Has anyone said anything constructive to Katie?
Or is has it just been at the "Go die in a fire, George" level?
I guarantee you George and his minions are wracking their brains trying to think of a way to CGI out the incest themes from the films.
doubleofive said:
These R2 rock additions are cracking me up. The rocks never change, even if the angle on R2 changes.
Do you think they're also an artifact of the 3D conversion?
(Imagine big rocks popping out at the audience with R2 peeking out.)
Gaffer Tape said:
all I can think of is that tweet Katie Lucas put out: Haters are gonna hate, but, in the end, they're still going to buy it. That's the (up until now extremely accurate) impression they have of us.
You're right. I just cancelled my pre-order. I hope I didn't just throw away my $40 gift certificate I used in the process. But I just have to prove that spoiled brat wrong.
Katie Lucas said:
"There is a special place in Hell for haters next to the one for child molesters and people who talk obnoxiously in the theatre"
Wow, we're all worse than child molesters!
And you thought the "raped my childhood" hyperbole was bad.
I'm sorry, this girl sounds like a moron and if she's getting grief on Twitter, she probably deserves it.
The "I feel raped" thing is cliched and should be retired, and really just serves the apologists in making us look like kooks. But I have to say, I feel like a battered wife. One of those ones that keeps going back to her abusive husband.
My planned way of protest was to ignore the shiny new extras in the Complete Box and just buy the OT box. I have no desire to ever watch the PT again and I just can't buy them. I couldn't live with myself if I did. I was hoping if enough people bought the OT-only box and no one bought the PT-only box, maybe that man would get the hint.
Now I don't know what to do. I don't think there's any way to get through to George with all those yes-men surrounding him.
thunderclap said:
If these additions turn out to be true I will be cancelling my BR order and leaving a scathing one star review on Amazon.
I pre-ordered mine with a gift certificate; it only ended up costing me 20 cents. I'd still like to cancel, but I don't know if my gift certificate will be refunded.
The Aluminum Falcon said:
Wait, I just had a thought. It isn't possible that that awful Obi-Wan call is Matthew Wood vocalizing is it? He said he was going to be in every movie...
All he did was scream into a a microphone with some reverb and played it backwards-- this gets you a job with Lucasfilm?
And if this is legit, this would be the 2nd time the Krayt Dragon call was changed. Why? What's Lucas/Burtt's beef with it?
I remember some people at the time saying TPM (and AOTC) needed to be "darker". Which George immediately pounced on and did his infamous "they're for kids" reply.
"Darker" is kind of a vague term; George interpreted it as "like The Terminator". But I think what people meant by that was, we need more fleshed-out villiains. We need to give them more screen time and actual motivations. And yes, we need to actually see them doing some bad, "dark" things if they are to be truly vilified.
I think maybe C-3PO's changing appearance in the PT was made to cover up this plothole? Perhaps? I don't know.
I was baffled as to why George would alter the appearance of such an iconic character for the first two films. Was this going to finally explain why he had that silver leg? (Yeah, right.) Nope, it was completely pointless. Scratch that. It allowed George more action figures to sell.
twooffour said:
Because seriously... Confused Matthew's reviews, while fun, kinda do suck...
Interesting you mention that because I finally checked his site out yesterday after hearing so much about it. I tried watching his 2001 video, but the first two parts I viewed was basically him just shouting "This is boring!" over and over and muted video footage. I admit I didn't finish it, but from what I saw, he seemed unable to examine the movie in a historical context.
TV's Frink said:
I noticed the ETs in the theater and hated it immediately. And not only is Anthony Daniels in the Clones bar, but so is Jar Jar the dude who played Jar Jar.
Pisses me off.
With all the problems inherent to the PT, these cameos don't really bother me.
I must admit though, I'm a little worried about someone trying to connect Star Wars and Indiana Jones via the Crystal Skull aliens.
Which really should be Mr. Plinkett's next target, by the way. The storyline to that movie was totally incoherent.
twooffour said:
So you'd all be perfectly fine with the monkey-eyes Emperor speaking in an Ian McDiarmid voice, but can't stand an Ian McDiarmid Emperor speaking in an... Ian McDiarmid voice?
Um, what's wrong.. who's fucking... what??!!!?????
How about you leave Monkey Eye completely in tact?
Well, I liked the original lines better. And of course McDiarmid's ROTJ Emperor is THE Emperor to me, so I'd prefer to hear his voice (or a sound-alike). Revill's emperor sounds nothing like McDiarmid.
I don't think there is a convincing way to change people's lip movements w/CGI to match different audio. And to be honest, I didn't really like the Emperor makeup they used on TESB DVD. It didn't look anything like ROTJ Emperor to me.
That Palpatine voice was really good. Is Adywan still working on ESB? He could get that guy to deliver Palpatine's pre-DVD lines in the Ian McDiarmid voice and dub them over the pre-DVD "monkey-eyes" Emperor.
I always wondered, was that him doing the "Who are you?" Stormtrooper line?
There's an online petition now:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DProwse1/petition.html
I know these things are largely believed to be useless, but at least it shows our support of Mr. Prowse.