Bingowings

Supreme Chancellor says :

DO IT! do it ...now

To get the Police Squad! joke to work just cut off the Star Wars music after a few bars and replace it with the Police Squad! Theme and line up the episode title in the crawl with the incorrect one on the Police Squad! soundtrack.

Too late to use (even if you wanted to) but this would have been amusing in the opera house scene (probably not safe for some work spaces).

Hans is back

I find them as celebrations to be distracting.

The Corsuscant footage could be as Ady suggested looked at as a riot but the celebrating should just be on Endor, that's where the battle was.

Ric, Luke and George are all on topic if that helps?

I've got more than a bad feeling about this.

ROTJ is as up for grabs as the PT in my book.

That said I think the aim should be to look at the films as they are and imagine what they positively could have been and move the films towards that.

Realising the potential hidden in the ore of the theatrical cut and the SEs.

ANH and ESB just needed a bit of modern looking polish added to make a more accomplished special edition.

ROTJ and the PT need major restructuring but I think the core aims should be left intact.

I personally would prefer ROTJ to end with the rebellion not over or implied to be.

Have our heroes jump into hyperspace with the knowledge that the saga continues. Those celebrations added for the SEs are premature, a cherry on a yet to be finished cake.

But isn't it the point that Fox has the distribution rights still?

Is there a word meaning a nostalgia for old bad news?

Having finally seen the blu-rays in all their 'glory' I'm more interested in seeing some Jedi collor pass previews than the PT.

Gosh those magenta faces on Endor.

After the cockup of the Back to the Future screenings I wouldn't recommend it. A friend of mine is still fighting for compensation from that event.

Besides we can probably guess which version it's going to be.

It's probably a bit too late now seeing as the conventions of the series have been established but I was watching Police Squad! the other night I thought the "tonights episode" gag would translate well with the crawl.

A little bit of totally off topic trivia but along with the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory was the little remembered "Klaatu are the Beatles" conspiracy theory.

People who couldn't take the biggest band in history splitting up clung to the hope that the almost anonymous Canadian band were the Fab Four still belting out records in disguise.

Conspiracy theories and aliens, you can't really have one without the other.

I blame Wilf.

Wilf speaks:

Esta é a hora de chorar.

¡BANG!

Mithrandir said:

Too much concern about the reveal, as if it were the pivotal point of the whole saga.

That's because it is.

Once you get past the one off that Star Wars (1977) was billed as being and get into a multi-episode saga that moment changes everything and defines the whole story.

For good and bad ROTJ and presumably the ST tell the story of the fallout from that revelation and the PT is about what led to it.

It's also the most unexpected kick in the teeth the saga has thrown any character in the saga, if not mainstream cinema in general.

I'd really have have a good hard think to come up with a similar cultural impact.

And it wasn't part of the original plan either, just like killing Ben.

Even guys from Permingham singing about cowboys had to throw in a space ship.

I'm not sure if I should blame Sun Ra or the Legendary Stardust Cowboy

When Luke is using the Force to contact Leia (and later Vader to contact Luke) the footage could be slightly slowed and extracts from this could be played over the soundtrack.

Surely you want to keep people guessing right up to Episode VI?

When we were children there was very heated discussions about if Vader was lying to Luke or not.

Watching some of the arena battle again I was wondering if it would work better as a night scene. With the various monsters picked out by moonlight and flashes of lightning.

It might make the sabers look better too.

The clones could arrive eclipsing the full moon.

It would make the place look less generic PT desert planet and there has yet to be a Star Wars night battle.

Could help but notice that the blue and black colour scheme of the plane made it look rather like a Naboo starfighter.

It doesn't seem to be on .info yet.

Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?
And which do you choose, a hard or soft option?

I was watching the extras on my finally purchased Star Wars blu-ray set.

There was that awful sequence where Anakin surfs the back of that cow/flea thing, (probably the worst effect in any film BTW) Nat Portman however delivered a genuinely touching expression of concern.

I got  bit of a brainwave.

What if Anakin's dreams get so strong he actually has seizures and passes out?

Maybe the awful "got ya" roll in the grass bit could be trimmed off and the sound from the deleted scene on the ship could be used to imply that Anakin has collapsed and is seeing his mother in peril.

This would help build sympathy for Anakin both from Padme and the audience and make their trip to Tatooine a little less reckless (seeing as he is supposed to be guarding her).

This would also help bolster the fugue state idea (that Vader is Anakin's subconscious Dark Side expressing itself during his unconscious moments).

I never found the secret identity of Padme in TPM a compelling subplot.

It's clearly a nod to Kurosawa and should have been a nice mirror to what Palpatine was doing but at no point was I convinced or even remotely interested. It added very little to the plot dynamic.

Recently I rewatched Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970).

FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN"T SEEN IT BEFORE

SPOILERS*****************************************************

Clint Eastwood is really a Ninja Monk.

We get like his adopted persona and how it copes with new situations but the sudden reveal not only makes sense but brings closure to the film.

Perhaps we should have been more focused on 'the queen' than the handmaiden and then find out she is just a lowly handmaiden after all.

Or maybe one of the 'Jedi' was really the monarch in disguise (or even Jar-Jar).

I would have put this in the fan edit section but I can't see how it could be introduced without starting the films from scratch.

Rebels capturing a prototype Death Star is a whole film worth of plot.

Back when I suggested the Emperor taking Luke to a surprise Death Star and having the two fleets stuck between the two battle stations I thought it through and it could be done with a tweak to the existing footage.

Why on Earth would the Rebels bring their fleet to such a risky winner takes all game if they had a Death Star of their own?

Personally I think the idea of going straight to Coruscant is also problematic.

That would be a few more victories down the line at least.

It's logical they would build one Death Star somewhere remote to make the cover story plausible and lure the rebels in with a weakened Death Star and then pick them off with a more complete one.

When the Emperor's disregard for his own men becomes obvious have a few mutinies to prove that not everyone in the Empire is beyond redemption (which is the lesson of the final picture what with Vader etc).

Having the Executor become a burning arrow plunging into the heart of a Death Star rather than pop on the surface like a dropped slice of pizza gives that beautiful ship a better send off.

It also give Piett, a nice arc which mirrors his direct superior but that's just me.

I'm sure Ady and the team have tonnes of more interesting ideas which play completely differently.

Leonardo said:

SilverWook said:

I see.

Somebody must have Jabba's palace recreated in their basement though, and it wouldn't be complete without Amanaman

 Dee - deee, de de deee.

 That joke must have frappuccino for blood...it just never gets tired.

Leonardo said:

The thing that bothers me is that Maria-bot from Metropolis is basically Threepio's mother.

 you meen hes a .... ?