Oliver Harper How do I get the unchanged trilogy

besides the GOUT DVD's

There's no official release of them. You'd have to search for the Despecialized Edition.

You can find them the Despecialized Edition. and download from KZfaq, or used to as that's how I got mine.

I give you thumbs up just for spreading the basic Star Wars Classic OT info to young uns millenials because most all you are voicing are in many documentaries ALREADY posted on KZfaq or online blogs.

What a life you had. Cheers for a great life back then, now and beyond

Plus we had Saturday Morning and then weekday cartoon. Arcades with dozens or hundreds of machines or just a pinball or arcade cabinet in a random place like a laundromat. Also had decent radio stations. Comics were at an all time high too.

Come on 50 doesn't mean ur near ur end of ur life. People die of all ages and I met plenty of people who pass 60. Take good care of yourself and stay happy those are the important things age doesn't define you.

I'm old enough to remember watching star trek when it first aired and watching the moon landing

It's all over now thanks to a phantom audience Hollywood wants to cater to which dosen't pay.

the force is strong with you

that was such a cool idea

Alan Caldwell - I loved collecting Star Wars figures as a kid.

Good call! The sounds are amazing. The music is awesome the sound effects are incredible. It's probably the best sounding movie ever made.

I did the same thing but I hide a tape recorder in a popcorn box into the theater. I listened to so much I could do the complete Greedo speech in his language

Sounds like you had better taste than your sister.

Girls always go through a lameness phase. I bet she really wanted a pony then.

I remember queuing outside the Gaumont cinema in Birmingham back in 1977 as a 14 year old. You could FEEL the buzz of excitement and anticipation in the air as you waited back then.

@@kaerakh4267, @ghost man Taste is very personal, but she did have the insight that you would like it far more. Very sweet of her. What kind of job does she have right now? I bet it's something that requires empathy to succeed.

My mom had a friend who was a girl and saw it something like 28 times

Gary Kurtz and Gilbert Taylor too

*Peter Cushing

Are we remembering just the first film or does Lee gets lots of loves too

Phil Brown & Shelagh Fraser (Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru)

Ralph McQuarrie

It was love at first sight for me as well and I've never lost it...

The music is the narrator in all the Star Wars movies

That's part of the reason modern movies, at least the big summer blockbusters, aren't as good. No one makes great music anymore. You don't even get good music that often.

Yeah no Doubt the Sound Track is just as much if not more of what is Star Wars then the script if self is to Star Wars

I saw Star Wars and Empire at the drive through. I was so young at Star Wars, my dad covered my eyes when Vader lifted the rebel soldier at the start. Watching the jump to hyperspace from the tailgate of our stationwagon is one of my strongest childhood memories.

for decades I thought he said 'millions of oysters''

yeah millions not say billions... as if it wasnt very highly populated, yeah moff tarkin wore slippers... apparently peter cushings feet wouldnt fit in the boots,

LEFT tube indeed

+The Sean Ward Show I wonder the same. Was George stubborn enough not to let Disney re-release them.

@Malchik Blue This comment aged well.

@@Filmsmith129 LMAO

Nah Kathleen is keeping it from happening

I don't know about that but I think you've got a kernal of truth here. I think he did sign something with Disney like maybe that he wouldn't "disrupt" the market while Disney ruins the franchise. By then the pent up demand should reward him handsomely. He better hurry up, his first fans are getting old.

It was never meant to make sense, it was only meant to rhyme.

+Vizgar Thanks buddy.

+Oliver Harper You are amazing man! Subscribed for sure; I love how you're able to go in depth with the films. Do you ever face copyrighted problems?

I agree.... i normally view Minty channel but his voice and tone alot of times makes me cringe. I've been watching more of Oliver channel lately. His delivery and tone of speech is refreshing. Plus Oliver is very informative and his insight is wonderful when it comes to the films he reviews

@@bryantwilliams4027 very well said...But if you like 007 then there's my channel 😉😁

His review of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines has more views than this. I guess it shows how much damage Disney has done to the Star Wars franchise.

I bought the despecialised editions off amazon. This year has been the first year of my life with the original StarWars.

how do you get it? i have kinda tried but its unclear imo

Drewdles the Noodle Anything after 1977 is not the original. Changes were made as early as the first rerelease.

Adywan's version is better.

@@xti7386 limetorrents.at/star-wars-the-original-trilogy-1977-1983-despecialized-editions-720p-x264-ac3-5-1-multisubs-t1530475.html it is bluray quality and I recommend using the duckduckgo search engine to find anything youre looking for. Google blocks a lot of searches/websites to keep you from finding content like this. Each movie is just over 1gb and may take a day to download but it is well worth it, all three films are identical in appearance and sound as the original 77, 80, and 83 theatrical release. These are the best versions I have ever seen/owned, the only authentic unaltered copies are the 2006 laserdisc to DVD transfers and the despecialized edition is far superior in sound and visual fidelity and i highly recommend them. If you do not have a blu ray burner, you can downscale the resolution to DVD quality and burn them on dvd-r.

Dittos. And Wedge surviving too...

42 yrs ago (and Elvis died at 42)

Yeah, I had never heard that either

that's not the despecialized… the blacks are WAY to saturated

@@narmale That's disappointing to hear.

It is the despecialized editions, just probably an older version.

Or it may be how he uploads his videos, but these are the Despecialized editions.

Darren Munsell Lucas has already been doing this

Bullshit. It was a COLLABORATIVE effort by all parties involved. Plus there were 3 editors on this film, not just her. You sound like an ignorant fool parading as a know it all.

@Disney is the Devil lol nice one

Well, she was the one who suggested killing Obi-Wan. She was also the one who suggested having the Death Star orbiting Yavin in order to fire on its moon, when Lucas' original intent was to just have it sitting there doing nothing. Ironically, Lucas also wanted to delete the Mouse Droid scene because test audiences were laughing at it and Lucas didn't like people laughing at his movie! It was only when his wife told him that they were laughing because they thought it was sweet and not at the movie itself that he kept it in. I think that, along with her major editing contribution and the encouragement she gave Lucas, makes her well worth the praise people give her.

Disney is the Devil they aren’t “unsung heroes”, they get plenty of praise. And “playing down the overwhelming superiority of males”.....Jesus Christ dude might want to tone down the stupidity a bit, kinda showed your true colors in purpose of the comment you made by saying that...

Charmed by its freshness. A much better produced take on the world of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.

Very respected opinion

I've seen a CGI clip in Rogue Leader.

I grew up with Star Wars in the 90s and ANH has always, and till this day, always been my favorite SW movie.

Moviefan2k4 Try watching at the cinema when you're 5. One word. WOW! And I saw it in early 1978 during half term I believe. I'm now 44, so my first memories of it are rather hazy :)

I watched Return of the Jedi in the theater as a kid.... It was wow too :) Then again, I thought Avatar was an amazing experience as an adult. But, people love to bash it for it's simple story.

I was 8 (almost 9) when it first came out in 1977. I don't remember specifically seeing it in the theater, but I remember my mother telling me and my 4 (almost 5) year old brother how good it was, and how much we were going to like it. It is rated PG, so my parents had seen it first to make sure it was ok for us.

It’s too bad you weren’t old enough to have seen Star Wars in a movie theater as a child when it came out in 1977. My memories of seeing the original trilogy at the Cooper Theater on Colorado Boulevard in Denver when I was 9, 12 and 15 are priceless. There wasn’t a single movie to compare to Star Wars. It was that groundbreaking of a movie.

Thank you very much for your feedback!

I always loved Star Wars but never watched Star Trek. It's weird because Star Trek (the original) was always on tv but I don't think I ever watched a whole episode. I actually wanted to go back and watch some just because I never did.

STAR WARS got a lot of help in getting picked to be made because of STAR TREK . A few years before STAR WARS was released a STAR TREK magazine was released , STARLOG MAGAZINE . Because of all the huge TREKKIE conventions a new TREK themed show was in development . Paramount and Roddenberry wanted to make the series be about The Federation and it's Academy , NOT about the Starship Enterprise . After the huge success of STAR WARS , STARLOG became a magazine about science fiction NOT just TREK series .

Geeeee8 What do you mean?

Lucas Dunker I think what he means is that subsequent versions of this film have introduced so many changes and made the original untouched release almost impossible to find and watch. No other classic film would receive that, not King Kong, Ben-Hur or Casablanca, yet the original Star Wars fell victim to that mindset.

I liked this comment. It's like you were in my head. I'm a writer myself, self-published author and I get it. You start out wanting to write what you grew up on and somehow end up with something original that has highlights of what inspired you. Echoing what you said, don't worry, your long comment didn't bore me😉. I'm just glad I'm not the only one who is inspired by Star Wars.

O. O. \____/

too be fair John Williams rushed the score for force awakens because he had an injury or something like that.

To me, the best Star Wars soundtracks (musically) are the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, but they are also the most poorly recorded/engineered, even for their time. Perhaps that is due to Star Wars having a low budget and Empire Strikes Back being seen as a bit of a gamble. It is hard to choose which of the many versions to listen to. The original albums are lacking somewhat in clarity and dynamic range, have some major instruments very faint and almost lost in the background due to poor miking (kettle drums on Imperial March are almost missing in action). Tape hiss, tape wrinkles (wow and flutter, drop-outs) are apparent. Later releases are remastered, but they are not the original soundtrack albums in terms of how they are arranged. The original Empire Strikes Back was released as a double album on LP, but in USA only. The rest of the world got a cut-down single disc version with side 1/2 labelled back-to-front (Main Title as first track on side 2, End Title as last track on side 1). The later CD release was the single disc version. There was a limited edition CD box set that seems to be somewhat improved quality, which included all tracks from the original albums, plus never before released outtakes, but with tracks presented in different order. Presuming the tracks match, ripping this set to hard drive might be sufficient to reconstruct the original albums using a playlist to customise track order. It was also the first opportunity to hear the complete score for Return of the Jedi which was originally released as a single disc album on LP and CD. The most recent remasters (special edition versions) sound a lot better, but they are not arranged as composite musical suites, as John Williams presented them on the original albums. Instead, they are cut to fit the film and presented in the order that they appear in the film. This makes them musically less satisfying because the music is chopped up into little bits. More recently, the original trilogy soundtracks have become available as HD FLAC (24/192). These sound like they are the original LP masters transferred directly to digital without alteration, warts and all. You get the tape hiss, the tape wrinkles and problems with dynamic range and instrument balance, but you also get the best possible version of the original double disc sets for both Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, plus the single disc original version of Return of the Jedi (but not the full score because no out-takes are included). However, something smells bad about the HD FLAC release. Return of the Jedi was a digital recording (the original CD was DDD), and it seems unlikely to have been mastered as 24/192 back in the day. So, either the HD FLAC has captured an analogue LP master (not the original digital master) or the original was needlessly upsampled to 24/192 to match Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back (historic analogue recordings are often captured at very high sample rates for posterity). Note that the prequel soundtracks in this set are presented as 24/44.1, which presumably reflects the state of the original masters. So, the providence of Return of the Jedi is a bit uncertain. Despite all this, I keep going back to the HD FLAC, because they are the original albums "as they were", despite having all these versions on hand. They seem to capture the original albums well, without any of the harsh edginess of early CD releases.

Finally somebody said it. I am a purist when it comes to Star Wars. I will not watch the “special editions”

Just like I love the original Star Trek tv show without being remastered. I wish I could find it lol.

+AFILLARI He's already done Return Of The Jedi, I think.

akechi mitsuhide 1% of everything? You mean Jones could have made money off of the toys also? Huge mistake! But $10,000 is not a small amount in 1977.

Especially as the WILD WILD WEST movie feels like a satire to the classical DESILU series from the Sixtieth. Since the old series is still on reruns in the USA people had the chance to compare the movie to the originally and there the movie falls flat.

With due respect to all that were involved in the film, many thought this movie was going to bomb. They didn't see the end product with all the state of the arts special effects and John William's glorious score. Had they seen the finished film, I'm sure they would've seen the hit making potential.

20/20 Hindsight. Easy to say after the movie has been released to universal acclaim. He might prefer the certainty of being able to pay the rent, rather than risking a percentage of a movie that might bomb on the box office possibly leaving him destitute. I agree with Lamarr Avery on this one.

$10,000 was crazy great money for a few days of voicework only in 1976- most people were not warning that in a year!

It is.

Forget the sequel trilogy. I prefer the original trilogy.

Together with The Empire Strikes Back And Return Of The Jedi my favorite movie of all time

@@gochem3013 sequel is trash

@@gochem3013 Oh you think?

+PureDetroit This channel deserves an Oscar, his videos are so underrated!

+PureDetroit This particular video seems to be a condensed version of the two and a half hour "Star Wars Empire of Dreams" I'd say maybe 90% of the archival footage is from that documentary. You may want to check that out if you want a longer version of this.

+jonuiuc most of the archival footage from Empire of Dreams is taken from the original 70s making of.

ah cool, I'll have to find that.

PureDetroit nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award.

Nope, that guy would have been Jabba if the scene wasn't cut.