Quackula

shouldn't the horse shoot first?

Episode I - Nascar in Space

Episode II - Wanna Buy Some Deathsticks?

Epsiode III - Robots that Cough

Honestly, I could live without the '97 SE. Would be nice to have, but it's lack of inclusion wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.

I'd be perfectly happy with just a proper restoration of the '77-'83 originals.

When you hate the prequels but own them anyways.

Possessed said:

I was thinking I could put his name along side the original editors in the credits so as not to alude to the film being a fan edit.

It's a fan edit, everyone who watches it will know it's a fan edit, no reason to try and "disguise" the fact that it's a fan edit.

Of course she wants to see the prequels. ALL of us wanted to see the prequels. I mean, how bad could they be right? It's Star Wars after all!

...then we actually saw them.

Let her watch the films in release order.

Alexrd said:

And Darth Vader, Han Solo, etc...

Highly preferable to a villain who's name is comprised entirely of synonyms for 'bad'.

TheBoost said:

TV's Frink said:

Thank the maker I could care less about canon.  What a pain.

 From your lips to god's ears.

Now, as a former gamemaster of the "Star Wars" RPG, I can sympathise with how hard it is to come up with good "star warsy" names. The combination of familiar and sci-fi-ish is not easy.

That being said... ... SAVAGE OPPRESS??????? That's the best they could come up with? Savage. Oppress?????????????

I liked Count Dooku... okay maybe I just liked Christopher Lee.

Still though, I hated how his character was just killed off so... unspectacularly and easily in the beginning of Episode III. It made his character completely pointless.

twooffour said:

I have...  NO WORDS.

seems to me that you have plenty... ;)

But seriously, he makes plenty of fair assessments in his rebuttal, but this guy seems like he's really off his rocker. RLM obviously was just having some fun with the nitpicking and whatnot, but this guy is just purely and inappropriately pissed off.

"Fanboy Idiocy" indeed...

EyeShotFirst said:

People are so fucking paranoid these days. You can't turn on the damn tv any more without some guy who looks like Charlie Manson with glazed eyes talking about 2012. That shit is even on the History Channel all the time too, when they could be playing Pawn Stars. 

So are shows about JFK conspiracies, Hitler Occultism, Nostradamus, The Bible Code, etc.

History Channel sucks.

I think the effects bother me more than anything else, every time that CG Yoda pops up I just can't help but stare at how fake he looks. The effects look incredibly dated and distracting already, even more so than the old effects in say, The Empire Strikes Back.

Probably would've been best if Lucas just penned the overall story and acted as a general advisor, and let other directors and writers and everything else handle the actual production. He doesn't seem to trust other people with his "vision" for some reason though.

Pretty much all the actors did a terrible job in the prequels. Its not their fault though. Portman can act, Neeson can act, McGregor can act, Diarmid can act alright perhaps Lloyd can't. Christensen can act too.

I think is says a lot that Lucas managed to coax a crummy performance out of someone as experienced and talented as Christopher Lee.

I know Jake Lloyd's acting was iffy but I don't think it's because George molested him...

The best anyone seems to ever be able to do with the prequels is make them "watchable". At least Adywan has the technical ability to pull off some drastic ideas...

I don't think anyone would be too upset if he ultimately just changed his mind about doing the prequels though, I imagine that doing GOOD movies is enough work as it is.

Moth3r said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Harmy said:

Like I always say, the garbage mates shouldn't be there because they are a mistake created by the video transfer, not the original cinematography.

I tend to agree.  There is a difference between preserving the film versus preserving the video.  I don't ever remember seeing boxes around the fighters in the theater. I'm guessing some people did, but I think that they shouldn't have been visible in a properly configured projection.  Just because early video transfers exposed some things that wouldn't have been seen in the theater, doesn't mean that those artifacts are worth preserving on later, better home videos.

See also "The Emperor's Slugs".

coincidentally I just now used a scene with those in it to adjust my TV's brightness

ChainsawAsh said:

I'll be re-upping them early next week, when I again have access to that hard drive.

Ah, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

ChainsawAsh said:

Alright, I've been getting many requests for a re-up of my 1990's VHS-style covers.  I've made some subtle changes since the last upload - here are the new ones (quality on the samples isn't as good as last time because I resized them after upload to Imgur instead of beforehand):

And, because I've also gotten complaints that the black text on the Star Wars cover is hard to read (though it's faithful to the original), I made a version that includes white text instead:

Personally, I think that's harder to read than the black one, but I figured I'd give people the option.  It's not like these are 100% faithful to the originals anyway (due to the difficulty in finding the actual images used on the backs of the originals).

All 4 are included in the download, which is here.

I've also been toying with the idea of doing similar covers for the prequels, but ... well ... I hate the prequels, so the task is proving challenging at best - I'm just not motivated to do it, really.  But if anyone can give me a good synopsis to use for the back of them (specifically TPM), that would help tremendously.  Note that my TPM cover would be intended for use with Adywan's theatrical DVD, and as such would use its runtime instead of the DVD's.  But other than that, there won't be any special features listing or anything, so if you don't mind a small runtime discrepancy (not even sure what the runtime difference would be between the theatrical and DVD cuts of TPM), it could easily be used for the official DVD as well.  Or both.

I really like these and would love to use them, but the download link is dead now. ChainsawAsh, could you reupload them? (Or perhaps if someone else has them, could you send them to me?)

twister111 said:

"Palpatine, well known as the evil Emperor, is an ambitious Senator in [the] Galactic Republic." - Back of The Phantom Menace's VHS case


I don't see how it's really some kind of secret...

well i'm convinced

xhonzi said:

Quackula said:

Maybe it's because Ian McDiarmid is one of the few exceptional actors in those films, and his performance sticks out like a sore thumb...

REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL ULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTE PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!

a good performance can only take a dumb script so far... ;)

Palpatine was one of the only characters who was consistently interesting to see on screen in the PT imo, even if he did get downright goofy at times, especially in episode III.

Maybe it's because Ian McDiarmid is one of the few exceptional actors in those films, and his performance sticks out like a sore thumb...

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Here's an interesting dichotomy...

It is possible that it is only obvious to people who have seen the OT already, because Palpatine looks so much like the emperor.  So this would support George's contention that you should see the PT first - so that you don't get the palpatine reveal.

But if you see the PT first, you get the "Vader is Luke's father" reveal.  So you should see the OT first so it doesn't spoil the dramatic revelation.

In this respect, the PT spoils the OT, and the OT spoils the PT, so there is no suitable order to watch the entire saga.  Best to avoid the PT altogether :)

Only issue with this is that Palpatine's identity is obvious even if you haven't seen the OT. 

I know this is about the prequels, and in a way trying to make sense of some of the aspects of those films is futile, but...

Is Palpatine's true identity supposed to be that obvious? I honestly can't tell...

Sorry if this has been asked before.

doubleofive said:

 

Quackula said:

Plus, the title of his rebuttal is "A Study in Fanboy Stupidity". I don't know if I've been under the wrong impression all these years or what, but last time I checked, weren't fanboys the ones more likely to write 108 page rebuttals to harsh criticisms of films like The Phantom Menace? I guess 'fanboy' is just 'people with opinions I don't like who like some other stuff' now.

To them, WE are the fanboys, obsessed with 30 year old movies.

 

Yeah, but aren't they fans of the OT as well?

He makes a lot of the same points you did TheBoost, at least as far as RLM "playing dumb" with plot details, etc.

He's definitely quite the prequel apologist, though. He comes across as outright offended most of the time.

Plus, the title of his rebuttal is "A Study in Fanboy Stupidity". I don't know if I've been under the wrong impression all these years or what, but last time I checked, weren't fanboys the ones more likely to write 108 page rebuttals to harsh criticisms of films like The Phantom Menace? I guess 'fanboy' is just 'people with opinions I don't like who like some other stuff' now.

TV's Frink said:

Octorox said:

http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-fan-writes-108page-rebuttal-red-letter-medias-phantom-menace-review/

 

Not going to read it anytime soon but somebody provided a 108 page rebuttal to RLMs TPM review.

A letter uploaded to Megaupload = the very definition of tl;dr

indeed.

It's exhaustive to read through... I didn't make it too far myself