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clearspira wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 12:14 pm My approach to this is the same as Chuck's. Some of the new scenes improve the films, some of them don't.

Frustration wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 4:58 pm

clearspira wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 12:14 pm My approach to this is the same as Chuck's. Some of the new scenes improve the films, some of them don't.

Most of the new material is awful. Some little bit is an improvement - the reintroduction of Biggs in the first film makes the fighter run against the Death Star much more poignant.

There are more cases of the introduced material screwing up the scenes they're in than improving either them or the movies as a whole. Basically they're powerful arguments in favor of not encouraging people to mess with their earlier works. Spielberg has real talent, but his alterations to E.T. were a joke - a movie already rich in schmaltz being re-edited to cater to anti-gun activists? Horrible idea.

Frustration wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 7:19 pm Three hours? Nah, I've seen what I consider to be the most relevant parts.

If they had limited the Special Editions to fixing effects gaffes - and actually gone through and fixed the most notable ones - I don't think anyone would have had a problem. It was the material they added that not only didn't match the appearance of the rest of the movies, but significantly altered the emotional reactions to the portrayed content for the worse, that everyone complained about.

It's things like those that convinced me Lucas is actually a terrible moviemaker - the best parts of his movies are the things that others added, and working on his own he has terrible judgment about what does and does not 'work'. Which is a true shame, as the original films are great classics and need to be preserved from Lucas' attempts to 'improve' them.