We cannot campaign for the OOT and simultaneously call for editing of the PT.
Double standards of the highest order.
Disagree entirely.
I’m pretty sure this refers to Disney editing the prequels, not fanedits, and especially having the original prequels vanish.
Have you tried clearing your cache?
On the other hand, I’d sure like them to do a ‘compromise’ of sorts…and re-edit each prequel into something a lot less awkward overall, to get rid of their worst moments! - hell, they could ‘market’ these re-edited ‘re-issues’ as being ‘a world’s first in home cinema’…and have them become the ‘de facto’, improved versions instead…with the existing versions eventually disappearing from the store shelves and TV schedules altogether!
Do we then start a petition to bring back the Original Prequel Trilogy? Their badness is part of our cultural history and needs to be preserved for future generations to loathe.
Now seriously, making new versions of movies and getting rid of the old ones would send the completely wrong message, especially if it’s done by people who weren’t involved in making them at all. Even George’s Special Editions of the OT would have more credibility.
If it’s ok for a company to replace the prequels with “improved” versions, what would stop them to replace other movies? The abuse of copyright to revise and replace existing works of art needs to be stopped altogether, regardelss of apparent quality (or lack of it).
Also, I doubt if re-editing the prequels would pay off. People who like them now would be pissed off, people who hate them wouldn’t watch a simple alternative cut of the same flawed elements, so the only audience for them would be people who like the prequels a little, but not enough to watch the current versions. Lastly, the cost of making a good re-edit would be incredibly high. Just look at how much work faneditors put in their projects here, Disney wouldn’t pay for that and a cheaply done job wouldn’t improve them much.
Finally, I’m not even sure if simply editing the prequels can lead to a good result. It’s not like there are a few scenes that you need to get rid of, they are flawed at their core, you would end up completely tearing them apart and rebuilding them from scratch, all while being limited by the current versions. It would be easier and give a better result to just remake them altogether.
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Great news. Will it be possible to add other audio mixes from ROTJ 1.0 if one wants to have a Marathon with dubbed versions?
New planet names? Personally, I don’t care, but someone folks here may want to avoid all kinds of spoilers, so stumbling over Starkiller Base might be a rather big discovery.
You may want to mark this as a spoiler thread.
Also, no Alderaan, not even “former position of Alderaan” or something like that. Do they want to draw attention away from it?
hence the note about it not working above the form field
Ok, now I feel stupid 😄
It doesn’t bother me that much anyways, that’s why I noticed it only now, but I thought I should mention it.
How can people possible like Part 3 more than Part 2?
Didn’t we have this discussion also about ROTS vs. AOTC? And ROTJ vs. TESB?
What response?
The setting of the time zone doesn’t work, no matter what I choose, EST is displayed for the time a post was made. I don’t remember this being a problem in the first weeks after the migration, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
imperialscum said:
Basically all your just said (meaningfulness, functionality, immersion, especially “malfunctions”, etc.) is more or less your personal impression of an art work.
Bingowings said:
I see Jedi and the PT as broken art works that the mind can’t resist trying to repair.I see
Bingowings literally said that this was his personal opinion, I don’t get what your problem is and why you desperatly try to make it look like he thought this was a universal truth.
And it’s all about generations, the issues of fathers and sons and grandfathers, it’s a family soap opera. They call it a space opera, but people don’t realize it’s actually a soap opera, and it’s all about family problems and that kind of… it’s not about spaceships.
The OT, isn’t a soap opera. And especially Star Wars is not about any family realtions at all, it’s just impossible, since the family realtions weren’t yet established. Star Wars is a straight forward fantasy movie, it has the hero’s journey including wizards and magic, everything screems fantasy. Lucas still does not understand what Star Wars is and what people liked about it so much to make it a cultural phenomenon in the 70’s and 80’s.
Or jedi are still not very common and/or famous, so lightsabers are just seen as some old antiquated weapons. Thus, the stormtrooper may not assume that the one wielding it has magical forces that makes him a superior combatant.
I sigh, therefore I am.
Doesn’t seem I have much of a choice. So far, my local cinema only has 3D screenings scheduled and the only 2D show in the next city is at the premiere on a thursday in the middle of the night.
It isn’t even that 3D gives me headaches or something, I just don’t see why I should pay extra to have to wear a pair of uncomfortable glasses while looking at a dimmer version of a movie that doesn’t gain any merit by the addition of a 3D effect, especially if it’s only converted.
10:45 AM | Episode IV: A New Hope**
1:30 PM | Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back**
4:15 PM | Episode VI: Return of the Jedi**
30-40 minute break between movies; 2D “original” theatrical releases
2D “original” theatrical releases has been changed to 2D digitally remastered releases. It would have been too good to be true.
You must know that the last thread harvest was really miserable, so we can’t make too many new threads before next season or our reserves run out. Thread farming became less and less fruitful over the last years, mainly because of global warming.
Where did you dig up that old fossil?
Nothing is lost forever 😉 http://web.archive.org/web/20141218111044/http://savestarwars.com/
Perhaps the biggest problems should be addressed FIRST, then, no?
The biggest problem is to have the forum actually online, which was often not the case with the old hosting service, the second biggest problem is to restore the functionalities like subscriptions, bookmarks and drafts, the third biggest problem is how things look like. What use is the most beautiful forum if it’s unavailable every now and then?
And you, young JCM, we will watch your link with great interest.