Star wars blue ray box set3/11/2023 ![]() Audio has always played a significant part in the Star Wars Saga (be it the sound of a lightsaber or John William's epic score) and these new mixes build upon that heritage to deliver truly epic audio for your home cinema. Sound: As good as the picture quality is across these six films, the new DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 soundtracks step things up another level. Quite simply, you'll never have seen the Star Wars Saga looking this good in your home ever before. None of which can really take the shine off the beautiful restorations of this seminal series of sci-fi flicks. But in the grand scheme of things, they're all pretty minor faults. This latter point can also be applied to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, both of which receive beautifully film-like 1080p transfers with well-maintained grain structure, excellent detailing and breathtaking clarity that really allows you to appreciate the films' intricate model work and creature designs.Īgain, neither is completely perfect: colour-boosting rears it's head in ESB's Carbon Freezing Chamber (Ch 42) with obvious blue tints to areas of shadow, while the last few shots onboard the Shuttle Tydirium in RotJ (Ch 19) are noticeably softer than the rest of the film (although, once again, this is possibly a fault with the source material rather than the encode itself).Īll of which may sound pretty negative. But these are ultimately small complaints compared to the overall jump in clarity and detailing that this hi-def release brings with it. Shot entirely digitally, they both boast and astonishing clarity, vibrancy and detailing (just check out the colour reproduction and detail in the grassy field during Anakin and Padmé's picnic in Chapter of 21 AotC or the fine textures in the Wookiee fur in Chapter 17 of RotS to see what I mean).Ī New Hope is slightly more problematic - thanks to a slightly digital look to the grain and some obvious colour-boosting (albeit not to the same degree as the original DVD release). As The Phantom Menace is the franchise's transitional movie (it was the last shot on film, but still makes extensive use of CG locations and characters), this may have been done in post-production to balance the different elements, and therefore could be an issue with the source itself, rather than the Blu-ray encode.Īttack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith have no such problems. However, while film grain and fine detailing are both present, the film also seems to have been subjected to some noise reduction resulting in a slighter softer look that the rest of the saga. Colour reproduction is absolutely resplendent and it's finally free from the heavy edge enhancement that plagued the DVD release (which was thicker than the sparkly glow around a Jedi's ghost). Oddly enough, from a purely visual standpoint it's The Phantom Menace that proves to be the least satisfying of the bunch. Picture: As expected, this Blu-ray boxset's six AVC 2.40:1 1080p encodes are the best the Lucas' sci-fi films have ever looked - although there are still a few flaws across the sets for the nitpickers out there to latch onto. And it's those final three films that make the franchise what it is today - the absolute pinnacle of Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi and therefore the definitive home cinema franchise. Thankfully, it all changes up a gear with the seminal A New Hope ( *****), the surprisingly mature and engrossing The Empire Strikes Back ( *****) and the bombastic Return of the Jedi ( ****). Things get off to a truly diabolical start with the the downright awful The Phantom Menace ( **), before continuing through the poor Attack of the Clones ( **) and the middling Revenge of the Sith ( ***). When you look back across all six films today, viewing them in the order they are meant to be seen in, the Star Wars Saga proves to be a wildly uneven affair. So let's quickly breeze through this bit, before getting stuck into the really juicy stuff about this Blu-ray boxset. As such, it seems like there's very little point in going over them in any great depth. As such, it's pretty much unthinkable that anybody visiting this website isn't already incredibly familiar with the films (albeit, maybe not the fan-baiting, re-tweaked versions Lucas has prepared for this release). George Lucas' space opera is arguably the defining event in modern cinema - one that reshaped Hollywood the films it produces. Find out if the Force is strong with this one. ![]() It's only the most anticipated Blu-ray box set ever. ![]()
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