FrankT

I think I've cracked it.

Make it all a ham-fisted slideshow. Like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

(actually I might be able to pull that off!)

George's vision is appalling.

Looking forward to it!

What if you played that on a PS3?

Mike O said:

Damn him in the ass!

How do you damn someone in the ass?

I wouldn't know, I wasn't the one who came up with that quote. 6_6

I'm still going to wait for the official one to be released.

Damn him! Damn him in the ass!

Eeh, I might swing by if I'm not doing anything then.

msycamore said:

Here's a funny story from Marc Weilage, one of the colorists working on ANH and ROTJ in 2004:

BTW, note that there was stuff from the 2004 transfers I did where we ran out of time and Lucas was not able to get more fixes done. Whenever this happened on a specific shot, George would turn to his assistant and say, "note that as a BSI fix." After he left the room, I turned to my data op and asked, "what's a 'BSI'?" And he laughed and said, "that's a Boxed Set Issue, because George eventually wants to put all six films out as one set, which will be the final-final versions." To my knowledge, this set has yet to be released. http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/true-original-star-wars-trilogy-blu-rays-coming-in-2014-or-2015-from-disney.324294/page-7

To my knowledge that BSI was released in 2011.

 My God, now I've heard everything! Those changes we saw in the Blu-rays, they were just... waiting in the wings... ready to strike!

Would I have to get up at 5 in the morning for this?

Yeah, I did have that in mind.

I hope this is the original versions of the films - not that Special Edition load of $@%#!

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FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I'm talking the real thing - headed and tailed with cinema details and ads - General Cinema's a pretty good go-to:

https://vimeo.com/54835302

I'm informed that Episode III had a limited 35mm release at some point. Whether it's true or not I don't know, but would it disguise it a bit?

Now if there was a recreation of the theatrical presentation itself...

That's a point - I myself am looking for a source of that scene without that wall of rolling credits...

oh... did I say "peace"? I mean to say "War AND Peace". In fact no - I don't think either can be compared!

Star Wars = war

Star Trek = peace

The difference is night and day!

I shall be watching this project with interest.

Huh. Figured it was fictional.

Anyway - quick look at a FoxTrot comic from around the SE's time:

...and if we factor in Greedo shooting first, we get something completely different...

Ryan McAvoy said:

FrankT said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Oh and George, Ric McCallum and the rest of the crew thought TPM was cr*p too (Not just OT fans). Anybody got a link to that footage of them in stunned and horrified silence for a few seconds after the first private screening?

 If that's true, how come they didn't just throw it out and do it over again? Especially since they had it planned out from the start?

 Found it (The aftermath of the first screening is at 54.50)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sBsnYNucM

My moments are: George dejectedly saying "I may have gone too far" and "It boggles the mind", Ben Burtt disecting some of the things wrong with it and the best is the shot of Ric McCallum at 54.41 looking like he's going to burst into tears. Then them all standing around in the kitchen with George saying it can't be fixed LOL.

 Of course, that was just the rough cut... still...

I've never forgotten the moment that whoever-it-was stood on stage, said "This is awesome", sending the crowd wild just as the film started... I can't even begin to imagine the disappointment that followed.

Besides, what else is there to change? They'd need a whole map of George's mind.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Oh and George, Ric McCallum and the rest of the crew thought TPM was cr*p too (Not just OT fans). Anybody got a link to that footage of them in stunned and horrified silence for a few seconds after the first private screening?

 If that's true, how come they didn't just throw it out and do it over again? Especially since they had it planned out from the start?

He does? Now I've heard everything!

Verbatim from an Amazon.com review:

Alfonso Dupont said:

We true insiders know that the original Star Wars movies were made at a time of turmoil in Hollywood, when mob assassinations and drug-fueled orgies were a fact of life on every film set. It is believed that it was at a swinger party where Marcia Lucas was successfully wooed from her Jedi Knight husband by a shadowy plumber. The ugly divorce almost drove George insane, and only by immersing himself in the world of puppet Salacious B. Crumb--even at one point claiming he would play the character himself--was George able to weather this turbulant period.

This was of course followed by what film historians now know as the "sham years", when George Lucas dated several famous women in public (and even once gave his penile size in an interview), but in private drifted into homosexual experimentation. Part of this is hinted at in the George Lucas Usenet Archive, a collection of George's posts to an Internet forum of some kind, written during the making of his "prequel trilogy".

Many film historians have heard the stories of what went on behind and in front of the camera, including impromptu sex scenes that were removed from the final edits and a bloody quarrel between Mark Hamill and Sir Alec Guinness that involved accusations of rape. Oftentimes a cover story was used to explain why certain footage had "disappeared"--for example, at the top of the frame in the original Jabba scene was visible both a bobbing boom mike and a crew member's bobbing, fleshy organ. This was later explained as the scene being cut because of difficult special effects.

If this is all true, I am terrified!