Are you MAD???????????????/

How on earth can anyone pre-order AND wait?????

One must know exactly what one is PRE-ORDERING!

And yes! It is important to some of us to PRE-order -- why should we wait until an item is available to everyone who wants one right now??????

Tis far better to stake one's claim in advance and then watch everyone else scramble!

It was the difference between getting the 2-CD "Young Sherlock Holmes" for $29.95 and NOT getting it, then seeing it go for hundreds of dollars on EBay.

It was the difference between getting the 6-CD set of "Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century-Fox" for $140 and then learning it was sold out before it shipped, and then seeing it go for over $200 on EBay.

PRE-ORDERING is a WAY OF LIFE. And questions must be answered sometimes.

Clayton

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I'd hope they would'nt replace it in the movie.

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They haven't. No subsequent additions and alterations have been made to the music on the DVDs at all.

Those dreadful music loops and edits from the 1997 releases remain however.

I would have also like to see Ian McDiarmid inserted into Empire as well.

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I would have also like to see Ian McDiarmid inserted into Empire as well.

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You'll have something to be happy about with the DVDs then. That change has happened.

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Originally posted by Quill:
Well--I for one wish they had made this change. I am all about continuity.

I would have also like to see Ian McDiarmid inserted into Empire as well.

Zak

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You know what I'm for? Seeing the ****ing movies the way they were when they were first released.

What's next? Inserting a "Camp Crystal Lake" sign into EVIL DEAD II?

You know what I'm for? Seeing the ****ing movies the way they were when they were first released.
Ryan[/B][/QUOTE]

I agree that this set should have included the original versions of the films as well. That being said, I feel the changes made to ANH and TESB enhanced the films...while the additions in ROTJ were for the most part unnecessary.

I have actually regained quite a chunk of respect for Lucas if that is true...

So did someone at the ranch actually sit down and go through the Special Edition changes and see which ones suck and which don't?? Hope so, but maybe they should have done that in 1997

Gae

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Originally posted by Dan Brecher:
Yeah it's gone. The DVDs are funny beasts though. I got to go over everything on the four discs about a month ago, and for every good change or reversion back to how something was originally, something new crops up that sort of cancels out an improvement (such as Boba Fett being redubbed in Empire, Hayden Christensen as Anakin's ghost in Jedi...etc).

Dan (UK)

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Dan,

Care to elaborate on the documentaries on CD 4? Are their detailed interviews on John Williams and scoring session clips in it?

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Care to elaborate on the documentaries on CD 4? Are their detailed interviews on John Williams and scoring session clips in it?

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Well there is only one documentary, and then three featurettes focusing on elements of the films (four if you count the Episode III/Vader thing).

So in the main documentary of nearly two and a half hours in length is there much focus on the music? No, there's less than five minutes spent on the music toward the end of the section on Episode IV which is pretty pathetic all in all.
There is some nice footage from the recording sessions of ‘A new Hope’ however, but coupled with about a minutes worth of Williams on camera and some input from Lucas on the score that's about it.

The documentary as a whole is nice don’t get me wrong, but I think most people will watch it once and leave it an eternity to bother with it again as even with its ridiculous running time it's not really that rewarding despite there being a good deal of unseen b-roll footage from the sets of all three movies (don't expect any deleted scenes).

You appreciate it the first time because there is genuinely a wealth of unseen production footage to see, but then on subsequent viewings its flaws in the structure become all too apparent and it becomes rather tedious to a degree because one realises that all the previously unseen footage is really what the documentary has going for it. So after you've seen material like Kurt Russels screentest and the odd blooper...etc once, then...

The documentary is also very much "George the pioneer!" so if fans can't stomach people blowing smoke up Lucas' arse then it's probably not going to go down that well with many on a first viewing, let alone a second.

I hoped that they'd at least do a full fledge documentary on the scores ala LOTR DVD sets. Howard Shore recieved so much respect in those sets.

http://free.hostdepartment.com/s/starwarstrilogydvd/main.html

Some of the changes seem much-needed, like the Rancor scene. Other are just general spring cleaning. But the one that has me confused is putting Hayden in at the end instead of Bernard Shaw. Why does Luke see a young Anakin as he was when young, but Yoda and Obi-Wan as they were when they died?

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208707

There is no SACD planned; the albums are ordinary remastered cds. Save your pennies.

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Originally posted by Ed:
There is no SACD planned; the albums are ordinary remastered cds.

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DSD remastered. Which means there's a possibility that they'll have stunning sound.

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Save your pennies.

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