Little Nemo

Wow, losing the “what have I done?” REALLY helps that scene in RotS.

Boy do I love losing the Yoda/Sidious fight, and having his thwarted clone ambush be the one time you see him light up. Qui-Gon dialogue excellent. Padme surviving is clever… but I can’t quite hand-wave the decision to split the twins up. In some ways I’d like to see the actual births and namings dropped, Luke delivered, with an attempt to maintain the sister reveal down the road perhaps… not sure how that would work though.

I also have little to no problem with Palpatine’s disfigurement in the theatrical cut, and the ‘reveal’ strategy sort of jarring, but it just goes to show that you Can’t Please Everyone. I do love seeing all the different takes on things, and the way an Actual Movie starts to emerge when you boil it down.

I can’t believe they chopped the Seeds of Rebellion plotline in favor of some of the other shit GL kept in originally. It drives a further wedge between the leads, and I’d argue some of Portman’s best acting is in deleted scenes, namely the second SoR meeting and AotC scene where her sister is ribbing her over Anakin’s obvious affections, as for once (or twice) Padme has something to hide, as opposed to her usual modes of exposition or strained love dialogue.

Does Q2 remove Anakin’s renaming as well then?

I think I’ve managed to snag a Region 2 copy of TPM… we’ll see if those extra 94 lines of vertical rez mean anything.

Did you and Dre start with the PAL versions as the source? Did it make a difference?

I am so ready to do these in HD and BETTER but I’m super into reincorporating some of the deleted scenes that aren’t on the blu-rays and finding the best possible version of these for upscaling (namely PAL versions of the bonus materials) is a real stumbling block for me.

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I took a long lunch-break last Thursday and caught the matinee, my third TFA viewing. There was a long line and a lot of NYers there to say goodbye. Pretty sad.

The link to the disc art doesn't seem to be functioning:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R4UWXWY8

Anyone have an alternate path to them?

edit:  found 'em in another thread.  Lovely!

Empire is definitely in my top five.

Thanks! I do like to think that, at the very least, I showed that you can get those two-headed announcers out of the picture, and end TPM before the parade. The prequels almost work if you can get the characters to stop talking!

Slumberland here (my original account is lost to the sands of time).

I'm just stupid enough to trying recreating these with the source elements that are now available.  Maybe even go a bit further.  Don't tell my wife though.  We'll see.

I still very much enjoy them, but yeah, they're great for iPad viewing... not so much for modern TVs.