LexX

Erikstormtrooper said:

Too bad you threw out those tapes.

All these stories seem to end with "I don't have the tapes but I swear it".

dark_jedi said:

LexX said:

So are these going to be available as DL for those who aren't/can't send the DVDs? Can someone who gets them upload those versions?

YES! these WILL be available at some point for everyone to download, not sure from where yet,but yes, and they WILL be DVD9's.

Awesome.

Bocce_Linguist said:

Damn good post,  hairy_hen.

Indeed.

So are these going to be available as DL for those who aren't/can't send the DVDs? Can someone who gets them upload those versions?

Sevb32 said:

I don't get why we can't all get along and accept people have differing opinions without cutting them down and judging them or their motives. It's all OPINION anyway not fact.

Say that to "them". They think that we're wrong and we should just get over it etc. At least we can admit that everything isn't perfect unlike these who think everything that has GL's name on it must be flawless.

CO said:

I believe these SW fans at SW.com are lying their asses off

These aren't just fans, some are from the animated series and some are just other nobodies. I think it's just so funny that they need to make a panel about loving prequels and they're using every trick in the book defending those movies. It would've been even better if someone from OT.com would've been there guessing what everyone's going to say and then shot all those comments down LOL.

http://www.starwars.com/fans/events/cv_why_we_love_the_prequels/index.html

There's some good crap for laughs. So sad. :P

Here's my set completed, took whole summer LOL. But I'm happy with the results.

Or "I don't like sand, it gets everywhere!".

skyjedi2005 said:

They should just put the originals on blu ray with the respective 70mm mixes.  Star Wars would then sound phenomenal. 

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. They're not original so I won't even watch them, it doesn't really matter. LOL

Someone should contact Wood about this. He's a fan friendly person, signs his mail etc. so maybe he could even listen to some criticism?

I was 7 when the trilogy came on TV and from the first movie I was blown away. ROTJ was the only one I got to record on video and I watched just it for maybe at least half a year until I got my trilogy. So from the beginning it was always an entertaining movie and I couldn't decide which was better to me, TESB or ROTJ. SW was great, too, of course.

As a kid you tend to see only the positive things, I never had a problem with ewoks, I just waited for the end battle. But now in the recent maybe 5 years, everytime I watch ROTJ I think it's harder and harder to wait for the end battle. Because after the speeder bike chase it feels so dragging and boring and you're just waiting until Luke goes to see Vader. And even after that, the whole Endor battle isn't interesting at all. So for me, from 1 to 10, it's TESB 10, SW 9½ and ROTJ maybe 7½ now.

And about scores... I think SW and TESB are perfect. There isn't a track that isn't good (well, maybe Yoda's theme, I've never been a fan of that) or doesn't capture SW feeling. ROTJ is great, too, but there are some tracks that aren't so. And surprise, it's all the Ewok themes, and some of the Jabba tracks are little boring, too. But then there are themes that are more powerful than in the other movies. "Darkside reckons" always gives me the chills and then when Luke attacks... It's awesome. Also Emperor's themes are great and there are good battle themes, too. Funeral pyre is great, but again, Ewok Celebration ruins it, LOL. So ROTJ kind of compensates the bad tracks with even greater tracks.

thecolorsblend said:

I would've thought if anybody had been considered a loose cannon, it would've been Anthony Daniels following his "the storytelling always gets subsumed" remark. That couldn't have won him any points with LFL.

I think Daniels is very close to LFL, without it he wouldn't be anything. He's been C-3PO in all things, cartoons, ads, Star Tours and all kinds of advertising things. And without him there really isn't 3PO at all so it's not like LFL has a choice. He's the only one in all the movies, too.

I'll have to explain a little for my collection...

I have only bought 2004 trilogy from retail and the only reason I'm keeping it is the extra disc. THX and SEs were bought to me as a gift. THX was the first one I ever owned so I had to get it. And at that time I thought the SEs were "cool" so wanted them, too.

All others were bought second handed. Other SE trilogy I bought for 50 cents. I don't remember how much the third one cost but it wasn't much. 2006 DVD tin box was 30 euros, second handed. Cheapest and the only one I've ever seen on sale here. Executor box was the most expensive but I'm keeping it for the cool extras. And all the rental versions are just because I'm a collector, they're the first ones and they are a piece of SW history.

Sorry about bumping this but could anyone share the old Times Roman font family? I can't find it anywhere, I'd need it on my ROTJ cover.

Actually, my list was old. I sold my damn prequels! Here they are:

VHS (all pan&scan unless noted):

• 1982 Star Wars Rental Library (UK)
• 1983 Star Wars rental (Finnish)
• 1984 The Empire Strikes Back rental (UK)
• 1985 The Empire Strikes Back rental (Finnish)
• 1986 Return of the Jedi rental (UK)
• 1986 Return of the Jedi rental (Finnish)
• 1994 Star Wars (Finnish)
• 1995 Executor box-set (widescreen)
• 1995 THX Trilogy box (Finnish)
• 1997 Special Edition Trilogy box (Finnish)
• 1997 Return of the Jedi SE rental (Finnish)
• 1997 Special Edition Trilogy box widescreen (UK)
• 2000 Special Edition Trilogy box widescreen (Finnish)
• 2000 Episode I pan & scan NTSC (for sale)

DVD:

• 2004 Trilogy box
• 2006 Trilogy tin box
• Ewok movies

Mine are here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/POLL-Which-version-of-the-OT-do-you-own/topic/6793/

Awesome news! A restoration would be even better. Could it be done for BD?

adywan said:

I highly doubt that this was for the ROTJ deleted scene as there have been pictures of the outside of the cave filming with 3P0 & R2 from way back.

I was just kidding.

Or maybe for the new "deleted scene"...

;)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm liking it, too. Now off to Jedi. Btw does anyone have HQ pic of just the style B poster art? The poster crops it from top and bottom too much.

Here's my Star Wars just finished. I know nobody cares, LOL, but let me know what do you think about the poster colors, it's hard to get it right not knowing what it should look like, haha.

Mr. Lucas said the versions of the first three “Star Wars” films – “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” – included in the Blu-ray boxed set will be the special-edition releases that were shown theatrically in 1997 and digitally restored for a 2004 standard-definition DVD boxed set.

Perhaps bracing for the reactions of fans who decried some of the changes made to the special-edition films – like, say, an exchange of gunfire between Han Solo and a certain green-skinned bounty hunter – Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions of these films on Blu-ray was “kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good.” “You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally,” he added. “It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.”

Great. Yeah, it's expensive... But not to a billionaire.

Finally! In that form though, I'll have to disagree that it would've been good in the movie. Vader is pretty lame, indeed, and Luke just finishes his lightsaber and tests it, it's a bit too much.

One thing's for sure, I'll be buying those BDs now.

Tobar said:

Oh yeah, I love those. It was a really great series up until the end when Archie Goodwin left. Then toward the release of ROTJ it just got horrible.

Agree.