Decipher Scifi : The Show About How And Why

Our Star Wars meta discussion covers merchandising revolutions, VFX, viewing order (machete!), Star Wars Revisited, Star Wars Despecialized Edition, more. VFX George Lucas. Industrial Light and Magic. Practical effects vs. CG. Merchandising/Marketing Star Wars was a revolution in movie merchandising. Official Release Editions Original Trilogy only because the prequels are less complicated and we just kinda don’t care 1985 VHS, pretty much theatrical 1993 Definitive Collection (The Laserdisc). Grognards dig this one. For some reason. 1997 Special Edition - the one that ruined Star Wars according to nerds. Reportedly cost like $10 million to do this work and it just made everyone mad. Lots of CGI was overlaid atop non-CG stuff from the original. New scenes, different music. Introduced the Greedo shooting first thing, which is stupid and paints the character of Han incorrectly. 2004 Original Trilogy DVDs - More changes. Nerds say the color correction is garbage, sound was messed up. 2006