Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 281

Jesus, Return of the Jedi looks bloody dated on BR!!

Actually, that scene's not bad...except for Hayden's flat acting. But otherwise, pretty good. Much better than Artoo & the Jets.

But he's making Artoo type beeps!!! Am I the only one seeing/hearing that??

timdiggerm said:

Actually, that scene's not bad...except for Hayden's flat acting. But otherwise, pretty good. Much better than Artoo & the Jets.

 Artoo & The Jets

~OR~

Sluggo and The Boost?

http://www.admancomics.com/2011/09/george-lucas-is-genius.html

Read the last paragraph, guys!

Bingowings said:

I think that's meant to be Artoo on the comlink and they are debating what each beep means.

No, watch his line at 0:19 ... definitely meant to be Ani making those sounds.

Also, pretty sure those are temp-Artoo noises? They don't sound like Artoo himself.

Harmy said:

http://www.admancomics.com/2011/09/george-lucas-is-genius.html

Read the last paragraph, guys!

TheBoost said:

Klingon_Jedi said:

 

 

Amusing if so; I remember way back when advocating that as an idea to make Grievious a more interesting character that actually had some sort of meaning to Obi-Wan. Really they should never have killed Maul in the first place and had him in the General's role.

So TPM wouldn't have a pay-off, and a characters whose only appeal is that he's a silent killing machine would be totally transformed.

I don't see it.

Basically the idea would be to have a visible Sith threat to distract Obi-wan, wanting to avenge Qui-gon. Not to mention explain why the Jedi don't seem to notice Sidious; they're all focused on finding Maul. Not to mention it could've given Maul screentime to develop beyond the that.

Really, one of the minor issues I had with the PT was the lack of an overarching villian like Vader (himself only the main badguy in ESB but still a visible threat and figurehead of evil in the others). Sure, Palpatine's there in the shadows, but each film essentially had a "new Vader". Maul could've fulfilled that if done properly.

The Grievous idea is more about making him relevant than resurrecting Maul. As he stands, he comes out of no where, and is merely a plot device solely to separate Obi-wan from Anakin (he's actually my least favorite SW character as he's just plain boring and near pointless). Since that's ALL he does, why not give some greater drive to Obi-wan. It would basically be the fight after Qui-gon's death to another level.

Still

doubleofive said:

adywan said:

If you are a fan of the OT and love deleted scenes and special features then this set is for you.

Don't say that! Now I want them! But I'm only going to buy them used!

Responding to the issue from earlier, RoflRick isn't trollish because he disagrees - I'm a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their opinion. He seemed trollish because it seemed like he was trying to stir up stuff. That's not an attack on RoflRick, though; he seems like a pretty cool guy.

As much as I hate the prequels, as a C-3PO fan, I would most likely murder a hobo if it meant being able to see that scene where Padme puts on his cool panels. I would never buy the Blu-Rays to see it, but I WOULD murder a hobo (probably).

I think the generalization that all Star Wars fans will moan and complain, but STILL hash out for crappy releases is false. It may be true for some fans, but plenty of people here, for example, are strong enough not to do it.

Klingon_Jedi said:

Really, one of the minor issues I had with the PT was the lack of an overarching villian like Vader (himself only the main badguy in ESB). Sure, Palpatine's there in the shadows, but each film essentially had a "new Vader". Maul could've fulfilled that if done properly.

That was DEFINITELY an issue. The audience had no emotional connection with anything going on, because there was nothing to make an emotional connection TO. There's no clear protagonist, there's no real antagonist, or any single embodiment of the "bad guys." Maul was certainly promoted as a "new Vader" (the Hasbro toy packaging for TPM had Maul's face where Vader's face was for the OT action figures, etc), but he didn't DO anything.

^^ Great pics of Sebastian Shaw, Promus! Never seen pics of him that young before.

I "like" reading comments about the Blurays on that other site. Things like:

"I for one LOVE the cyan tint. It makes AOTC match TESB even MORE now."

I suppose there are no words to respond to such a statement even if I had registered on the site.

Mielr said:

^^ Great pics of Sebastian Shaw, Promus! Never seen pics of him that young before.

Thanks! The one picture is an old publicity photo of his, and the other is photoshopped from a screencap of an old movie he was in. Didn't mean to take the thread off-topic, but I wanted to reply to you.

rpvee said:
Guys, we did great bringing the box set down to two stars on Amazon, but the box set of only the OT is still rather high.  Could we focus on bringing that down too?  People who hate the prequels and (think) they like the OT might assume the whole box is so low because of the prequels, and thus only buy the OT and still get the crap.

I think this pretty much sums it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTF8I8cHTqQ

Listening to the archival interviews commentary track for ROTJ it is pretty funny what George Lucas says about the scene where Vader pick up the Emperor now that he has added Vader's Nooooooo's:

Acting with masks is a very ancient tradition. It's the emotion of the story that can carry you through and the nature of cinema that you can switch shots you put on either side of the mask that tell you what the mask is thinking.

So younger George knew that the audience didn't need to hear what he was thinking to understand the scene. I'm really surprised that this comment made it onto the Blu-Ray, unless adding the No's was a last minute decision when everything else was finished.

adywan said:

Listening to the archival interviews commentary track for ROTJ it is pretty funny what George Lucas says about the scene where Vader pick up the Emperor now that he has added Vader's Nooooooo's:

Acting with masks is a very ancient tradition. It's the emotion of the story that can carry you through and the nature of cinema that you can switch shots you put on either side of the mask that tell you what the mask is thinking.

So younger George knew that the audience didn't need to hear what he was thinking to understand the scene. I'm really surprised that this comment made it onto the Blu-Ray, unless adding the No's was a last minute decision when everything else was finished.