First, my likes:
1. Removing Jabba. Yes! I always felt that this revealed Jabba too early. He was a mysterious, unknown figure in the original trilogy and then you finally went to his palace (suspension building as C3P2 and R2-D2 go in) and finally meet the disgusting overgrown slug. This was completely ruined with a poorly done CG character (whose texture did not even look like it did in the third movie) and having Han step on the tail of the man who just sent an assassin to kill him does not make sense.
2. Removing the puerile robot humor on the entry to Mos Eisly. Thanks!
3. re-cutting the battle between Obi-wan and Darth Vader, it actually felt intense!
4. turning Vader’s saber on after Obi-wan, and making Obi-wan turn it on earlier (thus eliminating the “jerk”). Noticed that right off.
5. All of the fantastic work on the lightsabers and lasers (Obi-wan’s lightsaber no longer flickers like it’s failing or something!)
6. Chewie’s medal, just brilliant.
7. The overall crisp look of the film. It made me excited about Star Wars again.
8. Planet added to Death Star scenes.
9. New graphics for Death Star plans.
10. More TIEs.

Things I didn’t care for:
1. The re-sequenced scene at Obi-wan’s hut (maybe I just remember the old way too well but it seemed slightly awkward)
2. The new music added to Obi-wan and Darth Vader’s battle, it seemed a little too modern to fit with the old Star Wars.
3. Some of the re-sequenced shots in the battle—like making Luke’s “getting cooked” not appear after he’d just been “trusting his feelings”, again that could be just because I remember the original so well.

If anyone agrees with these, check out the “Purist” edition Adywan made. I’m currently helping seed it. Sadly I am a mixture of Purist and the full-edit, I don’t care for the new music, mainly, but like the new graphics and battle elements.

In any event, this was a great watch and has made me enjoy Star Wars again. I only watched the 2004 DVDs once and was disappointed and thought that perhaps I had outgrown Star Wars. This turns out to not be the case, it was Lucas that had deserted me.

It is a fan edit but done so professionally it in my opinion looks better than the 2004 DVDS, the 2011 blu ray will be hard pressed to surpass this in terms of picture quality and sound.

The colour are so bright especially the lightsabers which have been done to perfection.

Love the tie in with Episode III when Vader and Obi-Wan fight.

All the new CGI shots of the Death Star are great too, love the end fight and how that was edited.

Some may say it is still a special edition version and as such not a restoration of the original, but to me it is so much more. It is like getting the original film, remastering it, adding scenes and improving on scenes, not adding scenes for the sake of it. (something Lucas IMO needs to look at doing) and making a great improved version of A New Hope.

Wow, just wow. This is the first time I’ve ever watched a fan edit, and it’s simply amazing. The color, the lightsabers, really everything ADYWAN has done is incredible. Everything that has ever nudged me in the wrong direction is gone. I especially like the inclusion of “Imperial March” (even though it felt odd to me at first, which I realized is simply because of my repeat watchings of the original) and the extended Death Star battle, which really helped to remind us that, contrary to popular belief, the Empire does not want the Death Star to be destroyed.

Only one thing annoyed me and that was the use of “Battle of the Heroes” during the Obi-Wan vs. Darth Vader fight. While I think it’s a completely awesome piece, it has a high level of epicness that feels out of place here. Though I 100% approve of editing the duel to have a faster pace, as it always seemed to me like the black sheep of the saga’s lightsaber duels.

Overall, this edit is definitely worth watching, though, I feel this review probably isn’t going to get anyone to watch it because it seems everyone already has. This is what the Special Edition should have been, though, I’m split between this version and the original theatrical. As a film fan, I would have to go with the original. But as a Star Wars fan, I would have to go with this edit. Because of that, I give STAR WARS: REVISITED 10/10

Of course, in my later years I realized how disappointing episodes 1 and 2 were, and I stopped caring so much about Star Wars altogether.

But then I got this movie, and it has completely reinvigorated my love of Star Wars. Thank you so much Adywan! I can’t wait for Empire Revisited, or the other four movies for that matter.

10/10 perfection

Been a proud owner of the DVD9 version for sometime now, thanks to 005 i believe. As my login here got fixed recently i can now review stuff!

Just wanted to add my thanks like everyone else here for doing such a time consuming, pucker, first rate job!

and impatiently/patiently awaiting further adventures …in…revisited…land! you know what i mean!

nice one dood!
Overall 10/10

The audio quality, cuts and transitions are excellent; the video quality, cuts and transitions are excellent.

I didn’t understand at first why the severed arm in the Cantina was changed to a flipper, but after reading about the changes on here — “replaced the hand with the hoof like one we see him with in other shots” — I went back and frame by frame watched for his hand, and… sure enough, his hand is a flipper, not furry nor with fingers: http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8645/26467704.png …so with that I say, well done all around!

In any event, I can’t seem to readily locate a copy of the Purist edition (which I would like to have, for the sake of completeness in my collection.) It appears to me that the links currently provided at FanEdit.info only have the single layer and dual layer formats of the the standard Revisited version. The is a torrent out there, but it doesn’t have any seeders at the moment. Can someone direct me (via pm is also acceptable) to a .dlc of the NTSC format Purist edition?

First off, Adywan has done a masterful job of color correction. My jaw dropped in the first 5 minutes, and stayed there until the lights came on. Really, there are just so many things that I loved about this edit that I can’t list them all. I’ll just highlight a few of my favorite parts;

The Cantina scene. Amazing, well done really. It really captured the feel of the Cantina that I think other edits are missing.
The Greedo scene was awesome. At that point I was just juiced because I knew I was in for a treat.
I loved the shots of the Death Star with the planets.
Adding the wormhole in the falcon’s cockpit was a touch of genius!
The final battle was just simply fan-f*%#@!g-tastic. I’m running out of adjectives here, this edit is so good.
And the fact that Chewie gets a medal? Priceless. Adywan has thought of everything.

I’m so very happy that this was the first Fan Edit I saw. I can’t say enough. But I can sum it all up;

This is THE definitive version of Star Wars Episode IV. WATCH THIS MOVIE!!

Thank you Adywan, for such an entertaining experience. Your hard work is an inspiration to us all. Please edit Empire Strikes Back!

Video: 10/10
Audio: 10/10
Improvement: 10/10 over all other versions
Overall: 10/10

I’m not a big Star Wars fan. I haven’t even seen all the prequels, and my “first trilogy” DVD box set (the editions that include the original cuts) is yet to be opened.

So, why did I watch this particular FE (and make it my first comment here)? Word of mouth, of course, and the fact that it got promoted in “a totally new Star Wars experience” terms (read: “curiosity”). So, how did I like it?

For starters: it’s the same old experience. It’s ANH and feels like ANH. Which is, of course, a good thing for all the fans worldwide. What I consider fatal flaws within the movie and the saga would not only be really hard to fix in a fan edit, but would result in a totally different thing that fans would no doubt hate. But let me say that this feels like ANH much more than the 1997 SE did.

And, as per Adywan’s work itself, the word is… WOW! This is way more professional than lots of “real” movies out there. As I’m not as familiar with the source material to notice most of the changes, having watched ANH no more than four times (three the original, one the ‘97), I had to double-check to try to find the stitches all the time. Unsuccessfully. This is seamless! It’s an injustice Adywan is not working as a film editor for a living (in case he isn’t, of course). Fans of the saga may spot little things they would prefer to be done other way, as it’s usually the case with the “fanboy” genre, but it’s all fine with me.

However, since I don’t favor CGIed up revisionism, this has not become my favorite ANH. The good old, analogic, model-ridden 1977 original still comes on top. Yet this comes second, and it’s far superior to the official Lucasfilm tinkering.

As such, seen not as great SW but as great craftsmanship, I rate this:

Video: 10/10
Audio: 10/10
DVD menu/extras: 10/10
Improvement: 5/10 over the 1977, 10/10 over the 1997 SE
Overall: 10/10

looking forward to ESB:R more than anything else concerning star wars

Even though you are male, I am male, and we are both straight, will you have my children anyway? Amazing job. I know that many, including myself are grateful. A New Hope certainly had the most desperate need for this major overhaul. I personally would be pretty content to have your version of 4 and then a nice blu-ray original version of 5 and 6, assuming Lucas ever gets around to releasing that and doesn’t spaz out again first in a vain attempt to eradicate the world of the originals. On the other hand, your handiwork on Empire sure would be nice! Especially after teasing me with a trailer for it!

The extra edits added by adywan that some people have complained about – seriously? They were seamless for the most part. They added to the movie instead of cluttering it up. George Lucas couldn’t add in his crap without making it so obvious a blind man could see them; adywan, by contrast, makes them fit wonderfully. And a lot of them are nice touches, like the hyperspace sequence.

However, a few nitpicks:

The jump when Luke activates the light saber for the first time still is noticeable, but I assume there’s only so much that can be done about that.

Obi Wan constantly using the title “Darth” during the light saber fight. That has annoyed me endlessly since the prequels and EU established it as a title, not a name. It would have been nice to have “Vader” dubbed in instead.

Otherwise? Freaking. Awesome. And yet George Lucas claims to be unable to do this.

i don’t see myself watching any other version ever again … any body should have a chance to watch this.

but there is one little thing i would have loved to see: the reaction of C-3PO, when luke tells the hq that he
lost R2D2 in the final battle (it was a significant part ofthe whole scene … at least to me, since i was a kid)
… but heck this version rocks. the final battle impressed me the most.

but the lightsaber-duel between OBI WAN and DARTH VADER left me really “jawdropped”.
the new music cue really kicks butt and improves the entire dramatic tense of OBI WAN
dying on purpose.

thanks for editing out the “new” jabba”-scene (this CGI-jabba always bugged the hell out of me)

can’t wait for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (but i will, since good work takes time). i already like the teaser a lot.

!!! 10 out of 10 for making a masterpiece a “über-masterpiece” !!!

btw, i inserted the destruction of alderaan into the movie, since i totally loved it …

Problem: Voice acting is low where you can barely hears the actors talking. Sound fx are nice and loud.

Reason: In my case it is because I do not have surround sound. I only have stereo.

Solution:

Download http://ac3filter.net/ and start AC3Filter. Go to the tab “Mixer” and increase the “Voice” volume. I think I fiddled with other things too but I don’t recall. As such I have put screen shots of all my settings on the attachment section at the bottom of this page, http://sites.google.com/site/tinpham/downloads/my-computer-setup (whoever benefits from this please post what setting were changed).

Then you use a player like VLC and it AC3Filter will intercept and fix the sound for you.

Again this is a great film and my co-worker loved that he could let his sone experience star warrs for the first time as the real star wars with updated effects and no alteration to the story.

I watched with VLC and HP’s own built in DVD watching tool.

The version I downloaded,
Size 1.75gb Approx (iso which burned on to DVD came to abotu 4.2 gb)
ReLeaSe DaTe 19.01.2008
ViDeo
auDio AC3 448kbps 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL
CoDeC XVID
FRaMe RaTe 23.976
ReSoLuTioN 652 X 272

That’s it, I’m done with perceived flaws.
I’ve seen it multiple times, my kid has seen it multiple times, and we will continue to see it multiple more times. It’s just great.

So, cheers to Adywan, a lone Brit who has put the whole Lucasfilm Empire to shame from the comfort of his living room!

Cannot wait for Empire!

–ID