Originally posted by: SW
Abit off topic but the PT dvds put the OT dvds to shame coz of the extres . TPM has 6 hours of extres
and loads more on ep II and III.
That's because AOTC and ROTS were new movies and LFL wanted to meet the industry's expected standard for releasing a new movie on dvd in a nice two-disc set with loads of extras, etc. TPM was a bit different because they waited a couple years to release the dvd instead of releasing it at the same time as the vhs, which itself didn't hit shelves until a good year after the movie hit theaters.
That's why the OT dvd was like one huge tradeoff. We got good pq and sq, startlingly good at times, but it was the SE. In terms of the extras, it was very retrospective but there were always mentions of the changes made in '97/'04 and how "it's the way George wants it now."
Originally posted by: SW
I think if GL made all six movies back in the 70s and 80s then it would have been better. After all six came out in 2005 GL did say to watch them 1-6 . The only thing is the pt is all CGI which makes them differnt.
Abit off topic but the PT dvds put the OT dvds to shame coz of the extres . TPM has 6 hours of extres
and loads more on ep II and III.
That's because AOTC and ROTS were new movies and LFL wanted to meet the industry's expected standard for releasing a new movie on dvd in a nice two-disc set with loads of extras, etc. TPM was a bit different because they waited a couple years to release the dvd instead of releasing it at the same time as the vhs, which itself didn't hit shelves until a good year after the movie hit theaters.
That's why the OT dvd was like one huge tradeoff. We got good pq and sq, startlingly good at times, but it was the SE. In terms of the extras, it was very retrospective but there were always mentions of the changes made in '97/'04 and how "it's the way George wants it now."
Originally posted by: SW
I think if GL made all six movies back in the 70s and 80s then it would have been better. After all six came out in 2005 GL did say to watch them 1-6 . The only thing is the pt is all CGI which makes them differnt.
He kept insisting that it was all his. The PT could've been done much differently and much better if Lucas had just collaborated with the kind of people he worked with on Empire and Jedi. I mean seriously, no one can say for certain that those two movies would've been quite as good if Lucas had directed them. Look at a movie like The Return of the King, made during the same era as the PT. 1500 special effects shots, but in a 200 minute movie like that you have no where near every shot using them. That's called good filmmaking. All George felt like doing was playing with the technology at his disposal. As for collaboration, the farthest he ever went was bringing Johnathen Hales to co-write the AOTC screenplay.