Honestly, this was the first time I heard Boba Fett saying "What the--?!" as he gets hit by Han. I've seen this movie a billion times, and I've heard people reference it, but this was the first time I actually caught it.
One thing you don't have from the original edition is the dialogue. When Han was shooting the Sarlacc off of Lando, instead of seeing "It's all right, I can see a lot better", he said, "It's all right...trust me" I always found that more poignant as Lando might just be wondering if Han is still holding a grudge from Bespin
Yeah, he said "it's all right - trust me" originally. I remember having the record album of this movie as a kid, and that's where I first heard the "it's all right I can see a lot better, don't move-" version. It was odd to hear that transferred to an edit of the movie.
@@The-Secret-Door The first makes a lot of sense and was kind of funny because you have to wonder if for a second Lando worried if he was still holding a grudge (they actually played on that on the Return of the Jedi radio show)
Just going with it and shooting blind is a much more "Han" thing to do. Just more evidence that George Lucas doesn't understand his own creation and has to keep messing with it.
Sarlacc lore is pretty crazy if you want to look it up sometime, Lots of videos on it. The beak is only a small part of this massive creature underground, and they are said to be force sensitive as well :o
@@alexlovelady8249 I know, but a f*cking sarlacc pit wielding a lightsaber and fighting people like 1/10 it's size brings up images weirder than the Skywalker Saga has shown. Besides the thought of Palpatine having a kid before they confirmed his kid was just a clone.
I love the added CGI, most of it was great, but I have to say I prefer the Sarlacc's original layout with the gaping hole in the ground. I looked somehow creepier to me. I think they could have made it look even creepier without that beaked tongue. Anyone else agree?
that was the one thing that was most jarring at the time. Now I don't *hate* Spec Edition RotJ, but that's mostly because me and my mom went to see it in the theater, just the two of us, which was very rare, so the IRL memory is good. But the friggen Sarlacc beak haunted me.
TOTALLY. The creepy almost anal/vaginal motif had shades of Giger about it….it was just this mouth that remained open..still, unwavering. The beak totally ruined it. It looks terrible from a CGI perspective.
The beak makes sense IMO, it lowers the chance of a meal being able to escape, and when you are immobile and in the middle of a vast desert you need to make sure the rare meal doesn't get away.
Sarlacci evolved to inhabit swampy, marshy worlds. The presence of it in the desert is a fluke and a mystery of Star Wars lore, so it wouldn't have evolved features to keep sand out. Plus, it's uniquely slow metabolism and lack of independent mobility mean that it only needs the rare meal once every few years to survive. No right or wrong, as it's fiction and aesthetics are subjective, but I just think it looks more organic without the beak; like how I'd imagine it would look if it were real.
Spoilers for Book of Boba Fett: Book of Boba Fett cleverly used this moment to it's full potential. He goes in at one point and you go "wait, no beak? It's not canon anymore?!". Then boom, it emerges with a jumpscare. Lucas ideas are indeed scary sometimes. 😂
I mean, it popped up on screen and made a loud noise, thats not exactly a scarily designed monster so much as a regular jumpscare. A teddy bear coulda popped out of the mouth and I still would have jumped if it made the same loud noise and popped up really quickly
@@thepinkplushie True, but my point is when you don't see the beak you think they scrapped it, that the Sarlacc pit is back to it's 1983 design again. But no, 1997 beak pops out at you, haha. It's like YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE SPECIAL EDITIONS, WE ARE CANON right in your face, haha.
HAN: Don't move, Lando! LANDO: No wait, I thought you were blind! HAN, It's alright, trust me! LANDO: Trust you?! I'm surprised you're trusting me after I betrayed you guys and got you frozen in carbonite! HAN: We'll talk about that off screen! Now don't move! LANDO: Okay, well make sure you don't shoot me instead of the tentacle as you're still blind! HAN: It's alright, I can see a lot better! Don't move! LANDO: A little higher! Just a little higher!
Andrew Chapman when he said “a little higher” I swear that the original showed Han pointing the gun straight at Landon’s face and it got a laugh in the theater.
@@davidwoodruff2890 I know its just a typo, but, Landon is my fav character ever. Landon Carazian for life. Sorry i just had to do it. And i know its calrissian.. Or something..
I'm pro-beak myself. It makes Sarlacc feel more like a sentient creature than some kind of meat-eating plant. And maybe I'm just weird but I think I prefer the color tones of the blu-ray. They seem richer and more natural. The Harmy edition, while perhaps truer to the original, looks far too yellow.
agreed. i get why people don't like it, because change. but, no one complains when LotR re-releases the same movie 5 times within the span of what was it a year or two?
I prefer the “meat eating plant” look. It’s scarier, I’d describe it similar to what Quint from Jaws says about sharks. “Black eyes like dolls eyes, doesn’t even seem to be living”. It just adds to the horror.
People seem to like complaining about the beak; but consider that the beak still swallows Boba whole. It's not 'chomping down' it's ensuring smaller prey can't get away.
Definitely prefer the original over the 2011 rendition. I do not know how, but the CGI beak somehow made the Sarlacc pit seem less terrifying and more oddly adorable.
I call it baby bird syndrome As in, when a momma bird feeds in young you are aware what you're looking at is kinda gross, but baby birds are adorable so that's what registers in your brain. The special edition sarlacc looks kinda like a baby bird. Subconsiously I think its pretty cute, whereas nothing about the original is cute or even recognizable. I guess it kinda looks like one of those horrifying deep sea tube things, but thats not exactly making it less scary
I love this Original Saga "movement", but analyzing this clip, i must say that the 2011 Blu-ray has a way better color correction in most of these shots. The Despecialized v2.5 edition has a yellow/green tint to it, which actually makes the 2011 Blu-ray look way better and more realistic.
from what I can gather, at least in the case of Episode IV, the Blu-ray one has a very magenta hue on nearly every shot. Despecialized aims to recreate the lighting as it would have been in theatres in the 70's, so while not neccesarily as pretty or realistic, it's more accurate. I see where you are coming from, and blu-ray has higher contrast in some parts, but I prefer de-specialized. It makes me happy to look at.
@@nathancruz9172 just a reminder. NOBODY is supposed to resell the despecialized editions in any shape or form. On a side note, downloading it and burning some discs does take a long time, so I do understand why someone might want to just buy someone else's blu ray copy
I am one of those who grew up with the beak version of the Sarlacc and I find the beak and additional tentacles more interesting and terrifying, like gives more life to the creature and gives it a more interesting anatomy on how it eats its prey, also shows how sentient it actually is and makes it seem like it knows it's about to be fed, compared to the old one where just had the pit with the few barely moving tentacles.
I grew up with it too and it never felt right. It already had teeth and what looks like a mouth hole. I was like "Why does it have a mouth in its mouth?" It does make it more enigmatic, but it doesn't mesh with the original design
1. those boots look pretty stiff.. its probably boot strength, rather than foot strength 2. Those ropes aren't holding a grown man up..... they're thing as twine.
Theoretically he could have been just using the force. Realistically they were just lazy with the choreography and special effects. It was definitely meant to be just a straight up kick.
Can we acknowledge the friggin laugh the henchmen does when he pops his head out! 5:24 😭😅🤣 ivve laughed my ass off so many times listening to it for so many years!
Most people really seem to hate the beak of the sarlacc pit because it makes it less scarier but imo, it makes it look much more alive than just a pit with teeth
Here's a fun fact, Marcia Lucas edited this whole scene and it took her two months to edit it together. She stated that out of all of Star Wars scene's she edited, this was bar none the hardest to edit.
Its pretty funny how Boba Fett just jumps right in front of a Jedi with a weapon that can cut through almost anything, including his blaster. He was either high on spice, or just incredibly stupid.
He’s referring to the Shots of Luke, Lando, and R2 acknowledging each other, getting ready to do some crazy shit. Then it cuts to Han who has no idea wtf is going on and is looking around like: “ *hUh? WhAt? WrOnG tImEsTaMp?* ”
I know ima bout to get a lot of hate for this, but I personally prefer the blue ray sarlacc over the original. Listen, I watched return of the Jedi of the blue ray and grew up with it, also now it actually looks like a living being
Realistic in the sense that deserts really do look washed out in real life because the sand reflects so much sunlight. But that has downsides too, at times the grindhouse version kinda blends together. Dark scenes are sometimes very difficult to see. People are trying to objectively rank these but its purely preference. For me my favourite switches pratically scene to scene. Sometimes multiple times in the same scene.
That one dude who Luke just callously threw out of the Sail Barge and then seeing him screaming and reaching out as he’s being pulled into the Sarlaac is honestly sad and scary to me. That poor man has no idea what horror and pain he’s going to experience, and all he can do is try and reach out for anything to save him, despite it being pointless in the end. Am I just too sympathetic?
in-canon all of Jabba's goons are criminals of the lowest shit, but yeah, still creepy shit. In the og sarlacc version you could even believe he was being slowly chewed from the feet up with the way he was screaming.
In the Legends Expanded Universe, at least, most if not all of the Max Rebo Band survived the Sail Barge, though the members all went their seperate ways. Droopy McCool wandered off into the desert, convinced that other Kitonaks were out there. Lyn Me the Twi'lek backup singer swore vengeance on the Heroes of Yavin for the apparent death of Boba Fett, Sy Snootles faded into obscurity as a solo singer, Bar'quin Dan stopped to raid some jewels from Jabba's townhouse in Mos Eisley and went back to Clak'dor, and Max himself entertained New Republic troops on several tours, before becoming the frontperson for a chain of restaurants.
Max Rebo: “Don’t worry. I pulled a Boba Fett and survived the destruction of Jabba’s sail barge. I’m thankful that Jedi Knight freed me and my band members from having to perform for Jabba for eternity and now the Max Rebo Band can start touring the galaxy again!”
I have to admit that the best color restoration is the '11 Blu-ray but that was worked on by dozens of people. I hope one day the original version can have the same treatment as this 4th official version of Jedi has had.
Some Sarlacc's have beaks, others do not. The beak is actually the Sarlacc's tongue while the tongue is just another stubby tentacle that helps swallow victims.
Oddly enough, in this instance, I actually prefer the 2011 Bluray lighting and coloring over Harmy's. The New Hope Bluray has an AWFUL magenta tone to the entire film, but they seem to have done much better with the Jedi Bluray.
Wow I've been a fan of Star Wars for maybe 15 years, yet this is my first time learning that the beak was not originally there. To be honest, the beak's design looks weird so I thought it was because of the less than perfect VFX of 1983. Also, seeing the sarlacc with a beak for so long, I think the gaping hole version looks lackluster and a bit weird ; it doesn't really look like a creature.
I agree with you. I never knew the beak wasn't originally there. I see why people like it without the beak though. Also the jumpscare in Book of Boba was well done. I thought that thing was already dead.
I can't be the only one who doesn't give a flying fuck if they made it less scary or believable. This is a universe where it's acceptable to have space bats living inside a space worm that gets nutrients from presumably eating spaceships. We have far bigger problems. Course I'm not as nostalgic about it since the first version I watched probably did have the beak. To me, that's just how it looks. The use of canned sound effects especially ones for the sake of comedy such as when the sarlac burps piss me off way more than just making up a weird/unbelievable monster in general. And that big-mouthed singing thing? That change was the worst of all of them.
I heard that the main (original) reason they made Luke’s lightsaber green instead of blue was because of lighting issues for this particular scene. Also, notice how similar the handle is to Obi-Wan’s. 2:50
Harmy's Despecialized Edition looks like a better modern take. But the Grindhouse is still a more authentic look reflecting it's time. It's aged but in a good analogue kind of way.
han solo: boba fett boba fett WHERE? {hits jetpack} WHAT THE boba fett: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH {got hit in the ship and slide down in to the sarlaac pit} 3:47
Lucas said that he couldn’t re-do boba fett in this scene, bullshit you could have him fall face first into the sand knocking him out or see a glimpse of him flying out of the pit while the rest is escaping
Incredible scene, always loved it. Perhaps my favorite part is the very end…when the Falcon and x-wing are seen leaving. I loved that the Falcon is almost introduced, like this, to the third act as if it’s its own character.
I feel more bad for that one dude who Luke threw out of the Barge before seeing him reaching out for help and screaming as he’s being pulled into the pit. Seeing that guy reaching out desperately for something to save him and knowing nothing will save him and knowing the horror that’s going to come is just haunting to me, I really need to stop thinking about this so much.
That's because in the 39 years since this film was released, Boba Fett has become such an icon and way bigger than GL had originally designed him to be....his death in ROTJ was more of a gag than anything because at the time, he was just a foil for Han Solo and this was the conclusion of that story...
@@fanboysreign It like i said in my review for return of the jedi the point showing the sarlacc in the CGI reshot is to show how dangerous the kind of monster is the original was just a pit with nothing scary or giving your a show of some kind of Lovecraft like monster that would await Luke and Han to their fate
I love the despecialized editions, but there are some things that just didn't need to be changed back. Mostly the shadows. Look at 1:12 for instance. The shadow of the stationary ship is much sharper and darker than the other in every version except for the special edition. There is still some difference in the special edition, but it's much less obvious.
I find it hilarious that I’m still watching the upper left with the 2006 dvd version playing, it’s the one I grew up watching and even though it’s inferior in every picture quality wise, but I think it certainly makes them feel proper to me. It’s just the nostalgia, but I found it funny.
Harmy has the best overall picture quality. But, the GOUT has the best colors. A more natural, slightly muted tone. The way they all originally looked.
Good video but this was the Blu Ray track. The Gout track has Han saying, "It's alright trust me!", instead of "It's all right I can see a lot better!" And there are less Sarlacc sounds too. Could you upload this with the GOUT track?
That was a dilemma I faced when doing this one. I'll add a couple annotations when I get around to it, and maybe upload the uncut scene from despecialized on its own and link it through this video as well.
Fennec Shand said Bib had no right to take Jabbas thrown. Seeing as he had been Jabbas butler since Phantom Menace and probably long before that I have to beg the differ.
Sometimes I overthink the sound of Fett’s jetpack, Luke’s slicing of his rifle, the music building up, Lando using his helmet as a weapon… so much going on, orchestrated prison break anarchy.
Said a million times before and I’m gonna say again, the original version looks better. Tbh, the fact that it doesn’t look so “alive” or have many visible tentacles or make much noise makes it a lot more scarier. Just imagine unlucky residents or creatures of Tatooine accidentally stumbling down that sharp slope and before they can see what they’re falling towards, they land right onto those teeth and quickly into the mouth/belly. Even if they’re able to avoid falling directly into the mouth and desperately try to crawl away from it, unseen tentacle(s) will catch them and pull them into the mouth. Like, no matter what happens, it’s always gonna get you. By not being able to hear it, will make you paranoid whenever you’re walking over dunes and won’t know where it is. It’s essentially a giant Venus fly trap; a creature that doesn’t look alive, can somewhat blend in with the environment and spells death whatever comes by it. ALL of that fear factor is just completely RUINED by adding the beak, noise and extra tentacles. Now it can be heard from a mile away, becomes too visible and just visually looks terrible.
Tbh... I like the way they used the beak in Book of Boba more. Considering how the CG here has aged.. I just think the version without the beak (retroactively we know it's retracted inside the body) is way better
God I hate remembering how incompetent boba looks here he literally flys over there to get the shit beaten out of him he misses all of his shots like a storm trooper flys over to get his signature blaster cut in half IMMEDIATELY then doddles around until a blind guy accidentally kills him with his own jet pack wtf?
5 minutes later, Boba Fett narrowly escapes the sarlacc pit saying, "Dang it Solo, I swear I'm gonna put my foot up your arse and-". Then looks around and sees that everyone else is either gone or dead. "Whoa God, what a cluster f**k! Looks like I dodged a major bullet. Oh well..." Calls his ship and flys home.
the color in the 2011 special edition blu ray is better than the other edits. too bad it has all the unnecessary additions. Harmy’s edit really shines in A New Hope where it is needed the most. i’m happy both exist.
![ORIGINAL Luke vs Darth Vader & The Emperor | Return of the Jedi (1983) [DeEd, Blu-ray, GOUT, LPP]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ouv-JDzgQOA/mqdefault.jpg)
Honestly, this was the first time I heard Boba Fett saying "What the--?!" as he gets hit by Han. I've seen this movie a billion times, and I've heard people reference it, but this was the first time I actually caught it.
I thought it was Han
I thought it was Han as well at the beginning.
The funniest part is that that’s his only line in the entire movie and his last line in the whole series lmfao
A fitting end to an overhyped character.
@@ReluctantWarrior Your comment didn't age well lol🤣🤣🤣
One thing you don't have from the original edition is the dialogue. When Han was shooting the Sarlacc off of Lando, instead of seeing "It's all right, I can see a lot better", he said, "It's all right...trust me" I always found that more poignant as Lando might just be wondering if Han is still holding a grudge from Bespin
I thought so, I knew he said something else haha just trying to remember what. Thanks for sharing
Yeah, he said "it's all right - trust me" originally. I remember having the record album of this movie as a kid, and that's where I first heard the "it's all right I can see a lot better, don't move-" version. It was odd to hear that transferred to an edit of the movie.
@@The-Secret-Door The first makes a lot of sense and was kind of funny because you have to wonder if for a second Lando worried if he was still holding a grudge (they actually played on that on the Return of the Jedi radio show)
Just going with it and shooting blind is a much more "Han" thing to do. Just more evidence that George Lucas doesn't understand his own creation and has to keep messing with it.
That is exactly what I came here looking for to see if I was crazy. That's exactly the way I remember it. Han saying "Trust me"
The beak makes it biologicly difficult to believe, that you will be digested for a 1000 years, I think the original offers a deeper scarier vision.
turns out the beak is retractable. it can stay underneath the deep hole/mouth or pop out. think of the xenomorphs
Sarlacc lore is pretty crazy if you want to look it up sometime,
Lots of videos on it.
The beak is only a small part of this massive creature underground, and they are said to be force sensitive as well :o
@@MrZega000 A force wielding sarlacc monster. That has got to be the craziest shit I've heard about it so far.
@@KooladmantheBold it’s Star Wars, everything about it is crazy wacky shit lol
@@alexlovelady8249 I know, but a f*cking sarlacc pit wielding a lightsaber and fighting people like 1/10 it's size brings up images weirder than the Skywalker Saga has shown. Besides the thought of Palpatine having a kid before they confirmed his kid was just a clone.
I love the added CGI, most of it was great, but I have to say I prefer the Sarlacc's original layout with the gaping hole in the ground. I looked somehow creepier to me. I think they could have made it look even creepier without that beaked tongue. Anyone else agree?
soeffingwhat yes, exactly
agreed
that was the one thing that was most jarring at the time. Now I don't *hate* Spec Edition RotJ, but that's mostly because me and my mom went to see it in the theater, just the two of us, which was very rare, so the IRL memory is good. But the friggen Sarlacc beak haunted me.
I usually defend most of the edits, but I agree that the hole being its mouth is much better. It's a lot more alien and unfamiliar...
TOTALLY. The creepy almost anal/vaginal motif had shades of Giger about it….it was just this mouth that remained open..still, unwavering. The beak totally ruined it. It looks terrible from a CGI perspective.
The beak makes sense IMO, it lowers the chance of a meal being able to escape, and when you are immobile and in the middle of a vast desert you need to make sure the rare meal doesn't get away.
Lol no... The tentacles already do that..
@@timewarpdrive77 They can be easily cut and escapable ,unlike a tough beak
@@lynnettecosta1424 Um.... how exactly do you know this
@@timewarpdrive77 the movie shows it when Han saves Lando
Sarlacci evolved to inhabit swampy, marshy worlds. The presence of it in the desert is a fluke and a mystery of Star Wars lore, so it wouldn't have evolved features to keep sand out. Plus, it's uniquely slow metabolism and lack of independent mobility mean that it only needs the rare meal once every few years to survive. No right or wrong, as it's fiction and aesthetics are subjective, but I just think it looks more organic without the beak; like how I'd imagine it would look if it were real.
Spoilers for Book of Boba Fett:
Book of Boba Fett cleverly used this moment to it's full potential. He goes in at one point and you go "wait, no beak? It's not canon anymore?!". Then boom, it emerges with a jumpscare. Lucas ideas are indeed scary sometimes. 😂
I mean, it popped up on screen and made a loud noise, thats not exactly a scarily designed monster so much as a regular jumpscare.
A teddy bear coulda popped out of the mouth and I still would have jumped if it made the same loud noise and popped up really quickly
@@thepinkplushie True, but my point is when you don't see the beak you think they scrapped it, that the Sarlacc pit is back to it's 1983 design again. But no, 1997 beak pops out at you, haha. It's like YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE SPECIAL EDITIONS, WE ARE CANON right in your face, haha.
@@rsolsjo I just thought that the sarlacc was dead so the beak was retracted after Boba burned it from inside
@@broccoli_jaeger I could be overthinking it for sure, but still.. fun haha
@@rsolsjo George didn't write Book of Boba Fett. This wasn't his idea.
WHY go back 20 years later and think: "you know what that scary anus looking pit full of teeth is missing? A beak."
Because Lucas felt that original creature never looked alive.
That was the original design but they didn’t have the budget or tech to do the puppet
@@darrentaggart6547 Turns out Bib Fortuna lived!
"scary anus looking pit" lol I like that description.
The idea of being slowly digested over 1,000 years doesn't really fit anymore when there's a fish-like monster chewing you up when you fall in.
HAN: Don't move, Lando!
LANDO: No wait, I thought you were blind!
HAN, It's alright, trust me!
LANDO: Trust you?! I'm surprised you're trusting me after I betrayed you guys and got you frozen in carbonite!
HAN: We'll talk about that off screen! Now don't move!
LANDO: Okay, well make sure you don't shoot me instead of the tentacle as you're still blind!
HAN: It's alright, I can see a lot better! Don't move!
LANDO: A little higher! Just a little higher!
Andrew Chapman when he said “a little higher” I swear that the original showed Han pointing the gun straight at Landon’s face and it got a laugh in the theater.
I think you just cured my headache
@@davidwoodruff2890 I know its just a typo, but,
Landon is my fav character ever.
Landon Carazian for life.
Sorry i just had to do it.
And i know its calrissian.. Or something..
@@thatrandomangrygoose4147 ...
The Sarlacc is an awesome concept no matter how it looks.
When the green lightsaber flashed on, the theatre audience in 1983 was like “whaaaaaaaaat”
Probably expecting his lightsaber to be blue.
1:52
the big hole looked way more terrifying imo
That stupid Super Mario Plant head ruins it fking gross
Call me a... Sarlacc but i think it looks better.
I'm pro-beak myself. It makes Sarlacc feel more like a sentient creature than some kind of meat-eating plant. And maybe I'm just weird but I think I prefer the color tones of the blu-ray. They seem richer and more natural. The Harmy edition, while perhaps truer to the original, looks far too yellow.
agreed. i get why people don't like it, because change. but, no one complains when LotR re-releases the same movie 5 times within the span of what was it a year or two?
I prefer the “meat eating plant” look. It’s scarier, I’d describe it similar to what Quint from Jaws says about sharks. “Black eyes like dolls eyes, doesn’t even seem to be living”.
It just adds to the horror.
And this is why you're not a real fan and you're gonna get doxxed unless you leave the community in the nexxt month
@@Testingthisname What is a 'real fan' to you? What is a 'fake fan'
wtf is wrong with you bro?
People seem to like complaining about the beak; but consider that the beak still swallows Boba whole. It's not 'chomping down' it's ensuring smaller prey can't get away.
That's what the teeth and tentacles would've been for.
@@13thvarebel16 Ah, yes, the tentacles that stop holding you when you shoot them
Definitely prefer the original over the 2011 rendition. I do not know how, but the CGI beak somehow made the Sarlacc pit seem less terrifying and more oddly adorable.
It makes it seem more like an Earth creature that we know. Familiarizing it made it less scary. That's what I think at least.
I call it baby bird syndrome
As in, when a momma bird feeds in young you are aware what you're looking at is kinda gross, but baby birds are adorable so that's what registers in your brain.
The special edition sarlacc looks kinda like a baby bird. Subconsiously I think its pretty cute, whereas nothing about the original is cute or even recognizable. I guess it kinda looks like one of those horrifying deep sea tube things, but thats not exactly making it less scary
And then BOBF came along and made it a voracious, terrifying monster instead of a passive blob in the ground.
@@sentinel-wraith9060 You leave my mother out of this!
@@sentinel-wraith9060 No.. BOBF just made boba fett a moron who has Stockholm syndrome for tuskens.....
I love this Original Saga "movement", but analyzing this clip, i must say that the 2011 Blu-ray has a way better color correction in most of these shots. The Despecialized v2.5 edition has a yellow/green tint to it, which actually makes the 2011 Blu-ray look way better and more realistic.
from what I can gather, at least in the case of Episode IV, the Blu-ray one has a very magenta hue on nearly every shot. Despecialized aims to recreate the lighting as it would have been in theatres in the 70's, so while not neccesarily as pretty or realistic, it's more accurate. I see where you are coming from, and blu-ray has higher contrast in some parts, but I prefer de-specialized. It makes me happy to look at.
Negative.
kant dang
actually not, the 2011 version has pink/purple tint. It is explained in the source video.
I am working on getting a 1995THX enhanced version, I am wondering how well it will look put up against DVD and bluray.
I have the silver screen of Ep 4 but LOVE the grindhouse editions of Empire and Jedi its the perfect trilogy.
3:03 I currently have the blu ray disc from harmy’s despecialized edition on eBay.
@@nathancruz9172 just a reminder. NOBODY is supposed to resell the despecialized editions in any shape or form. On a side note, downloading it and burning some discs does take a long time, so I do understand why someone might want to just buy someone else's blu ray copy
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ANYONE ELSE CAN HEAR BOBA FETT SAYING "WHAT THE" AT AROUND 3:52?
Pablo Martínez Álvarez yea do you know I just noticed that
Pablo Martínez Álvarez I think that was Han Solo who said it.
Anime 4 Life | Did you notice that it was a force kick
Megalodon Evidence that was Han
Pablo Martínez Álvarez he is not dead
Harmy could actually be a young George Lucas that traveled back in time to oppose his older self
Or Forward. And developed an Accent.
You know Harmy is Czech, right?
@@arfansthename why do you hate fun?
@@richardched6085 Americans already have accents
@@borisjohnson1473 True... Since it's my default accent i should have said "Developed a different accent."
I am one of those who grew up with the beak version of the Sarlacc and I find the beak and additional tentacles more interesting and terrifying, like gives more life to the creature and gives it a more interesting anatomy on how it eats its prey, also shows how sentient it actually is and makes it seem like it knows it's about to be fed, compared to the old one where just had the pit with the few barely moving tentacles.
I grew up with it too and it never felt right. It already had teeth and what looks like a mouth hole. I was like "Why does it have a mouth in its mouth?" It does make it more enigmatic, but it doesn't mesh with the original design
well, you're entitled to hold the wrong opinion I guess...
Everyone's talking about the sarlacc, but anyone want to explain Hans incredible foot strength at 4:50 in the original?
My thoughts exactly. Nobody talks about the digital ropes in the Special Edition but I think it’s one of George’s best changes.
1. those boots look pretty stiff.. its probably boot strength, rather than foot strength
2. Those ropes aren't holding a grown man up..... they're thing as twine.
At 3:52 Luke air kicks a guy.
Now that's using the Force!
Well, Jedis can Force push. Maybe they can Force kick too.
Force kick? Probably yes
3:53*
Theoretically he could have been just using the force.
Realistically they were just lazy with the choreography and special effects. It was definitely meant to be just a straight up kick.
Can we acknowledge the friggin laugh the henchmen does when he pops his head out! 5:24 😭😅🤣 ivve laughed my ass off so many times listening to it for so many years!
I also love the gaping hole Sarlaac - it epitomises the creepiness of an abandoned mineshaft or a sinkhole
but its an animal
@@peabrain6872 Irrelevant, th beak takes away the entire point of the sarlaac's creepiness
Before anyone else says - Wilhelm Scream 3:03
3:04 🤣
Most people really seem to hate the beak of the sarlacc pit because it makes it less scarier but imo, it makes it look much more alive than just a pit with teeth
Yeah, well, apparently that's the reason the beak was added in the first place, to make it feel alive
Here's a fun fact, Marcia Lucas edited this whole scene and it took her two months to edit it together.
She stated that out of all of Star Wars scene's she edited, this was bar none the hardest to edit.
Its pretty funny how Boba Fett just jumps right in front of a Jedi with a weapon that can cut through almost anything, including his blaster. He was either high on spice, or just incredibly stupid.
To those who are fans of the unedited versions, I totally agree that it was better when it was untouched.
no it wasnt
@@xenome3883
It was. End of story.
@@SmashupMashups It’s just his opinion.
@@SmashupMashups Yeah, I have to prefer the beaked version but that doesn't make my opinion wrong nor does it make your opinion wrong.
@@lukebottetonic2526
That's because you haven't been inteoduced to the original theatrical version.
2:33 never in my life did I pick up on this genius piece of comedic gold until now💀
Huh?
What?
Wrong timestamp?
@@Digital111 The joke is that it cuts to Han looking around in confusion
He's currently blind in that scene.
He’s referring to the Shots of Luke, Lando, and R2 acknowledging each other, getting ready to do some crazy shit. Then it cuts to Han who has no idea wtf is going on and is looking around like: “ *hUh? WhAt? WrOnG tImEsTaMp?* ”
4:50 always bothered me until the ‘97 Special Edition. One of the changes that I’m glad Lucas did.
I'll grant you that it's among the least offensive changes, but it still offends me.
The sarlacc looks scarier to me without the beak
The Sarlacc looks much better in the original cut. The beak and tentacles make it look less scarier and more distracting.
Jeffrey Krieger so it just being a giant pit in the ground is scarier than it obviously being someone that’s going to eat you?
it makes it look more intimidating because it is more mysterious. i did not realize that in the original it had tentacles, but they were hidden.
Jeffrey Krieger In the original you cannot even see it. Kind of like with the wampa scene in Empire
And like the Wampa scene in Empire, while the change might have some cons, it has its pros too.
Jeffrey Krieger Also, *"looks* better" cant even see it
3:53 That iconic kick that was too perfect to be looked over!
I know ima bout to get a lot of hate for this, but I personally prefer the blue ray sarlacc over the original. Listen, I watched return of the Jedi of the blue ray and grew up with it, also now it actually looks like a living being
True.
Apparently the beak goes hiding sometimes as we saw in the book of boba fett. Maybe it I hope it calms some people down.
The 35mm print has a nice, realistic colour grading.
And Special Edition has the Sharpest image
Realistic in the sense that deserts really do look washed out in real life because the sand reflects so much sunlight. But that has downsides too, at times the grindhouse version kinda blends together. Dark scenes are sometimes very difficult to see.
People are trying to objectively rank these but its purely preference. For me my favourite switches pratically scene to scene. Sometimes multiple times in the same scene.
Meh, looks too dull to me. I much prefer the despecialized edition
That one dude who Luke just callously threw out of the Sail Barge and then seeing him screaming and reaching out as he’s being pulled into the Sarlaac is honestly sad and scary to me. That poor man has no idea what horror and pain he’s going to experience, and all he can do is try and reach out for anything to save him, despite it being pointless in the end. Am I just too sympathetic?
in-canon all of Jabba's goons are criminals of the lowest shit, but yeah, still creepy shit.
In the og sarlacc version you could even believe he was being slowly chewed from the feet up with the way he was screaming.
He pulled a gun at Luke, you think he'd let him shoot first?
It just occurred to me that Max Rebo got blown up...
In the Legends Expanded Universe, at least, most if not all of the Max Rebo Band survived the Sail Barge, though the members all went their seperate ways. Droopy McCool wandered off into the desert, convinced that other Kitonaks were out there. Lyn Me the Twi'lek backup singer swore vengeance on the Heroes of Yavin for the apparent death of Boba Fett, Sy Snootles faded into obscurity as a solo singer, Bar'quin Dan stopped to raid some jewels from Jabba's townhouse in Mos Eisley and went back to Clak'dor, and Max himself entertained New Republic troops on several tours, before becoming the frontperson for a chain of restaurants.
Luke was just a serial killer. It's true
Max Rebo: “Don’t worry. I pulled a Boba Fett and survived the destruction of Jabba’s sail barge. I’m thankful that Jedi Knight freed me and my band members from having to perform for Jabba for eternity and now the Max Rebo Band can start touring the galaxy again!”
I’ve got good news
He’s chilling man
I have to admit that the best color restoration is the '11 Blu-ray but that was worked on by dozens of people. I hope one day the original version can have the same treatment as this 4th official version of Jedi has had.
I love the special edition and I grew up with it don’t kill me I love it
I love it too.
Growing up with it is no excuse....Time to die, sith lawd!
I guess the sarlacc pit got a sex change.
Some Sarlacc's have beaks, others do not. The beak is actually the Sarlacc's tongue while the tongue is just another stubby tentacle that helps swallow victims.
Uhm... Tentacle hentai...
Oddly enough, in this instance, I actually prefer the 2011 Bluray lighting and coloring over Harmy's. The New Hope Bluray has an AWFUL magenta tone to the entire film, but they seem to have done much better with the Jedi Bluray.
4:00 i love those little gags in these movies.
that cute scream ^_^ 6:22
I thought that was what the sarlacc always looked like, i never saw the original when i was younger
@r33mote You boomer.
@r33mote yeah and?
@r33mote I am a conservative zoomer and hate that non-binary shit, get lost boomer i think they released a new "i hate my wife" joke
Wow I've been a fan of Star Wars for maybe 15 years, yet this is my first time learning that the beak was not originally there. To be honest, the beak's design looks weird so I thought it was because of the less than perfect VFX of 1983. Also, seeing the sarlacc with a beak for so long, I think the gaping hole version looks lackluster and a bit weird ; it doesn't really look like a creature.
That was the reason GL added the beak..to make it look more like a creature and more alive...
I agree
It is a worm-like creature. Worms don't have beaks or anything else that would really resemble a mouth.
I agree with you.
I never knew the beak wasn't originally there. I see why people like it without the beak though.
Also the jumpscare in Book of Boba was well done. I thought that thing was already dead.
Hans opinion of the special edition visuals: my eyes are getting better. Instead of seeing a dark blur I see a light blur.
3:03 2nd most iconic wilhelm scream in SW of the OT
Luke: I used to live you know
Han: you're going to die here you know, convenient
I can't be the only one who doesn't give a flying fuck if they made it less scary or believable. This is a universe where it's acceptable to have space bats living inside a space worm that gets nutrients from presumably eating spaceships. We have far bigger problems. Course I'm not as nostalgic about it since the first version I watched probably did have the beak. To me, that's just how it looks. The use of canned sound effects especially ones for the sake of comedy such as when the sarlac burps piss me off way more than just making up a weird/unbelievable monster in general. And that big-mouthed singing thing? That change was the worst of all of them.
I heard that the main (original) reason they made Luke’s lightsaber green instead of blue was because of lighting issues for this particular scene. Also, notice how similar the handle is to Obi-Wan’s. 2:50
Like: Original Sarlacc Comment: Special Edition Sarlacc
Come on, Han. Chewy already told you Luke is a Jedi Knight. Have a little faith; it'll do ya good
Audrey II's singing pit is one of my favorite.
seeing the beak on the sarlacc was having me expect it to say some goofy shit like "feed me seymour!"
WTF is that thing they added in the 2011 version? You were supposed to slowly get stuck and digested for a 1000 and not just get eaten like that.
Digestion implies being stuck inside, not just the initial chomping.
Yeah, to me the new Sarlacc is one of the absolute worst changes made to the trilogy.
We Remotely Low I think the jedi rocks scene is the worst change
actually you make a good point. The chomp would probally kill you, or at least make you die in about an hour at most
@@jadsmvs8651 Exactly my point.
Harmy's Despecialized Edition looks like a better modern take. But the Grindhouse is still a more authentic look reflecting it's time. It's aged but in a good analogue kind of way.
There is a surprising variance in colour richness and shadow detail in all of these.
The weird laugh Jabba's goon make's at @5:25 lol, also the snarl from the Gamorrean Guard at @5:15. There is so much detail in just one scene.
han solo: boba fett boba fett WHERE? {hits jetpack} WHAT THE boba fett: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH {got hit in the ship and slide down in to the sarlaac pit} 3:47
emily Sy oh really
He attacc,
he protecc,
but most importantly,
he is snacc for sarlacc.
Lucas said that he couldn’t re-do boba fett in this scene, bullshit you could have him fall face first into the sand knocking him out or see a glimpse of him flying out of the pit while the rest is escaping
Lol.
Lmao
Incredible scene, always loved it. Perhaps my favorite part is the very end…when the Falcon and x-wing are seen leaving. I loved that the Falcon is almost introduced, like this, to the third act as if it’s its own character.
I actually prefer the one with the beak it makes it more alive
I cant be the only one that feels bad for boba fett after he fell into that thing
I wonder how the second time was for him
He is alive
I feel more bad for that one dude who Luke threw out of the Barge before seeing him reaching out for help and screaming as he’s being pulled into the pit. Seeing that guy reaching out desperately for something to save him and knowing nothing will save him and knowing the horror that’s going to come is just haunting to me, I really need to stop thinking about this so much.
I can't watch this scene without thinking of the Family Guy parody of it lmao
After seeing Book of Boba, the Sarlacc scene is WAYYY darker.
Nothing beats the original
Very very true.
TRUE. Except Ian in the Empire Strikes Back 2004 DVD. Easiliy one of the very few good changes
The blue dude on the keyboard is busting some bussin’ beats
Blu Ray looks the best, very sharp and and good colors.
I just love the theme song playing in the background at @6:58 onwards.
Same
Its so scary that without the beak with the hole it looks like not alive😭😭😭😭😭
Say what you want about the beak, but the jumpscare in Book of Boba was good.
Han Solo technically helped create The Book of Boba Fett.
Boba Fett's death always pissed me off. Even though I know he survived that shouldn't have happened like that.
That's because in the 39 years since this film was released, Boba Fett has become such an icon and way bigger than GL had originally designed him to be....his death in ROTJ was more of a gag than anything because at the time, he was just a foil for Han Solo and this was the conclusion of that story...
@@fanboysreign It like i said in my review for return of the jedi the point showing the sarlacc in the CGI reshot is to show how dangerous the kind of monster is the original was just a pit with nothing scary or giving your a show of some kind of Lovecraft like monster that would await Luke and Han to their fate
my personal headcannon is that he was just drunk as fuck after spending a little too much time in Jabba’s sail barge. Kind of like in Robot Chicken.
My dad told me everyone was shocked to see Luke's green lightsaber for the first time.
R.I.P Carrie Fisher By The Force Be With You
I love the despecialized editions, but there are some things that just didn't need to be changed back. Mostly the shadows. Look at 1:12 for instance. The shadow of the stationary ship is much sharper and darker than the other in every version except for the special edition. There is still some difference in the special edition, but it's much less obvious.
I find it hilarious that I’m still watching the upper left with the 2006 dvd version playing, it’s the one I grew up watching and even though it’s inferior in every picture quality wise, but I think it certainly makes them feel proper to me. It’s just the nostalgia, but I found it funny.
The Despecialized Edition is AWESOME
Is no one gonna talk about how the guards made Luke walk the plank like a pirate?
Harmy has the best overall picture quality. But, the GOUT has the best colors. A more natural, slightly muted tone. The way they all originally looked.
Good video but this was the Blu Ray track. The Gout track has Han saying, "It's alright trust me!", instead of "It's all right I can see a lot better!" And there are less Sarlacc sounds too. Could you upload this with the GOUT track?
That was a dilemma I faced when doing this one. I'll add a couple annotations when I get around to it, and maybe upload the uncut scene from despecialized on its own and link it through this video as well.
I think the original Sarlacc Pit looks better but I understand why George Lucas changed it. I respect his decision and opinion.
Something they did a good job on.
Fennec Shand said Bib had no right to take Jabbas thrown. Seeing as he had been Jabbas butler since Phantom Menace and probably long before that I have to beg the differ.
he might have been loyal but he surely doesn't know how to run a family
Sometimes I overthink the sound of Fett’s jetpack, Luke’s slicing of his rifle, the music building up, Lando using his helmet as a weapon… so much going on, orchestrated prison break anarchy.
Either way, the Sarlacc is the freakiest creature in Star Wars
RIP Sarlacc
As a kid never realised, Luke killed so many person in this 7 min. Well as Ashoka said, just like daddy.
Said a million times before and I’m gonna say again, the original version looks better. Tbh, the fact that it doesn’t look so “alive” or have many visible tentacles or make much noise makes it a lot more scarier.
Just imagine unlucky residents or creatures of Tatooine accidentally stumbling down that sharp slope and before they can see what they’re falling towards, they land right onto those teeth and quickly into the mouth/belly. Even if they’re able to avoid falling directly into the mouth and desperately try to crawl away from it, unseen tentacle(s) will catch them and pull them into the mouth. Like, no matter what happens, it’s always gonna get you. By not being able to hear it, will make you paranoid whenever you’re walking over dunes and won’t know where it is. It’s essentially a giant Venus fly trap; a creature that doesn’t look alive, can somewhat blend in with the environment and spells death whatever comes by it.
ALL of that fear factor is just completely RUINED by adding the beak, noise and extra tentacles. Now it can be heard from a mile away, becomes too visible and just visually looks terrible.
Tbh... I like the way they used the beak in Book of Boba more. Considering how the CG here has aged.. I just think the version without the beak (retroactively we know it's retracted inside the body) is way better
Holy heck. The goosebumps and tears in my eyes I get from this scene is insane!
I hated the sarlacc mouth until I read about their Anatomy and lore. Now I don't mind it so much.
Pause at 2:20 and take a look! :P
Jabba:Work for me forever Some guy: NOPE Jabba: Ok get in Some guy:wait wha- AAAAAAAHH ow Oh no RAAAAA * gulp * Jabba: You are dead not big surprise
2011 easily the best. The beak made it a creature otherwise its just a hole. People who say it looks fake but you believe in a big slug as a gangster
God I hate remembering how incompetent boba looks here he literally flys over there to get the shit beaten out of him he misses all of his shots like a storm trooper flys over to get his signature blaster cut in half IMMEDIATELY then doddles around until a blind guy accidentally kills him with his own jet pack wtf?
5 minutes later, Boba Fett narrowly escapes the sarlacc pit saying, "Dang it Solo, I swear I'm gonna put my foot up your arse and-". Then looks around and sees that everyone else is either gone or dead. "Whoa God, what a cluster f**k! Looks like I dodged a major bullet. Oh well..." Calls his ship and flys home.
the color in the 2011 special edition blu ray is better than the other edits. too bad it has all the unnecessary additions. Harmy’s edit really shines in A New Hope where it is needed the most. i’m happy both exist.
Honestly...ignoring all the changes...the color of the official Blu-Ray's is superior to anything else.