C3PX

Hmm, either I am missing something, or FE doesn't have the RS links for this up yet.

I think this edit is a great idea, and I really like that you made it widescreen. I am a pretty big X-Files fan, but the show can be hard for new viewers to get into, this looks like a great way to introduce new comers to the series. I hope I am able to get my hands on a copy of this.

So, how many feature length films like this do you have planned out? About one per season?

HotRod said:

Was your teacher male or female? ;)

Female in a very serious way.

Screw being a fan of Drangonballz, if you are a fan of awesome games I would highly recommend Chrono Trigger. Fantastic game.

Ah, first times... 

My first time was in the janitors closet with my ninth grade teacher...  the janitor just happened to keep a big screen tv and a VHS box set of the trilogy in there.

Wow, I have not seen them in years. Back in 2005 when ROTS came out, my friends were having a SW marathon, but I never actually caught more than 15 to 20 minutes of any of the films, pretty much I helped set of the projector, ate a bowl of popped corn, got bored and left. Last time I watched any piece of an SW film was right after Adywan released his SW Revisited, but I did quite a bit of skipping around, only took me a half hour to get from the beginning to the end, tried not to miss any of his changes, but I probably did.

I pretty much memorized them when I was kid, so I do not often feel the need to see them anymore. I have never even seen the 04 SE, nor ever watched the GOUTs, only SW DVDs I have watched from star to finish are my old TR47s (whatever their real name is). One thing that would spark my interest to see them again would definitely be a quality DVD and/or Blu-ray release. If that happened I would lock myself away in front of the TV for three eveings in a row.

Yeah, I know your original post was made quite a while ago, but I would like to ad that I too am interested in this.

Not even sure if you are still working on this, but if you are, for extras you could toss on the disc, the adverts that are shown in the waiting line, as well as a cam of the waiting line (should be plenty of these, as the last time I was there cameras were allowed in the line). The advertisements I am talking about are "take a vacation to Endor/Tantoine" ads that play on a loop on large screens right before getting to the room full of droids.

I think those would be good additions to the disc.

Just finished watching the last several episodes of last season. Man, 'Dungeons and Dragons' and 'What He Beheld' are such awesome episodes.

As I said in my last post, didn't like this episode as much, but I am definitely looking forward to Mondays now.

I like the little security buffer he left for himself, "I guess that's a pretty harsh criticism but that's how I see it".

Didn't seem like harsh criticism at all to me,

Dark Forces was never a comic book. It was a series of three short novels with a series of full color pictures, which was published by Dark Horse, which is why it is often believed to be a comic book by people who actually had a chance to look at it.

I know Shadows of the Empire is only a audio book and not a full cast audio drama, but it is particularly well read, and very enjoyable to listen to. For years I have had an idea for a project, to take the audio books and set pictures to them from various SOTE sources, and master them together as a DVD. Maybe with a few extra features.

I purchased the audio books and the comics in order to do this, but there is also a set of Shadows of the Empire trading cards that I would like to include. I wish I could find high quality scans of the entire run. It would be really hard to hunt down a complete set of them, and probably very pricey too.

Two other good sources for art would be the book "The Secrets of Shadows of the Empire" as well as the cut scenes to the N64 video game (which are semi animated still scenes. The PC version has actual animated scenes.)

I still think this would be a really cool way to experience Shadows of the Empire, but I do not see myself getting time to do it anytime soon, and I would still want to get my hands on those trading cards before attempting it.

If anybody else wants to tackle this, I think it would be awesome.

As for other casted SW radio dramas, there is a short one called "Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell". It is written by the same guy who did the SW radio dramas, Brian Daley. He also wrote the Han Solo books. This story takes place between SW and TESB, and is suppose to be the mission Han is referring to when he mentions "the bounty hunter we ran into back on Ord Mantell" at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.

This one was not all that well written or preformed. It is pretty juvenile, and obviously aimed at a younger audience. It originally came on a 7'' record, and was published in 1983, not sure if it was ever republished on any other media.

And as for the possibility of having fans reading scripts, don't expect very good quality, I have seen too many of these kinds of efforts (fan made radio dramas) come out unbearable due to bad voice acting.

Seriously, it is great. Dosbox is okay, but this allows for many none DOS programs as well. It is kind of a pain to setup the first time, since you have to install Windows on your virtual PC and everything. But once you get it setup, it is flawless. Also, once you get ti setup, you might as well save all the files to a DVD-R, you can save your virtual hard drive to the disc and have everything setup just how you wanted, installed programs and all, that way you never have to mess with setting up windows on it or installing your games again. Really a great program for people like me who have a hard time giving up the past.

The last time I used it was to play Resident Evil 2 for the PC. It runs fine on modern PCs, but you cannot save your progress, since the save system only supported FAT partitioned harddrives and cannot recognize NTSF at all. Looking around on the internet, most people recommended a floppy disc or a flash drive, I couldn't get either to work, so I decided to whip out Virtual PC and make myself a brand new Virtual computer with a FAT harddisk. Worked perfectly.

SilverWook said:

I could have sworn that infamous phrase was coined in 1997, right after the special editions came out?

Yeah, that phrase came from 1997 with the special editions. I have never heard anyone use it seriously. In fact, I have only heard it used as a means to make fun of people who complained about the changes. Like this:

Doubter: I dunno man, I think it is kind of lame, Greedo shooting first and all. And what's up with Jabba the Hut, he looks like a talking piece of diarrhea. I think George should have left the old films alone instead of tinkering with them like that. I grew grew up with those films and--

True believer: Oh boohoo! "Lucas raped my childhood!" Get over it already!

I would not be surprised to hear that that phrase was never once used in earnest. Of course, I would not be surprised to hear it really was either. 

Scruffy said:

For instance, I never made the connection between Jar-Jar's tongue and a flaccid phallus.

Yeah, what was that all about? Kind of see where the guy who wrote that posts values lie... 

"DUDE! CHECK IT OUT! JAR JAR'S TONGUE IS HANGING OUT OF HIS MOUTH JUST LIKE A FLACCID PENIS!!! THIS MOVIE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

He also used fart jokes as something positive about the film. And claimed that Jar Jar was one of the most amazing parts of the film, so good that he made the live actors look bad...

Oh boy, whatssa hessa smokin? Messa be wantin some! 

Nanner Split said:

I can agree with you there on Jedi Knight C3PX, but let's get down to brass tacks here: Jedi Outcast was awesome.

Jedi Outcast was unbelievably good! As far as good SW games go, I rank it somewhere near the top not too far being Dark Forces. The concept for Jedi Academy was great, I really liked the idea of playing as Katarn's apprentice, fighting side by side with him on some missions, and the New Republic Jedi going back to the master and apprentice style of the Old Republic, but somehow Jedi Academy fell flat. 

Back on topic, I am a fan of the old campy James Bond films, but Never Say Never Again and On Her Majesties Secret Service were so bad I can never watch them. Oh, and A View to a Kill was overly awful as well. I also found Star Trek V:The Final Frontier particularly hard to stomach. 

@ Trooperman

Yeah, Tie Fighter, and all the earlier installments to the X-Wing series where quite good. They can be a bit hard to get to work on new computers, but there is always a way! If you're Windows user, you can download a program called "Virtual PC" for free from Microsoft. This program is a Windows PC emulator that use to be sold by a company called Connectix, I used to use it way back then. At that time there was a Windows and a Macintosh version of the program, but later Microsoft bought Virtual PC from them and discontinued the Macintosh version, and offered the Windows version for free (which is awesome, because it was a pricy program). Just search Microsoft.com for Virtual PC and you'll find the download page.

Anyway, if you have an old copy of Windows lying around (95, 98, ME, any of those should run Tie Fighter perfectly), you can use Virtual PC to create a virtual computer on your hard drive, you can set its specs, and install an old version of Windows on it, and it works exactly like an older computer and runs older programs flawlessly. 

bkev said:

C3PX, what makes you dislike Jedi Knight?

Just barely noticed your post bkev. I was a big fan of the first Dark Forces, it was back in the dawn of the first person shooter, of which I am now a big fan. DF was like Doom, only much better refined and improved, it had a cool story, and took you through places you only ever dreamed of going in the SW universe.

It was also cool because you played as someone nobody knew, rather than one of the main characters. You were just some guy out in the SW universe trying to get by. Nobody special.

In Jedi Knight, which in its own right was a very good game for its time, though a bit dated today, decided it needed to take Kyle's story and turn him into something more important, a Jedi. He discovers his dead father's lightsaber, and decides to learn the ways of the force to become a Jedi like his father before him and seek vengeance against the Sith Lord who killed him.
Sound familiar? It is almost like the creators though man, how cool would it be if Luke was the main character instead of this mercenary guy? So they made the mercenary into a Luke rip off. I would have liked Dark Forces to have remained a first person shooter with a cool story line following an average citizen with a blaster living under the of the Galactic Empire. Jedi Knight could have been a really cool seperate game with a fresh story of its own, but instead I feel it took something with great potential and brought it down a few notches.

Also it had really cheesy live action scenes that make the prequels feel like Shakespeare.

Wow, I don't think anyone mentioned Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yet.

I agree that The Phantom Menace was by far the very best of the PT. If only we had known back in 1999 that things would only get worse instead of better, we could have snuffed out our hopes back then and given up on it all completely and been happy with the thought that we would be saving money on not buying tickets for the next two installments.

I really do think TPM is better than the other bits of the PT, but it is still kind of a "Hmm, I think I would rather eat moldy bread, than bread laced with deadly poison" sort of a better.

To me, TPM has the most SWesque moments to it, as well as the most potential. For all it got wrong, there was a lot of good there. I still absolutely love the Duel of the Fates. The original music by John Williams was amazing, and the high paced three way sword fight was a lot of fun to watch. The space battle, as lame as it was accented with bad actors for pilots in silly costumes that couldn't convince you to care if their character bites the dust or not even if their lives depended on it, was still very reminiscent of OT battles, far more so that anything we'd every see again.

Even the blaster fight between Padme and her men and the Trade Federation at the end was way more like scenes from the OT than anything else in the PT. Theed on Naboo felt like a real place you could imagine yourself visiting. Try to picture yourself on the Wookie homeworld from Ep3? Can't, because it was essentially a setting out of a cartoon. It didn't feel real or tangible. Nor did Geonosis.

These are the reasons I liked TPM. If I were to go on about what I didn't like about it, the post would be about three times as long.

So, tonight was the season opener. Anybody see it yet?

Just when the show was finally starting to pick up, it ran out of episodes. Now that it is back it feels like it is off to a slow start. This opener was completely pointless it felt, hopefully they will give it more relevance by later events, but it feels like the whole plot line only was the way it was for the sake of being a way to start the series off with a bang. Personally, I felt the show was going somewhere interesting at the end of last season and I really wanted to see where it would go, instead they tie up last season's loose ends in the first five minutes and make the majority of the story a side track from the actual story (the only bits of value where the stuff with the purchasers of the Turk).

Also, I felt there were way too many Terminators floating around in past as it is, and now we have been introduced to one more. If they can send so many Terminators back in time, why not send a whole army back in time and wipe everyone out then, keeping a few as slaves to build even more advanced robots.

Nanner Split said:

I'd actually go so far as to say that Evil Dead 2 is my favorite horror movie of all time (and I've seen quite a few).

 

I would not hesitate to say Evil Dead 2 is my favorite horror movie of all time.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Alien: Resurrection

Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World

Spider-Man 3

And if video games count,

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight

Monkey Island 3

sunday256 said:

I liked SW, EST and ESTB that's why I'm here...

I have no problems with Anakin being whiney in the PT because he matures into something completely different in the end. 

Okay, I am pretty sure EST means Eastern Standard Time, but I am completely lost with ESTB.

Yeah, Anakin makes an amazing transformation during the course of the trilogy, all the way from a whiney Jedi into a whiney Sith Lord with a charred body covered by a sleek black suit (Noooooooooooo!), and all this in a time period of less than 15 minutes film time! In comparison, Luke's transformation sucked, he went from a whiney farm boy, to a selfless hero, to a mature Jedi Knight gradually over the course of the films. Luke is a looser who failed to make an awesome transformation in an impressive amount of time.

SilverWook said:

It's interesting that the one Old Republic era story the old Marvel comic was able to do had Ben Kenobi in a sleek black outfit as well.

Wow, really? Marvel did a single issue in the Old Republic era? I did not know about that, I'll have to attempt to track that down. Was it merely a short flashback? Or a whole one shot issue about Kenobi in the Old Republic days?

Yeah, me too. I always thought of the black clothes as a Jedi's outfit. I had never thought of him using the force choke being a bad thing, or any of the other powers he used being symbols of his slipping to the Dark Side. If they had had Yoda rebuke him for this in the movie like he does it the book, it would have really highlighted that point. Wow, reflecting on this now, that was actually a very brilliantly done slipping to the Dark Side. You have this totally selfless hero rescuing his friends, but using slightly questionable means of doing so. Imagine if Anakin had been that way, a true selfless hero. The most lovable and likable guy, and all along he is doing heroic acts, but as time goes on he throw a force choke in here, and some unethical mind tricks there. I think a really great depiction of a turn to the dark side, would be one where the audience hardly even notices, so subtle and so gradual. 

The ROTJ Luke was always the coolest Luke to me when I was a kid, at Halloween I used to put on black sweats and one black glove and clip my silver metal flash light to my belt. I think I did that or about three years in a row. When I got a little bit older (10, 12, somewhere in there), I decided Empire Strikes Back Degobah Luke was slightly better than ROTJ Luke. I always wished I had some of those coveralls with the pockets everywhere.

Gaffer Tape said:

Maybe so, but being able to hear those samples from The Empire Strikes Back's score certainly makes up for any of that.  It's hardly noteworthy today, but that was the first Star Wars game I played that actually sampled the soundtrack.  But, yeah, I loved SOTE as well, and, even though it's been a while since I've read it (and have a hard time remembering it), I don't really remember those weak points that everybody seems to mention.

That graphics of Shadows for the 64 do not bother me, still one of my favorite games of all time. And actually, I thoughly enjoyed the book, but I noticed that it often gets a lot of flak. If I remember correctly, it does meander on quite a lot, the audio book helps with that and actually flows really well for an abridgment while not leaving out any important parts.

As for the X-Wing books, I still have not gotten around to reading them. Maybe I'll start on them sometime soon. I haven't read a SW book for a very long time. Since 1999, the only SW books I have read was the Revenge of the Sith novel. I read a bit of The Phantom Menace just because it was written by Terry Brooks, but I still found it kind of boring. I listened to the unabridged audio book of AOTC, and actually kind of enjoyed it, worked much better than the actual film did. Liked the extra bits of background on Dooku, as well as the added political stuff with Padme and the threats on her life. The Anakin and his feelings about his mother worked much better in the novel as well.

I know it was written more than ten years later, but Shadows of the Empire addresses most of those issues you brought up, Shadowheart. According to that, they had quite a bit of contact, and planned it all together. At the end of Shadows of the Empire, Luke is at Ben's old place recording the message for Jabba, Leia and Chewie are off together on their way to Jabba, and Lando had gone in sometime before. I suppose Shadows of the Empire has slightly more credit to it than your average EU, since Lucas was more involved in it. It wasn't just one book planned and written by a single writter, but a multimedia project including an action figure line and even a sound track. Also the fact that Dash Render's ship The Outrider makes a cameo appearance in the SE of ANH also seems to give more weight to it than your average EU. A lot of people hated Shadows, I loved it. The book may have not been the best written, but the story was great and really flowed well with the OT so well that if you didn't know any better you might think ROTJ was written after it. The PT couldn't even manage to do this.

For anyone who has not read Shadows of the Empire, I'd highly recomend going to your public library and picking up the audio book. It is well read, and the abridgment actually improves on many of the novel's weak points. To me, the audio book is the definitive version of SOTE. The video game was pretty awesome too, but the N64 graphics are very dated today.

Alright negative 1, I've got to eat my words from the other thread, this looks very impressive. Not going to get my hopes up, but a film transfer of the quality of the images you are posting would be a dream come true. Even with a good deal of noise on the film and not color corrected, and even only in Spanish (which is easy enough to fix), this would still be amazing. Hope all goes well.