A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • I remember when it opened in my hometown by Julian Clary.

    If regularly go every Monday to see what the new VHS releases were and then on a Friday for the latest games.

    I’m sure I went for a midnight launch of something but I can’t remember what. It might have been The X Files on VHS?

    Just double checked on a Wiki, they started releasing two episodes a tape, two tapes a month. But the show became so popular, they scrapped that after just a couple of months and decided to do it differently.

    This was before major internet, so I would discover things at hmv if never heard of before.

    I remember discovering a 4CD soundtrack set to the Star Wars trilogy. A CD for each film with the fourth CD containing rare unreleased music. Bought that instantly I think.

    Yeah, lots of other memories too. 😁














  • I don’t know about that instance in particular but that’s not to say it didn’t happen. As new sound mixes were created over the first few years, I think different sounds and lines were tinkered with.

    The only one that I definitely know of is during Han and Chewie’s escape from the Death Star.

    You can hear a Trooper shouting “close the blast doors”. Then once they’re closed, a Trooper hurriedly shouts, “open the blast doors, open the blast doors!” I can’t remember which, but one of those two lines was added at a later date, I’m sure.


  • There’s a lovely ten minute video on the BFI YouTube channel talking about this lovely Technicolour print of the film.

    I’m pretty sure the only reason everyone is calling this rare is because it doesn’t have the “episode 4” title which was added later.

    This is the same film, for people of a certain age, grew up with on TV and VHS. I don’t understand why it’s being sold as a version barely anyone has seen.

    If you want a version no one has seen, in the Lucasfilm archives is a copy of Star Wars where the travelling shots in the Falcon and land speeder were achieved with rear projection. Just like the TV shows of the 70s and 80s when characters were talking in cars.