Baronlando

Rcb, did you really like this jabba? just curious

The drama surrounding the original versions keeps me interested. It's fascinating and annoying at the same time. (well, it's the most interesting part of the current LFL universe, which is essentially a QVC shopping channel-type enterprise now)

It seems like Lucas really doesn't feel like paying for the 3D thing until it becomes more cheap and commonplace. The bright side is that Star Trek and Lord of the Rings are doing their theatrical version-blurays sooner rather than later,  I guess because it gives them more opportunities to sell all the variations during the life of bluray. Let's hope LFL realizes there might be some bucks to be made doing it that way.

they only had Jedi

yeah, they were just unpacking them at best buy. It's just the individual 2006 2-discers but with the 2004 covers and a sticker that says both versions are included. classy!

(in other words it's both discs in this...http://www.markrh.com/dvd/images/StarWarsVI-ReturnOfTheJedi.jpg

instead of...

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Return_of_the_Jedi/return_of_the_jedi_original_dvd.jpg

Man, we are so far away from blu-ray, I just saw ANOTHER repackaging of the 2006 discs...but in the 2004 covers. There must be a Raiders warehouse full of these things.

Jedi's got problems but it gets by on charm, and these days I'm glad the trilogy ended very simply (or simplistically if you want to be a hardnose about it). Especially now that I've seen other trilogies (Matrix, Pirates, etc.) totally disappear up their own ass in part 3.

It's a really common figure of speech (in the U.S.).

I like that. The shot of Luke cutting that guy's weapon after he says "get the gun" etc. would be great for decapitating Boba instead. (how you do that and how you get Boba onto the barge I have no idea!)

That's fine for you, but out of all the star wars-related places on the internet why go to...ORIGINAL TRILOGY.com to deliver these lectures? Maybe next you could go to a Beatles forum and hassle people about not liking Wings enough.

Side question: Does anybody remember the 1997 versions looking VERY different in the theater than in all the subsequent video releases? My recollection is that the prints were really fantastic and natural looking, with none of the various weird tints and cartoony colors of the tapes and discs that came after.

I remember that campaign quite well. In fact there was a HUGE billboard (with that half-face Vader from the laserdisc/vhs covers) that I passed every day going to school that said "get the original ONE LAST TIME". At the time it was no big deal because, hey, what could ever be better than laserdisc? Lucas had been on the rag for years about a couple of cantina masks and some of the X-Wing manuevers, but nobody expected whole scenes would be turned into fucking Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (Actually, my friend thought the Jabba scene looked more like those Frosted Flakes commercials)

Both sets (and really  all the Star Wars dvds except the Clone Wars blu-ray which seemed to do quite well) just sit on the shelves around here, I still see the same dusty Phantom Menaces from 2 elections ago. And yet they never seem to have enough Die Hard!

They cannot give these away at the stores around me, they're just piled up, but maybe after christmas someone will actually see them. (and hopefully the big sales of Dark Knight will inspire Lucasfilm to get it right. )

Lucasfilm=deadbeat dad on Maury Povich

negative1 said:

there were 3 more sequels for jaws,

2 more for 'the godfather',

and 2 tv-spinoffs, and 2 movie sequels for 'animal house'..

i doubt any of those made any impact, or created more fans for the original..

unlike 'star war's where all the new material has created a larger, bigger,

fan-following, and demand for more movies/tv shows/books/comics etc..

later

-1

Who gives a shit about "impact" besides entertainment reporters?

Actually, Empire and Jedi didn't play the Chinese either, they were at The Egyptian. (which had a big post-earthquake restoration and is now way smaller than it was, I have no idea why)

negative1 said:

face it, without any new star wars material... you'd be

======================================

1) bored out of your minds

2) watching your same videos over again for the 100th time

3) fantasizing about new some new stars that would NEVER come out...

 

yeah, that's why i like living in the past so much, because i don't have to

face reality, and the present.......... and be stuck there with the bunch of

you that wish it were true..

 

later

-1

 

The hell??

If it had all ended in 1983, it would be no different than The Godfather or Jaws or Animal House or any other well-liked movie from that era. It'd be on your shelf and you could watch it if you felt like it, life goes on. THE END.

The Northpoint test screening was in 1977, (Marsters is also obviously mistaken when he says he was considered for Phantom Menace, not Attack of the clones)  and nothing was changed because the kids loved it so much. Paul Hirsch asked Lucas if he wanted to do any further changes and Lucas said "I guess we'll leave it alone."

negative1 said:

"it too was aimed at children ... because judging from the marketing

perspective, that's what sold the movie to the studio, and other investors, in looking at the

long term profits..."

That's not really true. The toys were almost a YEAR after the fact, they were completely unprepared for that kind of kid interest, and had nothing ready for the kids. The studio even GAVE UP its merchandising rights, thinking them to be worthless.  It was not initially marketed to children, it was sold to sci-fi/ comic book guys (at conventions etc.) along the same demographic as Star Trek.

It's probably not that personal. "It's strictly business, Sonny." From a recent Clone Wars article:

Tartakovsky explained that he got "The Clone Wars" gig, which was thought up by Lucasfilm Ltd., because the action figures for the recent Star Wars movies weren't selling as well as they had hoped.

Cartoon Network has a relationship with Hasbro, the company that produces Star Wars action figures.

My point? I was taking a guess at what the current main base of fans is. You can take off your hall monitor sash any time.

It feels like The Clone Wars audience is becoming the "base", I guess. It's sort of a "hit" by kids/cable/cartoon/not-Hannah Montana standards. (Way to aim high.)

Awesome, great work.

astromech said:

There is a difference between praising a person for his more wide reaching influences on an industry/area than there is for constantly bashing him for making changes to his creation. This is more a thread congratulating the man on his achievements outside Star Wars - of course it would end up praising him as without Star Wars, we'd still be using sticky tape and wires in our SFX...

 

Douglas Trumbull would disagree.