General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 385

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ChainsawAsh said:

Mielr said:

SilverWook said:
Really? I don’t think you’ve met my friend Laserdisc. The 1993 THX LD mix can even give a modern home theater system a workout.

I was just going to say that—I think the '95 Faces LDs (same sound as '93 LDs) sound fantastic, in all respects (including the score).

SilverWook said:
This is pretty interesting. I was aware of the fact that Luke was Starkiller in the shooting script, but I had no idea they actually shot scenes with it.

I wish this would be released, I’d love to see it.

I guess Mark’s memory is selective–he didn’t seem to recall shooting the lightsaber construction scene for ROTJ. 😉

To be fair, that scene isn’t really him constructing it anyway, he’s making a small tweak at most. He might have been assuming people were talking about a scene where he builds it all from scratch.

That could be. Here are the clips, btw:
Fan asking if he remembers scene:
https://youtu.be/XczClAxhCEM
Mark introducing clip at Celebration V:
https://youtu.be/eCVjnllIe2s

DuracellEnergizer said:

lovelikewinter said:

Does anyone else refuse to call Star Wars “A New Hope”?

I call it “SW” here, “SW '77” elsewhere.

Same here.

flametitan said:

SilverWook said:

Hey! I’m not that old! And what’s a wookie?

Haven’t you heard? A wookiee’s name doubles as its telomeres. The older a wookiee gets, the more letters are shaved off of its species names. Old wookiees are Wooks, or even just Woos.

You callin SilverWook old?

Our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

(just a random Star Wars thought, there…)

Mielr said:

SilverWook said:
This is pretty interesting. I was aware of the fact that Luke was Starkiller in the shooting script, but I had no idea they actually shot scenes with it.

I wish this would be released, I’d love to see it.

They don’t seem to like releasing material that shows that things changed significantly in the development. I think it started with George’s lie that he had everything planned since 1975 and that attitude has carried on ever since. I think that’s why there were no R1 deleted scenes released.

SilverWook said:

TFA is on TBS and TNT at the same time, only one started a bit earlier. Flipping back and forth between them is weird. Like when It’s a Wonderful Life was on multiple channels at once.

Did the TBS airing run at double-time like the rest of their programming?

Have there been any good alien designs in Star Wars since Return of the Jedi? I can’t think of any that I liked designed after '83.

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

moviefreakedmind said:

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

The Kel Dor look pretty menacing, and the design is very similar to Zuckuss from ESB. I also think that Benthic & Edrio and Moroff from RO fit pretty well in with the OT aesthetic.

I also really like the look of the Neimodians, and the Crimson Corsair, as mentioned above, is a pretty striking design.

ZkinandBonez said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

The Kel Dor look pretty menacing, and the design is very similar to Zuckuss from ESB. I also think that Benthic & Edrio and Moroff from RO fit pretty well in with the OT aesthetic.

I also really like the look of the Neimodians, and the Crimson Corsair, as mentioned above, is a pretty striking design.

Kel Dor reminds me a lot of an alien from season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager. It looks like it could’ve been a villain design at some point. I read that at least some of the background Jedi in the prequels used designs from Sith Lord sketches that Lucas didn’t ultimately approve, so I wonder if that’s where that one came from.

moviefreakedmind said:

ZkinandBonez said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

The Kel Dor look pretty menacing, and the design is very similar to Zuckuss from ESB. I also think that Benthic & Edrio and Moroff from RO fit pretty well in with the OT aesthetic.

I also really like the look of the Neimodians, and the Crimson Corsair, as mentioned above, is a pretty striking design.

Kel Dor reminds me a lot of an alien from season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager. It looks like it could’ve been a villain design at some point. I read that at least some of the background Jedi in the prequels used designs from Sith Lord sketches that Lucas didn’t ultimately approve, so I wonder if that’s where that one came from.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Ploo Koon was based on rejected Darth Maul concept art similarly to Asaj Ventress. Or it could just be that they wanted a design that worked in the SW universe and that they used Zuckuss as inspiration. It’s kind of funny to me how so many SW aliens since has used similar breathing devices.

BTW, what specific alien from Star Trek did Ploo Koon remind you of? I haven’t seen a lot of Voyager and now I’m really curious.

canofhumdingers said:

There’s tons of awesome aliens in TFA and R1. I like these guys from Maz’s castle.

They kinda look like a mix between the ANH “wolfman” and the bug-eyed concept art version of Chewie.

TV’s Frink said:

ZkinandBonez said:

I also really like the look of the Neimodians

Really? Woof.

“Woof” ?

TV’s Frink said:

Mocata said:

a Rik Mayall sense.

I don’t know what this means.

I don’t know what either comment was supposed to mean.