Raiders of the Lost Ark on USA and SciFi

[Kooshmeister]

Has anyone else see the recent USA and SciFi airings of Raiders of the Lost Ark? There's some big to-do over a supposedly digitally altered shot, where Gobler's car goes flying off the cliff during the chase scene. Apparently they redid the cliff and mountains in the background in CGI. I didn't believe it myself until I saw the actual clip.

Check it out here, at roughly eight seconds:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D0F-qqaNnjI

And here it is as compared to the original version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU&eurl=http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=14191&page=14

Even with YouTube's questionable visual quality, the TV version (the version on the bottom) is obviously different. The best example is the mountains five seconds in:



However what's odd is this has only been seen on the TV airing(s) and not on the new DVDs.

[JPickettIII]

Watched both.  There is a big difference.  I like the newer version.  I think this time change was good.

Later,

John

[tracy]

I can deal with the changes....man,I love this film! Saw it 14 times on the big screen.

[Flick James]

Would GL just do a remake and get it over with? Stop f***ing with the originals. G-f***ing-whiz already.

[Criswell]

Atleast it's not on the DVD

and it better not be on the blu ray as well 

[Mr. DS]

Dunno, for me it looks more remastered than CGI.  Not that it is but still its what comes across. Good catch on that btw, I would have never noticed.