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fredstar said:

Some more tweaks required.

Looks beautiful as-is.

However, the one (and only) thing I might change is remove the ships in the upper right corner. To me it looks like Vader is looking at them, as if he's annoyed that these tiny ships keep buzzing around in his face :)

Until I know more about carbon freezing, it's uses, and how practical/expensive it is to on a large scale, and also what (if any) storage alternatives there are along with their benefits/drawbacks, I'm not going to question the chamber's layout.

Any carbon freezing experts out there?

fishmanlee said:

oh and which user has the shooting alec guiness sig

What, you want to fight about it?  Does you want... fisticuffs?

:P

What would have been cool, while at the same time avoiding the question of why Palpatine has a bottomless pit in his office, would be if Vader had picked up Luke's green saber and used it to cut down the Emperor, coming at him through a barrage of lightning through the sheer will to redeem himself and save Luke.

Not much different from the movie, but it would have been more impressive a feat than just tossing Palps over the rail.

I had an extended version of those at one point on my Malaysian ROTJ (with Backstroke of the West style subtitles, even) but somebody borrowed it and moved to Chicago, so it's uncertain as to whether or not I'll ever see it again...

(removed...oops)

The one thing more than all others that I hoped to see (or hear, rather) in Ep 3 (and I mean this) are some funny Vader fighting noise like in ESB: "Wa-thu-ha!" or ROTJ: "Har-hng-ya!"

oh_riginal said:

I like the 2nd Empire... but like the 1st Phantom.

Me too. I don't think the "THE" on The 2nd Phantom Menace is bold enough to balance the tall "E"

A communication disruption can mean only one thing... invasion.

Judging by the position of the actors, the railing looks to be about the height of Leia's nice little bum. I'd say that's high enough.

Lando's closer to the camera/farther from the rail, so it looks smaller compared to him.

By the way, amazing trailer! The "city in the clouds" shot is truly breathtaking in motion.

The lightsabers, as large as they are and whatnot, were very noticeable when they changed from green to blue to purple from shot to shot.

The buttons on Vader's chestplate, however, I never noticed or really looked at that closely.

But for all we know, it could change color depending on Vader's feelings. That's how the Emperor really knows what he's up to.

Hmmm... the button is green again... "Are you sure your feelings on this matter are clear, Lord Vader?"

It's exciting but also mildly troubling.

I doubt those at Lucasfilm spend much time watching Star Wars fan edits, so this shows just what sort of waves Revisited has made (hopefully good waves).

I wonder sometimes if Lucas himself has heard of it yet, and if so what his thoughts are. He should be proud that his films are highly regarded enough to have so much effort and time put into improving them. But at the same time, I worry that some of the higher-ups might become concerned that these are turning out better than the official versions.

Yeah, suddenly eyes are drawn to the flying CG droid when it's the Stormtrooper that is supposed to be the focus of the shot.

I realize Lucas was trying to "liven things up," but not every shot needs a crowded background.

The Millenium Falcon has the same sort of window for the cockpit. It would seem that those sorts of round spider-web frame windows are a very popular design trend in their society. Maybe they all just want to be cool. I want one in my house.

Good point. I never thought of that.

Perhaps there's a shield generated during storms, or maybe there's a door further back and the part they're in is just an open area for the citizens to enjoy the outdoors and buy ice cream from the Ice Cream Maker Man.

My wife and I absolutely love his commentary on ESB!

He seems to go back and forth between pointing out the obvious and making no sense at all.

"The actors... that I hired in England... were BRITISH."

Heh, air swimming. That reminds me of when my cat goes "carpet surfing"

^ Oh noes! It's Atlas-Jawa! ^

Within the film, it's never specifically shown or stated where the bridge is in relation to the rest of the ship. Therefore, I've never really thought or cared much about it and have no qualms with the current shot.

Perhaps they should have taken the films themselves into account when making these encyclopedias and whatnot. If anything, I say leave the shot alone and print yourselves a photoshopped page for the book that fits with the movie :P

G E Predator said:  In the original DVD, Luke say,"...I'm never coming back the this place again." He sounded definite about it, yet in ROTJ, he actually did return to Tattooine to save his friends from Jabba the Hutt.  "...I don't think I'll be coming back to this planet anyway," sounds better for him to say cause he's still has no intention of returning to the planet, but he's not as definite about it.

I believe Adywan stated that he changed that line simply because different countries got different mixes and that's the line he was used to hearing in the version he grew up with.

Personally, I like the "never coming back to this planet again" line more, but I can live with it either way. Events in ROTJ are irrelevent in this case because Luke has no idea any of that will happen, and at this moment he wants nothing more than to leave boring old Tatooine and never return. He is very definite in his intention to not come back.

To answer a slightly earlier question, there was only the one menu for Revisited; Adywan did not do the whole "1 of 3 random menus" thing. Although it was a nice touch I think that he kept the same general look and feel of the official 2004 DVD's.

So that's why they move so fast on that deleted scene with the Benny Hill music. Adywan forgot to convert it to NTSC. It must be PAL speedup :)

EyeShotFirst said:

Why would the empire need camo. They were not really expecting an attack. They were just standing around guarding the generator.

Actually, they were expecting an attack. It was the emperor who allowed the rebels to know the location of the shield generator, and an entire legion of his best troops awaited them. For this reason, I'm afraid the deflector shield was quite operational when Luke's friends arrived.

RoccondilRinon said:

The DVD-9 (NTSC or PAL). Which one you get depends on region (USA/Canada = NTSC, real world = PAL) and whether you prefer jittery pulldown (NTSC) or smooth 25fps (PAL).

Well, being that I don't live in the real world, I have the NTSC version. But mine doesn't look jittery. It actually looks quite glorious.

I bet he can't stand on his ankles and bark like a donkey.

Bingowings said:

That's sort of what I was suggesting a few pages back. With Leia becoming impatient waiting for Luke and going in on her own forcing Luke to have to rescue the lot of them.

That's a cool Idea, kind of mirroring the ending of ESB where Luke is impatient and goes off too early to rescue someone, only to need rescuing himself.