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darth_degnan Registered: Sep '08	Date Posted: 10/11/08 6:17pm Subject: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party] - Date Edited: 10/12/08 7:05am (1 edits total) Edited By: General Kenobi
	...Jabba's dance party. Original or Special Edition. Which do you prefer? Also, did the special edition change the way you viewed the atmosphere of Jabba's palace? (I think everyone knows which I prefer based on many of my past posts/response) -----signature----- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. -George Orwell
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GrandAdmiral_Frank Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 10/11/08 9:22pm Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition...
	That depends. I like both. I am fine with the OT version however I think the SE is better in terms of graphics. I really think that it was sort of unnecessary. As of late the only thing I've had to say about the SE is that it's only real breakthrough scene was Han and Jabba and ANH and while I'm not one to complain about seeing SW on the big screen again...that one scene in ANH is really all the SW had going for it. Scenes that will never happen like Yoda sparring with Luke on Dagobah using lightsabers or actually showing how much brutality the Ewoks actually have in them would make more of a SE. Or how about showing Palpatine dissolve the Senate? I'm sorry I'm straying from the actual topic. The CGI is nice however I was fine with the OT and as long as Max Reebo is there I'm okay. -----signature----- Member of the Han Solo and Chewbacca FanClub Member of the TFF Winner of the PT Rewrite Challenge Four "Don't make me destroy you"-Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back
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jedibri Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 10/12/08 2:33am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition...
	Orignal all the way. It's the one I saw my first 10-11 viewings. -----signature----- Isaiah 41:13
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DarthSticky Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 10/12/08 4:46am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition...
	Original crust. That thin crust is jusy terrible. Wait, what? Sorry, wrong thread. -----signature----- Mzungu status - Revoked Geriatric Ward - Rm 216, Tiger 22 - License to Thrill Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
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Sara_Kenobi Registered: Sep '00	Date Posted: 10/12/08 4:59am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... - Date Edited: 10/12/08 5:00am (1 edits total) Edited By: Sara_Kenobi
	I liked the SE films. The best I think was ESB because there really wasn't many changes that affected the film from old to new. I consider what changes there were additions to it. I think the addition of Jabba to ANH just made Jabba look like a blob Cartoon. I never cared for the changes to RotJ except the ending scene additions of the planets. The placing of young Anakin seemed really out of place considering Anakin was at least in his mid-late forties when he died. I feel they should have left SW where he was. Over all I think I enjoyed the Original films the best. -----signature----- Legacy: http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30582247/p1/?0
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 10/12/08 8:56am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	The original version has the better song, which was actually written by John Williams, and is mercifully brief with visuals that match the content of the rest of the film. The SE version has a louder, more bombastic song, not written by JW, which goes on too long, with visuals that are wholly out of step with the rest of the movie. An extreme close-up of the lead singer's salivating mouth? Please. This scene does not belong in a SW film. -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 10/12/08 11:45am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	Oh noes, silliness in Star Wars Honestly? Don't care one way or another. -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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darth_degnan Registered: Sep '08	Date Posted: 10/12/08 12:10pm Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted: The original version has the better song, which was actually written by John Williams, and is mercifully brief with visuals that match the content of the rest of the film. The SE version has a louder, more bombastic song, not written by JW, which goes on too long, with visuals that are wholly out of step with the rest of the movie. An extreme close-up of the lead singer's salivating mouth? Please. This scene does not belong in a SW film. Wow! We agree on something! -----signature----- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. -George Orwell
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_Sublime_Skywalker_ Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 10/12/08 8:08pm Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	I hate that scene. The close up of the mouth and the cheesy graphics. The song is horrible too. It raises me to ask, just what the hell Lucas was smoking when he thought that changing it was actually a good idea. -----signature----- 'You don't know the Power of the Darkside!'-Darth Vader
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bibfortuitous Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 10/12/08 9:19pm Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	Apart from the Greedo thing it's pretty much the only change that I actually hate in the '97 SEs. It's terrible -----signature----- "50 year old talk show host mom Carrie, 25 year old coccaine snorting Carrie, or delicious 18 year old jiggling under a virginal white dress Carrie? I vote young and jiggly!" DarthToeJam
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eht13 Registered: Sep '07	Date Posted: 10/13/08 9:37am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	The SE remake of the dance party at Jabba's palace took a bad scene and made it worse.
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DARTH_BELO Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 10/13/08 10:33am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	I like the graphix and additional shots better in the newer version, but the song is better in the original version. I think the close up of the salivating mouth WAS too over-the-top, but I enjoyed the rest of it for the fact that it enhances some various continuity aspects... So, SONG: Original. GRAPHICS/SHOTS: DVD version (minus the mouth close up) -----signature----- There are NO trilogies - only ONE SAGA...
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SkottASkywalker Registered: Jan '02	Date Posted: 10/13/08 11:41am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	I enjoy both versions and take the most recent version as the version that happens at that moment. -----signature----- "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." Rise. Fall. Redemption. Prophecy fulfilled. Balance to the Force. Peace and freedom to the galaxy. "It's so wonderful, Ani. You have brought hope to those who have none."
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Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 10/13/08 11:44am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	The only slightly redeeming factor in the SE version is that the male singer is clearly a riff on Joe Cocker's distinctive singing physicality. Does it fit in the movie? Hell no. But that one aspect entertained me the last time I watched the SE in 2004 or so. -----signature----- Personally if treating homosexuals with respect and dignity is the definition of 'anti-Christian' then I hope that Obama is the friggin' anti-Christ. - FIDo
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_Sublime_Skywalker_ Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 10/16/08 1:28pm Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	I actually watched ROTJ about two nights ago, my friends '97 release VHS version. I realized I actually liked that one much more. The song is much better, and the puppet of the singer just looks so much more funnier. Everytime they showed a shot of her I'd start laughing. With the OT DVD's, I am constantly sighing and rolling my eyes during that scene. -----signature----- 'You don't know the Power of the Darkside!'-Darth Vader
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IDigMetalBikinis Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 10/17/08 8:40am Subject: RE: Orignal or Special edition... [Jabba's Dance Party]
	The original song, Lapti Nek, sounds like it might indeed be some strange form of alien pop music. Jedi Rocks sounds like what you hear going in and coming out of commercial breaks on Late Night With David Letterman(the only difference being the Yuzzum is a better singer than Paul Schaffer). The newer version takes you completely out of the film and grounds it in an "earthly" reality, especially with that annoying trio of Vegas-esque backup singers. You expect them to break into a full-blown version of "What's New, Pussycat?". Original rules, SE drools. -----signature----- OT4EVER Scoundrel? Scoouundrel! I like the sound of that.
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