Filthy Pierre

I'm still amazed and shocked that all this is accomplished with one man and help from his friends using his own money and donations.

Keeping it true to the 'feel' of Star Wars that the original creator lost somehow, with all the money and 'talent' at his disposal. If these were released as the real special editions the world would be amazed and critics would applaud the work involved and it would not of been wasted.

I think this and other fan projects work because we love the material and wish to honour it and not try to make a quick buck.

Trying to adjust movies to make money will bring a smaller amount of money.

If the movie is done right then the money and praise will come.

Greed is everywhere and it affects the movies we see poorly.

Hat off to Adywan, his friends and donaters.

Thoroughly looking forward to the release of TESB:R

I think I walked out of a movie once. I can't remember it though. Must of been so bad I can't remember it.

I did fall asleep for a whole hour of Pearl Harbour.  I woke up when Pearl Harbour was being attacked. That whole love story thing I missed.

I thought it was a great film until I saw all of it.

As far as Star Wars prequels go I saw Episode one 7 times at the cinema purely because of Darth Maul. First time I missed the fact he was cut in half. I just thought he fell into the whole and would be back for the sequel. Disappointing he was not in all three.I saw Episode two 3 times. Different people wanted to see it with me. Episode three I saw once.

I enjoy the space battles the most and the prequel trilogy was lacking severely in that department. So many lost opportunities with space battles.

OBI-WAN37 said:

 Yet people never seem to mind the amount of CGI in say Avatar or the new Star Trek movies.

TV's Frink said:

Those movies don't suck.

Avatar was awful. Like the prequels so much potential...wasted.

Maybe the Boba at Jabbas palace was a paid double for the real one while he was on another hunt. Jabba said no to him trotting off so he got someone to stand in but was killed.

Give aways that he was not the real Fett was his flirting with the dancing girls in the SE.

After the sail barge explosion the real Fett comes back to find his hired double lying on the sand next to the sarlaac pit, removes the helmet and puts in on.  Camera angle from behind so we never see his face.

A simple line of "You can't find good help these days." Or throwing some credits at the body and saying "Job completed" line and he gets on a swoop and heads back to Slave 1 on the outskirts.

Would work for me.

Love Kasdans idea of killing off the clone Fett and having the real one. :-)

Then Disney get rid of Morrisons voice over.

Lawrence Kasdan your my hero.

adywan said:

This is a really interesting excerpt from the upcoming "Making of Return of the Jedi" book.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/star-wars-prequels-return-of-the-jedi_n_3313793.html

Interesting to just how different his plans were back then. It also destroys the argument of the prequel fans that they were planned out that way all along ( i bet they're going to love that ;) ). 

So to summarise;

Yoda doesn't fight. He is more of a teacher.

NO MIDICHLORIANS

Jedi can love and marry.

ANYONE can learn to use the force if they are prepared to learn.

Luke & Leia's mother was still alive until they were 2 years old

So they would have originally fit in pretty well with the OT.

 Should of stuck to it.

Tack said:

James Cameron's Avatar likely would be regarded along such fails as Cutthroat Island or Waterworld had it been released today.

 I regard Avatar as a fail. Just relied on the CGI. Story was tiresome at best.

For me it was they tried to do too much. In comparison to A New Hope that had Tatooine, outer space, Death Star and a bit of Yavin which they stayed on target with; The Phantom Menace had Coruscant, Naboo surface, outer space, under water, Tatooine and it jumped between them an awful lot.

Dragging politics into it made a mess of the story. I still don't understand A Phantom Menace.

Characters are all one dimensional as already said. That was poor directing because the actors can act but were told to do it a certain way.

Jar Jars 'comedy' was pure slapstick and annoying in comparison to R2 and 3POs mates bickering. Good friends can have a go at each other in a funny way and I could relate to the R2 and 3PO jibes.

Changing the bad guy every movie was a poor idea. They had a winner with Maul but killed him to be replaced by grandad then killed him to be replaced by a cyborg. 
The originals had Vader all the way and you could explore his character. Maul was a wasted opportunity. He could of been expanded on in the 2nd and 3rd installments and killed by Anakin/Vader as a climax.

On a personal note I love the style and design of the spaceships in the originals like the X-Wing. The prequels had nothing that inspired me. Just run of the mill space ships. Possibly exception was the Arc-170 but that was brought in too late and had too little time on screen. Never saw those rear gunners fire even though they were chased by droid fighters.

One other thing that bugged me was the extras were just extras. In the original a few nameless stormtroopers had some good lines, crew members too. It made it feel more real with the likes of Piett, Veers, Wedge etc.

I could go on and on but I'll stop here.

"Why add a mistake to the movie?" Was my first thought.

How could Greedo miss point blank? It seemed ridiculous.

Then when I heard that GL did it to make Han Solo not seem like a cold blooded killer my second thought was "Who the hell thinks that?"

It was almost the same scene from Raiders with the swordsman.

He didn't change that scene. No one thought Indiana Jones was a cold blooded killer so why change Han and Greedo.

It was just a "I don't have time for this" shooting. I thought it rather cool and comical at the same time; for both Raiders and ANH.

Just watched Dredd again.

That is a great movie. Dredd was played perfectly by Karl Urban.

Hopefully we can find out if the Millenium Falcons radar dish survived the Death Star II explosion.

I was never sure it made it back out and landed on Endor somewhere.

Having a random thought right now.

Darth Maul, Count Dooku and then Grevious.

In my opinion GL had no direction in which bad guy to have. No continuity between films doesn't let us look forward to what the bad guy does next.

Would of been nice to have Anakin and Maul showdown in which Anakin falls to the dark side in the fight; when Maul kills Padme after she has had the twins, and was coming to see Anakin to tell him. He never finds out about the twins. Obi Wan trys to talk him into seeing sense and then a fight ensues.

My other random thought was Maybe the siths secret power was if you kill a Sith lord you become a Sith lord. No one knows it but the Sith lords.

That way when Anakin kills Maul (who replaces Dooku and Grevious) he turns to the dark side. Also a nice way to get rid of the Sith Lords in ROTJ as Darth Vader kills the emperor and vice versa nullifying the power of turning Sith Lord killers into Sith Lords themselves as he was one already.

As previously mentioned on these forums Luke was pummeling Vader his eyes should flash to Sith eyes then Fade when he throws his sabre down.

This would fit in nicely with the continuity.

That way Anakin was the one the prophecy fortold when he gets rid of all Sith Lords including himself. The ultimate sacrifice.

I liked Obi Wan and Darth Mauls lightsabre fight. It was fast and furious.

Its how I imagined Jedi should fight.

I liked the design of the ARC 170 fighter.

That is all.

In Empire Leia was not Lukes sister (my opinion is based on GL not making brother and sister kiss romantically) . The story was changed during the writing of ROTJ. (GL choosing to forget about what he had previously written).

On Dagobah, when Luke left to rescue Han and Leia, Obi Wan said "That boy is our last hope." Yoda says "No, there is another."

Obi Wan was at Luke and Leias birth, so now we have a continuity error or it was not Leia Yoda was talking about on Dagobah.

If it was not Leia, who was Yoda referring to?

This could be the person who is the hero of the next trilogy or two.

Adywan that was brilliant. Loved the AT-ST shooting at the snowspeeder.

That whole clip was emotional for me; the care you've put into it.

I didn't cry but I was close. Yes it was that emotional. You have the feel of Star Wars the same as I do.

Brings back my childhood. Thank you.

When the rebels enter the bunker watch the very left of the entrance and you can see the rebel now dressed as the Biker Scout and he moves into view and puts the helmet on, then stands there with his hands behind his back on guard.

I've always noticed this.

When the Biker Scout runs around the corner or the bunker after Han; and into the rebels trap; one rebel puts down his gun and walks towards the Scout. Then what follows is what I first wrote.

Last movie seen was Labyrinth.

Kids are watching it over and over. Daughter thinks if she doesn't watch it from start to finish Toby wont come back.

They call the goblins "globlins" Got to love kids.

The greatest flaw was starting at the wrong point in the story.

Should of started with Anakin as a Jedi already already trained by Obi and Yoda.

As said in one of the posts it should of started with Episode 3 and have that as Episode 1.

It will lessen the need for Padme and politics of the movies and make Anakin and Obi stronger characters because the movies would be based mostly on them. Luke and Leia could of still been born in Episode 1 and then have Anakin become Vader at the start of Episode 2 and the clone wars begins.

I realise my post goes on more about the story but my main point is starting Anakins story too early.

Imagine if Episode 4 started with Luke aged 10 and the story doesn't get a kick along until he becomes the age he actually was in Episode 4.

I like the idea of giving the $100 to Adywan instead of GL for the Blu Rays.

It makes more sense. Good idea marioxb.

All versions as they originally appeared but with 5.1 Dolby Digital Master Audio with all continuity fixed and special effects cleaned up.

The space battles can be redone digitally as ships and such aren't as obvious, digitally, as living things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw

I'm hoping this movie will be fantastic. A world war 2 air movie without a love story watering it down.

If Lucas can pull this off all is forgiven for Episodes 1, 2 and 3 for me.

While I won't be liking the prequels anymore at least he'll be back in my good books. LOL

brash_stryker said:

I love it! Excellent transition into it. Everyone wonders what method can fix the prequels, well this is it! Having them as flashbacks, you can cut out as much crap as you want :-)

Good work!

I agree.

I just watched a short clip and it was awesome. Extend the Original Trilogy with flashbacks from the prequels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdn4yYy7-s

This makes me want to learn editing now.

Brilliant.

One I use regularly with my mate is when I leave his house I start my car and he asks

"you got her warmed?"

I reply "Yeah she's comin' up."

That one is probably one of my favourite ones.

When I started an electronics course I didn't end up finishing, one time I had to make a circuit on a test bed with a partner.

I ended up saying "No this one goes here; that one goes there."

I'm having a good laugh at these. Thanks guys.