Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited

What an edit!
It combines all that everyone loved in the original with a few of the good changes in the SE, while removing most of the mistakes made in the SE. And then manages to fix pretty much every scene, even things that I didn’t think were wrong; until I saw them fixed here, that is.

I agree with some of the other reviewers, the only minor thing I can nitpick here is the last kiss Leia gives Han. The original story here was still leading into a love triangle in the third film and that was later changed, so it would make more sense to cut that kiss, it just feels weird at that stage.
Everything else is absolute perfection!

The work done on this movie is absolutely impeccable, it felt like a fresh viewing experience of a movie I've seen throughout my life growing up. The smoothing out of the stopmotion used for the tauntaun and AT-ATs was a great improvement and worthy bit of modernization in this film. Cloud city was looking better than ever as well, especially the balcony scene. Yoda's mouth movements in Dagobah were noticeable, but it wasn't off-putting and I appreciated the effort put into it. I was watching this edit with some friends who were also lifelong star wars fans, and some of them just thought that "the puppets were just that well done back then".
Those are just the major edits I noticed during a casual watch, the other improvements can definitely be felt but are almost impossible to pick out due to how well they are implemented. I truly believe Andywan's edits are the definitive way to enjoy the original trilogy, and I can't wait for him to release his episode III edit.

The Empire Strikes back is my favourite movie of all time. I grew up with it and I have watched it countless times. My first fanedit of this was the infamous 'Despecialized Edition' by Harmy. There was no risk there because it was the same movie but with blu-ray quality. But this, this was something else! This edit made the impossible and improved an excellent film even more!

I simply can't wait for Adywan to do the same with the other two movies in HD, I saw somewhere that he is working on it!

I can't recommend this enough guys! Just see it and I guarantee you it will be your go-to version in the future!

Thank you Adywan for all your hard work and thanks to anyone who read my review!

Adywan does it again with Empire Strikes Back. I don't know how one person fixed all the issues in this that a whole studio couldn't with 2 official rereleases, but my God, Disney please hire this dude. You can see how passionate this editor is, and it really is a night and day difference between this and the original. You're doing God's work Adywan, thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into this.

A near-perfect edit of "The Empire Strikes Back", and I only say "near-perfect" because there needs to be an edit without Luke and Leia's incestuous Sweet Home Alabama kiss! Other than that, it is technically flawless, and a wonderful marriage of the best of the original and the best of the Special Edition with even more VFX improvements. Dare I say, what the Special Edition ESB should have been!

Highly recommended, and my go-to ESB from now on!