Yes it was.
And considering how some people are behaving towards each other in off topic today, I should have let him run rampant until New Year's. ;)
It's anyone's guess at this point. This is going to be harder than finding a LD of Grease with digital sound. :/
My curiosity has grown over the 5.1 mixes that some of the SE discs had. The one on the LTK SE trumps the UE.
I'm also puzzled why the early THX mastered Moonraker DVD had a 5.1 track and the later SE disc didn't. My copy is rotted unfortunately, (one of the first DVD's I ever bought) so I'm chasing down a replacement so I can hear that track once again.
Billy Dee sans 'stache.
I was watching the SE just to see the shot Lowry screwed up later. ;)
I'm starting to wonder if corrected discs really exist. Octopussy has a player generated subtitle for "Get off my bed!" Is that the fixed version?
Having rewatched LTK recently, I suspect Felix being so "chipper" at the end is due to the amount of painkillers he's probably on. ;)
zombie84 said:
I don't understand people who thought the movie was long. It was the perfect length. And it was the shortest Jackson-Tolkien film yet! Without the credits it's just a little over two and a half hours. I would say it is the fastest paced and most action packed of the four films so far. None of that Lothlorien crap that brought Fellowship to a screeching halt. There is one Rivendel scene but it's short and awesome--and involves two of the funnest cameos in the entire film (actually three, but one especially is a treat to see). Won't spoil it, but yeah.
Long and boring? Hate to see what those reviews thought of the other three films.
We've probably hit the point where some feel the need to bash Jackson and the films he's made, because it's fashionable to do so.
The point trying to be made is we never saw women in actual "front line" combat roles until Jedi, and they mostly ended up on the cutting room floor. Even in the real world today, there is still a reluctance to put women into the same dangerous missions as men. (In the U.S. anyway.)
By way of comparison, the original Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers tv series gave us female pilots a few years prior to Jedi. I wonder if Lucas was influenced a bit by those shows in the decision to finally have female rebel pilots?
At least we saw a female pilot or two in Episode One.
And that people actually take the time to make snarky comments about how much they don't care boggles the mind. ;)
Looking at those stills makes me wonder why Nelvana didn't work on the 1981 Heavy Metal movie.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/star-wars-female-fighter-pilots-cut-from-final-f
Got the set today. OHMSS is uncorrected. Rats.
Believe it or not, I was checking out A View To A Kill, when a real quake shook the house. Yikes!
Anyone notice a certain spy flick reclaimed the #1 spot last weekend? How often does that happen these days? Take that sparkly vampire movie! ;)
Think I'm going to wait until next week to avoid the crowds.
Young planets tend to be molten, and difficult to breathe on though. ;)
Would be neat to see someplace previously mentioned, but never seen on screen before, like the infamous Spice Mines of Kessel.
As it's the payoff to the Biggs scenes on Tatooine, it doesn't make a lot of sense on it's own.
Super 8 reels pop up on Ebay once in a while.
timdiggerm said:
Baronlando said:
Interesting, since the Biggs scene was put back in 97, the people from the 97 SE would be able to shed light, some of them must be on twitter (hey stranger things have happened, like hearing from Harry Shearer 30 years after the fact). The negative for that scene would have been in a completely different place if it had been in the movie and lifted out vs. if it had never been in at all. (On a small roll of its own with the trims in one place etc. or still on the big rolls of unused raw negative).
This is the first good idea in settling this debate that I've heard.
The hard part is finding/contacting someone who worked on the '97 SE in that capacity, and whether they are allowed to talk about such details.
It's not impossible that in the mad rush to crank out more prints, someone at Fox somehow used a version with the Biggs scene in it.
Barring another in theater recording turning up, or a vintage snapshot of the screen, it's going to be hard to prove 35 years on...
You've forgotten his latest, and possibly greatest role to date. ;)
I'll chalk this thread up to eggnog, and let it live for now...
Not everybody knows the backstory or reads the EU.
Do any other prequel planets appear in post ROTJ novels?
And you're sure you didn't read the Marvel comic or the novel at the time?
Tobar said:
SilverWook said:
I don't think it's possible to avoid reference to anything from the prequels the way the rest of the Star Trek films essentially ignored the events of TMP. Coruscant is the hub of the Galaxy, unless events take the plot far from there.
Whatever government the Rebellion formed post Jedi would probably want to set up shop there.
Interesting choice of example in Coruscant seeing as it first appeared in the EU and was the center of the New Republic. =P
I thought it grew out of the concept of a capital for the Empire, that existed in Lucas' early script ideas. (Which Timothy Zahn expanded on and gave it a proper name?) There is pre-production art dating back to the OT.
Finding a VCR that old that still works properly is going to be a crapshoot. You might want to pursue an industrial model with the ability to turn such things off, if that is the source of your problem.
The Panasonic machines I used in college had a "video level" control knob, that seems to have been dropped from later models.
Ah, so the AFA didn't actually produce it themselves?
Ralph McQuarrie and Bob Anderson both got mentioned this year. TCM really puts the Oscars to shame with these things, especially with honoring the people who toiled behind the scenes on the movies we've loved.
I'd like to know what all the ads and signage seen on Coruscant actually say. There has to be an "Eat at Joe's" in there somewhere!