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I did up a design for a t-shirt (ages ago) of the opening crawl with enough of a tilt that it definitely suggested the movie, but was still readable all at the same time.  Would that be a good idea for the back covers?

corellian77 said:

ImpFighter, you do know that you can hit the "Play" button on your remote to watch a movie as opposed to repeatedly pressing the "Pause" button, right? ;)

Ha!  These threads make me feel so INATTENTIVE.

I like the horizontal ones.

With the vertical ones I know they look like more of a set if Jedi has the "faces" poster, but in 1983 (in the US at any rate) that lightsaber on the back cover was what was in all the theaters and in the papers.

ABC, I'm not sure I'm following why you left and now have a different username, but what does this mean for the status of The Empire Strikes Back Audiophile Edition?

I've never heard a reading of "close the blast doors" that really sounded like I remember it from 1977.  It doesn't have that same stormtrooper "sound" that "open the blast doors" has.  I remember those two lines always got a laugh in the theater because their delivery was so similar.

But memory may be playing tricks on me.

The mono dub of Beru is a revelation.  I'll never be able to listen to any other ever again. 

I just know that these are saving my kids from having to ever see the SEs.  You can put it on the covers:

GOUT V3: The "For the Children" Edition.

gurgle1624 said:

This has turned into such a huge debate cause I to would think that if they were outside of a galaxy looking at a galaxy that the light from it would drown out any light from the other stars (Right or wrong? Im not a science major by any means) which is why the nebula idea gave me such a relief. And yes I know Star Wars doesnt have to go by reality but it is interesting nonetheless.

Actually in any shot with a planet or a bright hull (most, in Star Wars) you wouldn't see stars either.

Ady, put me in the "I don't care what the reason is, leave the galaxy alone" camp.

vaderios said:

I know that you enhance only problematic areas only, but watching what these 3d can do you might want to replace some asteroid field shots that the falcon and the ties doenst have nice shadows in some of the asteroids. If not all the space shots.

-Angel

I thought the most convincing updates in ANH:R were shots where he took original elements (i.e. old 1977 models and stuff) and played with them, rather than Lucas' shots where new scenes were created whole-cloth.  It gave the new shots more "zip" (I usually hate "zip") while keeping them grounded in the rest of the film.

In short: please, as little outright CG as possible, please.

*sigh*  All I can think when I read these boards is "Why can't the people that get PAID for this stuff make things this cool?"

I know:  It's because nobody that gets into the media industry likes Star Wars very much.  Um, no, wait...

That's another thing.  I go to the zoo or the mall:  All the kids have bad guy shirts!  Vader, stormtroopers, Fett.  When we were kids there were Vader shirts, sure, but we also had Han and Chewie, Luke, the poster.  You know, the HEROES.

Maybe I'm old and cranky, but is that really the message we want our kids to get?

Mind you every Friday night I watch a show with my kids knowing that the main hero is going to KILL (or be in league with the killers of) ALL OF THE OTHER GOOD GUYS.  (Except one, of course.)

Wacky fun.

Um... Tron?  (Yes, I read.  No, I don't expect an answer.)

Hey, it's that or Xanadu.

doubleofive said:

You have a good point, but 3PO does say "Excuse me, Han, but where are we going?" in the asteroid field. Maybe Kersh said "You don't have to be so proper all of the time". We'll never know. I don't really have a problem with it, but it could stand discussion.

 

Ahhhh.  I couldn't for the life of me remember where he called Capt. Solo "Han" in the asteroid field.

The line is "Excuse me, Ma'am, but where are we going?"  And Leia turns to him and shrugs.

So there, I've solve HALF of your problems with Threepio in ESB and Adywan didn't have to do anything!

EDIT: As was mentioned above.  Slow to post.

doubleofive said:

If you could go from Tatooine to Alderaan in a few hours (assumption from ANH), then it would still take a couple years to get far enough away to see the entire galaxy. And most of the other jumps we've seen would only last a couple minutes!

I'd say that Tatooine to Alderaan didn't take hours either.  Han is just coming back from the cockpit when he reports to The Gang that they've evaded the dreaded Imperial star fleet.  The Falcon is expected to be "on the other side of the galaxy" when it supposedly jumped to "lightspeed" in ESB.  I'm not sure hyperspace travel time really depends on distance.  

What does this have to do with Adywan's edit?  It means the sooner he releases it the sooner we'll have other stuff to talk about!  (Joke!  It was a JOKE!  Take all the time you need, obviously.)

Sure, I'll buy it.  Threepio probably pronounces it correctly too.

What Plans? said:

rpvee said:

Has it been considered changing Luke's pronunciation of Tatooine at the end?  I'm sure Hamill has said it right at some point after countless interviews through the years.

Someone already asked that a couple hundred pages back.  I stumbled upon it earlier this morning.

Adywan decided that, just like Han and Leia's names have multiple pronunciations, the planet name may be pronounced differently as well.  He said he is leaving it how it is. 

And considering that Luke is a native, his pronunciation may actually be correct.

Also that is the first time that it was pronounced on screen.  So everyone ELSE has it wrong.

Mind you, Lando's pronunciation of HAN (rhymes with hand instead of gone) is not good.  And why does it change from Lee-ah in Star Wars to Lay-ah in ESB?  Maybe the director in Star Wars had it different from the writer's original intent?  Oh, wait...

savmagoett, your schematics remind me of the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Awesome.

When did Star Wars stop being fun?  Probably when I realized that Lucas hates me.

It wasn't ROTJ.  I know ROTJ wasn't near as good as SW or ESB, but Star Wars was still crazy fun.

Before 1997 every edition of SW that Lucas "made" me buy got better and better and better.  VHS!  VHS letterboxed!  Laser disc!

Even the SEs were an amusing curiosity.  And on the big screen!

But then Lucas declared the SEs the "real" movies the way he "always wanted them".  Then he starts making new Star Wars content and it's all PT stuff.  (I like Clone Wars, but do the same treatment for an OT show and I'll be in heaven.)

The real nail in the coffin was when he put the SEs and the OUT on DVD "so the fans can decide" and he 1) gives us the OUT in 4:3 letterboxed and 2) does a pretty crappy job at transferring the SEs!

BUT - having just watched SW and ESB on my 50" widescreen in anamorphic glory (I'm not sure which version, but I'd take any links to the "best" OUT version) AND watching Star Wars: Revisited with my 8 month old son in my lap and my 2 year old daughter snuggled next to me:

Star Wars is still crazy fun.

Ok, I'm late to this party.  I just watched Revisited (a lot) over the weekend.  I'm not crazy about the Sith music in the saber duel but I dig the daylights out of the editing of the duel itself.  Same with the re-edits of the TIE fighter attack.  

The mono versions of Beru's dialog have forever spoiled me. 

I still hate everything with a CG dewback.

Anyway, I had a question that's surely entirely too late:  I just started re-reading the novel of Star Wars.  Why not change "there'll be no escape for the PRINCESS this time" to the original line of "there'll be no escape for the CAPTAIN this time"?  Jussst curious.

I also wouldn't mind finding where I can get a copy of the Purist version.

All of these covers and art look wonderful.  I'm sold on the very first one of the SSD with no stars.  All of your work looks very sleek.  It reminds me how I felt when I opened the Anthology box almost twenty years ago.

I guess I don't understand what disc 3 is.  It's not the original LP or apparently the LP track edits...  I like closing the album with Yoda's theme.  It gives it a Superman / Can You Read My Mind vibe.

Terrific looking project.