Baronlando

That's awesome, thank you elvin for sharing.

That whole thing about the fanedits is pretty odd isn't it? Everyone who liked the old version better is a hypocrite cutting their own ideal version? The hell? Could that be more of an exaggeration? That's a pretty paranoid and weird leap to make. It's like cokehead logic. (plus  I honestly can't think of a single fan edit that isn't intended as an exercise in making a variant of the special edition, totally separate from the original cut preservation issue)

Hooray, hacky radio AND LFL shilling come together. Two great tastes that taste great together!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuKgRiHlT4

And please, let's not go expecting LFL to make the same effort required of other, more prestigious and lucrative trilogies.

msycamore said:

It's amazing that there's still some idiots after 15 years of film enthusiasts and old Star Wars fans trying to explain the situation calmly, burp "he released the original films on DVD and you're still complaining".

That's the worst. Hold GL's products to some minimum standard, geez.

Well, don't forget there was about 20 solid years from 77-97 where GL probably had the most loyal fans of any director in the history of...ever. Is 20 years not enough? All that positivity and good vibes from the first generation ultimately seemed to mean very little to LFL once it was clear the products would sell fine either way.

nightstalkerpoet said: It was non-anamorphic, but it was an attempt to do something for the fans that George didn't want to do anyways - a small sacrifice, but one none the less. (also, keep in mind that in 2006, your average person had not converted to HDTV or widescreen, and didn't suffer the same issues with that format that videophiles did)

How many people thanked him for doing that?

I'm sorry, but only a real doormat would thank him for the privilege of buying 60 bucks worth of laserdisc bootlegs.

Yippie Ki Yay Mr. Falcon!

It's funny and sort of endearing how in GL interviews he always ends up ranting to the poor interviewer, like the interviewer is his bartender or something.(I'm sure the studio reluctance was pure racism and had nothing to with his non-star wars box office track record. Cameron, Spielberg, Fincher, Ridley Scott, Tarantino and everyone else could NEVER pitch Red Tails and get it made. Whuh?)

walking_carpet said:What likely happened was they saw a man who cannot write, cannot direct, cannot work with actors

Nah. Post-AMERICAN GRAFFITI, the most profitable movie ever at that time, full of great performances and expertly made for about 12 bucks, no one would have thought that, no matter how kooky Star Wars sounded.

GL doing that maverick schtick is just hilarious at this point but I really hope this movie is good and it's nice that he tried to make something different. (I love that he's a pioneer in all black filmmaking now. I guess we're ignoring Miracle at St. Anna. And Mario Van Peebles. And the entire fucking '70s). Did we ever find out the nature of all the re-cuts and re-shooting?

Alexrd said:

I took it as looking as realistic as possible.

Well, doesn't matter how you take it, the point was that when the FX guys, not me, are aiming to make it look photoreal they don't mean that. I wasn't being super-literal with the midget thing, just trying to illustrate that THEIR (the fx people) goal was to make it look like something that was always there. But I've tried like 3 times to say that and I'm failing, so I'll recuse myself.

Alexrd said:Using the picture above as reference, he looks realistic (different from real) to me. But then again, so does the puppet.

Sure I see what you're saying but forget the puppet for a second, when the FX guys say "photorealistic" is the goal, they very literally mean that you would just never know it wasn't actually there. You're supposed to just say "man, that is a really athletic midget in a great costume."

Alexrd said:

How is this not photorealistic?

Uh, well, everybody's different I guess. To you, yoda just looks like he was there on the set and photographed with everything else? not arguing, just wondering.

Have you seen the (very high quality) HD version that was showing on Spike  just recently? Wondering what version that is, maybe you can use it for something?

canofhumdingers said:

 

This is the way I've always viewed the secne. He cuts them both down. And that IS Walrus Man's arm. Which means it is a goof that he has one type of hand in one shot & a totally different hand in another shot. But I can live with it. It's a low(er) budget movie from 1977.

 

Seriously.

negative1 said:

it would have to be done through lucasfilm

funds, and included in their budget. he can't

legally do his own restoration using personal funds.

this is why it would have to be planned out, voted on,

etc. a lot of legal issues that he cleared once before

and also overcoming his personal issues with 

None of that is true in this case.

negative1 said:

 

theres no guarantee lucasfilm has the budget for this,

or if it would be profitable releasing it.

Nope.

Yeah I can't see praising this box over deleted scenes and utterly average transfers, extras. Because nobody does that. Nobody except EVERYBODY. You can say all that about 2FAST 2FURIOUS. But let's give LFL a trophy for participation, like in preschool. 

mverta said:

For what it's worth, I had information from a friend at ILM prior to the GOUT release that the original title and crawl were, indeed, recreated for the 2006 release, albeit carefully and conscientiously. 

That sounds just pointless enough to be true.

well, in that poster he does remind me of Eric the Midget.

I can't see trading one kind of fakeness for another.  (A newer kind that doesn't resemble the period the movie was made, unlike everything around it). It might be different if there was even one shot in the whole prequel trilogy where he looked utterly real (not talking about where he looks cool or has great non-puppety movement, but where he looks like he just walked on the soundstage, had coffee, and then they merely photographed him). Honestly I can't think of one.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Without fear of being bashed (and please people, don't bash opinions on this) does anyone think that the Yoda in the OT could be replaced in a way that would improve the films? Keep in mind, this is assuming the CGI is done well and is well integrated not to stand out.

A digital Yoda would always stand out, it's unavoidable, the movie is 32 years old. (some guys may just like the look of a digital creature over a muppet, but that's a different thing)

Has anyone floated the theory that they were just going to have that instrumental music (the tune the band plays after the Boushh scene ends) during everything? In other words the band is playing, the song gets interrupted when Chewie/Boushh show up, and they resume where they left off just like in the Cantina. (Where did the singer go anyway?) Before GL had the late inspiration to add a musical number.

Seeing the 2D version sounds kind of depressing. That movie was such an event the first time,  this time you can basically go watch the blu-ray with 6 other guys in dinky Theater 14.