CHEWBAKAspelledwrong

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Something just went off in my head. . . . What if this “unethically acquired” content from -1 is pirated from Lucasfilm? Maybe they have a mole, or one of them works for Lucasfilm? Is the team membership actually known? Might explain some of their weird ass behavior and secrecy/stinginess with sources.

One can dream.

Also note a 2-hour script will run ~120 pages.

My dad’s colleague lent him the VHS tapes to watch before I saw TPM in theaters. No clue what version it was. All I remember from that first trilogy experience is the Bespin duel.

I just cleared a space on my bookcase… probably reading too much into this, but I can’t imagine what other kind of announcement would tie so well into this kind of tease (add in my certainty that a Chewbacca anthology film would probably be incredibly boring).

Lord Haseo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Your mom would not approve of that outfit.

I’m pretty sure she would be okay with whatever she’s wearing in this photo.

I don’t know, her unbuttoned placket is a little revealing.

your text should look like this:

![](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb255/Daffypuck/sign_zpshidnlyll.jpg --plus a closing parenthesis after the url.

Make sure you are using the URL for the picture, not the page with the picture in it–right click on the picture and click “copy image URL” or something similar depending on your browser.

BobaJett said:

When public safety and pop culture cross paths. Saw this the day before TFA released. It was on the overhead signs throughout the state.
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Damnit! Ive tried four different ways to insert the phot on the post. What type of code does this forum support to show photo in post without clicking?

So is using your cameraphone while driving.

DrCrowTStarwarsreborn said:

Now I really wish the prequels had been better because the music was so tied to scenes

The main reason I wish the prequels were better is that 12 year old me thought it was a good idea to buy them on DVD, and now I’m stuck with them.

And the Star Wars Holiday Special, the one remaining vestige of what could have become a great empire, became a classic and is aired by ABC each year after A Charlie Brown Christmas.

TV’s Frink said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

One of the worst things about the prequels is that every Joe out there has a lightsaber.

You mean every Jedi Joe? Why wouldn’t they all have lightsabers? They’re Jedi!

What I mean to say is there are just so many g-dd-mn lightsabers because there are so many g-dd-mn Jedi. I know it’s a big galaxy, but force-sensitivity still seems to be too wide-spread in the PT. In the OT, it’s mystical. There are five force users in the entire galaxy: Ben, Yoda, Luke, Vader, and the Emperor. In the PT, you have 100 Jedi killing robots and you’re like A) is being a Jedi really that hard? and B) Are they really held in that high esteem, if they’re being contracted to kill robots? It just dilutes the notion of Jedi.

Since Star Wars happened a long time ago, doesn’t that make “Jedi Joe” old news?

I only know of 5 lightsabers:

The lightsaber of Anakin Skywalker, presented to Luke Skywalker by Ben Kenobi.
The lightsaber of Ben Kenobi.
The lightsaber of Darth Vader.
The lightsaber built by Luke Skywalker.
The lightsaber of Kylo Ren.

One of the worst things about the prequels is that every Joe out there has a lightsaber. That scene when like 100 Jedi storm a bunch of robots with lightsabers is one of the dumbest shots ever (like dudes, pull out Anakin, Ben, and Padme and drop a big bomb, or just drop in expendable clones, Jedi aren’t infantry, they’re supposed to be rare, elite fighters). In the OT (and in VII, hopefully it continues), lightsabers are rare weapons, wielded by a select few and used, for the most part, only in combat against other lightsaber wielders. It added to the lore and mystery of them.

I first sensed it when I watched the Blu Ray of Jedi. As I was raised on 2004 DVDs and the prequels, Vader’s “Noooooo” was my “Han shot first.” I wasn’t in the loop about the OOT movement, and I hadn’t heard about the additional changes before purchasing. I was dumbfounded. The throne room had always been my favorite sequence in the trilogy (though Empire is my favorite movie), and to have the climax ruined by making it so G-ddamned cheesey was infuriating.

SilverWook said:

As there’s evidence to suggest the '81 crawl was spliced into old prints, I’d lean towards all of the above.

If it is true that the '81 release used existing '77 prints, I’m sort of baffled that it was deemed worthwhile to change the title crawl. It’d be one thing if they had to go through the effort to run new prints anyway, but to put in the work to make such a small change to otherwise ready and usable prints?

Then again, this is George Lucas we’re talking about.

I may be ignorant, but what is the advantage of making 70mm prints of a film shot on 35mm? Were there just theaters that had only 70mm equipment?

Bingowings said:

Stormtroopers are clones of vampires. This is why they wear those helmets (to keep direct sunlight off) and they can only enter a house if they have been invited. Them bodies at the Lars farm were stormtroopers who were stripped naked at gunpoint by Owen.
He and Beru are still alive.

Where did Owen find a wooden stake on Tatooine?

If you look at the marketing for Rogue One-it’s marketed as ROGUE ONE, with “A Star Wars Story” in much smaller letters, whereas TFA was marketing as STAR WARS first. That seems to be how they’re differentiating them.

I am all for the removal of the numerals from the marketing of these movies. I wonder if Lucasfilm did it for the new repacakagings in an effort to put a stop to what is the ever more common practice of introducing kids to the prequels first and watching in episodic order. It always bugged me that the Blu-Ray release ordered the discs in episodic order in the digibook (does anyone know if this is still the case after the repackaged “Complete Saga”?). It almost seemed a ploy to get new viewers to watch Lucas’s “original vision” before the original movies.

moviefreakedmind said:

Even its Wikipedia page refers to it as simply Star Wars

Don’t tell George.

Due to my age, I became a Star Wars fan during the releases of the prequels. So, when I first watched them, I started referring to them by numbers, due to the strong presence of the Roman numerals in the prequel posters and the OT DVD covers. Then the Blu-Rays came out and I bought them to replace my pillarboxed DVDs. This is when I really became peeved at the SEs, due to the new changes which then made me look back and see what else had been changed, making me realize what a farce this all was. For purity’s sake and somewhat out of protest, I started referring to them as Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi, in other words becoming an SW old soul. So I never went through a “New Hope” phase. Today, I’m already to the point that I get annoyed and “correct” my friends when the say things like “the fourth one” or “episode 5,” and don’t you dare refer to it as “A New Hope” around me.

How do you know the 4k restoration was abandoned? We had official press about the cancellation of the 3D release, but nothing official that the 3D would be based on a new scan or that this scan was for the 3D.

Each frame is divided by a y=x line. The top left triangle of the frame has the grain. The lower right has had some if it scrubbed.

Also, what purpose does a grain reduction on a bw converted frame from a color film?

Sorry guys… perhaps we could just stop posting here now, and let the thread die in peace.

nickyd47 said:

Possibly. Too bad we can’t see when this clip was uploaded.

Not definitive, but a good estimate–Web Archive’s earliest crawl of the page is Sept. 5, 2015.

Episode VIII will be released in December 2017

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/20/star-wars-episode-viii-release-date-postponed-seven-months