Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited

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Another winner!!

Look, I get it. Lucas wanted to make his movies better with the special editions. But he really needed someone whispering in his ear saying "Are you out of your mind?" for some of the changes.

Adywan to the rescue.

The changes are well done, the clean up is pristine, and the additions are so subtly incorporated that you really need to watch side by side to pick them out.

Lucasfilm needs to hire Adywan, right now.

This is the version of Empire that you want. Trust me.

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The Citizen Kane of Fanedits

It's a shame there are no 11's to score, coz this just can't fit on a scale of 1-10 compared to virtually all edits out there.

This is beyond any reasonable expectation. I still recall the 70mm version which had many differences to the wide released 35mm prints coz I saw it a dozen times in theatres. I'd love to see that again, but give a choice between that and Adywan's masterpiece, I'd keep this for sure.

It's not just the restorations of lines, foley and more that make this soooo special. It is clearly a labor of love second to none.

I won't spoil it with specifics, however, I had to look many many MANY times to pick out the model work incorporated seamlessly into this. And the hologram work, displays, extra everything and yet NONE of it jars at all (unlike the special editions).

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I got my hands on the 1080p version of this and had to watch it immediately. Fantastic! One of my all time favorite movies, made even better. This is flawless. It's edits like this that got me into fan edits to begin with. Thank you Adywan for all of your hard work.

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What a labour of love. Not much to say about this edit that hasn't been said already. It's pretty much flawless. All of the changes are intergrated nearly seemlessly and really enrich the world.
I suspect the most controvesial additions will be during the AT-ATs scenes on Hoth which are probably the most obvious changes. Personnally I think they look great and perfectly fit in with Adywan's mission to proceduce what the special editions should have been. Many of the other changes are pretty subtle and I suspect someone watching for the first time would assume that they were part of the original release.
There's the odd scene which still stands out. The effects for Luke's fall in Bespin are still a bit ropey but at least we've got rid of the bizzare scream as he's falling.
Overall, this is essential for star wars fans and will be my go to version.

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This fan-edit is absolutely incredible and perfect in every technical aspect. It takes an already phenomenal movie and makes it even more so. The new visual effects are absolutely stunning, beautiful, and seamless and makes for a perfect modernization of the movie. The redone mattes, miniatures, CG, lightsabers and lasers especially are a feast. This edit also fixes literally every single movie mistake and continuity error to be found, which truly shows Adywan's dedication and improves the movie even more.

I only take one point off of enjoyment because I wish the special edition Wampa shots were kept (which was an addition to Empire Strikes Back I actually really liked), but that's only a minor subjective gripe and not an objective flaw of the edit. And that's literally my only problem with it.

Until my edit is done, this is my go-to for watching Empire Strikes Back.

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