SilverWook

Okay! Something off the Top Gun soundtrack for the opening battle sequence.

Those annoying Buzz droids have Hal 9000 eyes, so why not have them speak like Hal?

R-20,000 needs a good death line. "Avenge me!"?

The Super Battle Droids that hassle Artoo could either speak like the rednecks in Deliverance or be subtitled. At least they need to be different from the regular battle droids in their speech in some way.

I remembered some truly awful muzak that could be good for the endless elevator scenes, or background music piped throughout Grievious' ship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Url3QHHNKSA

I still have my Duke Nukem CD somewhere with this track on it.

Duke Dooku's severed head won't shut up and die, singing to itself in the background. When the ship changes attitude, his head rolls into the elevator shaft and falls past our heroes, still singing.

Replacing General Grevious' voice would be hilarious, but I'm stumped on who he could sound like.

Airplane! music and dialog as Anakin crash lands the ship. Lloyd Bridge's "He's coming right at us!" as the control tower is demolished.

The pod race announcers return as the host(s) of "Coruscant Tonight" relating handsome boy toy Anakin's daring rescue of Palpatine. They then casually mention in a related story how many people died when the ship crash landed...

Thank the Maker! Shall we go chronologically or throw ideas out at random?

As we are all firmly entrenched in our opinions on Trek '09, maybe we need to look at something where Mr. Abrams came aboard in an already established film franchise. How did Mission Impossible III compare to the other MI films?

It's not clear if the Lars Moisture Farm hit is made to look like Tusken slaughter or not. That would get more scrutiny than dead Jawas.

Arguably, both Artoo and Obi Wan have reasons to pretend they don't know each other from the old days. Threepio doesn't remember, and Luke would ask more questions than Ben has white lies. The Wars of The Stars edit did address this though. ;)

It's been speculated Vader prevents Boba from shooting Chewie in ESB because Threepio is on his back, but that's a stretch. A Dark Horse comic does have Vader recognize him, and he gives the order to have the blasted droid put in the cell with Chewie.

I have wondered if Artoo can see Obi Wan's ghost...

AntcuFaalb said:

You_Too said:

It's funny how LD was considered such a premium format and got so many releases of almost everything, yet when DVD went popular it got way more popular than LD ever was, but on DVD we aren't spoiled with all those nice releases. Same with blu-ray! :(

True.

It's a shame we still haven't seen a proper release of The Green Hornet (1966-1967) on any home video format.

The episodes edited into movies to cash in on Bruce Lee's fame did come out on Laserdisc overseas. There were also DVD releases of the the movie edits several years ago, but apparently the distributor ran into rights problems, and they were pulled from the market. I only snagged one of them.

The show aired on SyFy last year, and looked pretty good, so new video masters must have been made. No idea if they were edited.

Perfectly reasonable to a troubled ten year old boy who never knew his father, I should have said.

The deleted scene with the Uncle, (I was mistaken as to the relationship) set this up, so maybe it makes more sense in the movie once you've seen that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38M_Rw_Lx10

They really should have left this in the movie!

Crygor64 said:

I'm not an OT purist and I think the idea is foolish, especially if you know the history of the production of the first three films.

I just want film history to be preserved for future generations. When people walked into to see Star Wars in 1977, they didn't watch the Special Edition. That's not the film that started it all.

I didn't care if George wanted to tweak his films. They're his movies. I just wanted him to care about preserving film history.

Would this forum even exist if George had followed Spielberg's lead and released both the original theatrical trilogy and special editions at the same time? (And I'm talking about good releases, not the GOUT.)

But alas all of this discussion is pointless and this very forum has proven that George was right when he wanted to destroy his own history. The most popular topic on this site is about a fan project that is nothing more than another "special edition." It's tampering with film history far exceeds the damage done by Lucas.

Seriously, a wise man once said, "you'll strain at a fly in you swallow a camel." So criticize the prequel films all you want, but most of you are just as bad as the guy who created those cinematic disasters.

 

 

 

With all due respect, a fanedit never pretends to be something it's not, the originals. How could they possibly be worse than what Lucas has done to them? Whether you like them or not, I fail to see how they harm film history in any way.

Lucasfilm has been playing a shell game with the post 1997 versions, banking on people forgetting the originals. What was done with THX 1138 is even worse in some respects. The changes were never hyped or credited, and masquerades as a "director's cut" any fan worth his salt knows Lucas got to do in 1978.

Nobody on this site took the original negatives physically apart.

Nobody on this site squelches most attempts at a proper theatrical screening of the good prints that survive.

Nobody on this site just flushed millions on 3D conversions that aren't coming out any time soon, (if at all), while telling the fans who still remember the originals they are too expensive to restore.

It was unwise to open Nemesis anywhere near the second LOTR film.

There was an ad for TPM 3D during the Super Bowl?

You_Too said:

It's funny how LD was considered such a premium format and got so many releases of almost everything, yet when DVD went popular it got way more popular than LD ever was, but on DVD we aren't spoiled with all those nice releases. Same with blu-ray! :(

Blu Ray is still kind of young to have had any reissues of Disney titles yet.

Nice way to say it's dead? Will audiences care after the new movie is out?

Arguably, they have spent more money on these conversions that a proper OT restoration would have cost. I can't imagine it's totally going into the crapper without even a Blu Ray release.

The larger question is this a Disney or Lucasfilm decision? I can't imagine Fox being too happy about this, as it was one last chance to make a little moolah.

Considering how much work had probably been done, (not to mention the Blu Ray changes that seem to be intended for 3D) it's a lot of money down the hole to scuttle the whole thing now.

Will Episode One ever hit Blu Ray in 3D now?

Fang Zei said:

SilverWook said:

I caught a 10:30 pm show with a friend on opening weekend, and we were the only two people in the whole theater.

ID4 was one of the biggest box office hits of the 90's. What theater did you see it in?!

A multiplex that can't even be seen from the freeway. (I don't think the city will allow them to put up a flashy marquee as they sit surrounded by housing developments.) Unless you know it's there you'd never find it. It actually closed not long after Episode I came out, and sat empty for several years before being remodeled and reopened. You could eat at the Jack in the Box behind it and not realize a movie theater was across the way, the building is that nondescript.

I don't know how they compete against the slightly younger flashy IMAX equipped theater that sits right by the freeway a few miles away.

ID4 was actually playing on half the screens in every theater in the county, so it wasn't that hard to find a quiet late show at the time.

It's dead, Jim?

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/exclusive-no-more-star-wars-3d-prequel-releases-lucasfilm-passes-to-focus-on-new-trilogy/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I picked up some of those from an antique mall type of shop many years ago. Much to my dismay somebody had attempted coloring several of the pages. That shop was pretty rotten for passing off comics in questionable condition.

The extra stories created to fill Weekly's pages often ended up as annuals on this side of the pond.

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Why do people keep harping on young Kirk driving his late father's car off the cliff? It was a perfectly reasonable way to keep his jackass stepfather(?) from ever getting his clutches on it.

I could have sworn the bar fight was started by cadet cupcake, who appeared to be human.

And now people are nitpicking Kirk's active libido? What's the universe coming to? ;)

Fun fact. Lucas was once on a short list of directors to be considered for the earliest incarnation of a Star Trek film back in 1976. (And a potential script writer as well.) As Star Wars was obviously still in production, THX-1138 might have had something to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture

http://hitlergettingpunched.blogspot.com/2013/01/jaxxon-guys-jaxxon.html

Now I have seen everything!

And for a bonus...what if Chewie had been in Inglourious Basterds?

http://hitlergettingpunched.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-did-i-miss-this.html

There were very few single issue stories over much of the Marvel run.

I seem to recall the original Marvel movie adaptation being spread out over six issues. ;)

A lot can happen between when a writer turns in a script and what ends up on the screen though. And there are four other writers credited for Armageddon's screenplay.

I'd pay to see Mark play a really creepy older Joker in a future Batman film.

All things considered, it would be a lot easier for Stanley to film a confession, and then bury it in his archives for eventual discovery after his death, than plant hidden "clues" in his films.

If there are any intentional hidden messages in The Shining at all, it's akin to the Beatles doing backwards masking on purpose for a good laugh.

I knew a garage band in the early 90's that meticulously created a song that got really creepy when you played it backwards.

BmB said:

 

SilverWook said:

If that's how you really feel about this website and it's members, I wonder why you're hanging around here in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a nerd too and I like to complain. But being a moderator of an internet forum doesn't exactly prove anything about your judgement.

 

Except that the people who own this site trust me with the keys to the liquor cabinet, not to mention that giant banhammer hanging on the wall. ;)