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As atrocious as nearly all the special enhancements are to A New Hope, the enhancements to Empire were actually good (they didn't "screw" with anything in Empire, they just enhanced). I could have lived with it, even if some of the New Hope enhancements make me cringe.
But Return of the Jedi was another story altogether. Jedi was already perfect. There were no flaws. Even Lucas realized it, but he's a money grubbing commercialized morally vacuous person, so he had to change it anyway. He did the unthinkable. He changed, didn't just enhance, but completed barfed up both musical sequences.
The original Jabba's song was perfect. It was catchy and fun, and fit the atmosphere and movie pefectly. But by the devil himself, he changed it. Put in a completely new song which is just pure dung and doesn't fit at all, and added in these CG flying around things that make it look like a bad cheerios commercial, and added three lame-arse dancing women who just don't fit in at all.
The original Ewok celebration song was perfect. It was catchy and fun, and it fit the atmosphere and movie perfectly. But by the devil himself, he changed it. Put in a completely new song which is just pure dung and doesn't fit at all. The original song was even choreographed to the dancing and things they were doing, and the newsong is nothing more than cheaply layered ontop. The original song sounded like it was being sung by ewoks. The new song songs like the backup band for britney spears. Not to mention adding in those stupid slides of celebrations from other planets. There's no way other planets would have known about it that quickly, and anyone who's read the books knows that everything but the fringes was still being controlled by imperial commanders. There would have been no celebrations.
He went too far. I could have reluctantly lived with the other changes. But he mucked up the Jedi songs. I can never even forgive him for that. I will do everything in my power to assure that the *original* original trilogy lives on as it was intend by pre-commercial sellout Lucas (kind of like appreciating pre-commercial sell-out Metallica).
The laserdisc versions of the original original trilogy are what the good DVD copies are made from, and it's the best source. The laserdiscs had enhanced surround sound too. And the picture from them is even better than the sucky edition DVD copies made from vhs and VCDs. It's hard to find them on ebay though. Nearly all the DVDs on ebay are the sucky editions. |
:cough:: my dad) about 350$ some 4 years ago. You see why I'm not so willing to upgrade anytime soon... The audio card on my new abit IC7 motherboard includes optical audio I/O. I don't know if lazerdisc players are made with optical out. 
