Original vs. Director's Cut/DVD version: Star Wars

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: Original vs. Director's Cut/DVD version: Star Wars

Changes, as far as I know: Change of title to Episode IV: A New Hope (I could've sworn the original didn't have any 'Episode IV' about it, but since it's not available any longer, I'm not sure). Some CGI scenes of creatures and such added. Lame editing of Mos Eisley scene so that now Greedo shoots first instead of Han Solo.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Yeah, it was orignally "Star Wars," not "Episode IV: A New Hope"

It's amazing the kind of information you can find on the internets. :P

Also: Am I the only person on earth who doesn't think Star Wars is all that great?

[Dukkha]

2. I have both

15 Star Wars DVDs to be exact

Original Trilogy transfered from Laserdisc
90's SE transfered from Laserdisc
2004 Box Set
EPI, II, & III Prequels
Clone Wars animated series
Droids animated series

[Deja Q]

4. No 1978 Christmas Special?

:rofl:

[Ravenseye]

3. I pick the original for one reason only

Greedo shooting first. That's it. I like pretty much every other change they made. All the additions. THe better effects. The leaving of Mos Eisley. Everything is groovy...except for that.

The Jabba scene may have been superfluous but the only reason it wasnt' there in the first place was budgetary and technologically. Every other change was essentially minor.

Changing it so that Greedo shoots first changes Han's character dramatically. It's just...well it's wrong.

[Deja Q]

5. Jabba's inclusion also waters down his character...

This big hateful lump, not seen in the original but given attributing dialogue to in "Empire strikes back" now has Jabba seen as a big whiney lump.

[tigereye]

6. kid and I agree

the original


yes, Lucas got to play with all the techno toys he didn't have back and edit out all the glitches, but....the original was not so slouchy in the imagination dept. without all the techno toys. :shrug:


and I don't like the Blade Runner director's cut better, either. :D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I like the Bladerunner Director's Cut WAY better, but that's a tale for

another poll.

[tigereye]

10. have heard that Chandleresque narration one too many times -

and it seems funny without it. Either way, great movie, one I can't watch too many times. :)

[Aristus]

11. I understand the purists who think "Blade Runner" is better without

the narration. But I actually like it. Especially at the end.

"I don't know why he saved my life......maybe in those last moments, he loved life more than he ever had before. All I could do was...watch him die." (rendered from memory, so may be a little innaccurate)

Incredible stuff.

[tigereye]

12. it is more noirish and intense without the narration, I suppose

and I have not read the short story - my husband is the Phillip K. Dick afficianado around here. But I like it. What can I say. The ending is very beautiful.

[DerekG]

13. I much prefer the Director's cut

The scene you refer to--wherein Roy meets his end--is, in my estimation, the most haunting and elegiac moment in SF cinema. We don't need an extrapolation forced down our throats. Best to let it breathe.

Besides, I like to think Young's character was fated to die soonafter.

[realisticphish]

7. Greedo shoots first

then I shoot DVD. Original all the way. None of that CGI bullshit that corrupted the prequels

[malmapus]

9. Freaking changing Anakin at the end of Return of the Jedi

CGI'ing out the original who was like old Anakin and putting young Anakin in and making some lame excuse about "oh that was because he reverted to himself before he went to the dark side."

Also not so fond of this new CGI Max Reeboo band in Jabba's palace, that original song rocked...then Lucas went all CGI crazy with a new frontman....UGH!!