as well… even gonks.

adywan said:

Fix Boba Fett flipped shots in the palace

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 😃

Before the expiration of the $1,000 challenge offer tomorrow, 12th November, please can I take this opportunity to encourage anyone who enjoys Ady’s Revisited project, but has not yet donated, to do so? There is still time to have your donation matched by the very generous offer made by 1,000 Challenge. There has never been a better time to donate to Revisited, as your donation will effectively be doubled at no extra expense to you.

I would like to thank 1,000 Challenge for his kindness and generosity in making this offer, and of course also Adywan for his continued hard work, dedication, talent and generosity at making and sharing the Revisited films with the rest of us.

I really enjoy and appreciate Ady’s work, and so I have just made a donation as part of the $1,000 challenge. Please consider doing likewise. Thank you.

SilverWook said:

You guys do know lightsabers have hidden color switches? 😉

That explains a lot. Vader’s saber must have a broken ‘B’ and ‘G’ switch 😃

TV’s Frink said:

If there’s no green sky I’m going to be really disappointed.

Also, since it (somehow) hasn’t been suggested yet, adywan should recolor Luke’s lightsaber to Air Superiority Blue.

Dang! There go my hopes of it being made entirely transparent 😉

doubleofive said:

Snaketibe said:

ZeeverFett said:

I would love to see Luke with his intended blue lightsaber in this Revisited version. They only made it green because of the blue sky on tatooine.

Granted George Lucas has contradicted himself many times over the years with regards to Star Wars, so who knows what the real story is, but the one I heard was that George made the saber green in Jedi to make it clear it’s a different one to the one Luke lost on Bespin.

Then it would have been scripted like that, and there wouldn’t be trailers with a blue saber.

Well, I was curious about this, so I had a quick search and found this informative read. It might be that both reasons are true; it was changed both to stand out better against the blue sky and also to differentiate it from the one lost on Bespin: http://www.forcematerial.com/home/2016/10/23/the-real-reason-luke-skywalker-has-a-green-lightsaber