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REVENGE OF THE SITH REVIEW PART 1


ALRIGHT, I'VE RUN THROUGH ALL OF THE SPECIAL FEATURES ON THE ROTS DVD. IT TOOK MY THE ENTIRE NIGHT. THERE ARE 15 TV TRAILERS. WHO KNEW ??? MENU DESIGN AND FUNCTIONALITY ARE GREAT. THE NUMBER 15 POPS UP AGAIN AS THERE ARE 15 WEB DOCUMENTARIES. THE "WITHIN A MINUTE" FEATURETTE WAS QUITE IMPRESSIVE AS THE WHOLE SCREEN BRANCHES OUT THE MUSTAFAR DUEL INTO EACH DEPARTMENT THAT WORKED ON THE SCENE WHICH , OF COURSE WAS EVERY DEPARTMENT. YOU GO TO EACH BRANCH ONE AT A TIME. AS YOU GO TO THE "BRANCH" IT BRANCHES OUT AGAIN WITH A PICTURE AND NAME OF EACH CREW MEMBER FOR SAID BRANCH. NOW, YOU DON'T SELECT A BRANCH. THE WHOLE THING RUNS FROM ONE TO ANOTHER UNTIL YOU GET TO THE "ON FILM" SEQUENCE. THE FEATURETTE RUNS RIGHT CLOSE TO AN HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES. YOU GET A STUNTS DOCUMENTARY AND "THE CHOSEN ONE" FEATURETTE WHICH FOCUSES ON DARTH VADER'S REDEMPTION WITH THE DOTS BEING CONNECTED FROM TPM THROUGH ROTJ. THERE IS A VIDEO GAME SECTION WITH A BATTLEFRONT 2 XBOX DEMO, "A HERO FALLS" MUSIC VIDEO, POSTER AND PRINT CAMPAIGN, PRODUCTION PHOTO GALLERY (NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN), AND EXCLUSIVE DVD-ROM CONTENT THAT INCLUDES A FREE 7-DAY TRIAL OF HYPERSPACE. LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE SIX DELETED SCENES WITH OR WITHOUT INTRO. "THE GRIEVOUS SLAUGHTERS A JEDI; ESCAPE FROM THE GENERAL (ANIMATIC)" WAS THE BEST AS WE SEE THE ORIGINAL FATE OF SHAAK TI. "EXILED TO DAGOBAH" WAS NICE, BUT ONLY THIRTY SECONDS LONG. IT WAS RICK McCALLUM'S FAVORITE "DELETED" SCENE WHICH ALMOST MADE IT TO THE FINAL FILM. HE STATES THAT HE EVEN BEGGED GEORGE TO KEEP IT IN THE MOVIE, BUT SINCE IT WAS CUT HE HOPES THAT IT WILL MAKE IT INTO GL'S REVISED VERSION OF ROTS. THERE IS ALSO AN ALTERNATE "A PLOT TO DESTROY THE JEDI ?" SCENE BETWEEN OBI-WAN, MACE WINDU, AND YODA. THE REST OF THE DELETED SCENES FOCUS ON THE SENATORS TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH PALPATINE IF HE DOESN'T LAY DOWN HIS POWER IF GENERAL GRIEVOUS IS DESTROYED.

STAY TUNED FOR PART 2 WHICH WILL COVER DISC 1 SPECS AND A REVIEW OF THE COMMENTARY TRACK.


BTW, SOME OF YOU WILL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THERE IS AN INSERT THAT CONTAINS A LIST OF ALL FIFTY OF THE CHAPTERS AND A LIST OF THE SPECIAL FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARIES ON THE SECOND DISK.

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HE STATES THAT HE EVEN BEGGED GEORGE TO KEEP IT IN THE MOVIE, BUT SINCE IT WAS CUT HE HOPES THAT IT WILL MAKE IT INTO GL'S REVISED VERSION OF ROTS.


wtf???
revised?

this movie just came out... did Lucas not like some of the scenes because he was limited to what technology he could use...
lol

this is proof right here that he's simly using these shitty films as a fuckin cash cow...
what an ass
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REVENGE OF THE SITH REVIEW PART 2


WORST COMMENTARY TRACK EVER. THE COMMENTARY TRACK WAS MADE WITH SEPERATE TRACKS BY GEORGE LUCUS, RICK McCALLUM, ROB COLEMAN WITH JOHN KNOLL AND ROGER GUYETTE EDITED INTO ONE COMMENTARY TRACK. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ROB COLEMAN HAS TAKEN IT UPON HIMSELF TO BE THE BEN BURTT OF THIS COMMENTARY BY HAVING HIS VOICE HEARD MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE ON THE COMMENTARY TRACK. THE COMMENTARY IS ALSO EXTREMELY REDUNDANT. YOU HEAR GEORGE LUCAS DISCUSSING HOW GENERAL GRIEVOUS CAME ABOUT THEN HIS TRACK IS CUT OFF BY JOHN KNOLL WHO IS BASICALLY REPEATING WHAT GL SAID THEN IT GOES BACK TO LUCAS PARAPHRASING WHAT HE HAD ALREADY STATED. THIS HAPPENS ALL THROUGH THE COMMENTARY. YOU CAN TELL JUST HOW BADLY THE COMMENTARY WAS EDITED, BECAUSE YOU'LL HEAR GEORGE SUDDENLY CUT OFF MID-SENTENCE, A BRIEF AUDIO PAUSE, AND THEN SOMEONE ELSE TALKING. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO HAVE HAD SEPERATE AUDIO COMMENTARY TRACKS THAT THE VIEWER COULD CHOOSE FROM, BUT INSTEAD WE GET A PISS POOR VERSION.

THE PICTURE QUALITY IS GREAT. YOU GET TO CHOOSE AMONG DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND EX, ENGLISH 2.0 SURROUND, SPANISH 2.0 SURROUND, AND FRENCH 2.0 SURROUND. WHY THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE DOLBY DIGITAL 6.0 SURROUND IS BEYOND ME. THE ONLY SUBTITLES OFFERED ARE IN ENGLISH. THE THX OPTIMIZED IS AVAILABLE AS ALWAYS WITH THE STAR WARS DVDs.

AS FAR AS THE YODA HIP HOP EASTER GOES ALL I HAD TO DO WAS GO TO TITLE 03 TO ACCESS IT FROM THE MAIN MENU. IT WAS CUTE, BUT I LIKE MOST PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED COPIES WOULD HAVE PREFERRED SOME OUTTAKES AS AN EASTER EGG.

THE THREE DIFFERENT PLANET MENUS WERE DONE QUITE NICELY.

THE DVD-ROM FEATURES ONLY WORK WITH WINDOWS EVEN THOUGH IT IS STATED THAT SOME FEATURES MAY WORK ON MAC.


ALL IN ALL THIS WAS A PRETTY NICE DVD TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION IF FOR NOTHING ELSE THEN TO COMPLETE YOUR STAR WARS DVD COLLECTION. I, LIKE MOST OF YOU, WILL BE EAGERLY ANTICIPATING SOME VERY NICELY MADE FAN EDITS OF THIS MOVIE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

THIS IS A BUY.

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Good to hear the picture and sound quality is great, but it would take a lot to screw up a direct digital port, unless you're Disney in the early part of this century. Thanks for the review, DAYV.

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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV

"THE CHOSEN ONE" FEATURETTE WHICH FOCUSES ON DARTH VADER'S REDEMPTION WITH THE DOTS BEING CONNECTED FROM TPM THROUGH ROTJ.

Dayv, what does "DOTS" stand for?

And Gundark, when and how did Disney screw up a direct digital port?
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LOL.

This is why Dayv's "signature" style of posting is semi-irritating sometimes. "DOTS" isn't an acronym. He means dots as in "connect-the-dots." As in "this happened, which leads to this happening, which leads to THIS happening, and then THIS happens," and so on and so forth.
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DAYV, question for you (or anyone else that knows)

so i went to pick up the Batman Begins dvd this weekend and wanted to get the 2 disc set but the first two stores i went to didnt have it. I ended up getting it at costco for cheaper than it would have been online so its all good. but when i asked the guy at best buy if they had it he said it was discontinued. now correct me if im wrong, but this came out on the 18th, so its been out all of like 2 weeks. Is this just some employee not knowing what he's talking about or did they really discontinue a dvd thats only been out for half a month, and would (in that case) need to be canceled the day it was released for shipments to not go out so its not in stores 2 weeks later?

btw, I thought the movie was great. I hadnt seen it yet, so missed it at the theaters unfortunatly, but i did watch it on my Uncle's 52" widescreen tv with surround sound, so it was a good presentation.

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IN MY EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO WORK AT BEST BUY FOR THE MOST PART THEY DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH. I WILL TELL YOU THIS, A FEW OF THE MOVIE STUDIOS ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SINGLE VS. DOUBLE DISC RELEASES WHERE THE PRICE DIFFERENTIAL IS ONLY A COUPLE OF DOLLARS AND IN SOME CASES ONLY A BUCK. BATMAN BEGINS WAS ONE OF THESE RELEASES. THE STUDIOS WANT TO KNOW IF CONSUMERS STILL WANT BONUS FEATURES OR NOT. YOU SEE IT COSTS THE STUDIOS MORE MONEY TO MAKE A TWO DISC SET THAN A SINGLE DISC. THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE THEIR MONEY BACK AND NOT HAVE PRODUCT SITTING ON STORE SHELVES THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE RETURNED TO THE STUDIOS FOR A REFUND. THIS IS ALSO THE CASE WHEN IT COMES TO THE THEATRICAL VS. UNRATED RELEASES AS WELL. SO, THE EMPLOYEE AT BEST BUY COULD BE CORRECT, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY OFFICIAL WORD FROM MY SOURCES.

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THE STORY OF STAR WARS BONUS DISC AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WAL*MART IS NOT WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. HOWEVER, I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING THAT THEY USED BOTH CLIPS FROM THE O-OT AND THE SEs. SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE MAKING FAN EDITS THIS MIGHT BE WORTH BUYING. MUCH OF THE DIALOGUE IN THE CLIPS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR MEANING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE MUSIC MIXED IN WITH IT. I'M SURE THAT WILL BE OF SOME INTEREST TO OUR FINE GROUP OF EDITORS HERE, BUT FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT.

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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THE STORY OF STAR WARS BONUS DISC AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WAL*MART IS NOT WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. HOWEVER, I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING THAT THEY USED BOTH CLIPS FROM THE O-OT AND THE SEs. SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE MAKING FAN EDITS THIS MIGHT BE WORTH BUYING. MUCH OF THE DIALOGUE IN THE CLIPS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR MEANING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE MUSIC MIXED IN WITH IT. I'M SURE THAT WILL BE OF SOME INTEREST TO OUR FINE GROUP OF EDITORS HERE, BUT FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT.


Thanks! And I was actually going to make the hike out to Wally World and pick it up. Maybe not. What's the price difference on it? Or was it a free bonus disc?
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Originally posted by: Warbler

And Gundark, when and how did Disney screw up a direct digital port?


Atlantis: The Lost Empire is riddled with edge enhancement, and so are several other animated titles that were ported directly from digital files. Beauty and the Beast, anyone?

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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THE STORY OF STAR WARS BONUS DISC AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WAL*MART IS NOT WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. HOWEVER, I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING THAT THEY USED BOTH CLIPS FROM THE O-OT AND THE SEs. SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE MAKING FAN EDITS THIS MIGHT BE WORTH BUYING. MUCH OF THE DIALOGUE IN THE CLIPS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR MEANING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE MUSIC MIXED IN WITH IT. I'M SURE THAT WILL BE OF SOME INTEREST TO OUR FINE GROUP OF EDITORS HERE, BUT FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT.


Thanks! And I was actually going to make the hike out to Wally World and pick it up. Maybe not. What's the price difference on it? Or was it a free bonus disc?


THE PRICE DIFFERENCE IS FIVE DOLLARS.

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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THE STORY OF STAR WARS BONUS DISC AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WAL*MART IS NOT WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. HOWEVER, I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING THAT THEY USED BOTH CLIPS FROM THE O-OT AND THE SEs. SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE MAKING FAN EDITS THIS MIGHT BE WORTH BUYING. MUCH OF THE DIALOGUE IN THE CLIPS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR MEANING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE MUSIC MIXED IN WITH IT. I'M SURE THAT WILL BE OF SOME INTEREST TO OUR FINE GROUP OF EDITORS HERE, BUT FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT.


Thanks! And I was actually going to make the hike out to Wally World and pick it up. Maybe not. What's the price difference on it? Or was it a free bonus disc?



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Originally posted by: Anakin's Mannequin
If they were closed when you got there, were you going to hold them up with a bee bee gun?


Maybe. What of it?

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I will just buy the standard copy.
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Bonus disc isn't available in Canada, and the only premiums came with pre-orders. Got mine @ Wal-Mart, because I wasn't going to go through the same crap I dealt with in trying to find the Deluxe Edition of Batman Begins.

On a side note, Wal-Mart didn't stock the Deluxe Edition of Batman Begins; instead they stocked a Batman Begins 2-pack that came with a DVD of episodes from The Batman. Weird.

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Sweet. Too bad you can't get a Hollwood Foreign Press pass, so you could go to the Golden Globes.

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Fair enough.

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