Mielr

Ripplin said:

Mielr said:

I used to also have the letterboxed VHS of Phantom Menace, but I never opened it and ended up taking it back to the store.

Ha! :) I have the letterbox Episode I in the Toys 'R Us exclusive box. A neat little keepsake, I suppose. I have the fancy one with the film cel in it, too. Man, what was I thinking?

 

That's the one I had, too (the one with the film cel). :-) I got it as a gift. I never even opened it to see which cel was included. :-P

 

Moth3r said:

I'd go for either the Definitive Collection boxed set or the individual 'faces' discs.

 

iRantanplan said:

But be aware that there is a Definitive Set out there missing the Leia wielding scene.

 

The Definitive set is also very prone to laser rot- the "faces" discs aren't.

Quite frankly, unless you're planning on collecting a bunch of laserdiscs, I wouldn't go to the expense of buying a LD player just to play the OOT LDs on. I did that about 5 years ago, and had I known that the GOUT DVDs were coming out, I wouldn't have because it would have saved me several hundred dollars. :-/

negative1 said:

also what about VHS? i've never owned a videotape or VCR.... surely something must

have come out in letterboxed format for it??

 

 

Yes, a large number of VHS tapes were letterboxed.

Just for the SW Trilogy alone there were at least 3 or 4 letterboxed  VHS sets released. I own two separate letterboxed editions of original SW Trilogy - the "faces" VHS set from '95 (which was also available in Pan&Scan) and the "hologram" letterboxed  VHS set from '93 (which was sort of a VHS companion to the Definitive Collection LD set).

I used to also have the letterboxed VHS of Phantom Menace, but I never opened it and ended up taking it back to the store.

ESHBG said:

Were the GOUT discs THX mastered?

 

They weren't labelled "THX", but the laserdiscs that were made from the same masters as the GOUT were labelled "THX", so yeah, but it's THX circa 1993....

THX doesn't really mean anything anymore anyway, since they came out with that whole "THX select" thing.

skyjedi2005 said: I love that struzan poster except it is based on a black and white empire strikes back still he had access to. And Luke and Vaders sabers are wrong colors.

you can see the cloud city platform stairs in the painting.

 

You can tell it is the scene from empire where Luke Walks up the stairs and ignites his saber after vader says "the Force is with you young skywalker, but you are not a jedi yet"

He did the same thing when he put an image of Leia from ESB on the '97 SW SE poster.

What creature was described as "all-powerful"? 4 POINTS

Sarlaac?

Wow- that is just amazing. This will be just revolutionary for film restoration.

I thought NTSC had more problematic reds?

digitalfreaknyc said:

That's what I don't understand.

I thought the Original Versions included in that 2 disc set was supposed to be limited edition??

No, no, don't you understand? The ones sold separately were limited editions! LOL!!!!!! ;-)

I already got my 'boxed set' in a nice tin with vintage artwork from Best Buy in '06.

Speaking of pizza- english muffin pizzas are very easy to make. 

I wonder if it will get nominated for a Razzie? :-P

EDIT: I SWEAR I wrote that BEFORE I saw this site! ROFLMAO!!!!!! :-D

http://www.razzies.com/

That was great to see! Apparently it was posted by someone at the lab where the graphics were originally created.

Who did George Lucas describe as a "cynical, world-weary pessimist"? 

Han Solo?

I checked rotten tomatoes again today, to see if there were any new reviews up. There are 2 new reviews, both bad (NY Times and Richard Roeper).

For those of you keeping score, it has dipped again to 18% for the T-Meter Critics (down from 19%) and is now at 4% for the Top Critics (down from 5%). http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/clone_wars/?critic=creamcrop

Papillons are supposed to be great dogs- very sweet. My cousin had a corgi once, and she was a nice dog as well, so a papillon/corgi mix would probably be a great pet. :-)

There are A LOT of trailers with deleted scenes and/or alternate shots in  them.

Probably the most infamous is The Magnificent Ambersons.

Others I can think of off the top of my head are: Phantom of the Paradise, Harold and Maude, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and of course The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Isn't the buzz that Shia Leboeuf is supposed to take over in the next film? 

BTW, has anyone seen the SW bobbleheads that they have at McDonalds? It's supposed to be a Clone Wars-tie in, but most of them are actually OT characters, the remainder being PT and Clone Wars characters.

The only OT ones they had available were Wicket on a speederbike and C-3P0 on a landspeeder, so I bought those. The others in the display case were very cool-looking as well (Han on the Falcon, Luke on an X-wing, Leia on the Tantive, Vader on a Tie-fighter, etc.)

I had no idea they had these at McD's until I walked in there today. I haven't seen any ads for them (but then, I don't watch TV shows that are geared towards children).

EDIT: Here's a demo of the toys- just click 'next' to see each one:

SW bobbleheads- Mcdonalds

What was Luke Skywalker's rank in the Rebel Alliance during The Empire Strikes Back?

Commander?

pittrek said:

Yes, the position looks correct, but I think my subtitles are slightly too wide, what do you think ?

 

Maybe a smidge- just looking at where the first and last letters fall on Greedo's and Han's sleeves. The typeface itself might be a point or 2 too large overall.

I think it's safe to say that almost nobody would be interested in watching a film where Indiana Jones is played by an actor other than Harrison Ford.

That German "Kristallschädel" is cool-looking, but it's probably made of plastic. I'm going to a gem show next week, where I'm going to look for a real quartz-crystal skull. It has nothing to do with the movie, I've just always wanted one.

Gaffer Tape said:

I didn't really attempt to carry this as far as I wanted to in my previous post, but I think it is worth discussing.  While Clone Wars has gotten nearly universally bad reviews, most of them can't seem to agree on why it's bad.  I tend to agree with a lot of the general views that have already been expressed here about movie reviews:  that you can't rely on them to match your opinion or even be more than that one person's opinion, but if a lot of them all say the same thing, then it's probably something to take with a little more value.  So does the fact that, while all the reviews are bad, but hardly any can agree on exactly why, lend credence to the opinion that it's "bad" or do the wildly different specifics serve to slightly invalidate that?  Of course, I'll need some help from those who have actually seen it, since I can't really contribute much beyond this observation.

 

I don't know, I read most of those reviews and they all seemed to have the same criticisms: 

The animation looks ugly/cheap/wooden

The dialogue is poorly written and juvenile 

The new characters are uninteresting and/or annoying

The battles are boring and too long

Jabba the Hutt's Uncle sounds like Truman Capote (LOL!)

Based on that, the subtitle placement looks pretty accurate.

Massawyrm at AICN makes some really good points about the whole "kid's film" debate: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37951

"Kids Movies are films that are meant ENTIRELY for children. That is they either do not take the entertainment of adults into account or completely fail to entertain them when they try. You can spot these a mile away. They contain goofy characters falling down, making biological/caka/doodoo/peepee/fart jokes, are accentuated with tons of sound effects up to and including slide whistles, and are a veritable rainbow of colors and shapes. Their very intent is to grab a hold of the miniscule attention spans of young children and keep them focused on the screen for 90 minutes straight. They are cheap, easy to make and entirely disposable.

A Children’s Film on the other hand strives to entertain not just those same children, but their families that accompanied them as well. They are elegantly told stories that hit all the same kinds of notes that the story of a Kids Movie would, but often have deeper meanings that mean something completely different to adults. They are films that grow up with you and that you can carry to adulthood and love just the same, if not more, than you did when you were a child. Films like The Iron Giant, The Dark Crystal, The Harry Potter films, virtually everything by Pixar and of course my favorite movie this year (not the best, but the one I’ve watched the most and will no doubt continue to watch again and again) Kung Fu Panda...........

.............But lets step back for a moment. Tell me something. In what universe do you live that the charred, smoldering remains of a character’s aunt and uncle constitute the makings of a kids movie?"

CO said:

Seriously, Lucas has moved on from the OOT fans, hence his crappy release of the OOT DVD in 2006, but as I said, this gross this weekend gives me hope, cause it may be a wake up to Lucas that the real fanbase is the OT fans, not the kids/PT fanboys, cause these guys couldn't even propel a SW cartoon to #1 for one weekend?

Yeah, the GOUT DVDs were George's final "f**k off!" to us. 

I'd also like to see Titanic get dethroned. Titanic was a big-budget romance novel set during a historic event. LA confidential was robbed of the Best Picture Oscar that year. 

bigbaddaddyvader said:

I dont normally venture onto TFN as it is just too weird but I thought I would see what they made of the Clone Wars movie and I had to post this as I actually was kind of flabbergasted.Here is one guy's thoughts:

"For me, it's (currently)... 

1. Revenge of the Sith 
2. The Clone Wars 
3. The Empire Strikes Back 
4. Return of the Jedi 
5. Attack of the Clones 
6. A New Hope 
7. The Phantom Menace "

What?Really?I mean....come on.I just cant get my head around that.

 

That list is a joke. Half the people at TFN are just trying to start a fight, and that's the problem with TFN. I can't take anything that anyone says there seriously.

It should be very funny, as David "Airplane!" Zucker is involved, and Airplane! is one of my favorite movies.