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SilverWook
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Star Wars Blu Ray Impressions
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20-Sep-2011, 3:05 AM

Got my bonus discs in the mail today. Only had time to skim over the documentaries so far.

All the vintage docs are from really old video masters and it shows. (MPEG2 and 192kps Dolby track.) SPFX is still cut.

Much to my surprise, Classic Creatures has different credits from it's previous video releases and looks like it was finished up on film after all. (And sports the old 20th Century Fox tv logo.) Where on the old release some of Jabba's subtitles were replaced with video captions on a black bar, this version blows up the frame to omit them entirely. Not sure if this is a recent change or not.

Putting Robot Chicken into the spoofs seems redundant, as they have been released before. The chapter stops should have been put at the beginning of each individual bit.

EDIT:Watched the whole spoofs thing. Way too many RC sketches. (We can get those on DVD and Blu, thanks Lucasfilm!) Nice to have the Super Bowl ad with "mini Vader" though.

Lots of Saturday Night Live, but nothing of Carrie Fisher's hosting. One MTV movie awards spoof of ROTS, but no Chewie finally getting his medal from Carrie in the 90's, nor that band that performed in SW costumes several years back. An all too fleeting glimpse of the Donny and Marie SW musical, that could have been included in it's entirety, but that would have meant less Robot Chicken!

A couple weird things I never saw before, (British tv?) and at least one clip in really bad Youtube quality. There's also a Candid Camera bit from 1977 with a seven year old that will make even a bitter old fanboy smile.

I can think of several things they forgot. The Cantina skit Richard Pryor did on his short lived 70's series, with the actual costumes from the movie. The Bob Hope special Mark Hamill guested on where Bob appears in Vader garb. And a skit from the short lived 80's SNL competitor "Fridays" in which the Emperor is revealed to be Ronald Reagan.