If one invests time in an lengthy animated series in which he appears. The character ought to be able to stand alone without benefit of watching TCW.
Disregarding the TCW series, we didn’t get much in the prequels, and he was in Episode III for barely a few minutes before being de-handed and de-headed. If Sir Christopher Lee had not been cast, Dooku would be forgettable.
A puppet being operated by the real villain?
But why have a dime store Palpatine if the plan all along was to use the real thing?
Because that’s how Palpatine operates. Masks, deceptions and lies. Snoke was just a more sophisticated version of wearing a hood and keeping his face in a strategically placed shadow.
I…
They hired Andy Serkis. You don’t do that for a nothing throw away character.
cough Dooku cough
A puppet being operated by the real villain?
But why have a dime store Palpatine if the plan all along was to use the real thing?
Because that’s how Palpatine operates. Masks, deceptions and lies. Snoke was just a more sophisticated version of wearing a hood and keeping his face in a strategically placed shadow.
Snoke was three ugnaughts stacked on top of each other under a golden trench coat.
Post of the week. ™
A puppet being operated by the real villain?
Wow, looks like someone read Alan Dean Foster’s graphic descriptions of blaster damage. I didn’t even know blasters had a chestburster setting. 😉
I always presumed that fish someone stuck in my ear was translating the whole thing anyway. 😛
I picked up on it after reading the Brian Daley Solo books. Since droids figure into the plots there, I wonder if Daley had noticed it as well? A jaded cynical more droids, more problems reaction?
I can’t even imagine who could service a V2000 deck these days. Beta is enough of cult thing to support repaired and refurbished decks, and even CED had enough parts inventory left over to keep machines working today.
Thanks! 😃
An even more awesome find would be a working V2000 deck and the trilogy cassettes (apparently all three films were released on the format) with which we could then undertake a preservation.
Would the masters used be different that what appeared on other formats at the time? The first full frame Laserdisc and CED releases all used the same masters, presumably VHD did the same.
Yeah, I’m definitely a Techmoan fan. He’s dug up obscure formats I never dreamed existed.
I know someone who swears The Shining came out on Video 2000. They have found it on Video 8 from Germany though.
Can’t say that I’ve ever seen SW or ESB on Video 8. ROTJ would have been the most recent release in 1986 when Sony was trying to compete with VHS. CBS/FOX simply may not have bothered with bringing older catalog releases to the format. I think movies came out as long as they did because Sony could afford to keep it afloat.
Curious that http://www.swonvideo.com/ doesn’t seem to have anything on Video 8.
In Sir Patrick we trust…
I guess he wasn’t too worried about how badly Owen and Beru age in only 20 years. Otherwise he would have cast actors that were a bit older for AOTC.
Which is why you should have been watching it on Laserdisc, as the video gods intended. 😛
It would please both OOT and SE fans
Would it though?
Well, maybe not you, but it would please almost everyone else.
I disagree and Hayden force ghost in ROTJ SE is one of the things that pissed me off the most.
Shaw kinda doesn’t have the necessary impact the first time since you have to figure out who this rando is.
It’s that hard to recognize his face as the one Luke saw when he took Vader’s helmet off?
I was under the impression we saw a different entrance to the Yavin hangar in R1. There are four sides after all.
The masturbation-machine and the baboons were both in the 1971 novelization of THX, FWIW.
Were they in George’s script though? Ben Bova could have embellished George’s ideas with his own much as Alan Dean Foster did ghostwriting the SW novelization.
Or a machine that…
You know what, nevermind I’m not touching that one.
You just had to remind of that! 😛
I trust you didn’t watch the 2004 version of THX?
Other than the highway car shots, pretty much all the changes are improvements IMO.
Looks at name of forum, then your post, then at name of forum again and goes cross-eyed.
The Star Wars SEs have more questionable stuff in them than THX 2004 does IMO.
The effects are less dodgy, most of it doesn’t change the tone, and like the best SE changes, it makes the world feel less low budget. The THX working scenes feel a lot better with people out of focus in the background all toiling away too.It does so change the tone. The vast underground cityscapes take away from the claustropohic feel of the original. Lucas got the look he wanted by shooting real locations in Northern California. Things like the video screen above the complaint box are pointless, and the hands on the Robert Duvall stand in on the monitor aren’t even in the same position. And don’t get me started on those mangy CGI baboons that replaced some of the shell dwellers. The bigger crime is there’s no way for the average viewer to know they’re watching an altered version. There are no SE credits. There isn’t even a crappy non-anamorphic DVD of the original for people to choose to watch.
Many members of this site have dedicated years to preserving the original THX, so you’re barking up a very large non-cgi tree on this.I get preserving these things, but that doesn’t mean the altered version sucks.
Not inherently, but THX’s DC has more wrong with it than ESB’s Special Edition if you ask me. I hate that it’s most people’s first/only exposure to the film.
I’ll concede that it’s overall less offensive than ANH and ROTJ’s SE’s, though.
At least the SE’s don’t have anyone rolling their eyes up into their heads like a fugitive from Toon Town. 😉
The whole movie is weird. 😉
Too bad none of the cut scenes have ever appeared on home video. Would have like to seen more of the ape creature that is barely visible in the finished film.
It does not have to sound exactly like Shaw, who only had a couple gasping lines as Anakin lay dying. It wasn’t his healthy voice in any case.
I imagine the CGI has only grown by leaps and bounds since they resurrected Peter Cushing for Rogue One.
I trust you didn’t watch the 2004 version of THX?
Other than the highway car shots, pretty much all the changes are improvements IMO.
Looks at name of forum, then your post, then at name of forum again and goes cross-eyed.
The Star Wars SEs have more questionable stuff in them than THX 2004 does IMO.
The effects are less dodgy, most of it doesn’t change the tone, and like the best SE changes, it makes the world feel less low budget. The THX working scenes feel a lot better with people out of focus in the background all toiling away too.
It does so change the tone. The vast underground cityscapes take away from the claustropohic feel of the original. Lucas got the look he wanted by shooting real locations in Northern California. Things like the video screen above the complaint box are pointless, and the hands on the Robert Duvall stand in on the monitor aren’t even in the same position. And don’t get me started on those mangy CGI baboons that replaced some of the shell dwellers. The bigger crime is there’s no way for the average viewer to know they’re watching an altered version. There are no SE credits. There isn’t even a crappy non-anamorphic DVD of the original for people to choose to watch.
Many members of this site have dedicated years to preserving the original THX, so you’re barking up a very large non-cgi tree on this.