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I like this one, we can always use more mainstream reminders out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVT0B3pPsa8&feature=player_embedded
It is kind of impressive and Inception-y how Lucas was able to plant the seeds of this general idea and make it grow out there, becoming normal. Whether it's remakes or special editions or 3D, the idea is everywhere now: keeping Star Wars "up-to-date" in one way or another (every few years for the rest of our lives I guess) is something that just needs to happen. Something that would have sounded really stupid in 1994 became inevitable by 2004.
GOUT, but only to see if I'm drunk and/or tired enough to not care how bad it is. Success rate varies.
I think young Lucas was just talking about how the effects wouldn't mean jack if people didn't like Ford, Hamill and the gang, not the necessity of FX scenes, or lack thereof. This topic would come up a lot in that period, usually in the context of getting Lucas to distinguish Star Wars from Black Hole, Galactica, Star Trek I, Krull, Dragonslayer, and everything else that came out in its wake.
Hey come on now, he's not an asshole. This situation with the original versions is more of a dick move. Anyway the reality is that he just doesn't have the same job he had in 1983 so his m.o. is different now. He quit making movies to sell trinkets and give ponderous interviews. Did you know that Joseph Campbell Mythology Genre Limitations of Technology?
there's a lot of that here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/growingupstarwars/pool/with/4909360900/
Ah, but wait:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-Photo/dp/1593078749/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c
It might be worth repeating that the meaning of the scene in EMPIRE with Luke in the cave was a big topic, and may be the first and last time a million grade- school kids on playgrounds were debating symbolism and meaning in a film. Over punch and fruit rolls.
Yikes, forget the kids, I was just reading how fewer and fewer adults even bother with anything slightly "old", even though access to that stuff is easier than ever. The Godfather/Citizen Kane/etc. aren't just boring and overrated to kids and teenagers now, apparently most 30 year olds can't sit still for that stuff and never will. (edit-on the plus side, our kids will have a pretty badass president!)
It's interesting how the True Vision changes at roughly the same rate as a traditional, Disney-ish 6-year home video cycle. What a cosmic coincidence.
It's a good thing all of us are such doormats when it comes to Star Wars. Generally, in customer relations "no comment" isn't a great answer when someone has the temerity to ask what's actually on the thing that's up for order.
Temple of Doom is awesome. It's just one of those things that clicks for you or not. And if it doesn't, that's your loss, but I can't do nothing for you, man. (you jumped outta the jelly into a jam)
I guess all the pan/scan/editing disclaimers etc. is something the industry agreed to do as self-regulating, but Lucas is above that. A situation like this is just too retarded to get the law involved, you can't make it illegal to be douchey. (The press for the blu-ray box is just the latest example. "Hey, nerds! Pre-order this thing without even knowing what's on it!")
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I'm saying those who unconditionally see the OT as perfection and the PT as pure dribble have their opinions distorted by nostalgia -
Nostalgia can't make a person involuntarily giggle or yawn at the prequels. And this isn't like grading a math test. Nobody goes down a list picking out the number of flaws in one movie vs. another and arriving at a score. If people give a shit about Han being frozen temporarily but not Padme dying permanently, that's all she wrote, there's no nostalgia involved.
Well, technically there are laws about false advertising, which it really was, but I guess it's not a big enough deal to get anyone in charge to do anything about it. The dvd of THX1138 is actually worse when it comes to misrepresenting what's in the package. "The movie has been restored!" Huh? Restored to what?
How is this different from these things that you could get for 2 bucks at the mall:
Yeesh, for 3 grand you could actually do a lot of work on a new scan of the original instead of looking at this book/ paper pause button. (by the way it looks like Rian Johnson, the director of BRICK has the right idea
I guess it's progress that someone like Rinzler is acknowledging that it's worthwhile to make the distinction. For a while you had guys like Sansweet getting all butthurt when the changes were even brought up.
It's definitely different. It's a pretty cool change actually.
i'll look for a better quality clip, in the meantime, at 4:50-
The budget was plenty for the movie, there's nothing wrong with it that more money could have fixed. You can't buy anti-boredom software. (There's a ton of waste in regular movies anyway, mccallum had the right idea about that)
I had it, but with a different cover. (It's a kid's book.)
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Making-Larry-Weinberg/dp/0394944933
A lot of expensive disasters that nobody liked were made post-77 and were very financially damaging. I'm still trying to figure out how they can blame Lucas and Spielberg for all those directors who were awesome in 1972 but got completely coked up and misguided by 1980.
Ha, Rogen. I heard that new pineapple express weed can make you paranoid. I wonder if Lucas and Spielberg started to appear as a hot dog and hamburger to him, like that one bugs bunny cartoon.
Seriously. The hell?
I'm reading it but it's giving me the creeps. The guy's inappropriately angry.