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I guess Disney liquidated him.

May the force be with you.

That would be interesting to hear the outcome of.

But I suspect the outcome will be “this is the only version that exists and it was never different because we’re Disney”

darklordoftech said:

No HD formats existed until 2006, and HD TVs were rare in 2000.

Ah I misread the question. I guess the answer is a mystery then (unless they were still tinkering with all of the films including TPM).

SilverWook said:

It was a confusing time

It still is!

Oh right I see the difference, pretty interesting. Looks like they will be rare, and online searches for them on sale shows only things like Christmas in the Stars. No idea if any other members collect this sort of thing or happened to work for record stores or radio stations in the 70s.

I mean it would be weird if he was the only kid involved right?

I doubt it, if he could forget he wouldn’t worry about making so many changes. Even back in the 90s this stuff was probably bugging him. Now he’s more bean counting machine than man.

I’ve heard that before, and I think it’s clear that Lucas’s on financing tactics are to blame at least partly; he wanted to test out the CGI and also make money to fund TPM. What makes zero sense are all the later differences over time, particularly when some changes like Luke’s scream in ESB went back to the old version. The sad truth is that he’s probably just an obsessive old control freak, and this is his way of being involved in “his movies” after the other really creative minds have been forced out.

Was the HD format war still a thing maybe? Just guessing they didn’t to create multiple releases.

Movies aren’t coming out, and some movies have halted shooting/production. So I just see it for what it is, a corporate cash grab. Logically 3 days won’t make a difference, but then gain logically why do this at all.

Oh sure Yoda, not like you ever started any wars…

Leia is best shooting stormtroopers right in the face. Blam.

I’ve never heard of this, please explain.

Yeah I thought that was his final gift to us.

And then we got Macklunkey. It’s good to despise your audience.

Are they really hoping to make a quick buck from the people in self isolation…

StarkillerAG said:
You may think the prequels are irredeemably bad and get angry whenever someone mentions them

They are, but I don’t.

My point is to tell a compelling new story you need to start with what works (the OT) and be as vague about everything else as possible (which they were to some extent). Everything else is entirely debatable since PT fans will hate anything that doesn’t continue the Anakin as Space Jesus plot which was supposedly a central idea. If I got angry about any of this I might have the energy to go way off topic, but again I don’t

The balance idea never made a lot of sense considering that anyone at any time might choose to become a dark Jedi. The hubris of the old council overlooking the rise of Palpatine had to happen somehow of course, but the PT just feels contrived and makes them look like a bunch of old stoners (even before all those parodies). Beyond all that Chosen One plots are just the worst. TLJ at least did a reasonable job of look at the golden age with a sceptical eye, but even mentioning that period or any PT stuff was probably a mistake. At least the ST did something with the idea that the Force is just a natural energy field that exists in weird evil trees, creepy basements, sea caves, or whatever.

rocknroll41 said:

$1.073 billion at the moment. Hopefully it at least ends up making more than Joker (which ended its run at $1.074 billion).

Why?

This is what I think about randomly in the work day. It just appeared. Not only weird music out of nowhere but also this stuff pops in there. Like that scene from Inside Out except all the marbles going up the chute are Lucasfilm sounds and 80s movie scores.

Probably like ROTS breakfast cereal or something

OK weird thing I happened to think about today for real… but at the end of the movie just as the music swells and the iris effect closes to credits there’s this weird laugh? Is that like an Ewok? Both this and R2 beeping are louder than the score just for a second.

https://youtu.be/TvXm5HuR72k?t=148

Do we have any users called MoreMaclunkey yet

SilverWook said:

John Doom said:

Are you saying child actors are cheaper than adult actors? 😄

Fang Zei said:

Peter Suschitzky’s cinematography in TESB is one tough act to follow.

Alan Hume actually walked out because he didn’t like how GL was treating Marquand. Alec Mills took over for the last month of production.

I’d genuinely like to know more about these.

With the exception of Warwick Davis, I think most of the Ewoks were played by adults. Child labor laws would have made the shoot even more difficult if all the Ewoks were children.

Still I guess it saves on fur… penny pinching sounds plausible.

Maybe, but they might have had to think a bit harder about it.

It gets more important every day there is no official release.

I mean the artwork is nice, people are good at what they do. But on the other hand it’s only just far enough into the past so they can stick with the same SW aesthetic.