In some cases, yes they are more what he intended. Meaning having a more animated background (Mos Eisely) and just have more things going on in the background.
I am still sore about Jabba being a big worm when he was orgionaly supposed to be a short, dumpy man (a Hutt, I was led to believe at the time, was like a mafia Don). If the scene where Han and Jabba are talking in front of the Falcon had realy been intended Jabba to be a creature rather than a man then why was the guy dressed up in full costume? Lucas keeps re-writing his own history.
As far as the movies go, I thought the first one (Star Wars, not that Phantom Menace crap) was great. They had a good thing there with a story that had a full history written in for it and a good cast that seemed to get on well with eachother. It was my personal favorite. Empire strikes back is a close second. After that they can all go in the trash as far as I'm concerned. I miss Darth Vader being the henchman rather than the main bad guy. In Star Wars he was the henchman of Grand Moff Tarkin. He was the Oddjob you had to go through to get to Goldfinger.
They were good movies but not what Lucas tries to make them out to be. The people making it had a good time doing it too, and it shows.
I'll get the DvD's most likely, but I do not feel the need to right away. Now if they were the origional movie prints without all the alterations I would jump all over them. As it is, they are something to add to the collection, nothing more.
I don't suppose it escaped anyones notice but the best directed of the movies is Empire (even though I prefered the story in Star Wars, empire was a better made movie). It was actualy directed by Irvin Kershner. Even the screenplay was by other people. Lucas only contributed the story and was "executive producer". In Return of the Jedi Lucas left the direction to other people but is listed in the screenplay credits. Keep Lucas out of the production all together, I sayThe less involved he is the better the movie is.
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