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Mark Hamill (Actor), Harrison Ford (Actor), Irvin Kershner (Director) Rated:

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Format	AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Closed-captioned
Contributor	Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, Irvin Kershner, Frank Oz, Kenny Baker, Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Lawrence Kasdan, John Hollis, Jeremy Bulloch, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, Leigh Brackett, Anthony Daniels See more
Language	English, French, Spanish
Runtime	2 hours and 4 minutes
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For the first time ever and for a limited time only, the enhanced versions of the Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi will be available individually on DVD. Plus, these 2-Disc DVD's will feature a bonus disc that includes, for the first time ever on DVD, the original films as seen in theaters in 1977, 1980 and 1983.

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The 2006 limited-edition two-disc release of The Empire Strikes Back is not only the first time the movie has been officially available by itself on DVD. It marks the first-ever DVD release of Empire as it originally played in theaters in 1980. What does that mean exactly? The film is without the various "improvements" and enhancements George Lucas added for the theatrical rerelease in 1997 as well as the DVD premiere in 2004. So no more of Ian McDiarmid (the Emperor) replacing Clive Revill with slightly revised lines, or Temuera Morrison rerecording of Boba Fett's minimal dialogue.

What do you lose by watching the 1980 version? Dolby Digital 5.1 EX sound, for one thing (only 2.0 Surround here), and digital cleanup. But for home-theater owners, the biggest frustration will be from the non-anamorphic picture. On a widescreen TV, an anamorphically enhanced (16x9) picture at a 2.35:1 aspect ratio will fill the screen with the exception of small black bars on the top and bottom. The original edition of Empire, however, on a widescreen TV will have large black bars on the top, the bottom, and the sides unless you stretch the picture (and distort it in the process, especially considering the substandard picture quality). If you're watching on a standard square-shaped (4:3) TV, though, you won't notice a difference.

Yes, it's true that serious home-theater lovers who want spectacular sound and anamorphically enhanced picture can always watch the 2004 version of the movie also included in this set. But chances are good that they already picked up the trilogy edition of all three films, so their decision to buy the 2006 two-disc edition depends on how much they want the original film. The official LucasFilm stance is that this is an individual release of the 2004 version of The Empire Strikes Back, and the 1980 version of the film is merely a "bonus feature." Common speculation is that the only reason the original versions are seeing the official light of day at all is to undercut the booming black market for the laserdisc version. Star Wars fans will have to decide for themselves if that's worth the purchase. --David Horiuchi

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 4.8 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2236383
Director ‏ : ‎ Irvin Kershner
Media Format ‏ : ‎ AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Closed-captioned
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FQJAJG
Writers ‏ : ‎ George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Leigh Brackett
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Nosidino

Another All-Time Movie Classic!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2022

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I have to agree with Alex Diaz-Granados, author of the long and intense review. this film was loved by Siskel & Ebert and they really loved the character of Yoda, a puppet that was more realistic than anyone could have realized at the time.

Yes, Lucas surpassed himself with this film. I saw it a week and half ago and I still can't get it out of my head. For sheer drama this was and is the very best of all of the Star wars series films, before and after this one. I can't say enough good things about it. I saw the Special Edition for the first time. unlike A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, I had never seen the Special edition for Empire Strikes Back. The scene with the Yeti monster is frightening. Although the original film still made us feel the danger by not seeing the "lurking menace" that was set to devour Luke.

I liked seeing the relationship between Luke and Han develop and also a love triangle between Han, Luke and Leia form. A really great film.

I liked seeing new characters added like Lando Calrissian and the Android called Lobot. It may well have been the first time in movie history of a character texting another friend and subordinate. The settings and locales were so incredible! Five Stars all around. I'm the 7574th person to review this fine film.

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Classic Movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2022

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I'm introducing the grandkids to the original Star Wars. Ages 12 and 8. They have seen the newer Star Wars, but like the old ones better!

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Alex Diaz-Granados

Darth Vader Strikes Back in Great Sequel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2003

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With the phenomenal success of Star Wars in 1977, George Lucas realized he could continue the planned trilogy he had been outlining since the early 1970s. His original outline contained the raw material for Episodes IV, V and VI as well as the nebulous backstory that would become the foundation for the current prequels. So in 1978, with Star Wars (which would be rechristened Episode IV: A New Hope) earning hundreds of millions in box office receipts, Lucas, producer Gary Kurtz and the Lucasfilm production team began work on The Empire Strikes Back, the film most Star Wars fans believe is the best in the entire saga.
Lucas gave his story to Leigh Brackett, an acclaimed science fiction writer, and hired her to write the screenplay. She passed away soon after finishing the first draft, so Lucas (who would serve as executive producer) handed the project over to up-and-coming writer-director Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat, Continental Divide, and Raiders of the Lost Ark). Furthermore, he handed the directing reins to Irvin Kershner (The Eyes of Laura Mars); the Star Wars shoot had drained Lucas emotionally and physically, so the series creator focused on the behind-the-scenes aspects of Empire's production.
The Empire Strikes Back picks up the narrative some three years after the events of Episode IV: A New Hope. Despite their impressive victory at Yavin, the Rebels' destruction of the Empire's Death Star marked only the true start of the Galactic Civil War. Darth Vader (Dave Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones), last seen heading into deep space in his damaged TIE fighter, made his way to Imperial territory and was given the assignment of eradicating the main resistance cell of the Rebellion. Somewhere along the line (and the movies never explained this), Vader discovered the identity of the X-Wing pilot who destroyed the Death Star. Some time after the Battle of Yavin, the Empire forced the Rebels to flee from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Now, as the title crawl narrates, Vader, "obsessed with finding young Skywalker, dispatches thousands of remote probes into the deep reaches of space."
One of these probes crashes on Hoth, an icy world in the backwaters of the galaxy and so inhospitable that even smugglers avoid it. Its fiery descent is seen by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), now a commander of Rogue Squadron, as he rides on his trusty tauntaun. However, before he can check it out, he's attacked by a Wampa ice creature and dragged off to its cave for future consumption.
Meanwhile, unaware of his friend's plight, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) returns to the Rebel base and tells the commanding officer (Bruce Boa) that he's leaving the Alliance to pay the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt the money he still owes from an incident predating his involvement with the Rebellion. When Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) reacts angrily to his decision to leave, he tells her he knows she wants him to stay not because he's "a natural leader" for the Rebel pilots but "because of the way you feel about me." But their sparring is interrupted when Luke (now hanging by his ankles on an ice cave's ceiling) is reported overdue and Han recklessly rides out into the bitter cold of a Hoth night to find him.
Skywalker, aided by his untrained Jedi abilities, manages to escape from the Wampa before he becomes its dinner, and runs out into the teeth of a Hoth night storm. Before collapsing in exhaustion, the spirit of his slain mentor Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Alec Guinness) appears before him and tells Luke he must "go to the Dagobah system. There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me." Ben disappears and Luke falls unconscious to the snow, but Han reaches him in the nick of time.
Although Han's tauntaun dies and the two friends must themselves be rescued by Alliance pilots, Luke survives and everyone is briefly reunited. But the Imperial probe that Luke failed to investigate discovers the Rebel base and reports to the Imperial fleet. Soon, Vader and his hordes of Imperial forces, supported by a fleet of Star Destroyers and lumbering armored transports, descend on Hoth, and the band of Star Warriors scatters. Luke and his astromech droid R2-D2 fly off to Dagobah to find Yoda, while Han, Leia, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) are pursued relentlessly by Imperial ships and the bounty hunter Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch).
The Empire Strikes Back took very big risks, such as surprising fans with its Episode V subtitle, having its big battle take place during the first half of the movie, giving the director's chair to Kershner, and making the ending a big cliffhanger with so many story threads left dangling. Would Luke complete his training with Yoda (Frank Oz)? Could Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) be trusted? Who did Leia really love, Luke or Han? Most importantly, was Vader really Luke's father, as he claims at the end of the de rigeur lightsaber duel on Cloud City? For three years, fans theorized and conjectured many different scenarios and grumbled about the unfinished feel of the ending, but Empire was a resounding critical and popular success. The script and directing gave Episode V depth and more personality shadings to the characters, the effects were even better than the first film's, and John Williams' brilliant score built on A New Hope's established musical themes and added new and more interesting leitmotivs that gave the Star Wars saga its operatic sweep. Empire is one of those rare sequels that in some ways surpasses its predecessor film, and almost 25 years after its release it still thrills and chills its many fans.

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Awesome

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Nothing like a George Lucas original....decent story writing, plots, situations (something we're pretty void of today)

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Tommy Irwin

Works great

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The DVD seems to be alright. No problems.

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Ultimate cliffhanger Had to wait 3yrs to find out what happened after Empire came out/SPOILERS

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Star Wars was such a mind blowing experience for me when I was a kid I was blown away to find out that there would be more episodes in the series. The Empire Strikes Back not only delivered with the action and adventure, but had a cliff hanger that had people waiting three years to find out the conclusion.

The movie begins where Star Wars left off. The rebels had just destroyed the Death Star and the Empire was looking for them. They were discovered on the planet Hoth, which led to an epic battle right off the bat. This was one of the most iconic in the whole series as it introduced the imperil Walkers, giant four legged machines with blasters and troops inside. As the rebels scattered to escape the invading forces the main characters would split up. Luke (Mark Hamill) was told by the spirit of his mentor Obi Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) to find the Jedi Master Yoda to get more training. On the other hand Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) take off in another direction in the Millennium Falcon. They run into problems with the Empire leading Luke to leave Yoda to rescue them.

Empire employed all of the elements that made Star Wars such a hit. You have the giant space ships. There’s Darth Vader choking two Imperial officers with the Force for failing him. Speaking of which more about the mysterious Force was revealed by Yoda with his distinctive talking style and the voice of Frank Oz from Sesame Street. There was the banter between Han, the Princes and Chewbacca that was always worth a laugh. The bounty hunter Boba Fett and Lando Cairissian (Billy Dee Williams) made their first appearances. Of course, there was the first big confrontation between Luke and Darth Vader as well with the dramatic revelation that Vader was Luke’s father. That was all great, but the ending with Han Solo was really what made this film stand out. He was encased in carbonite to be taken back to Jabba the Hutt for the debt he owes. You didn’t know what was going to happen him until Return of the Jedi came out three years later. It was the ultimate cliff hanger.
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Scott Welsh

A great set if you don't own the blu rays already or if you want to add them to your Star Wars collection.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 30, 2015

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This product (along with the other 5, which I have also) is a beautiful steelbook. the 'STAR WARS' is embossed and the rest of the case has a gloss finish. The spines match up perfectly and look uniform on any shelf. overall a very nice, well made set. Finally these products come packaged in a paper/card with information (not a slip cover).

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There is Disc art on each disc, matching the cover. Their is magnificent artowork on the interior of each case, in 'Empire Strikes Back' the battle of Hoth is featured. no manuals or paperwork of any kind.

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Each movie comes with only 1 disc. the disc features commentary and the movie only.

Overview:
Thke movies themselves look great on blu ray, I will not go into detail here, as they can be found all over the internet.

I can see this set being appealing to only 2 types of people. Individuals who have not picked up the 'Star Wars: The Complete Saga' (Like myself) or collectors who would like these stunning steelbooks for their star wars collections.

For a casual buyer who loves Star Wars or blu ray, as good as this set is the price is very steep for the same movies in different packaging, particularley if you own the blu rays already. For this reason I can't give 5 stars.

Ps: these are the digitally enhanced versions.

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Stephen D.

Wanted The Original Theatrical Version (2 Disc DVD)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 26, 2020

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Purchased this because it is advertised as having the "Original Theatrical Version" on the bonus disk however when played this shows "Episode V" in the opening credits which when The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 was not the case, (if my memory serves me right from my trip to the cinema). I know this is not Amazon's fault but please be aware that if you are looking for the "Original" release this has been modified, and is not the unadulterated version.

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Trevor Willsmer

The best of the series in another poor transfer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 25, 2006

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NB: As is their wont, Amazon have bundled together reviews for various editions of this title. This review refers to the two-disc DVD release including both the original theatrical cut and the special edition.

Watching the original versions of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD is like travelling back in time - not so much to the innocence of youth but more to the days when picture quality was never much of a consideration on video releases and Fox had the reputation for the worst transfers in the business. Watching the PAL DVDs is to step back into an age of low resolution standards conversions from NTSC to PAL with all the loss of detail and motion blurring that that entailed: certainly if you've got one of the old remastered video releases you might as well hold on to that, because the quality isn't as poor as this. The sound quality is pretty awful as well. From Lucas' past track record it's all too easy to imagine this is just a scam to allow him to sell a remastered version a couple of years down the line, but it's even harder to dispel the notion that somewhere Lucas is whining "See how soft the focus is? How can you say these are better films?"

The Empire Strikes Back suffered the least in the special edition reworkings (although the clunky rewriting of the scene with the Emperor shows Lucas' leaden touch with dialog only too clearly) and as a transfer suffers the least of the original versions, but it's still not good enough. The film itself holds up surprisingly well, fully deserving its reputation as the best (and naturally least commercially successful) of the series. A lot of the credit has to go to co-writer Leigh Brackett, with the film's verbal sparring having a classic Hollywood feel to it that gives it a mixture of the best of both worlds, while keeping things moving at a brisk pace. Irvin Kershner's direction brings the best out of the cast too, while the action scenes - particularly the battle on the ice - are the best in the series. It's just a shame that the film's (genuinely unexpected at the time) cliffhanger was thrown away in the follow-up.

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Katrina Oates

Absolutely disgusted

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 14, 2018

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Ordered this product for my boyfriends birthday on behalf of my parents only to receive it like this. The cellophane was half hanging off when I opened the amazon packaging, there was no slip case to be found and when I looked more closely the dvd case was all scratched up and it had definitely been opened and repackaged.
These steelbooks were made for collectors and the state in which this one came in is appalling.
This product should not be advertised as new when it has clearly had use before.
I will never use DVDMAX-UK to fulfill any of my orders in the future, I’m just lucky that amazon were able to refund me and this product went straight into the bin!

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Condition Not as Described

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 27, 2019

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Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (Limited Edition) [DVD] THX version.
Classic film - but bought as 'Used - Very Good' and it wasn't. It's a 2 disc set and both discs were in very good condition, but the case was not. It was not the original case, it was a 9mm case with the standard size artwork crudely cut down to fit. The case itself was badly split in several places, which had further damaged the artwork, and smelled very strongly of cigarette smoke. It was too badly split to be useable and I have replaced it. It was also missing the inlay notes, but I think that is perfectly acceptable for 'Used - Very Good'. It would have been a very satisfactory purchase if its overall condition had been more truthfully described. I ordered 5 items from OnlineMusicFilmsGames, this is the only one which was mis-described.

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