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TV's Frink said:
Laff oout louud. ;-)
I'm not sure where to start with this one.
Savage:
And it's actually capitalized, not capitalised. ;)
Actually, you're wrong again. It's either of the two, so there's no mistake. And in the UK the tendency is to use "s" not "z".
Keep that Nazism in check, you fiend.
Savage said:
VincentSmalls said:
Version 2 is up. Sorry if I'm clogging up the boards with this. I will post in the other thread too when I'm done with A New Hope. Is this better everyone? I hadn't finished when I posted originally and was fully aware the back was horribly bare. This is what I'm going for across each of the three covers... I'll see what I can do about the repeated At-At stencil if it's still badly noticable each of the three are the same. Enjoy!
And, just to satisfy my inner English-nazi, I would change the "Lovingly..." paragraph to "Lovingly crafted by fan editor Adrian Sayce, The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited combines elements from the 1980 theatrical release and the 2004 DVD Special Edition with hand crafted special effects shots to create a definitive version of the classic film."
Custom covers are da bomb!
Well, English-nazi (sic), your grammatical fascism also needs work. It's "handcrafted" and it has to be "the" definitive version, not "a" definitive version. Oh, and it's English-Nazi, capitalised.
The best edit of that I've scene so far actually worked because it removed Anakin's overwrought regret - "What have I done?". Without that line alone, it really does sell the whole thing better, and makes it seem less sudden, like he's been building up to it (which he had)
There's probably not a great deal else that can be done, but for me that simple edit alone made a massive difference. The regret line was completely antiproductive to Anakin's fall.
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You obviously don't know Hattie Jacques, or you wouldn't be so protective of that line.
I tell you, she was a fine, fine woman. If she said it was a trap, you'd know about it.
"Ooph, the cheek!"
Was that Ten Numb?
We could definitely do with more women in these movies, even if the best we can do is background characters. It's odd enough that there is only one significant female role in the entire trilogy, plus Aunt Beru and Mon Mothma in much smaller parts, never mind that there are hardly any background females either. Weird. I know the Jedi were a bit of a boys-only club, but come on...
Maybe we just need to revoice Ackbar as a women. Could work. I get upper class English woman, the bossy type. Hattie Jacques. Give Ackbar a voice like that.
shanerjedi said:
Darth Venal said:
Digital Yoda will inevitably replace the puppet in The Phantom Menace in a future re-release. I just hope they don't replace the wonderful puppetry in Empire and Jedi. At least the Jabba puppet in Jedi would probably be too expensive and too difficult to replace completely with CG, so I think that's safe for the most part.
They already did that for TPM. I just didn't know they were showing it in public.
As for replacing the puppetry in the OT, I can only say that right now Lucas won't do that, and the current animation team at ILM will leave before they do that.
Yeah, I know how they feel, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened at some point.
Have you heard anything about remake rumours? Hm, maybe we should take this to PMs.
Well, it's thematically appropriate.
That cover is really, really nice, I've always prefered retro artwork. The back seems a bit empty but the front is great.
Perhaps they should, but by that point, there were much bigger things going on than Anakin possibly being in love. Keeping an eye on him is one thing, but they had no idea how bad things were going to get. And like you said, the Episode 2 deleted scene is just that, and not part of the movie's narrative.
Bingowings:Qui-Gon uses the Force to cheat a slave owner out of one slave rather than liberating all the slaves.
So you're suggesting Qui Gon and Obi Wan would have stood a chance in freeing all the slaves? Of course they wouldn't. And they had a task at hand which was actually more important, regarding the fate of Naboo. So should they have left Anakin on Tatooine, despite his clear Jedi potential?
They are aware of Anakin's attraction to Padme.
When? Not even Obi Wan has any knowledge of it until it has happened. The odd glance or comment here and there doesn't explicitly state anything.
They are aware of Palpatine's interest in Anakin and encourage and attempt to exploit that too
They don't encourage Palpatine's interest at all. From their dialogue, they clearly find it quite sinister, and exploit it only to find out what Palpatine is up to.
Palpatine doesn't really create any of the situations that work to his advantage he knows how to take what is already going wrong and twist it to his benefit and lets the good guys do all the hard work
That's just not correct at all. He creates Anakin for the very purpose of him eventually becoming his Trojan Horse in the Jedi Council. As Darth Sidious, he manipulates the Trade Federation into blockading Naboo, his own planet, so that the Queen will seek help from the Senate, not get it, and then he becomes Supreme Chancellor, and from then on he has the power to do the rest. He manipulates Anakin with fear and "counsels" him in ways that are contrary to the Jedi teachings, teasing him with the prospect of being able "to save the one you love". To say Palpatine doesn't create any of this chain of events is really quite absurd.
TMBTM:Yoda and Obi needs a scene where they understand that what happens to Anakin is as much their fault than Palpatine's
How can it be as much their fault? Palpatine was the one who single-handedly set all the events in motion, even down to the implication that he manipulated the midichlorians to cause Anakin's immaculate conception. And he was the one who corrupted him, and encouraged him to act against the Jedi. Yes, the Jedi had become arrogant and blinded over the years, but in no way are they as responsible for Anakin's corruption and downfall to the Dark Side as Palpatine.
LOL, sorry Bingo. Nice thought, though.
Bingowings:Would a woman pregnant with, say... two Jedi twins start moving things around the room with her mind?
They would have a shared blood supply.
Hehe I know what you mean. But taking your question literally, you're actually incorrect about that. Mother and baby do not share the same blood supply. Any exchange of oxygen and nutrients happens through the membranes of the placenta, and the blood supplies of both never mix. Think about it; a baby can have a completely incompatible blood type to its mother, so mixing could be very harmful, even fatal, to both. Also, they would have identical heartbeats if they only had one blood network.
It's also for this reason that a baby carried by a woman who is HIV+ amazingly has only a 30% chance of being HIV+ itself, and the vast majority of that 30% happens during delivery. Sounds incredible, but that's why.
Sure they have the money, but that doesn't mean they throw money at projects willy-nilly. Lucas made the prequels for pretty low figures when considering the amount of FX work involved. He wouldn't spend a lot on replacing Jabba unless he really wanted to produce a big redo, a final cut of sorts. But the scenes with Jabba would be incredibly difficult to replace with CG, and that would send the cost up. I can't see it happening.
Funny you should say that, because in the expanded universe, he did indeed clone himself.
Digital Yoda will inevitably replace the puppet in The Phantom Menace in a future re-release. I just hope they don't replace the wonderful puppetry in Empire and Jedi. At least the Jabba puppet in Jedi would probably be too expensive and too difficult to replace completely with CG, so I think that's safe for the most part.
You're right and I agree. They were introduced and then never elaborated upon. Not a massive amount we can do about that now.
I blame Liam Neeson. :-)
The voice of reason...
:-)
Darth Solo:
Possative response yet again....
Yavin is a bit of a none identity planet, and thats why the rebels may have been drawn to it in the first place.
Ghost was talking about the blue planet Adywan added for Revisited.
Next time you try to be smart with me, don't make an ass of yourself.
Well, Ric, you do realise the reason you weren't asked back for the sequels is because they didn't want you outshining Hayden Christensen. Yes, of course you do. What was I thinking?
Well unless there's a valid reason to see it again, then no. It's not really even very relevant in Revisited, as we know absolutely nothing about it, but I guess it gives some place for the Death Star to be other than floating in space.
Well, he can jump off all the cars he likes for me. Just as long as he stays out of lead roles in blockbusters. His performance in Jumper made his Star Wars jobs look almost adequate. But hey, the guy ain't bad to look at...
This is for the girls. Hehe.
And this is for the boys. Hehehe.
DuTwan:
the force was a mystical energy that could be wielded by anyone with the right training, the force was stronger with some families.
Well that sort of contradicts the point you're making.
There's a simple question: Why is the Force stronger with some families, as Return of the Jedi establishes?
Answer given in the prequels: It's genetic.
Again, I don't like the writing in the PT at all, but I don't see why a genetic quality is such a bad thing with regards to Force sensitivity. I think Lucas wrote it very badly, but perhaps that, coupled with all the genetic manipulation/cloning stuff going on was his way of making the PT relevant in some way.