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AngeloMichael said:
Waitaminute, didn't Lucasfilm announce the were NEVER going to release the original theatrical versions on DVD?
I've already bought the original movies *3* times -- the original on VHS, the "Special Edition" VHS, and the DVD special edition. I think I'm gonna skip this round. Enough of my money they have. Bastards.
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malachiteink said:
Milk you they will.
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Whisky7up said:
*laugh* Nice one.
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TheEarl said:
Yeah, makes more sense this way when he says "Sorry for the mess."
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yui said:Premature? Or just “alpha-male” … the judge you be.
Explains why Leia seems seriously to be considering her brother at times ...
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Through a combination of unfrettered technology and very poor judgement, Lucasfilms changed the scene in the cantina where Han Solo and Greedo have a confrontation. Originally, as Greedo is trying to shake down Han at gunpoint, Han casually realeases his blaster and whacks Greedo in cold blood. Of course, Greedo looked like a lizard, so his blood was probably cold to begin with.TheEarl said:
This was Han Solo as the swashbuckling pirate living on the edge whom we all came to know and love. Then old George decided to make a kinder, gentler Han Solo so he revised the film to make it look like Han shot in self defense.
Of course you may have already known this.
Seriously, the Star Wars movies were better when Lucas had to work at making special effects. The combination of budget constraints and technological limitations forced him to be judicious in the scenes he created. He got the story across in an excited and interesting way. The last three films were so overfilled with visual stimulation that I nearly went into convulsions from the overload. Damn digital effects.
Bring back stop motion photography!
And dialogue. Lucas may be great at putting FX up on the screen, but his dialogue just sucks. People talk the way Han and Leia do, not the way Anakin and Amidala talk.
I almost wish he would go back to the original nine-movie storyline idea and bring back the old gang to finish episodes 7, 8, and 9 to show us what happened.
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Vincent E said:
Thanks for the info Vincent. I'd kinda heard about it, but didn't know if it was true or not.
Agreed on the dialogue and the SFX. It's why Serenity was an infinitely better film than all three of the Star Wars prequels - budget constraints and (IMHO) one of the best character writers in the world.
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Vincent E said:
I have not forgiven Lucas for the last three films. Anyone who can make Liam Neeson look like a bad actor should be beaten. Of the original three, two were not directed by him, and Lucas only wrote the original story -- others did the screenplay. Lucas is happier when he can just push pixels around. Lucas created a great thing and then killed it. Then he danced around the room with the corpse.
(I'm bitter. Very very bitter. Does it show much?)
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lilredjammies said:Geek revelation follows. Warned you have been.
When I saw the first movie, I was 12 or 13. I thought Leia was absolutely too lame to be good enough for either Han or Luke, so in my daydreams, I added myself to the cast as Leia's twin sister. I can't remember the name I came up with, but me-as-twin was a total wild child, a smuggler rival of Han's, Lando's former main squeeze who left him after looting the city treasury, a hard-drinking, fluent-in-fifteen-languages-cussing, tough chick wearing lots of leather.
::grin:: yeah, I think I still have some of the stories I wrote after seeing the first movie -- back before I ever knew what fan fiction was! And no, you can't see them!
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lilredjammies said:Geek revelation follows. Warned you have been.
When I saw the first movie, I was 12 or 13. I thought Leia was absolutely too lame to be good enough for either Han or Luke, so in my daydreams, I added myself to the cast as Leia's twin sister. I can't remember the name I came up with, but me-as-twin was a total wild child, a smuggler rival of Han's, Lando's former main squeeze who left him after looting the city treasury, a hard-drinking, fluent-in-fifteen-languages-cussing, tough chick wearing lots of leather.
I think I love you now.
Show up at my door in a metal bikini so we can test the theory...
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lilredjammies said:Sorry, I don't look good in metal.
How about a feminine version of Han's outfit instead--frilly white pirate shirt, leather knee boots, leather vest?
I've got a hat you can wear -- black velvet, HUGE plume...
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lilredjammies said:Damnit, the hat scared Bel off.
Na, he had to get started on his drinking
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Geeks rule.
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lilredjammies said:Damnit, the hat scared Bel off.
malachiteink said:Na, he had to get started on his drinking
Actually, Bel had to go coach...little league practice. It's a fun time. The kids have learned enough that I can be a little more aggressive in the teaching...so me and a couple of the other dads decided we would run bases while the manager of the team hit to the infield...
One of my players decided he was going to stay in the baseline as I was going into third, so I went ahead and came in hard and slid...scared him a bit, but I knew he wasn't going to freak out. This kid has a future. Anyway, first time I've actually slid into a base like that in over ten years. Next thing you know I'm going hard into second when my boy or his best buddy on the team are covering the bag to try turning two, laughing and getting filthy. (They both are very advanced players for their age and they both have dads that push them to get better and play all out, so I wasn't worried. The other kids Dad played almost as long as I did, so he has a good teacher.)
The look on my wife's face when she arrived at practice and saw three dads dirtier then their kids and saw the grass and dirt stains on my clothes?
Priceless....
oh, then I went and watched the Pads win 1-0 in extra innings...*grin*
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There were two cartoons that perfectly captured the whole movie maker gone insane phenomenon.
First was an episode of The Simpsons that ripped George Lucas mercilessly. The Phantom Menace was depicted as a two and a half hour long filibuster on the floor of the Galactic Republic that could have been a C-Span broadcast. Even Comic Book Guy was so pissed off he decided he would only see it five more times. Bart and Lisa travel to the film maker's ranch, but he just brushes them off.
The second was an episode of South Park that dealt directly with the issue of movie makers redoing and then re-redoing their movies. They ripped on Spielberg for replacing the guns the cops carried in E.T. with radios. The boys try to save the original print of Raiders of the Lost Ark from re-editing.
Seriously, I did not mind the updated effects of the original three movies. Adding extra creatures for background and more elaborate explosions was fine with me. It is when they fuck around with the actual storytelling such as the cantina scene. At the end of Return of the Jedi, Lucas replaced the original older Anakin whose spirit stood next to Obi-Wan and Yoda with Hayden Christiansen. Lame.
I will give credit to Lucas for eventually feeling the pulse of the public. The universally despised character from Phantom Menace who shall go nameless here was reduced in each following film. In Revenge of the Sith, said character was merely background material. Too bad Lucas does not go back and edit out that particular character.
Also, Anakin was way, way too young in the first film. Argh! I could go on forever.
First was an episode of The Simpsons that ripped George Lucas mercilessly. The Phantom Menace was depicted as a two and a half hour long filibuster on the floor of the Galactic Republic that could have been a C-Span broadcast. Even Comic Book Guy was so pissed off he decided he would only see it five more times. Bart and Lisa travel to the film maker's ranch, but he just brushes them off.
The second was an episode of South Park that dealt directly with the issue of movie makers redoing and then re-redoing their movies. They ripped on Spielberg for replacing the guns the cops carried in E.T. with radios. The boys try to save the original print of Raiders of the Lost Ark from re-editing.
Seriously, I did not mind the updated effects of the original three movies. Adding extra creatures for background and more elaborate explosions was fine with me. It is when they fuck around with the actual storytelling such as the cantina scene. At the end of Return of the Jedi, Lucas replaced the original older Anakin whose spirit stood next to Obi-Wan and Yoda with Hayden Christiansen. Lame.
I will give credit to Lucas for eventually feeling the pulse of the public. The universally despised character from Phantom Menace who shall go nameless here was reduced in each following film. In Revenge of the Sith, said character was merely background material. Too bad Lucas does not go back and edit out that particular character.
Also, Anakin was way, way too young in the first film. Argh! I could go on forever.
