Thursday, September 16, 2004
Star Wars Trilogy DVDs
CNN.com has an article discussing the state of the DVD business for the major studios. Of course, much of the article focuses on the upcoming release of the Star Wars trilogy which is predicted to be the largest-selling DVD ever.
I've long been opposed to what Lucas did to the first 3 films when he re-released them several years ago. In fact, I declared (after seeing footage of Jabba walking) that I would never watch them. To this day, I haven't. However, with the big media push for the new DVDs and my desire to see them played through my HTPC with WinDVD 6's Trimension DNM, I'd been considering reconsidering...until yesterday. That's when Eric Brinley forwarded me a link to the additional changes that Lucas has made to the films since the first re-release.
You can check out the full list here; however, I must include a couple of the worst ones:
1. "As everyone knows already, Hayden appears as a ghost beside Yoda and old Obi-Wan at the end of the movie." Yeah, that's right. They've removed the actor who originally portrayed Anakin/Vader and included the new crappy Anakin/Vader. Lame.
2. "Han Solo avoids Greedo's shot before shooting at him." What?! Self-defense? Han was supposed to be a pretty seedy character before he met Luke and Obi Wan. It totally made sense for him to cap Greedo. After all, Greedo was going to deliver him to Jabba.
Even with the changes, I may still consider watching the films on my HTPC; however, I just won't buy them...
CNN.com has an article discussing the state of the DVD business for the major studios. Of course, much of the article focuses on the upcoming release of the Star Wars trilogy which is predicted to be the largest-selling DVD ever.
I've long been opposed to what Lucas did to the first 3 films when he re-released them several years ago. In fact, I declared (after seeing footage of Jabba walking) that I would never watch them. To this day, I haven't. However, with the big media push for the new DVDs and my desire to see them played through my HTPC with WinDVD 6's Trimension DNM, I'd been considering reconsidering...until yesterday. That's when Eric Brinley forwarded me a link to the additional changes that Lucas has made to the films since the first re-release.
You can check out the full list here; however, I must include a couple of the worst ones:
1. "As everyone knows already, Hayden appears as a ghost beside Yoda and old Obi-Wan at the end of the movie." Yeah, that's right. They've removed the actor who originally portrayed Anakin/Vader and included the new crappy Anakin/Vader. Lame.
2. "Han Solo avoids Greedo's shot before shooting at him." What?! Self-defense? Han was supposed to be a pretty seedy character before he met Luke and Obi Wan. It totally made sense for him to cap Greedo. After all, Greedo was going to deliver him to Jabba.
Even with the changes, I may still consider watching the films on my HTPC; however, I just won't buy them...
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