SilverWook

Poita, did you win the Starchaser auction?

Whoa. Now all we need is a 16mm of Star Wars To Jedi: The Making of a Saga to turn up. Or Classic Creatures.

This is the strangest official SW soundtrack album cover I've ever seen.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Star-Wars-Krieg-Der-Sterne-Double-LP-Original-Movie-Soundtrack-Rare/161207750346

Another seller for whom any round 12 inch disc must be an LD.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/George-Lucas-Signed-Star-Wars-Movie-Laser-Disc-Album-w-COA-Director-/390986412750

That ESB trailer has come down to a slightly more sane price. ;)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-wars-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-1981-original-16-mm-trailer-/281579278419

Rather surprised to hear there are any more SE rotters. I've watched or checked mine in the past year, and they're ok. (Except for Golden Gun.) Picked up YOLT and DAF SE's dirt cheap recently because I love the menus. The Bond SE's are still the gold standard of DVD menu design as far as I'm concerned. :)

I have some duplicate sealed LD's from having to buy a couple lots on Ebay last year to get the titles I didn't have. FRWL, (not THX) Thunderball, (not THX) OHMSS, and Moonraker, (not THX).

I've also got the THX TSWLM DVD, and the first TND that includes a pan and scan option. Both were bought used.

Wow, how many 16mm prints of Jedi are floating around?

We really don't see how far away the areas where the traps are in relation to the "back door" of the shield generator. And the Ewok movies did establish there are some hostile species around.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gorax

The log traps could have originally been made to deal with them.

bkev said:

Are you sure the MCP was CGI? I was under the impression that Tron, ironically, had very little CG in it

IIRC, Tron has nearly 20 minutes of CGI in it. The rest is traditional matte paintings, and some of the most labor intensive backlit hand drawn animation ever done for a film.

The MCP was all CGI, except for right before he derezzed. ;)

The scenes where he's wrapped around Sark on the carrier are a series of CGI generated frames that were used like animation cels to make him speak.

TV's Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

Jar Jar Binks, as much as we hate him, was still the first entirely CGI character in film history.

 MCP would like a word with you.

 Again, it's down to splitting hairs. The MCP doesn't walk around or physically interact with live actors. Tron doesn't get enough credit for blazing the trail it did though.

You can quote the post without the images you know. ;)

No, but I did hear "tubular", "totally", "grody to the max!", and even "gag me with a spoon!" back in the day. ;)

DominicCobb said:

generalfrevious said:

On a side note: if you factor out the 12 years gimmick, is Boyhood as great as moat critics say it is?

Boyhood is a great film whether you decided to not like it because of one asshole's stupid review or not. And the 12 years concept is not a gimmick, and is, in fact, crucial to the experience of the film. 

But I don't see how Boyhood has anything to do with Star Wars (well, besides the two scenes where they talk about Star Wars).

 There were rumors going around in the 90's that Stanley Kubrick was secretly filming a young actor as he grew up for what eventually became A.I., so it's not a new idea.

It might be splitting hairs, but Young Sherlock Holmes is usually credited as having the first fully CGI character in a live action film, brief as this scene was.

This scene broke new ground in 1985. And it was done by Pixar when they were still part of Lucasfilm.

Now you guys are telling me this?

The colorized Disney Zorro series is running on Cozi Tv weekdays, if anyone cares.

I knew someone was going to bring up Mel Brooks. And that wasn't even Mel's first brush with men in tights. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Things_Were_Rotten

There was another more realistic and gritty Robin Hood movie released the same year as the Costner version, but it bypassed theaters entirely in the U.S. and ended up on tv.

Is this the Kevin Costner version with bad British accents galore? I recall one critic saying he sounded like a California surfer dude in this.

Back on topic, please...

Leaks don't come from magical flying elves. They should check their own people before going after someone who posts an image on the interwebs. Once it's out there, it's not going away, no matter how much they want it to.

Seriously, I think law enforcement has more important things to do than chase down some fanboy who posted a picture, because Disney gets their Mickey Mouse shorts in a bunch.

There are side by side videos on youtube.

Maybe it was a budgetary thing? With no "clean" shots to work with, the most they could do is paint over the original animation, and probably end up with thicker beams than the originals.

IIRC, they did enhance the shot of Scotty cutting into a bulkhead in The Naked Time. The Phaser had no visible beam in the original.

With TNG, they had the original 35mm raw footage available to rebuild optical FX shots.

Is any of the original human Jabba footage available in good quality? Some was on the Making Magic CD-ROM, and in the Star Wars To Jedi documentary, which has never even had a DVD release. A 16mm print of that is still on my holy grail list.

Can we have a little optimism here?

Let's not speculate too much until we have some concrete info to go on?