They were more prominent in the theater because they were about 3 feet in diameter! Unless you have a front projector at home they'll probably be only a couple of inches in diameter maximum.

If you are refering to me I actually like Ep 2 better than Matrix Reloaded. Cutting out some of those awful love scenes really help the movie a lot.

Also you sound like an ass calling people matrix fanboys when there is no mention of movie in the preceeding posts. However if there was some maxtrix fanboy's post that got deleted, then please ignore my comment.

Hilarious.

Agreed. Besides, the only difference between the Matrix fanboys and the Star Wars fanboys is that the Matrix fanboys are young enough to still get laid and move out of their parent's basement before they are 30.




of course I jest since I am a fanboy of both series myself.

You haven't seen the fan interviews on The Matrix Revisited. I mean, holy crap!

The only mistake I think I truly made was even acknowledging the existence of the threadcraps in a thread that wasn't even a debate about the quality of Ep 2, but was purely Ep 2 theatrical vs. DVD.

The Matrix simply came to my mind first as it is usually the Matrix fanboys that rip on SW the most.

And I'm not going to debate the quality of the love scenes, as I'm sure we're all too old to remember being young, dorky kids in love and saying stupid, dorky things.

EXACTLY! This is the first girl he has ever had a crush on let alone fooled around with. I think that whole point of this bringing the movie down is crud. I am quite sure everyone was not Cassanova with the first girl they liked.

Anyway as mentioned above, the DVD is from the DLP (digital cut) of the film. The hand shot was a pan up with his hand at his side, in the DLP cut Padme holds the metal hand. That is the major difference, everything else seems pretty minor.

On the IMAX cut: It had to be cut down to under 2 hours to fit the format. I didn't see it myself but read most of what was cut(around 20 minutes) was the love/relationship scenes. But I could be wrong not having seen it myself.

I was but if I was in a child aimed movie, I'm sure I wouldn't have been :P

Everytime I hear the name "Padme" I think of Thai food.

Well, since this crucial clue is now out of the bag. I guess it's safe to tell everyone that Anakin is actually Luke's father.

I have a friend who worked at Lucas Arts at the time and he said that Lucas was making changes to the movie WHILE IT WAS STILL IN THE THEATER!

Meaning, if you saw it on the first day it was in theaters and then saw it 4 weeks later, you were seeing a different version!

Priceless!!

Not exactly but close. Nothing changed in the film versions, but the digital version wasn't released unil a few weeks later. That is the version that had the changes that have been discussed in this thread. Correct me if I am wrong, but that was my understanding.

The film and digital versions both opened up on the exact same day. The difference is that the digital version had extra time for post-production. The film version had to be finished quicker to allow the needed time for striking the prints, etc. The additional time afforded to the digital version led to some tweaking.

DJ