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Star Wars (1977)
Directed by George Lucas
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Most recently watched by sensoria, VicnaLobster, CaptainBigTime, lordofthemovies, scottfinn, jeneot33, themarc, schofizzy, ashe5k, archstanton43
Overview
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Rated PG | Length 121 minutes
Actors
Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Peter Cushing | Alec Guinness | Anthony Daniels | Kenny Baker | Peter Mayhew | David Prowse | James Earl Jones | Phil Brown | Shelagh Fraser | Jack Purvis | Alex McCrindle | Eddie Byrne | Drewe Henley | Denis Lawson | Garrick Hagon | Jack Klaff | William Hootkins | Angus MacInnes | Jeremy Sinden | Graham Ashley | Don Henderson | Richard LeParmentier | Leslie Schofield | Michael Leader | David Ankrum | Scott Beach | Lightning Bear | Jon Berg | Doug Beswick | Paul Blake | Janice Burchette | Ted Burnett | John Chapman | Gilda Cohen | Tim Condren | Barry Copping | Alfie Curtis | Robert Davies | Maria De Aragon | Robert A. Denham | Frazer Diamond | Peter Diamond | Warwick Diamond | Sadie Eden | Kim Falkinburg | Harry Fielder | Ted Gagliano | Salo Gardner | Steve Gawley | Barry Gnome | Rusty Goffe | Isaac Grand | Reg Harding | Alan Harris | Frank Henson | Arthur Howell | Tommy Ilsley | Joe Johnston | Annette Jones | Linda Jones | Joe Kaye | Colin Michael Kitchens | Melissa Kurtz | Tiffany L. Kurtz | Al Lampert | Anthony Lang | Laine Liska | Derek Lyons | Mahjoub | Alf Mangan | Grant McCune | Geoffrey Moon | Mandy Morton | Lorne Peterson | Marcus Powell | Shane Rimmer | Pam Rose | George Roubicek | Erica Simmons | Angela Staines | George Stock | Roy Straite | Peter Sturgeon | Peter Sumner | John Sylla | Tom Sylla | Malcolm Tierney | Phil Tippett | Burnell Tucker | Morgan Upton | Jerry Walter | Hal Wamsley | Diana Sadley Way | Bill Weston | Fred Wood | Colin Higgins | Ron Tarr | Anthony Forrest | Frances Alfred Basil Tomlin | Larry Ward | John Cannon
Viewing History (seen 10 times)
Viewing Notes
After finishing Rogue One I couldn’t resist clicking over to SW immediately after to see how well it followed that story. Didn’t really want to watch SW again having just seen the OG version via LD but was curious to see the 4K UHD treatment on D+. And this was my first time to watch both R1 and SW back to back. Couldn’t finish since it was so late/early in the morning so only got half way thru it but finished it tonight.
The Dolby Vision is really sweet. It’s awesome to see details I’ve never seen before like the textures on Vader’s helmet. The practical FX look very nice in UHD. What doesn’t look good in this high-def edition: the 1997 SE updates like the dewbacks and added creatures in Mos Eisley. Wowza those look so bad now. Thankfully there’s not much of that. At least the added original footage like Biggs and Luke at the rebel hanger looks fine.
Seeing Tarkin and Leia in UHD made me appreciate the digital versions in R1 more (as I noted). They really did a p good job rendering those two even if it wasn’t necessary.
Viewing this again just makes me wanna watch all the OG films again in 4K UHD now. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
Wondering if we need 1) a new format: 4K UHD or 2) to change 4K Blu-ray to simply 4K UHD as to not create another entry under format. This would be to cover the 4K UHD streaming content now available which is definitely quite different than standard streaming. Or perhaps “4K Streaming”?
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