Original Star Wars on DVD... Sorta

An anonymous reader writes "The Original Star Wars is available on DVD. Sure it's more moola in Lucas's pocketsess (Gollum accent). But he did finally release the original version for a limited time. But which Original Star Wars, I bet Episode IV is in the opening titles. " Also apparently the original versions are basically non-anamorphic transfers from the laser discs. So basically, they look terrible.

Greedo didn't do it!

[plover]

Han posted first!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself :-)

darnit

[yoduh]

So its the same as the last DVD release but one of the bonus features is a crappy version of the very original?

I have every VHS and DVD version of the movies and can usually point out most of the differences. But, I am getting better.... I no longer live in my parents basement :)

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You know what else grinds my gears? When I can't find the droids that I am looking for.

Reminds me of..

[Ka D'Argo]

a line from the Comedians of Comedy documentary

"Yea I saw Phantom Menance and Attack of the Shit. It was like your uncle sticking his weiner in your mouth. Not like when you were a kid but grown up. You don't expect it either, your uncle's your favorite person, got you high, bought you your first beer, hate your mom hate your dad but your uncle is cool.

You're at your parents for christmas, everyone's in bed, you're watching Letterman and you look over and see your uncle trying to put his weiner in your mouth. That's what Phantom Menace was like.

I'm not even gonna see the third one (ROTS). It'll just be me walking into an empty theater and there will be Lucas ready to rape me some more. And I'll just do it to get it over with.

Then he'll put on a Greedo mask and call it the Special Edition."

Re:darnit

[ZSpade]

A move to the attic isn't what they meant by "It's time to move up in life.", Yoduh.

No

[Anonymous Coward]

Honestly? Will the original Trilogy ever be released in a non-craptastic form? Perhaps we will have to wait for the Blue-Ray HD-DVD battle to be resolved.

You know, I saw a recent 're-release' of Star Wars' Original Trilogy [lucasarts.com] that was in pretty high quality. But there was something strange about it that didn't feel right. I mean, sure the picture and quality was excellent but there was something different about it that I just couldn't quite put my finger on.

Don't worry about the bad quality

[ZorbaTHut]

They'll try again in a year.

And again a year after that.

And again a year after that.

Bugger.

[tygerstripes]

These are not the DVDs I'm looking for...

Re:darnit

[mccalli]

I have every VHS and DVD version of the movies and can usually point out most of the differences. But, I am getting better.... I no longer live in my parents basement :)

"That's good. You've taken your first step into a larger world"

Cheers, Ian

So...

[Black Parrot]

They're not really the originals and they look terrible, but otherwise they're fine?

You know you'll buy it.

[Helmholtz Coil]

A friend of mine that's a rabid Star Wars fan was grousing about this yesterday, even as he talked about when he'd pick them up.

I told him the SW fans' motto should be "I may have to buy it, but I don't have to like it." :)

Re:George Lucas' Fear of Failure

[slapout]

"I would rather see him release 9 mediocre or bad movies..."

3 down, 6 to go.

Lucas and Microsoft

[blacknblu]

So, is this the equivalent to Star Wars Service Pack III? Even Microsoft stops updating it's OS after a certain number of years.

Re:The Defense of I, II & III

[ichigo 2.0]

The light sabre fight was really well done. The starfighter and capital ship battles were astounding. This is all good sci-fi stuff.

No, that's good CGI, not sci-fi...

Re:Originals probably still exist

[salzbrot]

No, the originals were definitely destroyed! [penny-arcade.com]

Re:So is this the "correct version"?

[Bacon Bits]

What do you want? It was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Some of the details were bound to be confused over time.

Re:quality

[nephridium]

Lucas is like a spoiled child. Even when he's forced to concede something, he's going to try to sabotage it just for spite.

Sick has he become. Old and weak..

Re:So...

[brotheralien]

and they look terrible

Who's scruffy-lookin'?

I Have A Point To Make About Episode III

[Petersko]

These days computer users take a few things for granted. For instance, if a mistake is made, there should be ways to correct it.

Before the days of the iconic trash can and/or recycle bin, we lived in fear of accidentally deleting an important file. But now, first you are asked, "Are you sure you would like to delete this file?" And if you lose your brain momentarily and say "yes" when you should have said "no", you can pull it right back out of the trash.

Basic user interface design.

Now lets pretend we're designing the control centre for an industrial facility that has to sit in the middle of a lava flow for some reason.

Where exactly would you put the "destroy this facility" button? I mean, if you had the audacity to create one in the first place. Most people would avoid designing a control so sensitive as to turn "stable" into "complete structural failure".

If you're Lucas, apparently you put it right smack in the middle of the console, so that when two people are fighting, they can bump into it and send the structure to a fiery death.

No, "Are you sure you would like to destroy this facility?" At the very least if they really wanted to complete the destruction they should have had to empty their trash icon.

I can accept a lot of things, but seriously... for a guy who embraces technology at the expense of storytelling and style, Lucas makes some surprisingly poor choices for script devices.

Re:Will we ever get what we really want?

[lightspawn]

And again, even if Lucasfilm's vaults were so woefully incomplete, we know for a fact that quality elements exist elsewhere. Given 48 hours notice, we could track them down ourselves.

Jack Bauer could do it in half the time.

Re:Bugger.

[tygerstripes]

I can't believe I got modded 30% Informative...

The Sad Truth

[vga_init]

Penny Arcade tells it like it is. [penny-arcade.com].

Darn film looks like it was made in the 70s!

[Darth Liberus]

Those flat colors.... that film grain... the cheesy special effects... Lucas really should've cleaned it up with a computer or something.

Re:I Have A Point To Make About Episode III

[shurikt]

Dude. That was "A Long Time Ago..." remember? The seriously-are-you-really-totally-positive button wasn't invented until, like 1993.