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Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 5/5

The DVDs are coming...

A New Hope, the harbinger of the Star Wars saga, and the rest of the original trilogy will hit stores tentatively on September 21, 2004.A mere 7 months are all that waits fans around the world....and so the countdown begins...

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 3/5

Audio Problem!

The respected DVD review site, www.thedigitalbits.com, who LucasFilm allowed to review the discs early is reporting the following.....

"In all the hype over the DVD release of Star Wars, I'm afraid to say there's a bit of bad news about the discs (or at least one of them) from a quality standpoint. We've discovered what we believe are serious audio defects on Episode IV - A New Hope. We've updated our DVD review of the set accordingly with the details as follows:

[Editor's Note: since we initially wrote this review, we've detected a number of audio/mixing errors on the DVD version of A New Hope. They are as follows:

1) The familiar Force theme trumpet fanfare that used to play right after Red Leader says: "This is it!" and just as the X-wings start diving towards the Death Star's surface has been dialed back in volume so that it's almost inaudible - it's almost completely buried in the surround mix.

2) The audio quality varies wildly as Tarkin says the line: "You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system." - almost as if the master sound element was damaged. It's very distracting.

3) Possibly most critically, John Williams' entire score for the film has been flipped in the rear channels, so that what should be the left rear channel is playing from the right rear channel (and vise versa). What this means is that the rear channels don't match the front channels - instruments heard from the front right channel come from the left rear instead of the right rear. Again, this is very distracting once you notice it.

These problems are certainly severe enough in our opinion to merit a repressing/exchange of the disc. We're waiting to hear back from Lucasfilm on this issue and we'll update this review with the details as soon as we do.]"

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 5/5

well done set...ignore reviews from psycho fans

Hello,
this is a 2 part review of the DVD set for Star Wars...
1) the set itself...
I found the sound and picture to be of the highest quality and I own a box set of laserdiscs of these movies. It was also nice to have commentaries by George Lucas for the movies (something that many directors still don't do). The bonus DVD contains HOURS of extras and is really interesting.
2) the uproar regarding the changes....
Yes, I was suprised to see some of the changes since the movies aired and even since my laserdiscs were made ...BUT unlike some of the misguided people, who have reviewed this set ...I DON'T think these movies belong to the people who watched them....they belong to the creator and producer ...Mr Lucas. If he feels that technology can be utilized to update/ upgrade them to his original vision or to make the series of 6 stories more complete....its his call. Honestly....after a decade or more of upgrades on CDs by remastering you'd think people would be used to the fact that it can and will be done....this isn't on a par with colorizing black and white movies....and the same reviewers who accuse Mr Lucas of defacing these films are arrogant enough to say that they ...the viewing public are the rightful owners of them....that is pure nonsense. I appreciate someone writing that changes to a movie they love ruins the experience for them...and can respect that. To slander the person who created these movies and make personal attacks isn't very classy and would encourage anyone to disregard reviews by people making personal attacks part of their review as they obviously are unstable and have an attachment to these films that is not healthy...they're just movies and entertainment for goodness sakes...these characters are not real and the inclusion of an extra scene that changes their motivation ...blah blah blah..is psycho!

bottom line..a very entertaining set....well produced and with hours of fun extras....
thanks.

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 4/5

Just Buy It!!!

Star Wars - Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back, rather suffers from 'middle child' syndrome. Being the second of the original trilogy it has neither the fresh appeal of originality that marked its predecessor, nor is it required to reach any conclusions. The result is a film with decidedly minimalist plot development. The Empire is still hunting down the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker is still training to be a Jedi knight, and. . . . . . . . . . well, that's pretty much it. Instead of a solid storyline, the viewer is treated to 122 minutes of cobbled-together battle sequences (although watch for the impressive Imperial walker troop carriers, which resemble out-sized armoured elephants).The characters however, have developed considerably since the first film - it's nice to see loyal Chewbacca show a sense of humour. The sexual tension between Princess Leia and handsome scoundrel Han Solo is palpable. . . . . . . . . . until they kiss (which looks about as exciting as snogging a shoe). In a clever twist, Yoda the Jedi Master is not a Hercules-type warrior, but a wizened green dwarf; the characterisation would have worked even better had he not had a voice a-la-Sesame Street.In the Special Edition of Episode IV, A New Hope, there is an obvious and uncomfortable chasm between those scenes which have been unaltered since they were shot in 1977 and those that were digitally re-mastered and added to 20 years later. Fortunately the same is not the case in Episode V. But why was it necessary to darken the picture contrast so drastically?For fanatics The Empire Strikes Back is of course an integral component of the Star Wars dynasty. Viewers with a more casual interest in the story could probably get away with skipping this installment altogether.

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 5/5

A must for Star Wars fans

George Lucas did an excellent job of editing the original three Star Wars episodes to give them the same quality as movies we see now-a-days.

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