Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist — Page 314

Third, I like the idea of working the word "Sith" into ESB and/or ROTJ once or twice.

i agree with getting a sith mention in somewhere in the OT, or removing it from the PT altogether. one or the other.

Darth Cadavra said:

...it's never made sense to me that Vader or Palpatine would consider Luke a "new" enemy several years after he saved Leia and destroyed the Death Star......

I think Palps sees him as a new enemy because Luke has just made contact with Yoda.....there is a tremor in the force......'I have felt it' Vader says.....the force is like a spiders web with Palps in the middle.

J

Why not cut it further to make this great threat a bit more anonymous (Luke, Yoda, Ben's ghost, the Other).

As a fan edit proposal it could even be the opening scene in the film setting up the whole 'search for Skywalker' plot stream though it would create the need for a new crawl and a new opening shot it would result in an un-interrupted Asteroid sequence.

I mention it here safe in the prejudgment that Adywan would never do such thing but it might interest someone.

VADER: What is thy bidding, my master?

EMPEROR: There is a great disturbance in the Force.

VADER: I have felt it.

EMPEROR: We have a new enemy.

VADER: Yes, my master.

EMPEROR: The Force is strong with him.

He could destroy us.

VADER: If he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally.

EMPEROR: Yes…yes…he would be a great asset. Can it be done?

VADER: He will join us or die, master.

yoda1138 said:

I don't mind that Sebulba walks down some steps in Jabbas Palace.

Yay, more shoving of the Prequels in our face!

:-/

timdiggerm said:

I feel like "shoving" is a bit of an overstatement. I, for one, rather liked the addition of the battle droid head in the Jawa's crawler in Revisited.

The palace is asleep and no one is stirring...except for a dug?

SHOVE!!!

EMPEROR: Yes…yes…he would be a great Sith. Can it be done?

Having one character move through the frame while all others are imobile is a way of drawing attention towards that particular character....in much the same way that you'll notice main characters walking down a crowded street will often be wearing brighter clothes than any of the extras who are there simply as "filler". If he had wanted to add a prequel alien to the thing to make a link between PT and OT then he should have had the dug relaxing in a corner like everyone else. A battle droid head in a pile of scrap is a good example of this.....its doing what the rest of the junk is doing....nothing. And your attention is still on the subject of that particular frame....the red droid that later blows his motivator

timdiggerm said:

Point taken, particularly about the movement. I don't mind a little PT in my OT if we're trying to tie them together as a saga (as both Ady and Lucas are doing, really), but point taken.

Nor I.....but I DO firmly believe that Lucas is working backwards. Instead of making the PT feel more like what he had already created, he made it completely different and is going back to attempt to make the originals fit better with his new "films". The dug IMHO is the least invasive of all the changes....BUT it was done wrong. It should have been re-clothed, so as not to be a blatant copy of the AOTC one.....then should have been made to fit the action of that particular shot (some half-way decent CGI would go a long way as well)

Seems there is some good news about the blue rays.

Reviews from Blu-ray.com confirm that deleted scenes are scanned in HD quality!

Awesome for ROTJ:R

Matticon

http://thechive.com/2011/09/12/rare-photos-on-the-set-of-return-of-the-jedi-before-cgi-they-actually-built-sets-27-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedburner%2FZdSV+%28theCHIVE%29

check out picture 12. do you think they were originally supposed to make off on speeder bikes?

i like the idea of it over hanging a water fall. can you imagine the explosion causing it to fall and crash over the rocks?

has anyone suggested turning endor into some sort of prehistoric planet? so lots of dinosaurs and giant birds. almost like king kong. not necessarily like avatar, but perhaps it could just be BIG.

EyeShotFirst said:

 

Star Wars and Empire used nature and made them alien. Deserts and Tundra are all over the world, but they made them work. They sold regular things as irregular things.

Jedi just doesn't sell the woods of California as very alien, simply because most people probably drive by woods very similar every day or live near woods like that.

For what it's worth, I'm from the Southwest US, and Tatooine never seemed that alien to me. In fact, I think I liked Luke more because he grew up in a place that was so much like my hometown.

I thought Endor was the most amazing place I'd ever seen. I think I went to college in the Pacific Northwest because of a desire placed watching ROTJ when I was little.

They could just make the trees on Endor larger, thicker.

And Tatooine should be mostly just sand dunes with the occassional desert plain and rock outcropping. But Geonosis looks like its clone. The PT was the main culprit.

yoda1138 said:

Just watched ROTJ on Bluray. :-(

 

 

Now, heres the bad....

Matte lines are very present. And worse, there are grey boxes around spaceships in battle, grey hexagon around the Death star in some shots, and weird anomalies/boxes around speeder bikes and the star destroyer as it plunges into the deathstar surface.(Maybe due to said Brightness levels being up?)

 

 

 

This was also noticable on the DVD's. Turn your brightness on your tv set way up and you'll see. Also, the TIE-fighters in the death star scene, seem to appear from nowhere in front of the millenium falcon. You can see this in de cockpit shot right after Lando says: 'fighters coming in". This has to be fixed

^This has been picked up before but it's shocking they screwed around with other things without fixing that.