Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
You're 100% right Wooch...I'm a big Star Wars fan, and will defend the changes, revisionism, and the merit of Ep's 1-3, but this is inexcusable.

I hope to God the excuse is the master tapes were damaged. That would explain some of the dreadful issues. If it's anything less than that, I am 100% pissed off.
My sentiments exactly. If the elements are damaged, that's fine. But, so much of what I heard on that soundtrack just seemed to me more like sloppy work (Han's dialog in the Cantina scene, for example).

Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
I don't understand why the Lightsabers employ soo much LFE in EP I and II and next to none in EP 4,5, and 6...oh well.
More nitpicking -- notice that the lightsabers in the entire trilogy now look really inconsistent? What's with Luke's lightsaber that can't figure out if it's blue or green? Or what about Vader's cool looking pink lightsaber? Supposedly they did a lot of clean up work with the lightsabers, but some of the changes just look stupid.

Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
But at this point I have to wonder, did Lucas even watch Star Wars? Not since Alien 3 have I been so disappointed in a re-master. And at least Alien 3 had a history of problems to begin with. At first, I was just so freakin' excited to own these on DVD finally that I ignorantly overlooked these terrible flaws.
I'm no studio engineer, but surely it could have been better.

As one of my favorite movies ever, this long awaited DVD release deserved so much better.
As notorious a perfectionist as Lucas supposedly is, I'm really surprised that a high profile release like this got out with as many issues in the soundtrack as there are. People are tripping over themselves to praise the picture quality, but on my TV Star Wars looks really dark in a lot of scenes. I'm just hoping that some reissued disc is made available soon because now that I'm aware of these problems and have started keying in on them, it really detracts from my enjoyment of the movie.