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Good question. I don’t know why I’m tackling this question because I know someone will come along and express it a lot better than me…but here I go:

I don’t necessarily think everyone feels the same way. I also don’t think it’s cut and dry either.

I like the original performance in ESB.
I also appreciate why it was changed - now we have consistency with the same actor portraying the same character in the saga. With that said, I don’t like the altered dialogue nor do I particularly like Ian’s performance.

Now Anakin is a different story. It’s not just disrespectful to Mr. Shaw. It alters Anakins redemption.
Prior to this change, Old Anakin simply transformed into force ghost Anakin…with only battle damaged removed.

Now, going by visuals alone (this is a movie, after all) Lucas is essentially telling us that Anakin was redeemed and transformed to his pre-Sith days. That was when he was last ‘good’ and not evil.
I think the logic behind the change is probably that Anakin hasn’t done anything good in his life since his Jedi days and therefore the force is sort of “erasing” the Sith days from his life. Hence, he looks young while Obi-Wan and Yoda look old.
Since this change, my thoughts have been: Anakin WAS redeemed as an old man, therefore, he should be an old looking force ghost…for lack of a better way of putting it.

Broom Kid said:

I believe that some (but not all?) of the deleted scenes for included on the 2011 box set are available under each movie’s “extras” menu on Disney+

Sooo no additional deleted scenes? such as the extended DS conference room scene with ‘Sith’ being mentioned?

snooker said:

I edit Attack of the Clones because there is good in there, I’ve felt it. I can save it; I can turn it back to the good side. I have to try.

Here here!

Rey looking at R2. I think if you flip the shot of Rey the eyelines won’t work, right?

Ok you probably don’t want to hear this but I just realized that Rey and R2 are both on screen right. One should really be on the left while the other should be on the right. I don’t suppose you have a way to extend the background to right in Rey’s shot do you? 😜

Your_friendly_Imperial said:

strange carnival in TPM

LOL

For those who’ve never seen any of Angel’s work on his eventual edit:

https://www.deviantart.com/aggeiw/gallery

Go look at his version of the Greedo scene. It looks a m a z i n g !

Agreed.
Although, I find that there are a few “lackluster” explosions in the OT. I think most of them are shots in space. After the initial explosion, the opacity seems to just drop off. It’s by no means terrible. Not like I could do any better! lol

I know I would LOVE those CGI rocks if I could watch this in 3D.

JawsTDS said:

They look to be new scans, at least for ROTJ.

Well crap.

This altered Greedo scene, once again, makes no sense.

• First, of all, if Mr. Lucas really wanted to make it clear the Han was shooting in self defense (which it already was clear), why not, instead of altering the shot of the guns ablazin’, why not add the sound of Greedos blaster “powering up” as he says “I’ve been looking forward to this…”? Even add a slight movement to Greedo’s hand and blaster just to make it perfectly clear?

• Why are they adding a new explosion which just makes the next cut more jarring? The screen fills up almost entirely with a white-ish smoke - cut to next shot - almost all of the smoke is gone. Agree with above post: is Greedo filled with C-4? Why not fix the entire thing by going the Adywan route: use frame of non-dummy Greedo and add blaster fire with a BIT of smoke? Boom. Done.

• Why the extra Greedo dialogue?! It’s not even subtitled! What is he supposed to be saying to Han? How does this enhance the scene? AAAND we all know it’s obviously the PREVIOUS shot just zoomed in-…plus, the removal of the dude walking by on the right. They didn’t even remove the bit of light that is visible to the immediate right of Greedos face that disappears as the dude passes by in front of a light.

act on instinct said:

Personally I assume they have enough awareness of these things and have done a once over that may also be related to any ways they had already been planning to regrade or otherwise touch up for UHD or even left from the 3D re-releases.

Yeah, I highly doubt Disney was involved in any of the “creative” decisions on the changes here. Man, I really was expecting just the 2011 releases…

Yeah, what other changes are there?

Thanks, snooker!

In all seriousness, this is something I’ve wanted to try for a loooong time. It’s not perfected yet, but I thought I’d show off this test.

https://youtu.be/nWTm0Tk_5DI

In the words of Count Dooku, “This is just the beginning!”

JEDIT: This was my take on the scene years ago…I think I’ll still cut it similarly to this:
https://youtu.be/9Fm8dJ7bvbg

I’ve had too much time on my hands:

https://youtu.be/8iWGVXEQ1YE

You’re welcome.

Thanks! 😄

No I don’t even remember what it was.

I know it’s been a while with a legit update. However, I think I’ve cracked the kissing scene in AOTC.
With the new Anakin dialogue, I’ve removed all creepiness and made the kiss itself feel more natural. New music too…sorry but no John Williams score for this scene…it just didn’t work for what I was going for.

https://youtu.be/7XZSqm66OP4

It probably depends on the software you’re using. I used to use some software (can’t remember which anymore) that had that as an option…and it wasn’t really hidden away somewhere on a sub menu…it was a very prominent feature. But I haven’t burned a DVD in years…

I was trying to think of what else could be done. The only thing I came up with was to contact people who’ve had star wars websites over the years and see if they might have them or know of someone who might.

I actually checked with the staff at theforce.net and they didn’t know of anyone. I sent a message to t-bone but haven’t heard back yet.

Who else could we contact?

The TROS trailer footage of Rey and Leia embracing looks like slightly altered footage from TFA, right? Quickly looking at image comparisons online, it looks like they’ve kept Leia’s head but have replaced her body entirely so she’s wearing a different outfit. Her hair style is the same as TFA.

That was wonderful.

Sorry I don’t have info for you. Just wanted to say I look forward to this!!

Damn that does sound familiar. Who could potentially still have this?