Mark's Down On Your Syntax

The Star Wars trilogy special edition - behind the scenes It was split into three parts for the VHS release but this is the complete half hour version from the laserdisc with a bit of extra stuff! Best quality version I can find.

The Mythology of Star Wars Filmed around the time of the release of Episode I George Lucas sits down and talks for an hour about everything Star Wars! Personally, I love this - it’s a really, really good interview. Not the best quality version available so it might be worth doing a bit more searching.

When Star Wars Ruled The World A fun VH1 collection of interviews from the 90’s which is fluff, but still interesting! (Probably not the best quality version out there.)

Star Wars - The Magic and The Mystery Another fluffy fity minutes (presented by Howie Long!) but it’s well put together and worth your time I think.

From Star Wars to Star Wars- The Story of Industrial Light & Magic Samuel L. Jackson presents a brief overview of ILM from '77 to '99. Pretty low quality video but the best I can find.

A more recent documentary is The Galaxy Britain Built which aired at the end of last year about the UK’s contribution to Star Wars. I’m patriotically biased but it’s a really interesting watch and has a lot of behind the scenes staff (and Gareth Edwards) sharing their stories.

Ralph McQuarrie: Tribute to a Master Shown at Star Wars Celebration a few years back and then split into five parts on starwars.com, this version edits them back together - it’s in HD (although not the highest quality possible.)

I think starwars.com has the best quality version of From Star Wars To Jedi - The Making Of A Saga

As others have said, some of what you’re after is on the Prequel Trilogy dvds. Whatever your opinion on the actual movies all three of those releases are FULL of great bonus material which is definitely worth buying despite being in old fashioned standard definition 😉

Also, I must mention Jamie Benning. He’s made several outstanding (and very professional) documentaries which are on his Vimeo channel, also some other non-Star Wars stuff you might find of interest. Highly recommended!

Brassed Off is a class act whereas Pitch Perfect is a crass act.

And look at the top of the sleeve - they’ve clearly used scissors to cut it to size and couldn’t even make it straight!

Anybody who would part with $30, or any amount of money, for something that shoddy needs their head read. The people attempting to sell these should be ashamed of themselves.

“Pitch Perfect”

I think I’m supposed to like this movie? It feels like they were trying really hard to make me like this but I spent most of the running time being only very gently amused and tutting whenever Rebel Wilson was onscreen. Maybe I’m from the wrong culture or social class but I just didn’t get it. Bit of a shame as it’s a good idea - 3 out of 10.

Here’s an article about a new episode of TNG written using a specially programmed predictive text. There’s a link in there to the entire thing too.

Fascinating and hilarious!

I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt - he did use an exclamation mark.

I tend to think of questions too.

We’ll your certain won of them but theirs have bin worse than that over the time I read this forms threats.

Who the hell is Ian Skrry?

DuracellEnergizer said:

^This one is not long for this forum.

Oh no, the spambot’s post got deleted and now it looks like Duracell hates Frank!

Good on you, Danielsan. Printing discs is beyond me at the moment so I think I might be availing myself of your services at some point - especially as you’re in the UK too.

LordZerome1080 said:

Not sure if this counts but here

Lord Zerome, I’ve adjusted your link in the quote above - if you put any word or words in your post within these kind of brackets

[ like this ]

and then put the link directly after it within these kind of brackets

( wwwexampleforzerome.com )

with no spaces between anything, it will make your posts much tidier and easier to read.

As regards that link to the Batman blu-rays, I know they’re officially on the way soon but I didn’t think they’ve been released anywhere in the world yet. The seller seems to be a lot less dubious than sellingstuffagain and the teamblu imposters though so if it is a bootleg, they might be unaware. It’s a good looking one though, I kinda hope that’s what the official release looks like. Not at all in keeping with the tone of the actual animated series but I think it’s quite well put together.

NeverarGreat said:

Obscure, but not unmemorable.

Especially given who played the role.

LordZerome1080 said:

I would like to make a thread for new users so that their questions can be kept in one area only.

They’d only get lost and start asking how to find that thread though.

I’m not even joking.

I’ve watched 9 episodes of Girl Meets World today.

I REGRET NOTHING.

Do you know all those members who’ve mysteriously stopped posting over the years? Here one day and gone the next?

I think another member PM’d them for an IRL meet-up and murdered them.

They probably have their corpses stuffed and dressed up in Star Wars costumes posed throughout their house.

Just so you know guys, it wasn’t me.

Dark, cloudy, windy, rainy… not too cold though so I shouldn’t complain.

October! When else?!!

“Hatchet”

Lots of people get killed and Harmony from Buffy and Angel gets her knockers out. 3.5 out of 10.

“Hatchet II”

Ever wondered what it would look like if a man was dragged across the room by his intestines then strangled with them so hard that his head popped off? Well then look no further my friend because this is the movie for you. 3 out of 10.

“Hatchet III”

The bad guy gets chopped in half longways by falling backwards onto a huge chainsaw in the first few minutes. Fear not, he comes back shortly after and resumes his rampage. The big guns turn up but are no match. Everybody dies but apparently there’s another sequel… 2 out of 10.

“Victor Crowley”

Despite being melted by having a relative’s ashes tipped out from an urn onto him in the last movie that naughty lad Victor is back for more bloody shenanigans as I wonder what the hell I’m doing with my life. 3 out of 10.

Mike O said:

Anchor Bay teamed up with Shout Factory to release a huge boxed set of the first 10 Halloween films. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to get the original film with the damned mono track, and lossless to boot. But you can’t get it individually. Which is all I want. Goddamn first world problems.

We kinda discussed something along similar lines to this near the bottom of this page and some more people replied on the next page. I bought the 10-disc set not knowing that a 15-disc set existed so I was trying to figure out what I was missing out on.

From what I can tell the Halloween version in the 10 disc box is just disc one from the 2-disc 35th anniversary release (you get both in the 15-disc set.) You can buy the 35th anniversary individually, prices vary wildly but I’ve never seen it more expensive than the 10-disc set. I think that’s your best option, Mike.

But maybe the new film’s release this year will bring yet another re-release of the original so it might be worth waiting for that?

“Dundee” (2018)

Starring Danny McBride… Scottish name? Perhaps. But in this “teaser trailer” he’s standing on a cliff which is CLEARLY in Australia and speaking in a North American accent of some sort.

He didn’t even say, “Laddie” at the end. 1 tartan kilt out of 5.

I’ve never actually compiled an all-time favourites list before and it was actually much more difficult than I thought it would be (I also couldn’t get it down below 25 movies!) I’ve left off anything Star Wars because, for me, that exists in a magical realm outside of normal judgement… I’ve also just alphabetised the list because I simply cannot put it in any other kind of order:

Aliens
Amelie
Back to the Future
Before Sunrise
Charade
Die Hard
E.T.
Face/Off
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Labyrinth
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
North By Northwest
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Psycho
Rear Window
The Thing (1982… obviously!)
This Is Spinal Tap
12 Angry Men
The Untouchables
Waking Ned
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Well, this thread got pretty dark pretty quick!

ray_afraid said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

The subscriber’s cover for that issue of Empire is awesomer in every way.

Ugh. Of all the great quotes they coulda’ used, they went with that embarrassing pun.
Oh dear, oh dear.

I have to agree with you there. What’s wrong with, “If this is a consular ship…”? It’s surely the most appropriate quote for that artwork!

The artwork is awesome though, just awesome.

oojason said:

I’m not sure how the movies are sorted - one of the butlers just gets them for me.

😉

 

Just kidding - we have maids for that sort of thing now.

Yeah, and you should see what he makes us wear!

My collection is arranged alphabetically with DVDs and BDs all mixed in together. The exceptions being we’ve got prequels before the film they precede and “universes” like Star Trek and Star Wars in chronological order. Also, the MCU is under A for Avengers which made sense when there were only five films but is downright barmy now that the squillion other movies, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and Daredevil and everything else is there alongside it. Hmm.