Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 119

Since no one's brought it up yet....

Maybe part of the reason they chose AOTC Yoda as the "big face" on the PT blu-ray is because they've now replaced the TPM puppet with the (ironically much closer-looking to the TESB/ROTJ puppet) digital model?

Also, while I'm on the subject:

If LFL ever put out some sort of "ultimate edition" blu-ray of TPM that included the theatrical cut (perhaps late next year for the blu-ray 3D, hint-hint if you're reading this, LFL) I would seriously consider paying good money for it. Regardless of our opinions on the movie, it had one of the highest U.S. box office grosses of the 90's (second only to Titanic for that entire decade, if I'm not mistaken) and the original version deserves to be preserved if for no other reason than history.

By the way, I'll take this opportunity to reiterate my desire for ultimate sets of the OT that include not only the OOT but the '97 OT as well. Doesn't ANH SE still have the highest U.S. January gross of all time? Talk about box office!

Darth_Engelhast from Rebelscum.com said:

 Okay kids here is me putting up or shutting up with my own idea for the complete saga's cover art. 

The blue text and logo would be printed on a clear plastic slip cover that would set above the artwork.

The cover itself would be printed in 3D Lenticular plastic that and would switch from picture to picture when tilted from side to side.




Not too shabby for a couple hours work huh? I'm sure I could do better but I really don't want to waste anymore time on it.

I love the way Vader is pointing to his junk as if to say "I might be a mess but by Episode IV at least I've grown a pair".

It's an interesting design especially in the context of the ESB reveal thread.

But I thought vaderisnothayden.

???

xhonzi said:

What, you mean it's like putting *SPOILER* on the cover of Planet of the Apes?

If the cover is like this one:

perhaps that would be a wise move, there must be more people now who don't know the ending now than there were twenty years ago.

Bingowings said:

I'm pretty sure he made Star Wars to make money from getting us to watch robots hit each other and kids drive too fast.

His friends thought a bit of story and characterisation would be a good idea.

In the seventies George listened to his friends.

In the eighties George discovered that puppets were easier to control and burps were funny.

After Jurassic Park he came to the conclusion that puppets were so 20th Century and farts and poop were funny.

I think people forget this too often. I highly reccomend everyone on this forum read "The Making of Star Wars". The old George was very different from billionaire George.

When working on Star Wars, Lucas revised the script multiple times. The first draft was pretty much completely different from the final draft. This was because he was getting continuous feedback from (now famous) directors that he graduated film school with. They would critique each others works, and George would listen, making appropriate changes.

Do you think Lucas did this for the prequels? Hell, do you think he did this for Jedi? It's obvious that he didn't like the lack of control he had over Empire with Kersh in charge of things, so for Jedi, he decided to choose someone he knew he could control. Hell, he even admits it:

"I've got to find a director* who's willing to give up some of his domain to me and is willing to work with me and accept the fact that he's essentially doing a movie that's been established, that ultimately I'll have the final say."

*replace director with EVERYONE ON THE SET when talking about prequels

Lord Phillock said:

Hey guys! I'm not sure any of you remember me, but I used to talk about fan-edits concerning (primarily) "The Lord of the Rings" as "book-cuts" way back in 2005 through 2006-ish. Wow, half a decade ago!

anyway, since whenever some new Star Wars news comes to light, the first thing I do is check this forum out! Glad to have people agree with me about the films!

Because of the many negative remarks on the official Blu-Ray artwork, I felt like doing the same idea, but reversing the focus... now, if you absolutely hated the official cover, chances are you won't like my reinterpretation - but that's fine, it didn't take me an awful long time to paint, and I had fun with it.

maybe you'll like it too? Or put it to some good use, even!

It's on my DeviantArt page. Just thought it would be more on-topic then the Criterion DVDs. ;)

The sort of fanedits I tend to like are where the editor has paid attention to what the creator seems to have attempted to do and restructured the piece to those ideas.

Your cover is essentially the same idea as the official one but made to work and the inclusion of the Death Star is an inspired decision.

Lucas (back when he used to make sense) argued that the first film was all about the power of the spirit trumping the power of technology.

Having this technological moon intruding on the natural beauty of duel sunset illustrates that central idea really well when seen in the context of it's eventual destruction.

It's a much higher quality of painting too.

It also makes more narrative sense as the son and the innocent form of the father are running to meet each other (the ultimate climax of the saga).

In the official version little Anakin is running to catch up to a ghostly Luke which make no sense at all.

TV's Frink said:

Then let the thread die.  I'm not interested in Criterion discussion, so I'd prefer it be in a thread I can safely ignore.

Wow, this is really weird behavior coming from the king of dragging things off topic and pointless ridiculous threads.

You do realize you're not a mod here, right? Seriously, just don't click on this thread and go post some fist pumps or caricatures that make fun of racial stereotypes in some of your Off-Topic threads. Please. Some of us enjoy talking about this kind of thing and prefer to do so without being griped at.

CP3S said:  go post some fist pumps or caricatures that make fun of racial stereotypes in some of your Off-Topic threads.

That's uncalled for.  Frink's GIFs are all about the action or facial expression contained therein, and depict people from a wide range of racial groups, as even a cursory glance at Frink's GIF thread might be expected to reveal.  If you don't like Frink's tendency to go off topic, then that's fair enough, but the above smacks of mudslinging.

For the record, I don't think the Criterion discussion is too far off topic.  I'm sure most of us agree that we usually tolerate far worse.

To be on topic, I've decided to buy the BD set.  The fact that I want the OOT restored doesn't override the fact that I watch and will watch edits based on the Special Editions and I believe in buying what I watch when it's commercial available.  To me it's that simple.

CP3S said:

TV's Frink said:

Then let the thread die.  I'm not interested in Criterion discussion, so I'd prefer it be in a thread I can safely ignore.

Wow, this is really weird behavior coming from the king of dragging things off topic and pointless ridiculous threads.

You do realize you're not a mod here, right? Seriously, just don't click on this thread and go post some fist pumps or caricatures that make fun of racial stereotypes in some of your Off-Topic threads. Please. Some of us enjoy talking about this kind of thing and prefer to do so without being griped at.

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