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Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives in the UK this week. Here’s how you can stream and watch all the other movies & get set up for Episode VII next year. Watch two of the Star Wars Trilogy movies in 4K. Hot on the heels of my weekend post about Harmy's Despecialized Editions of the original Star Wars Trilogy movies, Six Colors maven and all-around good guy (and my ex-boss) Jason Snell pointed me to something I'd previously only seen briefly referenced in a few spots: Project 4K77.
Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983) Harmy's 720P Despecialized Edition 2.5. Star WarsReturn of the Jedi 1983 Original Unaltered Trilogy.
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If you haven't heard of it, it's essentially the only HD version of the original theatrical trilogy, put together from various sources by multiple insanely talented message board fans.
This article and YouTube video explain it
Anyway, I'd recommend being resourceful and tracking this down online.
It is amazing and is the only way the original trilogy should be viewed. It's astounding how much George Lucas fricked things up after.
Mississippi St. Fan
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LSU Fan
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It changed my life
Seriously. All of the space scenes are mesmerizing. It's like I always knew the cgi changes were bad and hated them, but seeing how good the alternative was in all its HD glory makes me loathe George Lucas. He took something truly special away from everyone.
Mississippi St. Fan
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It is amazing and is the only way the original trilogy should be viewed. It's astounding how much George Lucas fricked things up after.
Please tell me more about how background CGI, Greedo shooting first, and Darth Vader screaming no have ruined your child hood.
LSU Fan
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Please tell me more about how background CGI, Greedo shooting first, and Darth Vader screaming no have ruined your child hood.
I never said he ruined my childhood, he just ruined his movies.
The CGI/color corrections ruined the viewing experience of Star Wars. It's completely out of place, and instead of seeing what made Star Wars groundbreaking in 1977, you see ordinary 90's cgi that you saw in hundreds of other movies.
Watch the Despecialized edition and tell me anything that looked like this before or after.
It would be like your favorite classic band re-releasing your favorite record, but with all of the vocals autuned, giving it that pop-country/t-pain shine....only they just call it the same thing and destroy all of the originals so no one new can hear them.
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LSU Fan
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They just released unaltered films.
I don't think this happened.
Mississippi St. Fan
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The CGI/color corrections ruined the viewing experience of Star Wars. It's completely out of place, and instead of seeing what made Star Wars groundbreaking in 1977, you see ordinary 90's cgi that you saw in hundreds of other movies.
If Disney wants to release color-corrected version of the original trilogy I could care less, but color tones are never what these debates are about.
What made Star Wars special in 1977 is debatable. I would say it was the soundtrack, the memorable characters, and the lighthearted and adventurous tone of the film.
The special effects were impressive in 1977, but 38 years later, I don't mind the majority of the changes especially the ancillary ones such as the additions to the Yavin 4 X-wing takeoff, arriving in Mos Espa, etc.
There are other alterations that I would have preferred they not have made such as the scene with Greedo or adding dialogue for Darth Vader right before he grabs the Emperor to throw him down the air shaft, but none of this ruins the movies for me.
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It changed my life
So how do I get it? When I get to tehparadox.com, do I just go to all 41 links and download them each individually? How does the download process work?
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So how do I get it? When I get to tehparadox.com, do I just go to all 41 links and download them each individually? How does the download process work?
I believe you need Jdownloader or equivalent to download the parts. Once done, you're prompted for the password - in this case - harmy.
The catch is, you have to enter a captcha for each of the 41 links, individually. Should work for all three movies at that same site.
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Thats the easiest route.
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Kenna
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Will check this out.
6gb each, wow
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http://www.icefilms.info/movies/a-z/S
Scroll down the entire 'S' library on that page to the Star Wars section. They list a couple of semi-pro fan made films there too. I tried to watch one and gained a higher appreciation of even bad Hollywierd actors.
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LSU Fan
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Have to torrent them. If you have a my spleen account they are on there, which is how they are meant to be downloaded. No one gets invites to my spleen anymore because people just create an account to download Star Wars and leave.
Well, what else would they use it for?
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Harmy's Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Edition
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Before the Star Wars sequel trilogy split fans in every direction imaginable, and even before midi-chlorians for that matter, there was one universal truth amongst grumpy Star Wars fans: The Special Editions are inferior to the original cut of George Lucas' Star Wars film trilogy. Unfortunately, Lucas has proven decidedly stubborn about not re-releasing the theatrical versions of the films, leaving it up to enterprising enthusiasts to do something about it. While a fan-made 'Despecialized' Star Wars does exist, it's not exactly legal to watch.
That's right, Zack Snyder fans didn't invent demanding a particular edit of a film be released. Unfortunately, the only HD versions of the original Star Wars trilogy that are available to buy on Blu-ray or stream on Disney+ are the ones with which George Lucas tinkered: first with the rerelease in 1997, then adding more changes in the 2004 DVD release ... and again in 2011 ... up until 2019's infamous 'maclunkey' incident. A low-quality LaserDisc transfer of the original trilogy was released on DVD in 2006, and that's it.
That was it — until Petr Harmáček (known as Harmy) and a group of other Star Wars fans took over a decade to compile HD versions of the original, pre-Special Edition Star Wars trilogy, creating a fan community along the way as well. They aren't for sale, but downloading and watching the Despecialized Edition is still technically a crime. While torrenting — a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that allows many users to access and download files – isn't innately illegal because non-copyrighted material can be shared and downloaded without issue, sharing and/or downloading copyrighted material such as movies, books, video games, music, and TV shows is against the law (via Pixel Privacy).
Copyright laws keep tightening
In order for fan edits or 'derivative works' of any kind to be legal without purchasing the copyright, the original work has to lose its copyright protection and fall into the public domain. That's how we end up with so many versions of stories like The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein.Copyright law in the United States has changed several times over the decades, and there are varying laws about when works created after a certain time will become public domain. While the original Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, will enter the public domain in 2024, with later versions still being protected under copyright, Disney did benefit from the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (sometimes colloquially known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act). Steamboat Willie would have entered the public domain in 2003 if not for the extension. Who's to say that Congress won't again keep Disney properties — like Mickey Mouse cartoons or even the Star Wars films — out of the public domain for a few more decades past their original copyright expirations?
There are plenty of reasons to grumble about the Special Editions. There are different songs, different actors, a different morality-defining moment for Han Solo. Chief among the things to miss, however, are the original, ground-breaking, Academy Award-winning visual effects that made Star Wars capture the imaginations of audiences back in the '70s and '80s. The original cuts are a piece of film history that have been 'lost' on purpose thanks to Lucas himself. This may be what the auteur wanted, but it's not just his work up there on the screen. The work put in by the original editors and digital effects artists has been erased by the newer versions.
Harmy's Despecialized Trilogy
For now, apologies to your Skywalker Saga marathon, but the Despecialized Edition of Star Wars is illegal. The 'Ultimate Introductory Guide to Harmy's Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Editions' claims that if you can prove you own copies of the source material, you're all set legally, but take that with a grain of salt if you want to be safe and keep hoping that one day an official restoration of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi will get that sweet Blu-ray treatment.