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Maybe she lays low because she assumes people just want to dish about GL, but I'm sure others would like to hear about her work methods and anecdotes. Forget Star Wars for a second, it's like her contributions to Taxi Driver have become collateral damage and we don't hear much about that either. There's a blu-ray coming and it would be nice to have her reflections on it.

The Marcia part of the story is just bananas, you couldn't make it up. You wouldn't think it was possible for her contributions to be so minimized. Especially since we know all about every bolt in the Dykstraflex at this point. (And zombie, as the Woodward/Bernstein of Star Wars, has totally added to our understanding of that. It's kind of amazing to step back and realize how the secret history project has slowly seeped in all over the place )

I had a hugely inappropriate unlicensed t-shirt from Tijuana that said BAR WARS- with a crowded image of Mad-magazine style caricatures of the cantina aliens like Greedo, walrus man, hammerhead etc., and a drunk Ben Kenobi. All brawling, dancing with scantily clad ladies, and drinking tequila from those bottles with the 3 Xs on them.

Sorry if this has been covered already. Has anyone attempted to use the blu-ray to do an "original-ish" cut that follows the laserdisc cut as much as possible? I'm trying to figure out what the most crucial "lost shots" are, ones that are just gone from  the movie altogether. (The big ones off the top of my head being the rat that donald pleasance sees, and the underground animated monkey)

Meanwhile, Leia got some jewelry and a baggy lounge dress from Mrs. Roper.

This looks right, I think? Tan Dracula rules!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgMIpz7DkI

From what I can tell, it's unusual to find a forum where any perceived negativity (or just harmless goofing) about the forum's topic isn't taken way too personally. Like a religion. "What? Haven't you heard the good news of your savior??" Except the savior is that new watery-looking Sy snootles. Thank Mola Ram for ot.com.

Well who knows, 2013 is only 2 years away, they gotta have something to hype the single-movie releases, maybe a GOUT 2.0. (I only brought up the Blade Runner workprint in response to the oft-repeated statement that we should stop expecting a transfer of  Star Wars '77 in the new box merely because it will sell just fine without it. )

Sure but the point is they took the time, effort and money with the workprint even though it would not have hurt sales if they hadn't.

How many people would have boycotted the Blade Runner set if it didn't include the workprint version? Not many. And yet that is the dipshit logic that keeps getting thrown around for Star Wars: "We won't lose much money by not including the originals, so why should we bother putting out a superior product?"  Maybe, but why even get involved with movies if you're going to be such a middle-management weenie about it? Go be a fucking comptroller or something.

 

 Lucas: There is no original. (Was gone b4 1st 70s rerelease)

I guess that is a reference to the more minor, pre-97 changes? Somehow he equates that with putting 90s cartoon dinosaurs in it. Kooky.

Wow, that '77 frame is something. My first thought was that he probably only has the crawl, not a complete print (since there must be a lot of them floating around out there if they were swapping it out for the Ep. IV version in '81) but that hardly seems worth the effort.

I have several on my dvr that I'm checking out. It's not bad, although I think if you took out the lightsabers and changed the names no one would care. It's certainly better than most toy ad cartoons though. Except M.A.S.K., that was the shit.

Apparently Lucas and Christopher Nolan were on a panel last night about important film milestones at the DGA, followed by a screening of Star Wars. Wonder if the issue came up, or if they just showed the CGI version at an event about historical milestones without a trace of irony.

lordsidi said:

.oh yeah,in regards to the whining and bitching about the unaltered OT not being released AGAIN on blu ray,,there are enough VHS's,Laserdiscs and versions on other sites for anyone to obtain the PERFECT version of the movies....so buy or download it and get over yourselves

What does that even mean?

Check this out (if you haven't already)

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/ESB-70mm-Soundtrack-1980-in-theatre-recording/topic/12501/

Awesome. Thank you, sir.

Talking to people I've found it really depends on what kind of TV you have. (If you have netflix you can get try the 2006 dvd and see if its good enough for now. or  buy it if you see it somewhere cheap enough)

It might seem LucasFILM doesn't do much well...film, but that's not really true. Movies take an absurdly long time to get off the ground even if you're not as deliberate as Lucas, but the fact that they've "only" made 3 prequels, Indy 4 and Red Tails in the last 12 years is actually a pretty good output.

Even if the changes were better, ultimately, the most distracting thing is just the ever-present knowledge that this guy can't be bothered to do something so incredibly basic when selling his product. With all the hard work and effort many other people do to put out the best possible value for your bucks, that is some feeble shit, who wants to support that? (Seriously, right now, people are scouring the earth, looking in vaults for years at a time, following paper trails, hunched over in a lab, to make a great transfer of some movie you've never heard of that'll sell about 62 copies.)

The changes aren't painful, it's more like sitting next to a guy who just keeps  farting the whole movie.

Well yeah GL is at the center, but his behavior would be totally different if he didn't get such blind, unwavering support for his normal m.o.

It's too bad blu-ray is in the middle of 2 opposing groups. The smaller group that thinks its perfect for film presentation and history etc., and the bigger technophile group that just loves home theater and gets really into it to avoid talking to their wives. Those guys will sit through 10 Jedi Rocks if the matte lines are gone. And it's like the perfect storm when you add a guy like Lucas. (And not just him, there might be some compulsion with certain older directors to monkey around with their old movies just to feel like they're still in the game. Walter Hill did it with The Warriors, Friedkin too.)

Yikes, this guy has been in the movie longer than not in it.

Well if they're going for the customer-unfriendly hat trick (along with no originals and the fugly new colors), it's probably the good new stuff like deleted scenes etc.. (With the 4th disc in the trilogy sets comprised of the existing stuff from the dvds.)