Adywan's revisited Star Wars movies

[Mr. Oragahn]

Have any of you already checked out the clips this Adywan dude made from the original and DVD versions of Star Wars?

I've seen most of them, and they're very promising.

I've also watched the integrity of ANH Revisited, and it was very good for a guy working in his house or so.

Now, not all is perfect. For example, the firing he added to the one of the stormtroopers who boarded the Tantive IV is completely off axis.
The additions of the star destroyers around the Death Star are not very convincing and perhaps too much. There even are considerable mistakes in the sizes, with star destroyers moving behind the Death Star and making the station look very small.
There even are TIEs which just look like bitmaps and some of them even are deformed.
The planet the Death Star orbits doesn't look pretty so it kinda sucks. But I think it would have been OK if the planet had a good CGI rendition, like it's done in current SF shows.
The arrival of the MF into the Death Star isn't so good. He removed the piece of hardware that was hanging down and made the neon band too white and blurry.
It doesn't seem like he tried to correct the glitch with the door that Luke closes, as we see it wiggle as it's shut.
The battle over the Death Star is well enhanced, although the shot with the TIE fighters is disappointing. It looks exciting, until you realize that those things are moving like snails pass the camera.
Overall, the laser bolts could have been a tad prettier. Some are rather raw.

The rest is quite good.
The weird alien that harasses Luke has some facial animation (although we see that it's some cheap stretching algorithm, but the idea is laudable).
Can't tell if the arm that is cut is his own change or not. In any case, it's a good thing and quite coherent with the humanoid origin of that arm and the clothes that dude wore. It didn't make sense to have the alien thing lose an arm when it didn't even hold a weapon. That made Obi-Wan and rather mediocre law enforcer in fact.
Solo shoots first, thank you. There's no more of that silly creature passing in front of the screen in Tatooine.
He removed the sequence where Solo meets Jabba.
It's a pity, I quite wish something could have been done about it, but there were issues with the voice, and above all with the CGI Jabba.
Their escape from Tatooine is quite better, although the first ISD we see is too close, and the fact that it's scrolling sideways against the starfield in the background makes it look fake. But the two more ISDs are better looking that way. The MF's spinning is ace.
He also correct the hyperspace spinning and the hyperspace tunnel effect.
The Death Star is at a great distance from Alderaan, and he corrected the very wrong view of Alderaan on the main screen.
The destruction of the planet is far more beautiful now (he borrowed the explosion from the final episode Stargate SG-1).
The arrival at Alderaan's graveyard is way better that way.
I wish he had put more distance between the MF and the TIE Fighter.
There's much more background music, and the duel between Vader and Obi-Wan therefore feels a bit more violent. Plus there's some bridging done with the themes between ROTS and the traditional OT scores. However, the downside is that you can't help but remember that in ROTS, they were far more mobile, so the epic touch doesn't really work well here.
The escape from the Death Star is quite more exiting that way. There are some small CGI corrections, notably on the HUDs.
The plans of the Death Star have been corrected to bridge the visuals from AOTC to ROTJ.
The rebel leaders are finally staring at a hologram in their base on Yavin IV.
The whole battle is globally well enhanced, once again. There's plenty of little details, and he reused the run on the DSII surface, edited it very well and got a wonderful shot for the attack on the DSI.
The dive towards the trench is all one continuous sequence (although I'm not sure if it's his work or not).

[Admiral Breetai]

did he ever get to releasing Empire Strikes back or ROTJ

cause I've been hunting for torrents for that sucker for ever

[Mr. Oragahn]

I didn't look for those yet, but they could be promising.
There are plenty of clips on Youtube.
He also does a great job at bringing the colour hues back to normal instead of the silly saturations you get on DVD, plus proper lightsabre effects.

Check this out:

Arrival at Cloud City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emApiHtRXiE

Comparison between the original from the DVD and Adywan's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPNuxqOreI

More AT-AT action in the background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F0YefAQLA

Ion cannon firing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8YIR60Ij0

I'm sure he'd try to cram some B-wing action into ROTJ, and add a lot of turbolasers being exchanged, as he did in ANH.

Hey, GL announced the Blurays, so be ready to spend even more money for the corrections of the errors they introduced.
And people wonder why I haven't bought any SW movie since the 97 VHS boxset.

You can see those comparisons for ANH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsNv6c6chBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt4R733Y6Nk

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Unrelated, but this Russian fan made trailer rocks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8RRjmrtnig