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Star Wars Widescreen Remastered Trilogy IV A New Hope, V The Empire Strikes Back, and VI Return of the Jedi 4 5 6 DVD 4 Disc Box Set + Bonus
George Lucas's Star Wars Trilogy was one of the most anticipated DVD releases ever when it was issued in 2004. It's a must-have for any home theater, looking great, sounding great, and supplemented by generous bonus features. This is a preowned boxed set of The Star Wars Trilogy that appears unused but is no longer shrinkwrapped. The discs are in very clean unworn condition. This original 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 and sequels that followed, Episode I, The Phantom Menace (1999) and Episode II, Attack of the Clones (2002), Episode VII, The Force Awakens (2015), Episode VIII, The Last Jedi (2017), and Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker (2019). 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.
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 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 originally saw in the theaters 40 years ago, but these brief changes hardly affect the films, and they do make sense in the overall continuity of the two trilogies; the infamous changes made for the 1997 special-edition versions were much more intrusive and are also inclued in these DVD versions. 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.
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