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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 323948" data-attributes="member: 23">Star Wars An observation about revisionism Watching this film on Disney+, the big disappointment for me is that the only version available is the revisionist, airbrushed, CGI’d, re-titled version. I knew I was in trouble when the opening text described it as Episode IV: A New Hope.As a purist, I’d rather see this film as it was originally seen. Clean it up and restore the film by all means. Tweak colours for consistency if you must (the Blu-ray restoration of Jaws is the benchmark of how it should be done with films of this era). But the idea of explicitly adding new elements and scenes and enhancing effects is an anathema to me.Even not knowing the film at all well, there were numerous examples of special effects scenes very clearly having been freshened up with CGI, and this greatly diluted the experience for me, making me constantly question (and I mean in practically every scene) whether I was seeing a moment as originally shown or some revised crap.Looking at the film’s Wiki page afterwards, it’s clear that the changes affected the story with the whole “Han Shot First” debacle. The most unforgivable change for me was the inclusion of a CGI Jabba The Hutt - a character originally first introduced in the third film (I didn’t know this when I watched, but the scenes still jumped out to me as feeling malapropos and artificial).Sadly, this impacted my experience overall making it feel less authentic and far from ideal. I fear this will continue to be at the back of my mind as I continue watching. To say it’s disappointing that I won’t be watching something approximating the original Seventies and Eighties versions is an understatement.</blockquote>

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