{"id":2225,"date":"2004-02-10T02:21:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/10\/star-wars-parts-iv-vi-on-dvd-sept-21st\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:13:41","slug":"star-wars-parts-iv-vi-on-dvd-sept-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/10\/star-wars-parts-iv-vi-on-dvd-sept-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Parts IV-VI on DVD Sept. 21st!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11785,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A27312-2004Feb9.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The good news: the &#8220;first&#8221; three movies in the Star Wars trilogy (parts VI &#91;A New Hope&#93;, V &#91;The Empire Strikes Back&#93;, and VI &#91;The Return of the Jedi&#93;) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A27312-2004Feb9.html\" title=\"Wookiee! 'Star Wars' Trilogy Set for Sept. DVD Release\">will be released on DVD on September 21st<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: as has been rumored, speculated, assumed, and generally grumbled about for quite a while now, the DVDs will contain the newer, fancier, Greedo-shoots-first Special Edition versions rather than the original, unedited, like-we-all-remember-and-love versions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The original &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; trilogy, comprising the 1977 movie, its 1980 sequel &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221; and 1983&#8217;s &#8220;Return of the Jedi,&#8221; will be released on DVD as a four-disc boxed set in September, Fox Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd.\u00a0announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  The boxed set will contain the special editions of the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; trilogy released in the late 1990s and not the original theatrical versions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, well. Even with the Special Edition changes (which, to be honest, some I like and some I don&#8217;t), any of the first three films are still <em>far<\/em> better than the disappointing dreck of Episodes I and II.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be picking this set up on day one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: the &#8216;first&#8217; three movies in the Star Wars trilogy (parts VI [A New Hope], V [The Empire Strikes Back], and VI [The Return of the Jedi]) will be released on DVD on September 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,1574],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}