Airplane (PG) had boobs.
And bestiality
And oral sex
Likewise, I don’t believe there was a PG 13 rating yet, so a PG film was a very broad spectrum of film.
There wasn’t. I think Indy Temple of Doom was the film that spawned that rating. What with the child slavery and hearts being ripped out of chests and all.
I don’t know about you guys, but I thought the casting on ST '09 was terrible. New-Kirk and New-Spork are okay, but I don’t think any other character was cast well. Regardless of looking like the original actors, none of them were even close to the original characters. Not to mention that I only find Kirk and Spock better because they vaguely resemble the original actors enough to be passable.
If physical resemblance is your concern then you would hate all of the Bond movies made post-1967 (excluding Diamonds Are Forever - 1971).
The actors playing James Bond are adaptations/portrayals of a character from a novel (though the films aren’t direct adaptations of the books). That said, I would say that Sean Connery is the best actor to portray Bond IMO, and I don’t really care for the others much.
Craig is also good. But honestly, everyone between them looks… meh at best nowadays.
I don’t know about you guys, but I thought the casting on ST '09 was terrible. New-Kirk and New-Spork are okay, but I don’t think any other character was cast well. Regardless of looking like the original actors, none of them were even close to the original characters. Not to mention that I only find Kirk and Spock better because they vaguely resemble the original actors enough to be passable.
? Karl Urban as Bones is by far the best cast of the lot.
If this is handled well, it could end up great. Tarantino movie in space (without the violence, obviously). If it’s not, wel…
Tarantino movie without violence? That’s like a David Lynch movie that makes sense.
The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and The Straight Story all exist, thus your joke ultimately fails.
But… I didn’t say that. I said a David Lynch movie without midgets, not a David Lynch movie that makes sense… They all make perfect sense to me. Especially Eraserhead.
Disney is not legally obliged to give a shit about Lucas’s wishes–he gave that up when he sold everything for billions of dollars–and it certainly isn’t doing it to spare his feelings. That’s absurd. It also ignores the fact that Disney threw out all of Lucas’s ideas for the sequel trilogy without a care and he was so unhappy with the results that he whined about selling Star Wars to “white slavers.” He has no power anymore or even the slightest influence. So no, I can assure you that is most definitely not the reason we haven’t seen the OOT yet. They’re either working on it until they can get a perfect restoration to satisfy everyone or they’re sitting on it until the 40th anniversary or some other ideal time to milk it. If they aren’t doing it at all, it’s for legal reasons. And they’re likely attempting to sort those out if so. The only other explanation would be outright incompetence and failure to see the massive market and cash potential for them. Which I sincerely doubt considering even the projects of this site have made major news. They also prove that, clearly, technical difficulties aren’t holding the project back, or at least they are not a valid excuse. If even fans can undo the changes with highly limited resources, Disney certainly can. It wouldn’t even matter if Lucas destroyed all the original negatives. They could just cobble together the best sources possible for everything missing and “despecialize” the 97 print themselves. It wouldn’t be ideal, but it would still beat Harmy and crazier things have been done in restoring old movies.
The difference between McGregor playing Obi-Wan and this is that he was playing Obi-Wan at a totally different age from when Alec Guiness played him. So it wasn’t really the same role at all. Even still, he was a perfect fit in that his appearance, voice, and mannerisms were all uncannily similar to Guiness. On the other hand, we’ve seen Han at a younger age, not much older than the age this new guy will be playing him. So we will all be doing a lot more conscious comparisons to Ford’s performance. We’ll have to believe not just that this guy will grow into Ford, but that he is Ford. Which is why I still think a doppelganger like Ingruber was the way to go.
If this is handled well, it could end up great. Tarantino movie in space (without the violence, obviously). If it’s not, wel…
Don’t you mean excessive violence?
In my book, if there’s not blood, it’s not violence
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction had blood, sure, but it was realistic levels for the violence at hand.
I think Marvin and Mr. Orange would disagree.
If this is handled well, it could end up great. Tarantino movie in space (without the violence, obviously). If it’s not, wel…
Tarantino movie without violence? That’s like a David Lynch movie without midgets or a George Lucas movie that stays the same after its theatrical release. It just doesn’t compute.
Jedi Rocks, by far. I could forgive the Hayden ghost because at the time I thought my memory was playing tricks on me, but Jedi Rocks - no, that’s just - that’s too much.
Wait… What? How could you think that an adult Hayden Christensen was originally in a movie made when he was 2 years old? Unless I’m missing something here…
Lapti Nek is great, I don’t know what y’all are talking about. OK, the puppets don’t look great, but they sill look waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy better than the Jedi Rocks CGI. I don’t have to deal with that… thing up in my face or Boba Fett flirting with aliens. And the song itself is 1000000000x better. That may have something to do with the fact that it was ACTUALLY COMPOSED BY JOHN WILLIAMS. The fact that Jedi Rocks was not should by itself be enough to keep it from qualifying as Star Wars music.
Man that’s tough. There are a few that if they were removed, I would consider the SEs tolerable. Probably tolerable enough to not even bother with Despecialized and the like. I’d still prefer the theatrical editions, particularly since I grew up with them, but I could live with the SEs if just these things were removed:
There are a few others I would really like gone and would annoy me but wouldn’t be dealbreakers. The Jabba scene, for one, but I give that one a little leeway since at least it was originally intended to be in there from the start. Unlike many of the “original vision” changes that very obviously were not.
The rest I’m either indifferent toward or actually like. (Particularly Ian McDiarmid in Empire, which would be the one change I would most like to keep.)
If I had to choose just one of the above, it would have to be Greedo shooting. It’s just so, so, so, so dumb on so many levels and, other than the “Noooooo” maybe, is the only one that fundamentally alters the story and the characterization of a character. George’s “rationale” makes zero sense considering Greedo didn’t have to shoot to make it self-defense; all he had to do was point a gun at Han. Let alone threaten to kill him, which he also did. Han was totally justified. I guess George just had to assume his audience/children were too dumb to figure that one out for themselves. Not to mention it makes Greedo look pathetic and the editing is just atrocious. I know this has all been said before, but really it is an absolute travesty that this shit is still in the official version of the film. Literally no one except George Lucas likes it.
Depends on the mood but these are the ones I usually go to.
I have many, many different versions of each film but these are the ones I watch most:The Phantom Menace:
VHS or BD.Attack of the Clones:
VHS, ADigitalMan’s Extended Version or BDRevenge of the Sith:
VHS (yes, really) or BDA New Hope:
'92 VHS release (OOT), '97 Laserdisc or '06 Limited Edition releaseThe Empire Strikes Back:
'92 VHS release (OOT) or '11 BDReturn of the Jedi:
'92 VHS release (OOT) or '06 Limited Edition releaseThe Force Awakens:
BD, if I have to…I very rarely meddle in fan edits or preservations, the only ones I regularly go to in that regard are the ADM Extended versions, but that’s it. Part of being a massive SW home video collector also includes an annoying tendency to not want to watch any of the films in a format other than official releases, for reasons that make very little sense.
Nothing about this post makes sense…
Serious:
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
Not so serious:
“You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.” (Hiy-o!)
I don’t understand how you people don’t like these movies. They’re so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.
Is a version with the ANH crawl still planned?
i did the 93 vhs release, still have the mpeg2 files somewhere.
If you find em please upload. 92’s the one I saw first, sold the tapes at a garage sale years ago. (Stupid.) Quality might be terrible now, but I still would love to see it again.
SW: Greedo shooting first
ESB: “Alert my star destroyer to prepare for my arrival”
ROTJ: “Nooooooooo!!!”
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Well, “a person familiar with the matter” said it. There goes that. Other people familiar with the matter who have actual names have said the opposite though, of course, so there’s that.
I agree with you OP. No one would have ever gived a damn if all he did was some non-intrusive, seamless FX updates and corrections. No one cares that they did that to the original Star Trek series. Granted, that’s partly because they still made the originals available, but no one really complains about the quality of the updated versions either. Because they were done faithfully to the intent of the originals without trying to fundamentally alter the content or story and without instantly dated shots that do nothing but distract the viewer and mess with their brain because they’re seeing stuff that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the stuff on the screen at all.
Imagine TFA, but with Jaden Smith cast as Finn and Miley Cyrus’s little sister cast as Rey.
Also imagine lots more plot holes, replace all the good humor with cringe inducing toddler potty humor, and eliminate any traces of darkness for the majority of the film except have a drastic shift in tone towards the end in which Kylo Ren goes on a child-slaughtering rampage and is then burned in a graphic sequence. Only to be recovered by Snoke and become Darth Vader II.
None of those look bad at all to me… I mean unless you have superhuman eyesight or are zooming way in or have a gigantic screen I don’t see the problem.
Of course, I’m not exactly a videophile and I grew up on VHS tapes and analog CRT TV. So really I’m not too picky.
Well, I can now say this is easily the best looking unaltered Star Wars ever released. This is definitely gonna be definitive until the hypothetical day an official version comes out. And that’s assuming it’s not botched; i.e. a new, high quality transfer is made with immaculate restoration work and a good sound mix. But until or unless that holy grail comes out, this is the one to beat.
That’s concerning. You might wanna consult an optometrist.