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#238332
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From T-Bone...
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A mega box set? Unless Lucasfilm can pull off a great Alien Quadrilogy-esque set, I would much rather see them focus on giving each film a great release.

Now, the industry standard for a great special edition usually runs 3+ discs per film. I personally won't be happy until each film of the OOT gets 4.
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#237882
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O-OT Star Wars "Bonus Disc" menus (www.starwars.com)
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Originally posted by: Zion
Originally posted by: boris
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Wow, that is pretty cool. At least they're doing some work with this. Even if it is just the menu, it makes me feel a little bit better.
If they committed to the menus - imagine what they committed to making sure the DVD bought out every detail on their master tape?

Well, it doesn't look like they spent much more than a few hours making these static menus. A day at most. So...
According to the article, they're animated. Don't know how much though. Maybe it's just the intro/outros.

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#236847
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POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
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I would go with Lloyd as the worst case of acting in the prequels. I've found that there are generally two types of child acting. One is comatose. The kid speaks in quiet tones and shows maybe one look throughout each scene (happy, sad, excited, etc). Examples would be the kid from Superman Returns and Daniel Radcliffe from the first Harry Potter. The second, which Lloyd belongs/belonged to suffers from something I've dubbed "school play" syndrome, where the kid has gotten so used to shouting his/her lines that they carry it over to film roles. And that's what Lloyd's performance consists of. He over enunciates words and his only motivation is to make sure everyone hears what he's saying.

The best actors from the Prequel Trilogy were undoubtedly Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmid and Christopher Lee. You may have noticed they're all British. Liam brought much of the heart and warmth of The Phantom Menace and he was missed after his departure. Ewan has done a great job at both working Alec Guinness into his performance and also making the role his own. However, I think it shows in Attack of the Clones that he was a tad uncomfortable acting with characters who weren't there. Ian McDiarmid was great as Palpatine. Of course, when he turned Emperor, things got wacky, but I always felt his performance in Return of the Jedi was ridiculously over the top. Christopher Lee was great, but I think his performance had more to do with his commanding presence and voice than anything else.

I guess that leaves Hayden, Natalie, and Samuel L. I bear no hatred for Hayden's performance so I won't say he was awful in the role. I think it has more to do with the lack of direction or perhaps what Lucas wanted for the role. In rewatching Titanic, I noticed that Leonardo DiCaprio's performance was similar in a way. Neither he nor Hayden are particularly great in the respective films. They're both given horribly clunky and stilted dialogue and neither really make them sound convincing. Still, they seem to service the characters and I think they work for the film. I thought Natalie was great in Episode I, but she seemed really stiff in Episode II. Not just the readings of her terrible dialogue, but also in her body language. I felt that she improved in Episode III, but her lines were definitely more of the corny variety. Nevertheless, I think she managed to deliver a heartbreaking performance in the films. Samuel L. Jackson was just Samuel L. Jackson. In Revenge of the Sith, the part just seemed to call for Windu to act bitter and tired most of the time. I guess that's the Clone War for ya. The character never quite worked and Jackson just seemed stiff in the part. Is it Lucas' fault? Perhaps, but Jackson did campaign for the part, so I hoped he would've done more with it.
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#235627
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Help: looking for... 'Daredevil : Man Without Fear' edit?
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Haven't heard of a DVD version, but here's a link where you can download some lower quality Quicktime files of it if you just want to check it out. Basically, it's a barebones version of the movie. It's edited down to about an hour and has even less story than the theatrical version.

http://sequentialarts.typepad.com/sequential_arts/sequential_arts_presents/

Actually, I don't know if the Quicktime files work anymore. But I've got them kicking around on my HD.
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#234928
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Lord of the Rings - TTT - The Re-Edited Re-Edit Book Cut! (Released)
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If you want to PM a person, you can just click on the gold lock icon on the top right of their post. Or there should be a link under the "originaltrilogy.com forum" banner on the top left of the page which says something about how many messages you have. If you click on it, you'll get a page and one of the options is to send a PM to someone and you have to fill in the user name.
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#232552
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Lawsuit on George Lucas?
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Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
A hilarous idea I have is to play the SE in the courts and show them scenes like the added Jabba scene in ANH and show them what it looked like proir etc. It would be sooo hilarious seeing George Lucas's face turn bright red with embarasment when we show the court that scene and other scenes like the new dance in Jabba's palace in ROTJ.
You make the assumption that people (the jury) would actually give a damn. Sure they may like SW, but I think most casual SW fans actually prefer the SEs. Surprisingly, when I told some friends that were only casually into SW about the OOT coming to DVD (prior to the whole non-16x9 enhanced, LD master news), they laughed and said "why the heck would you want to see an old, outdated version when you have the new ones?" I was fairly shocked that they didn't even think it was a good idea to release them let alone for me to want it.