Hypothetical — Page 3

Vaderisnothayden said:

If anybody has any news on how well the 2006 GOUT dvds sold, I think a lot of us would be happy to hear it.

 

The 2006 DVDs were pretty high on Amazon's 'top sellers' list when they were released, FWIW, but I don't know the exact numbers.

It feels like most Blu-ray releases of old movies are coming out half-assed. I am afraid only new movies will use BDs true potential, at least for a few more years. We started out with some pretty crappy DVD releases, but through double dipping, we we treated to some pretty decent rereleases. Hopefully most of us have learned our lessons with the DVDs, and won't be rushing out to buy a lot of these things when we realize they were not made to their fullest potential. y advice to everyone, don't throw your money away on rushed jobs like this. Hold your horses and be content with your DVDs for now if you can. This ST set was obviously thrown together in time for the new film, they shouldn't be able to get away with making inferior products, but they do because people always joyfully rush out to buy them, they don't complain about them until the doubledipping starts, then they whine about them as they pull out their credit cards to pay for the rerelease, effectively telling the studios, "Hey, you throw it at me, I'm buying it. No questions asked".

AxiaEuxine said:

Then George releases a new 6 disk set that does have changes to the OT. Are there any that you would like?

I am only interested in the OT, anamorphic and properly restored with the best original theatrical sound.  I don't want garbage mattes removed or improved backgrounds etc... those are changes to the content of the 1977 film.  As far as changes or alternative versions of the OT, there is only one change to the content of what we see in the GOUT that I would want, and that is listed in my signature.  (Every version I saw, in three different theaters in 1977, included that line, and it always drew laughs.  I still don't understand why it was removed.)

I would want two sets. The original releases of all of them with slight fixes in them like re-doing lasers, remastering sound (not re-dubbing) and maybe adding engine glows.

I would also like a Special Edition of the entire saga where Jar Jar's scenes are re-done completely so he isn't an idiot, he has correct gramatical speech and his voice is lower. Editing Anakin's lines in the prequels, making Yoda CG in TPM and redoing Yoda in 1-3 to make him a hybrid of the prequel yodas and the original yodas. Add in the deleted scenes, delete unneeded scenes (like Obi-Wan talking with Dooku). Colour Jango's armour like a clean armour of Boba's (without the scratches), rework the emperor's face in all of the films to make him more believable, add expression to Yoda's face and make his voice consistant in ESB so that it doesn't go higher than 1-3 and 6 (in the movie, his voice is very high at times), rework all of the explosions in the OT, re-cut the duels in the OT to make them faster paced. Add flashback scenes in the OT (Obi-Wan remember the old times, and Vader's remunitions while Luke is being shocked). Have the emperor hand Anakin a new lightsaber in the holgram of the Jedi Temple and then Obi-Wan picks up Anakin's old lightsaber (could easily be done from afar with CGI) so that in the final battle, Anakin's lightsaber is red. Anakin's eyes should be consistantly yellow once we see him on Mustafar. (They are only yellow in one shot, wth?) Add music to the podrace scene and to the execution scene. Re-dub Greivous's voice, get rid of Vader's "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" and change it to him just yelling "AAAAARGH!" with everything in the room floating and flying violently. For OT do a lot of what Ady did.

This way I could have the original ones, and a more modern saga.

Baronlando said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

(Every version I saw, in three different theaters in 1977, included that line, and it always drew laughs.  I still don't understand why it was removed.)

I thought it wasn't removed, it was just a late addition, appearing only in the last mix that was done?

I have to admit that I don't really know much about the various mixes.  Since all the versions I saw in '77 had it, and I never saw a version without it until SW came out on VHS, it just seems to me like it was removed.  I guess more accurate would be to say that I still don't understand why it wasn't included in versions released for consumer version (that is, until the SE).