Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on DVD: 9/12 to 12/31

[TheVileOne]

If it includes the crappy prequels, then no.

 

[GoldGoblin]

If it includes the crappy prequels, then no.

^Even if the original trilogy has more updated stuff,like fixed lightsabers for one?

 

[logansoldcigar]

According to all the BS coming from the mouth of great creator, GL it wasn't.

and?
How many copies of the SE DVDs do you think he would have sold if the marketing pitch had been

"But dont worry, fans of the theatrical release: Ill bring those out on DVD in two years time"

doesnt bother me anyways, i have the theatrical versions already. I dont really care about the extras that much, unless its a stunning set that blows my socks off.

course, if one of the extras is a carrie fisher metal bikini to fit your other half (or yourself, if your that way inclined), im first in the Q

 

[GoldGoblin]

George Lucas will probably save deleted scenes for the saga set,that way to make the people who buy this unaltered set have to buy the saga set as well.

 

[Addendum]

Woah! I never said I did not like it if the film was pretty scracthcy. That type of stuff increases my entusiam. For many people like me, this will be therefirst time to watch the "ORIGINAL" Star Wars!!!

Hey, my bad. It just came across like you were knocking it. Apologies.

All I can say is that you'll be in for a treat.

 

[boywonder13]

Hey, my bad. It just came across like you were knocking it. Apologies.

All I can say is that you'll be in for a treat.

Amen to that Brother!!!

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

^Even if the original trilogy has more updated stuff,like fixed lightsabers for one?

Uh....what with Darth Vader and hi pink Ligtsaber in the 2004 re-edits, I hope they don't touch it. I mean we all know Hayden's Vader was rather gay, but they didn't need to give him a pink lightsaber.

 

[thealiasman2000]

You know why I WON'T buy this?

Because I was a spermatozoid when the original version was released.

The version of "Star Wars" that I watched into theaters was the Special Edition. THAT'S the version I saw in theaters, THAT's the version that hooked me into Star Wars, and THAT'S the version I think when I think of Star Wars.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Why, you young whippersnapper!

 

[JackBauer]

too bad for you...

 

[Kurosawa]

You know why I WON'T buy this?

Because I was a spermatozoid when the original version was released.

The version of "Star Wars" that I watched into theaters was the Special Edition. THAT'S the version I saw in theaters, THAT's the version that hooked me into Star Wars, and THAT'S the version I think when I think of Star Wars.

Yeah, can't blame ya. I grew up with the originals and i'm buying the new set, but fans from your generation probably just see them as the SE with tons of visable matte lines and bad blue screen.

Although the 2004 versions aren't perfect yet either. They still gotta fix the lightsabers and there's still some bad matting to fix, especially in ANH.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I feel sorry for kids who weren't there for it in the 70's because now there are several visually breath-taking blockbusters a year, but oh my freaking God,...you just can't imagine what Star Wars was back then. It was everything. It felt like the whole world changed, like, instead of years being "B.C." and "A.D.", it should've been changed to "B.S.W." and "A.S.W."

It was definitely the Beatles of movies, on the news all of the time, screaming hordes of fans, instantly seeped into and took over the culture like a virus....GOD! SO Cool.

 

[Kurosawa]

Yep, that's true.

Special effects aren't as special as they once were. More realistic looking, maybe...but except for the new Star Wars movies, I haven't just gaped in awe of effects in a long time.

Although some of the effects in the Harry Potter movies are pretty mind blowing.

 

[Erzengel]

I feel sorry for kids who weren't there for it in the 70's because now there are several visually breath-taking blockbusters a year, but oh my freaking God,...you just can't imagine what Star Wars was back then. It was everything. It felt like the whole world changed, like, instead of years being "B.C." and "A.D.", it should've been changed to "B.S.W." and "A.S.W."

It was definitely the Beatles of movies, on the news all of the time, screaming hordes of fans, instantly seeped into and took over the culture like a virus....GOD! SO Cool.

Well the kids these days have the Matrix, Harry Potter and LOTR.

And yes while some of those movies were good, great even they never really captured a generation like Star Wars did back then.

 

[boywonder13]

Yeah, can't blame ya. I grew up with the originals and i'm buying the new set, but fans from your generation probably just see them as the SE with tons of visable matte lines and bad blue screen.

Although the 2004 versions aren't perfect yet either. They still gotta fix the lightsabers and there's still some bad matting to fix, especially in ANH.

Hey! I'm 14 years old and I want to see it so bad! Though I was born in 1992. I am still in love with the things of the 70s and 80s.

Original He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the original, Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Star WARS, Ghost Busters, Transformers etc...

I still apreaciate that type of stuff!! ! Im proably going to love this better than the '97 SE's or (I actually first saw stars Wars liek in 1995 or soemthing) The newly released DVD's.

I was actually trying to convince my dad to get it on Laser Disc and get my dad to buy a player, so I could watch the "original" Star Wars!!! Now It seems I dont have 2.....

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Although some of the effects in the Harry Potter movies are pretty mind blowing.

Yeah, there's just something about the first.

 

[Addendum]

The first time I saw that making of documentary "From Star Wars to Jedi", which was when I was still a kid in single digits, I was awed from the miniatures and models.

Since then, I've learned about the tricks of making movies, from camera tricks to double exposure to miniatures and models to stop motion to CGI. I can look past the vaseline on the camera and matte lines. Why? Because the special effects don't make the story. The actors and actresses make it.

However, when you have behind-the-scenes footage of a movie set entirely on a soundstage painted green, and the actors being told to "react to a being that will be inserted later on the computer, and this being is behind them on their right... their other right... and as you turn around this being is very frightening... more frightening... it's very damned scary", all I can do is laugh.

 

[boywonder13]

Yeah I love Star Wars Documntary

"Empire of Dreams" on the DVDS

 

[Addendum]

Yeah I love Star Wars Documntary

"Empire of Dreams" on the DVDS

I've not seen that one. The only one I have seen is "From Star Wars to Jedi: The making of a saga". It came out in 1985, and narrated by Mark Hamill

 

[JackBauer]

Hey! I'm 14 years old and I want to see it so bad! Though I was born in 1992. I am still in love with the things of the 70s and 80s.

Original He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the original, Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Star WARS, Ghost Busters, Transformers etc...

I still apreaciate that type of stuff!! ! Im proably going to love this better than the '97 SE's or (I actually first saw stars Wars liek in 1995 or soemthing) The newly released DVD's.

I was actually trying to convince my dad to get it on Laser Disc and get my dad to buy a player, so I could watch the "original" Star Wars!!! Now It seems I dont have 2.....

I wish more kids these days were like you...

 

[Obi-Ron]

I still apreaciate that type of stuff!! ! Im proably going to love this better than the '97 SE's or (I actually first saw stars Wars liek in 1995 or soemthing) The newly released DVD's.

I felt exactly the same when I watched the original King Kong last week.

 

[Kurosawa]

The first time I saw that making of documentary "From Star Wars to Jedi", which was when I was still a kid in single digits, I was awed from the miniatures and models.

Since then, I've learned about the tricks of making movies, from camera tricks to double exposure to miniatures and models to stop motion to CGI. I can look past the vaseline on the camera and matte lines. Why? Because the special effects don't make the story. The actors and actresses make it.

However, when you have behind-the-scenes footage of a movie set entirely on a soundstage painted green, and the actors being told to "react to a being that will be inserted later on the computer, and this being is behind them on their right... their other right... and as you turn around this being is very frightening... more frightening... it's very damned scary", all I can do is laugh.

There's more minatures and models in AOTC and ROTS than in the entire OT. It's just the quality of the effects and the compositing makes it hard to tell what's a model and what's CGI.

I never knew until I saw some behind the scenes stuff just how much of the stuff in the prequels was actually not CGI.

 

[Addendum]

The actors were CGI

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

There's more minatures and models in AOTC and ROTS than in the entire OT. It's just the quality of the effects and the compositing makes it hard to tell what's a model and what's CGI.

I never knew until I saw some behind the scenes stuff just how much of the stuff in the prequels was actually not CGI.

True. I remember being shocked to see that a shot of the audience in the Pod Race was actually just hundreds of little Q-Tips dipped in different colors of paint and propped up in a little box.
And the animatronic masked aliens in the prequels are awesome.
There's so much anti-CGI bigotry that they sometimes don't even bother to stop and notice the great non-CG stuff.

I remember I assumed so many of the sets were CG when in reality they were "big"-atures. Even heard fools complain about how unreal and cartoony they looked.

 

[Addendum]

True. I remember being shocked to see that a shot of the audience in the Pod Race was actually just hundreds of little Q-Tips dipped in different colors of paint and propped up in a little box.
And the animatronic masked aliens in the prequels are awesome.
There's so much anti-CGI bigotry that they sometimes don't even bother to stop and notice the great non-CG stuff.

I remember I assumed so many of the sets were CG when in reality they were "big"-atures. Even heard fools complain about how unreal and cartoony they looked.

When you have CGI movies like "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" that looks amazing, but has a mediocre story as an afterthought, I can understand some of the anti-CGI stuff.