QUOTE (Jacen @ Mar 2 2006, 05:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The SEs are IMHO quite good. If anyone of you would have seen the Making-Of, nobody would say that it's an amateur job! Well, yes, there are some scenes that could have been done better, but if you compare the almost destroyed old version with the recolored new special edition, you would notice that they really did a good job.
For example, Tatooine at the beginning of episode 4 is MUCH better than in the original version. Now what I am really missing is a better fight Obi Wan vs. Darth Vader or Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker, but it's impossible to replace those scenes with scenes like that.
Leaving the OTs untouched would have destroyed them completely, so restauration was required. New added scenes or not: As a whole I think the additions are good.
Talking about the prequels... huh, now that's another story and doesn't belong to the topic ^^
For example, Tatooine at the beginning of episode 4 is MUCH better than in the original version. Now what I am really missing is a better fight Obi Wan vs. Darth Vader or Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker, but it's impossible to replace those scenes with scenes like that.
Leaving the OTs untouched would have destroyed them completely, so restauration was required. New added scenes or not: As a whole I think the additions are good.
Talking about the prequels... huh, now that's another story and doesn't belong to the topic ^^
You restore a film to clean it up not to soil it further. I think it would have been better just to let the original films rot and until they completely disintegrated. At least our memories of them wouldn’t have been tainted - our childhoods’ shat upon.