Yeah, those are known as garbage mattes, residuals from the process of optical compositing. They've always been there, but I'll be damned if I ever noticed them until the movies came out on DVD. They're definitely visible on the '04 DVDs (because that's the first time I ever noticed them).
Like I said... naked. The longer this goes on, the more appealing my idea is going to become. =P
Hmm, I smell really creepy Luke/Leia sister/sister fanart could come from that typo.
Personally, if I was allowed to have the choice, I'd rather have the real, complete movie in its entirety than the ability to make nice screen grabs.
Yes, it does. And that's one of my main annoyances with these and every other Star Wars DVD that's ever been made. It's especially a problem because the subtitles appear in the matte instead of the actual film. The matte doesn't exist in context of the film. It's simply there to take up space! Therefore, information pertinent to the film shouldn't be in something that's essentially a black hole. But it's there because Lucasfilm is filled with incompetent bastards. I have noticed that the prequel DVDs play with the subtitles in the frame proper when I play it on my widescreen computer, but it's still that shitty, jagged DVD-produced font that's just playing over the film rather than in it. Geez, Lucasfilm is so stupid.
If you ask me, they all just should have been naked. In all the movies. Even in space. Yep. Naked. Even Vader. Maybe he'd wear the mask, but that's it. Peter Cushing couldn't have complained about the boots he had to wear, because he wouldn't have been wearing anything. Yep. Naked Tarkin. And naked Lando. Naked Sio Bibble. Naked Jar Jar. Naked Palpatine. And Chewbacca should have been shaved... shaved naked. Same goes for the ewoks and the stormtroopers, because if the stormtroopers are naked, then no one can complain that the ewoks can't hit them with rocks. And if the ewoks are naked, then there's little naked people running around. Whee for little naked people! And finally, Yoda should be naked because I'm sure every one of us has wondered at one point what he's packing down there... or wherever he's packing.
There. Argument solved. No clothing, pretentious or plain. Just good old fashioned nudity.
While I mostly agreed with CO's post (and glad to see he's back!), I wouldn't go so far as to say that ROTJ doesn't have any "it" moments. It does... it's just that they're all located in the final act, rather than the previous movies that have really good moments throughout. As much as I love Leia in that bikini, she simply can't carry the entire movie up to its climax (yeah, I'm stepping knee-deep into innuendo, I know). Everything leading up to the final act is meh (with the first act being less than meh), and only the last half hour or so really lives up to Star Wars standards. There's Luke briefly giving into his anger and then paying the price for not carrying it out, and there's Luke and Lando barely escaping from the Death Star in the nick of time. Those moments work for me every time, and they're spectacular payoffs. However, they just don't save the rest of the movie from getting bogged down in itself. And like others have pointed out, that doesn't make it bad (except for Luke's stupid plan at Jabba's palace, which is just horrible, but even that took me over a decade to realize). There are many genuinely good moments all throughout ROTJ, but until the end, it's just lacking that spark that the other two had, and that's an opinion I've carried (although not always been able to articulate) ever since my first viewing of it when I was nine.
EDIT: Heh, it looks like I may have coined a phrase by referring to the ROTJ lightsaber as a whiffle ball bat! Yay!
No, none of the things you listed did I have any problem with, but I do agree that ROTJ is the worst of the original trilogy.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Jabba-the-Hutt-Strategy/topic/9726/
If you check out this thread I made several months back, you'll get a good impression that the bulk of my annoyance with this movie lies with the ridiculous and asinine "plan" (written by retarded monkeys with penises instead of thumbs) devised to get Han back from Jabba. Ugh, stupid, stupid plan. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. Oh, and the fact that it essentially turns lightsabers into glowy wiffle ball bats...
Heh, I loved that. I think I just became a follower of confused matthew, although it once again solidifies my point of view that anyone who comments on youtube is an asinine, illiterate idiot who deserves to be sodomized with sandpaper.
Other than that, I've been watching his videos all night. Apparently I, unlike the sandpaper-festish cretins on youtube, have a sense of humor because I found his videos delightful, including his disaparaging videos for The Lion King and Back to the Future Part II, two movies I love.
Fun times... ^_^
Hmm. I had just written a long post disproving what you just said, but now I see that you are in fact right. Weird. Not you being right but just that there's that one tiny instance where it's still used in 2004 but nowhere on the boxset.
The former is a 2000 re-release of the SE (and the first time it wasn't referred to as the SE), while the latter is the original '97 release of the SE (fullscreen).
Stick those plot points into a trilogy of novels, and then you will have reached appropriate Star Wars nerdgasm levels.
Yeah, it took me years to figure out which scenes contained the real queen and which ones contained the fake queen. Of course, now I look back and wonder how I ever made that mistake. It seems so obvious now.
Yeah, mine are the later jewel cases with the special edition poster art as the cover.
Haha, I finally got it! Thanks, sluggo and Davnes. So, sluggo, I take it you have the original slimline packaged version of this, huh?
Yeah, I suppose so. Like I said, I'm new to the Vista scene, so I'm still working through all this stuff. If you get a chance, I'd appreciate it. If not, where can I download WinRar or WinZip (I remember downloading WinRar on my old Win98 computer, but I could have sworn I never needed to on my newer XP computer...)?
NSNA is one of only two Bond movies I own (the other being From Russia With Love). I've only watched it once, I was only 14 at the time, and I didn't realize that it was directed by Kershner, but I seem to remember enjoying it. I should probably watch it again to find out... but I don't feel like it right now. Maybe later.
Well, Lobot is one of the only original figures I have (along with ESB Han and ESB 3PO), so I think he's pretty cool if only for that reason.
Vaderisnothayden said:That's the OT. The OT has a right to be revisionist. Other stuff, coming along years later, does not. The OT was made in basically one long creative period from the mid 70s down to 1983. It is also the main Star Wars material. Other stuff that is secondary material and/or comes along much later (years after the original Star Wars creative period was over) does not have the same license to take liberties with the story.
Well, I'm sure someone like Anchorhead would probably disagree and say that only the original Star Wars is the "main Star Wars material" and the sequels took liberties with the story that it shouldn't have. I'm not saying you're wrong, or that the prequels were right. I'm just saying that there are other viewpoints out there. Our generally collective viewpoint about the OT is just a viewpoint, and there's nothing really that makes our point of view more valid than anyone else's. I believe that our viewpoint is better than the viewpoint of the PT gushers, but that doesn't make it so. And I love the OT, but I can see the flaws it has, particularly the ones created through the revisionism that the sequels laid into it. Do I accept them and like them? Yes. And to a much lesser extent I enjoy the prequels, but I acknowledge the flaws and continuity holes in all of them. I can't give the OT a pass just because I prefer it and because its revisionism (mainly) got through much more successfully.