Any of the changes had George Lucas’ involvement. Fox had no role in this. The 2019 changes were actually done circa 2012 for a 3D release that never happened.
The 1991 Addams Family movie is extended in the UHD release.
It includes both cuts.
The music was slightly extended in parts beginning during the sequence where Han is being loaded onto the Slave 1. Why exactly I’m not sure. Perhaps they wanted the music to continue up til it cut back to Luke and Vader. There’s also difference in timing for the music during the actual escape too (partly due to extending Lando’s evacuation announcement). The closing cue that’s suppose to hit when it cuts to the exterior of the platform where the final duel takes place now happens about two seconds before actually cutting to the shot.
I don’t own it but many have recommended the 2015 Blu-ray.
I have a question about the audio tracks. The version of 4K77 that I’m checking out has a track labeled as 1993 Laserdisc Stereo. However listening to this I hear none of the alterations made for the 1993 LD. Any input on this???
There was a mislabeling in tracks 14 and 15 for 4K77. Track 14 is the 1985 English Stereo Remix and Track 15 is the 1993 English Stereo Remix.
In other words: The track labeled ‘1993 remix’ is the 1985 remix and the track labeled ‘1985 remix’ is the 1993 remix
Ahh ok. Sadly the one I have lacks a track labeled 1985 remix but I guess that’d be the 1993 labeled mix then.
I have a question about the audio tracks. The version of 4K77 that I’m checking out has a track labeled as 1993 Laserdisc Stereo. However listening to this I hear none of the alterations made for the 1993 LD. Any input on this???
Jaws (1975)'s 5.1 mix heard on all streaming versions uses a different recording of Man Against Beast from the one in the theatrical mono.
That would be more a subject for this thread…
…but yes you are correct. There was apparently tape damage to the master of the original take so when the film was remixed in 2000 an alternate take was used. The original take was restored for the 2015 Intrada CD however. A shame Universal didn’t bother to restore it to the film for the UHD release last year.
I don’t hate them but I think it would’ve worked out a little better if they’d been Wookiees like George originally planned.
I love this thread.
Thank you for the update! 😃
Don’t know if this was mentioned but I even showed my family this one recently. George talks about the first time the studio saw the first Star Wars. In 1997 he says they loved it. In his 2015 interview with Charlie Rose he says they hated it.
(17:22-17:25)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7HLfYQ3RjDQ&t=1045s
(34:24-34:28)
Does anyone have the SE poster arts textless but the variants that were used for the VHS/LD releases, not the poster variants??? Closest I could find is this but it’s too small plus there’s a line that splits through the middle of the Empire artwork.
Hello. Quick question. There’s two versions of the 1982 rental copy of Star Wars on MySpleen but they both have different Fox logos. One has the theatrical logo but with the theme re-recorded, the other the plastered logo but also with the re-recorded version. Which version is accurate to the original rental VHS or were there copies of that release floating around with both logos???
Widescreen variant for those interested. Haven’t updated the insert yet.
Think I’ve come up with a Faces Trilogy cover that I’m satisfied with. As with my 1992 Trilogy style cover I decided to have the George Lucas message be an insert that goes in the inside of the case. Here’s what I got.
Made some minor updates. Changed the starfield and rearranged the back cover slightly. Also added summaries for each movie which I borrowed from the insert that came with the 1990 VHS’. Also changed the starfield for the insert as well.
A New Hope goes back to The Art of Star Wars which was published in November of 1979. But no it was never the title or subtitle of the real shooting script. It was the Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills. Saga I. Star Wars. Shortened to Star Wars and there was no Episode IV at all period until 1979. The film itself wasn’t recut to episode IV until 1981.
According to a quote from Mark Hamill the film was at least acknowledged as Episode IV during production.
[doubleofive said:]
YOU DOUBT ME?!
I STAND CORRECTED! 😉 Good catch!
Don’t know if this was mentioned but the Digitalbits article on the 4K version of ANH mentions that the speeder was shifted slightly to the right in this scene. That’s not actually correct. The image is cropped somewhat more in the 4K version compared to the 04/11 versions.
I watched Faces 100 times, how could I miss this. I suppose I was a child.
It was the first copy I ever owned and I’m sure I watched those tapes about the same amount of times hahaha and I only noticed this last night!
Not very odd at all. Japan got a Laserdisc release of Phantom Menace even though LD was dead in the states. Same with Revenge of the Sith which got a VHS release in some countries but not the US. All depends on on the markets and what format is doing the most business in them.
Maybe it was a restoration glitch that was corrected at some point?? I just checked a DVD I burnt of an earlier attempt of capturing my ESB VHS from about 10 years ago and that too has the blue laser bolts.
Not a Special Edition change but something caught my attention tonight. Ive recently been doing some VHS digitizing and recently digitized my 1995 ‘Faces’ set and was watching a DVD I did of the ESB tape and I noticed something. At one point during the TIE Fighter/Falcon chase in the asteroid field I noticed that for a brief point of the chase the fighters laser blasts were blue. I thought 'weren’t those supposed to be green??". I went and checked a DVD I burnt of my 1992 VHS and sure enough green laser blasts. I then thought “maybe this was a change for the 1993/‘GOUT’ master??” since the ‘Faces’ set uses those masters. Went and checked my GOUT DVD and believe it or not GREEN laser blasts. So I thought “huh so for the VHS master they changed them to blue?? Strange but interesting.”
For comparison here’s some shots from the GOUT.
And here’s the VHS.
Anyways just found this interesting. I can’t comment on the Laserdisc versions since I dont own them nor have a player for them. I do have the Widescreen ‘Faces’ set but its at my other place. Maybe one of these days I’ll check that set too.
I suppose it could if you really want it in that format.
They aren’t on NTSC DVD to my knowledge.