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Star Wars Trilogy (A New Hope / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi) (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc)
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Genre | Feature |
Format | Color, Dubbed, Anamorphic, Box set, NTSC, Dolby, Subtitled, DVD, Widescreen, THX |
Contributor | Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew |
Language | English, Spanish |
Runtime | 6 hours and 28 minutes |
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Includes:
* Episode IV, A New Hope
Commentary by George Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
* Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back
Commentary by George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
* Episode VI, Return of the Jedi
Commentary by George Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher
* "Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy," the most comprehensive feature-length documentary ever produced on the Star Wars saga, and never-before-seen footage from the making of all three films
* Featurettes: The Legendary Creatures of Star Wars, The Birth of the Lightsaber, The Legacy of Star Wars
* Teasers, trailers, TV spots, still galleries
* Playable Xbox demo of the new Lucasarts game Star Wars Battlefront
* The making of the Episode III videogame
* Exclusive preview of Star Wars: Episode III
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Was George Lucas's Star Wars Trilogy, the most anticipated DVD release ever, worth the wait? You bet. It's a must-have for any home theater, looking great, sounding great, and supplemented by generous bonus features.
The Movies
The Star Wars Trilogy had the rare distinction of becoming a cultural phenomenon, a defining event for its generation. On its surface, George Lucas's story is a rollicking and humorous space fantasy that owes debts to more influences than one can count on two hands, but filmgoers became entranced by its basic struggle of good vs. evil "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away," its dazzling special effects, and a mythology of Jedi knights, the Force, and droids. Over the course of three films--A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983)--Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), and the roguish Han Solo (Harrison Ford) join the Rebel alliance in a galactic war against the Empire, the menacing Darth Vader (David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones), and eventually the all-powerful Emperor (Ian McDiarmid). Empire is generally considered the best of the films and Jedi the most uneven, but all three are vastly superior to the more technologically impressive prequels that followed, Episode I, The Phantom Menace (1999) and Episode II, Attack of the Clones (2002).
How Are the Picture and Sound?
Thanks to a new digital transfer, you've never seen C-3PO glow so golden, and Darth Vader's helmet is as black as the Dark Side.
In a word, spectacular. Thanks to a new digital transfer, you've never seen C-3PO glow so golden, and Darth Vader's helmet is as black as the Dark Side. And at the climactic scene of A New Hope, see if the Dolby 5.1 EX sound doesn't knock you back in your chair. Other audio options are Dolby 2.0 Surround in English, Spanish, and French. (Sorry, DTS fans, but previous Star Wars DVDs didn't have DTS either.) There have been a few quibbles with the audio on A New Hope, however. A few seconds of Peter Cushing's dialogue ("Then name the system!") are distorted, and the music (but not the sound effects) is reversed in the rear channels. For example, in the final scene, the brass is in the front right channel but the back left channel (from the viewer's perspective), and the strings are in the left front and back right. The result feels like the instruments are crossing through the viewer.
What's Been Changed?
The rumors are true: Lucas made more changes to the films for their DVD debut. Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) has been added to a scene in Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (the Emperor) replaces Clive Revill with slightly revised lines in Empire, Temuera Morrison has rerecorded Boba Fett's minimal dialogue, and some other small details have been altered. Yes, these changes mean that the Star Wars films are no longer the ones you saw 20 years ago, but these brief changes hardly affect the films, and they do make sense in the overall continuity of the two trilogies. It's not like a digitized Ewan McGregor has replaced Alec Guiness's scenes, and the infamous changes made for the 1997 special-edition versions were much more intrusive (of course, those are in the DVD versions as well).
How Are the Bonus Features?
Toplining is Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy, a 150-minute documentary incorporating not only the usual making-of nuts and bolts but also the political workings of the movie studios and the difficulties Lucas had getting his vision to the screen (for example, after resigning from the Directors' Guild, he lost his first choice for director of Jedi: Steven Spielberg). It's a little adulatory, but it has plenty to interest any fan. The three substantial featurettes are "The Characters of Star Wars" (19 min.), which discusses the development of the characters we all know and love, "The Birth of the Lightsaber" (15 min.), about the creation and evolution of a Jedi's ultimate weapon, and "The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of Star Wars" (15 min.), in which filmmakers such as Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, and James Cameron talk about how they and the industry were affected by the films and Lucas's technological developments in visual effects, sound, and computer animation.
The bonus features are excellent and along the same lines as those created for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Each film has a commentary track, recorded by Lucas, Ben Burtt (sound design), Dennis Muren (visual effects), and Carrie Fisher, with Irvin Kershner joining in on the film he directed, The Empire Strikes Back. Recorded separately and skillfully edited together (with supertitles to identify who is speaking), the tracks lack the energy of group commentaries, but they're enjoyable and informative, with a nice mix of overall vision (Lucas), technical details (Burtt, Muren, Kershner), and actor's perspective (Fisher). Interestingly, they discuss some of the 1997 changes (Mos Eisley creatures, the new Jabba the Hutt scene) but not those made for the DVDs.
There's also a sampler of the Xbox game Star Wars: Battlefront, which lets the player reenact classic film scenarios (blast Ewoks in the battle of Endor!); trailers and TV spots from the films' many releases; and a nine-minute preview of the last film in the series, Episode III, Revenge of the Sith (here identified by an earlier working title, The Return of Darth Vader). Small extra touches include anamorphic widescreen motion menus with dialogue, original poster artwork on the discs, and a whopping 50 chapter stops for each film.
"The Force Is Strong with This One"
The Star Wars Trilogy is an outstanding DVD set that lives up to the anticipation. There will always be resentment that the original versions of the films are not available as well, but George Lucas maintains that these are the versions he always wanted to make. If fans are able to put this debate aside, they can enjoy the adventures of Luke, Leia, and Han for years to come. --David Horiuchi
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.08 Pounds
- Director : George Lucas
- Media Format : Color, Dubbed, Anamorphic, Box set, NTSC, Dolby, Subtitled, DVD, Widescreen, THX
- Run time : 6 hours and 28 minutes
- Release date : September 21, 2004
- Actors : Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Peter Mayhew
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B00003CXCT
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,363 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #67 in Documentary (Movies & TV)
- #113 in Fantasy DVDs
- #145 in Science Fiction DVDs
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These films put to death the theory that all science fiction films must be "B" grade. They were big budget, hi tech, well directed films with some excellent performances. Star Wars launched the successful careers of so many people that they are impossible to list.
The first film, "Star Wars", takes us through Luke Skywalker's discovery of his destiny. He finds an old Jedi Knight, Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi, who takes it on himself to train Luke in the ways of the force. Unfortunately Ben and Luke get drafted by Princess Leia in an attempt to save her and oppose the evil emperor and his second in command, Lord Darth Vader. They are aided by a smuggler/pilot, Han Solo and his copilot Chewbacca in the fastest ship in the cosmos, the Millennium Falcon. Some heavy duty action is had by all when Leia is rescued, (losing Ben in the process) and the emperor's death star is destroyed with only moments to spare before the rebel base was to be obliterated.
The second film, "The Empire Strikes Back", disappointed me at the time because of its open ended finish. I have since forgiven it for this. As with the first film, the second starts by skipping some of the intervening background material. So, we are left to catch up to the plot by ourselves. We find Luke Han and Leia in a new rebel base on a frozen planet. During an isolated scene where Luke is captured by a snow beast we find that his Jedi powers have developed a little more and that the friendship between he and Han has grown even stronger. But not to the point where their rivalry over Leia has abated.
The empire locates the rebel base and they all have to turn tail and run. Yes, we discover that the destruction of the death star at the end of the last film was nowhere near the end of the empire. Everyone bugs out in an orderly fashion except Luke who heads off to find a new master, by following the instructions of the now spectral Obi-Wan. Han, Chewy and Leia find that the Falcon is in need of repair and have to limp to the nearest port of call.
Luke finds the memorable Jedi Master Yoda, and starts his training. Meanwhile the falcon's crew is in trouble after Han's friend, Lando Calrissian, involuntarily betrays them to Darth Vader, resulting in Han being frozen in carbonite. So it's Luke to the rescue. The problem is that this was Darth's plan all along. Thus we get to see Luke, fencing with Darth. Luke loses his hand but gains a Father. Both against his will.
The final film, "Return of the Jedi", was excellent, except for the ridiculously cutesy Ewoks. We have to do another leap forward to catch the plot which has moved to the point where all of Han's friends are involved in an attempt at his rescue. Han has been sold, as a wall decoration, to Jaba the Hut, a type of Mafia boss in the shape of a giant, fat, salamanda. Luke arrives and impresses the hell out of everyone with his new Jedi powers. With a little help he saves everyone and the movie moves on.
The empire is building another death star and the rebels have a plan to destroy it. Of course Han, Luke, Leia, etc. are all critical to the success of this plan. They must land on a tropical moon to disable the force field that protects the half built deathstar. In the process, Luke is voluntarily captured and tries to turn Darth, his Father, away from evil. We get to see another great dual between the two of them. This time the emperor is on the side lines cheering them on whilst trying to turn Luke to the dark side of the force. Luke is made of sterner stuff than that though.
Meanwhile the rest of the gang have run into the improbable Ewoks. Fuzzy, teddy bear like people who seem unable to walk without waddling. Strangely they turn out to be useful allies, in the capacity of scouts, diversions and pesky warriors. The force field is eventually brought down and the rebels attack only to find that the death star is not nonfunctional after all. If it wasn't for Darth Vader turning against the emperor at the last minute, in order to save Luke, all would have been lost.
Many people have been awaiting more movies in the series. A number of good follow up books have been written, Timothy Zahn's efforts are especially good. However, Lucus has decided to go back in time and produce some prequels. We will see a young version of Obi-Wan as the hero. It should be good.
Firstly, my system:
Mitsubishi 1080p projector on a 120" screen.
Denon receiver with Dolby Tru HD and DTS HD
Atlantic Technology Speakers 5.1
PS3
Picture quality: Amazing! No graininess with great color balance. Original aspect ratio. I've seen the DVDs (including the issue that contains the original theatrical release - that was not in anamorphic wide screen, but original!), the laser discs (both new release and the mega box set that has each movie spanning 3 discs!) and of course the VHS versions that were originally pan and scan. Of course, the Blu Ray's picture quality cannot be matched by previous technologies. I don't know how else to describe the picture, except that it looks like it was filmed using recent technologies, not 35 mm film stock from the 1970s. If you see some other Blu Ray transfers from the '70s and '80s, you'll notice a significant deterioration and graininess that's typical of the low quality film stock from those decades. Take a look, for example, at the Blu Ray transfer of Ghostbusters and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about! This experience, however, was just awesome.
Sound quality: The people that invented THX were, of course, going to do an awesome job and they did not disappoint. These movies are presented in DTS HD - which I feel sounds better than Dolby Tru HD (that's not included). Dolby Digital and DTS standard audio tracks are also on the disks, but why have a Blu Ray player if you can't enjoy the HD audio!?! I think the sound outdid the picture quality! There was a perfect sound emersion with excellent use of the surround channels. Not just gimmicky noises that most other movies employ, this experience really made you feel like you were in the middle of all the action. If you have a well calibrated 5.1 setup, pay close attention to the rainy sequence with Luke and Yoda in Empire; rain is coming down all around you! Simply beautiful! During the asteroid sequence, the surround channels are used with extreme precision; as ships come from the background or fade into the background, you feel it. The .1 aspect? The sub woofers are perfectly balanced throughout the movie. Again, never a gimmicky use of this most important channel. The subs rumble with great precision, just like the surrounds. The battle on Hoth was simply perfect with regard to the use of surrounds and sub. I never had to adjust the volume to adjust from dialog to action sequences - that was the whole point of Lucas' original mission with THX balancing. You should hear the dialog when it's time to hear it and the action sounds shouldn't overpower the rest of the movie. I often find myself lowering volume during crazy action sequences and raising the volume to hear dialog in lesser quality sound mixes...even from modern productions. Not with this movie, the balance was just perfect. This will become a new reference standard for testing sound systems!
Regarding Lucas meddling with the originals? I don't really care. Mostly because I think Empire Strikes Back is the best one of all 6 and he really didn't mess with this one much! There are some CGI flight sequences that don't take anything away from the movie, in fact, I think they add to it. Thank you George!!! Star Wars, of course has crazy meddling, with Jaba and new creatures...just too distracting. And I never really liked Return of the Jedi - I thought it was very cheesy with the Ewoks. So if you're like me and want to relive the best movie ever (in my opinion), then these Blu Rays can't be beat.
Worth every penny, even if it's just to watch Empire Strikes Back. Beware though, this box set only includes the 3 movies and no bonuses material. The movies do have audio commentary, but no other special features. I'm ok with that - I think you can enjoy "the making of" stuff only so many times before it gets boring.
When I ordered a new one, I got full screen, yay. And got here early, thank you very much.
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I came across this Original Star Wars Trilogy for just under a fiver so it was a no brainer really I'm getting Episode IV A New Hope which again is what I was originally browsing for along with Episode V - Empire & Episode VI - Jedi now I knew that it was going to arrive as a single sized DVD case with three DVD's inside & without any significant booklet for that price I was paying & I was right (photos provided are proof of that) & I'm OK with that as they're great films but I'm not a hardcore follower.
As for the product, the picture is great I'm talking something different especially if you haven't seen them on modern day TV's & the sounds with Bluetooth stereo connection in my case (soundbar in others) really are something else, you see & hear like never before!
Overall I can't moan at all about this purchase! Now I noticed The Prequel Trilogy for the same price with a white cover & Yoda on it & I would have bought it if there was a matching The Sequels Trilogy with say a grey cover & character but sadly this isn't the case, so just continued with the purchase of the Original Trilogy as still you can't beat the Original Trilogy out of the Trilogy of Trilogies & I think that almost everyone would agree with that.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2024
I came across this Original Star Wars Trilogy for just under a fiver so it was a no brainer really I'm getting Episode IV A New Hope which again is what I was originally browsing for along with Episode V - Empire & Episode VI - Jedi now I knew that it was going to arrive as a single sized DVD case with three DVD's inside & without any significant booklet for that price I was paying & I was right (photos provided are proof of that) & I'm OK with that as they're great films but I'm not a hardcore follower.
As for the product, the picture is great I'm talking something different especially if you haven't seen them on modern day TV's & the sounds with Bluetooth stereo connection in my case (soundbar in others) really are something else, you see & hear like never before!
Overall I can't moan at all about this purchase! Now I noticed The Prequel Trilogy for the same price with a white cover & Yoda on it & I would have bought it if there was a matching The Sequels Trilogy with say a grey cover & character but sadly this isn't the case, so just continued with the purchase of the Original Trilogy as still you can't beat the Original Trilogy out of the Trilogy of Trilogies & I think that almost everyone would agree with that.