Star Wars Blu-ray Set in the Works Official !!!

To me this is also some of the fans fault for screaming and yelling they want the DVD and the unaltered editions. So Lucas rushes it and as a result we get what we get. They should really hire a level headed fan to proof the final cut. Cause we are the ones who have watched these alot. I was watching a behind the scenes of family guy blue harvest and Seth was interviewing Lucas and Seth hummed a few bars from the hoth battle and Lucas couldn't identify it. He thought it was the throne room at the end of a new hope.
My point is the people involved don't know the stuff in detail. I'm sure anyone of us would of picked up on lukes green saber in empire.

Well, don't realease something if it sucks. For some reason a lot of other studio's are able to release digitally mastered films that look great (The Godfather, Alien etc). Why can't Star Wars? They're always very late in releasing and when they do, they do half a job... The Alien Anthology is already out on Blu Ray and it's great. They even added stuff to it in comparison to the Quadrilogy... it's in HD quality, great menu's, lots of added features. All pristine... And here we are... still waiting for Star Wars... and if it's crap, it's due to the screaming fans???? Come on.

Don't go blaming the fans, blame the people who make the DVD. They charge money for it.

Personally, the green/pink lightsabers don't bother me in the slightest.
They are lightsabers, they don't exist in real life anyway. I'm already using my imagination to believe they exist, so one of them being a slightly different hue isn't a deal-breaker for me.
When I watch The Graduate, I believe Dustin Hoffman (aged 30) is a 21-year-old student sduced by a woman twice his aged, portrayed by Anne Bancroft (aged 36) because that is what films are all about, people acting and you suspending your disbelief.
The first Star Wars film stands on its own quality for me, a slightly different coloured lightsaber in one scene doesn't really spoil anything for me, just like Vader's FX-less white stick, which has always been in the film, doesn't ruin things for me.

As for the addition of the "unaltered" versions as a DVD extra being a factor in the main set being rushed, that doesn't really seem to make sense to me. Those versions were just a straight transfer from the laserdisc masters, I can't see haw that would have had any impact upon work carried out by the team working on restoring the main 2004 versions.

On the one hand, yes, I understand why the colour correction and audio issues need to be addressed (surely getting these things right would be the whole point of a new release in high-def). On the other hand, how I grew up with Star Wars was on a recorded-from-TV VHS.
That is how Star Wars "looks" in my memory. I've not had anything "taken away" from me - any improvement over VHS quality is something new to me, not necessarily the Star Wars I felll in love with anyway...

Originally posted by mossman
Personally, the green/pink lightsabers don't bother me in the slightest.
They are lightsabers, they don't exist in real life anyway. I'm already using my imagination to believe they exist, so one of them being a slightly different hue isn't a deal-breaker for me.
When I watch The Graduate, I believe Dustin Hoffman (aged 30) is a 21-year-old student sduced by a woman twice his aged, portrayed by Anne Bancroft (aged 36) because that is what films are all about, people acting and you suspending your disbelief.
The first Star Wars film stands on its own quality for me, a slightly different coloured lightsaber in one scene doesn't really spoil anything for me, just like Vader's FX-less white stick, which has always been in the film, doesn't ruin things for me.

The light sabres weren't green or pink in the original versions. They became that way after color correcting them for the DVD release. It's not like it's an historical thing, like it used to loook that way originally (like for instance Superman's green suit in the original Superman the Movie (although they did make that nicely blue for the DVD).

They were changing stuff especially for the DVD release and changed some stuff badly. And then they say they didn't have time to do it properly. Well, don't touch it then!

Originally posted by queeq
The light sabres weren't green or pink in the original versions. They became that way after color correcting them for the DVD release.

I know that - I'm just saying that kind of thing doesn't bother me much.
Crap like Jedi Rocks and the Jabba scene in ANH does.

Like I was saying before, the version of Star Wars I grew up with was the mono mix version - so hearing any version of ANH with the changed Beru voice or the altered klaxons on the Tantive (IE: pretty much every VHS/Laserdisc/DVD there has been since 1983) is a change to the original from my point of view.
That bothers me more than some slightly discoloured lightsabers.
The lightsaber thing was just where people happened to notice the problem - the colour correction for those DVD releases was off right throughout every second of all three movies.

Don't get me wrong, I hope they fix this.
My point is, there are other more obvious changes that will never be reversed that bother me a whole lot more... The film is still a great film regardless of slight inconsistencies in the appearance of lightsabers.
Whereas Jabba in ANH is just crap, period.

There are so many opinions of what is better with scenes added or altered or just go with the originals. I for one like the small changes and the fixes in the the film. But with the bluray they should be able to allow the watcher to choose those scenes that have been added or that are controversial. Jabba in anh or Han shooting first. But this is Lucas baby and his call on what he wants to do.

I mostly resent the drastic color corrections they made to the OT. The sabres are just a result of that. The color correction were done to match the look of the PT and that's a shame. It just looks rather oridinary now.

The fact that the lightsabres are off (in some shots, not all even) and Vader has a pink lightsabre in ROTJ without a bright halo as all lightsabres have, just shows what a sloppy job they did. Even the path they went down, however debatable that is, they didn't even bother to see it through to the end. It kinda shows a lack of respect for the pating audience.

I think in ANH the colors were done to match ESB and Jedi, because weren't the light sabres in ANH just whiteish originally?
They should be bright colors but the ones in jedi look dull and as a result pink.

It's Vader's lightsabre in ROTJ that look so damn pink....

And no, the palish look/color pallette of ANH is the same in ESB. But since ESB has more interior shots, it doesn't show very much. But the HOth ext shots all have that palish look from ANH.... the documenatry look so to say.

The blue sabres in ANH did look kinda whitisch in some shots. They look fine though, except the one in the Millenium Falcon. Apparantly it has the right color blue but in comparison to the other blue colors in the set it appears green... Although I am not entirely satisfied with that explanation, especially since they now admit they didn't have time to do them properly...

For me they should be bright like in empire and the PT

That's the way they should be.

The lightsaber effect in ANH was achieved a different way to all of the other movies. Part of it was created live on set - the shafts were covered with reflective material and special studio lighting was used. The handles contained mechanisms which rotated the blades extremely quickly and were quite heavy (which is part of the reason the Obi/Vader fight had to look rather static).

All that was originally added to the saber scenes in post-production was the faint coloured glow around the outside, the white part was left exactly how it looked on set.

For TESB onwards, the entire saber effect was rotoscoped in (ie, the coloured glow and the white shaft), and the actors were able to use simple sticks which were much lighter.

For the 2004 release, Lucasfilm went in and redid all of the ANH saber shots digitally, to make them look more like the other the movies. As I understand it, the colour correction process was carried out by another company - so the changes and additions to the actual movie, such as the lightsaber issue, were one thing, while the colour correction and "restoration" of the overall prints was not really related to that process, if you get what I mean.

They filmed sabres from ANH with rotating shafts but it didn't didn't look very good. THe sabres never looked very even because by moving they would continually catch the light differently. They animated the glow in post production.

THere's just two shots where you could still see the sticks, when they are pointing directly into the camera. They fixed that in the DVD release... BUT THEY RUINED VADER'S LIGHTSABRE IN ROTJ!!!!! 😉

If it wasn't as good as what it could of been then they should of pushed the release back

Yes, I agree.

we want the unchanged movies not the SE

INDEED!!

But I doubt we'll ever get them.

I hope they get the color and sound issues right this time. The 2004 dvd was a rush job. Also they have put more time in the blu ray set so i expect it to be crystal clear frame by frame

Lets hope its the LAST time Lucus release's these out lollz

THey better make it better.

It's not like they were the first to come out with a DVD on that release. They certainly are not the first one to release the Blu Ray...