The original 1980 just suffers from Lucas not sure how to do the Emperor until Jedi came out, so it’s this rather bizarre artifact that remains.
One person’s bizarre artefact is another person’s cinema history…
So correct me if my memory is incorrect, but Han and Dengar had a thing that went wrong during racing of some kind right? Is this backstory long dead after however many cartoon shows?
oojason said:
and then…
This is more stuff they purposely left out of the 2nd Blu-ray isn’t it?
Yeah but a publication called Star Wars Insider will probably just talk about how it was all for the best and Star Wars was finally changed to match George’s ‘Vision’…
I don’t think linking to the homepage of this site is a good idea. Have any of you seen the homepage? It looks like a defunct niche website from 2007. It says ‘news’ and the newest thing isn’t from this decade… no offense of course.
Yeah already mentioned somewhere, the letter will probably go up there
lovelikewinter said:
Because Star Wars was huge that summer and posters were an easy Fast Food promotion. A lot of the artwork was used for the glasses as well.
Fair enough, I like that kind of rough hand drawn merch from the pre digital days.
Here we go a quick search reveals a 1977 interview http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-wizard-of-star-wars-20120504
Ben almost kills Vader. As a matter of fact, he falls into a volcanic pit and gets fried and is one destroyed being
Also the ROTJ novelization
And this memory brought a wave of other memories with it. Memories of brotherhood, and home. His dear wife. The freedom of deep space. Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan, his friend … and how that friendship had turned. Turned, he knew not how - but got injected, nonetheless, with some uncaring virulence that festered, until … hold. These were memories he wanted none of, not now. Memories of molten lava, crawling up his back … no.
This boy had pulled him from that pit - here, now, with this act. This boy was good.
Burger Chef did Empire Strikes Back Posters as well. The company was sold in 1982, so no Jedi posters sadly.
How is something called Burger Chef some of the most interesting artwork
Wazzles said:
Is this in a book or something? I remember my dad mentioned something like this years before ROTS.
Yep.
yotsuya said:
I truly love the Palpatine arc.
The what now?
Amano said:
The creatures were terribly cartoony, the acting so bad. The air-battling jedi were just goofy.
There’s a reason all this works so well with joke Immortals music overlaid onto it.
I honestly wasn’t that interested. There was some kinda artwork from a book or a trading card series that shows the Emperor lowering Vader’s helmet using the force? That’s about it. It was a striking image.
Why isn’t this series called 16-bit Cinema? Accuracy and alliteration bonus.
SilverWook said:
a cesspool of pro SE types.
Fixed
Amazon doesn’t vet it’s third party sellers much, if at all. I bought a DVD off of Amazon, and the seller sent me the wrong movie. It was an obvious Asian bootleg. I eventually got what I ordered, and that was legit though.
Sure but having bought stuff from certain sellers for years you get to know the names of legit used movie store fronts on there. For what probably equates to about 10 USD you can get this set from a seller that I know is reputable. Looks like people in Europe aren’t aware it’s worth anything.
I think sending them a small novel listing all the compositing differences may not be the way to go.
If those are bootleg discs, they look awfully good. (I got burned on a factory sealed bootleg Beatles CD box set several years ago, and the sub par disc labeling was one of the giveaways.) Are we certain there was no other retailer exclusive packaging like Walmart had with the comic books included?
I quick look on Amazon reveals a 6-disc set with that very outer box.
The gold colour and the artwork is right BUT this is always 2 disc per movie deal. The second “bonus” feature disc is the GOUT.
Edit: Wait you get a pic of the damn thing on the first link - look at the back of the sleeve, it says Disc 2 features bonus theatrical etc etc. It’s all totally fine, box or not that’s the info you are looking for.
I do think “saved in the editing room” is a bit of a misnomer for Star Wars. That would imply the film was a massive turd to begin with.
Well they didn’t say turd, they said unmitigated disaster
I haven’t posted on this forum in days.
LOL this guy
Are the people here of the opinion that George was never talented, or do you guys think it’s more of a Francis Ford Coppola situation where he just lost his touch?
The second. Star Wars is a fine film. It is often said that it was saved in editing, and that the first cut was terrible, but I simply can’t picture the editors turning a really bad film into the one we know today. If anything, post-production enhanced material that was already in place.
You should take a look at what was chopped out of the original. There aren’t many deleted scenes to view right now, but just reading about what was cut… I’d say the film was saved by Marcia Lucas during editing.
Agreed. Any time you see the original film scenes that are outtakes or just longer than what is in the movie… people start saying George Lucas dialogue. It’s cut for a good reason, they knew what was up.
Yes echoing what has been said, history is what it is. It got a bunch of awards, it got a bunch of terrible alterations. These things are part of how it all went down. I just want them to stop pretending the Blu Rays are the version that always existed. Just stop messing with people, some of us still remember when we were at war with Eurasia.
ray_afraid said:
It looks like they’re having imagination for dinner to me…
Yes. Perhaps this scene is a miniature homage to Hook.
Perhaps they were going to put in CGI food and just forgot about it…
I don’t think that’s the problem here
