I don't recall such a scene in ROTS.
Jumping out the window of a moon sized space station going nuclear isn't going to increase the odds of survival too much. ;)
Checked my copy last night to be sure. It's the edited one.
Might try for the SE boxed sets on Ebay, as Big Lots seems to only getting a couple of the singles.
Tarkin would have been in ESB if he got off in time.
Peter Cushing expressed a little regret he couldn't be in the sequels.
ROTS cameo notwithstanding, Tarkin should have been in the prequels. Hope he pops up in another Clone Wars episode sometime.
One question I don't think has been asked...does this deal have to get government approval?
And when the deal is done, does Disney write Lucas one of those giant lottery style checks? What if he wants to be paid in pennies? ;)
http://www.starwarsarchives.com
^It's a very Java intensive site, be forewarned.
There is a Yahoo group devoted to deleted scenes that had a lot of photos...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swcutscenes/
You might need a Yahoo ID to join it and see content though.
Here are some old sites that are still around...
http://starwars.rossiters.com/
http://galactic-voyage.com/Star%20Wars%20Cut%20Scenes.htm
Death Star not included. Sold separately. ;)
zombie84 said:
Sorry Wolfenstein 3D! Who thinks of the 1981 Wolfenstein when they hear "castle wolfenstein"? :p That's like specifing A New Hope when you say, Star Wars is a classic film! ;)
Damn power surge screwed up my C-64 copy, and I could never finish the game on the toughest level and find out what the mystery rank was. The defects this caused in the game were amusing though.
zombie84 said:
Father Skywalker said:
zombie84 said:
Father Skywalker said:
thecolorsblend said:
I think you're missing the forest but hitting the trees. Doesn't it mean something that the morality is scarcely ever discussed? Nobody seems to terribly mind the loss of life. The absence of that concern for life manufactured to kill and/or die is what morally indicts the Republic and the Jedi.Wexter said:
Is this even a serious question? How about the same reason we haven't yet cloned a human being? Because it doesn't seem right. Basically the Clone Wars were about Republic pitting their artificially manufactured disposable human beings against the armies of disposable machines. And everyone was so degenerated that it didn't even strike them as a moral dilemma. Now if "Clone Wars" (which was established as soon as Episode IV) was in fact about this dilemma - and the bad guys would be in favor of such policy - that would make an interesting conflict.
Just like during/in the original trilogy.......
"Great shot kid that was one in a million"- Han Solo, five seconds or so after the first death star exploded and was blown up and the millions of people on it were burned to death in a large, giant explosion........ As well as "ye-hooo", after killing two of anakin skywalker's tie fighter pilots.......
"YE-HAWWW"-Lando Calirissian after blowing up the second death star, and, guess what??? The same thing that happened with the first death star..........
Star Wars, hence the title obviously, is about war........Yet none of our "heroes" or "good guys" ever experience regret for killing stormtroopers. Luke skywalker even killed stormtroopers, not in self defense, but in anger after anakin killed obi wan......
Nothing suprising going on there during/in the prequels trilogy!!!!
The Star Wars films are about war, in the sense of Where Eagles Dare, the movie inspiration for first person shooters. You have bad guys and you have heroes, and the heroes kills the bad guys to win. Just like the serials. They are Villains, because in the end it's a black and white morality tale, a fantasy without real-world examples because it's a morality play. Lord of the Rings is like this too. Ultimatelyt it is isn't applicable to real life, and is actually a bit offensive if you really break it down, but fantasy's get away with it, because they are fantasy's and also play on our inherant either/or biases.
Well, then don't criticize the prequels for that kind of disposable life morality; both han solo and lando calirissian were happy screaming guys, who screamed like cowboys when millions of people were burned to death in a giant explosion........Hmm......... That sounds very kind, moral, and nice, let's give them medals of good moral character (sarcastic tone).....
There are 2 things that i don't understand about what you had just said. Where eagles dare??? That's a kickass iron maiden song, but what does that have to do with star wars?? I also don't understand your last sentence, please explain it better, fantasy is offensive but gets away with it, what???
The Iron Maiden song is based off the 1968 Clint Eastwood WWII movie that inspired the 1992 video game Castle Wolfenstein, the basis for FPS games. It's a great action film, and Lucas seems to have used part of the plot when making Star Wars too! And yeah, fantasy gets away with it. That's why people--myself included--love Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lord of the Rings, and other films. They should be terribly offensive, but they aren't, mainly because they are intentionally unrealistic. It's the same thing with a film like 300. A film that is embarassingly racist. But I love it. Temple of Doom gets the same pass in my book. I overlook things that would cause me to write letters to the editor because the fantasy environment promotes leniency. Based on their popularity, this is widespread.
Castle Wolfenstein is a lot older than that. ;)
Lucas has been calling it that for many years now.
buddy-x-wing said:
SilverWook said:
I could never figure out why Lucas didn't restore Red Leader's dialog in the SE about having met Luke's father when he was younger, and that he was a "great pilot". It doesn't seem to contradict anything in the prequels.
although unless Red Leader was a Clone pilot or a Jedi or one of those pilots from Naboo, how would he know that Anakin was a good pilot? although I'm only using the prequels as a point of reference, perhaps they'll retcon red leader into a Clone Wars episode now that I've said that.
He could have simply been a witness to some daring do Anakin performed during the Clone Wars. Ordinary people have crossed paths with heroes in real life throughout history.
Who listens to critics anyway? Certainly not the kids...
IIRC, Siskel and Ebert conceded Return of the Jedi was essentially "review proof". They knew millions were going to go see it no matter what they said positive or negative.
I'm hard pressed to name a prominent critic today aside from Mr. Ebert. The old guard is mostly gone, and it's mostly internet blogger guys and DVD website guys now.
It was pretty ballsy to end on a downbeat cliffhanger note like that. And a considerably longer wait to find out what happens next compared to movie serials of old.
I hope they shoot the sequels concurrently, and get them out a year or two apart instead of three, because I'm not getting any younger. ;)
It's a tad more difficult for me to get out there these days, but thanks for the tip!
I'm actually trying to prune my collection down to a manageable size right now. (Bought way too much stuff at fire sales another HT store had many years ago!) The discs with original poster art on the jacket are harder to let go of.
Brooks said:
I miss video rental stores. It was kind of fun browsing, looking for some old unknown treasure.
I still dream about Dave's Video: The Laser Place. It was probably the best Laserdisc shop in Los Angeles back in the day. I was often overwhelmed by all the movies they had, and would forget what I originally went in there to find!
In short, it was movie geek heaven. I "borrowed" my Dad's credit card to rent the Japanese CAV letterboxed Star Wars from them in 1988. (After they were featured in an newspaper article about letterboxed movies.) Good times!
http://events.hometheaterforum.com/htfscrapbook/Events.html
Their previous location was cooler looking, with a giant LD painted on the facade. Celebrities were said to do their movie shopping there, but I never bumped into any.
Unfortunately, they didn't adapt with the times when other stores established an online presence in the 90's, and were gone by the new century.
I still have some of their old catalogs stashed away somewhere.
There was such a thing? I knew about the photos of a certain former companion posing with some old Dalek props that outraged the Terry Nation estate or something...
Probably. I was making a wry remark about Disney being a little lawsuit happy in the past.
Lucasfilm did file suit against a badly animated adult cartoon parody several years ago though.
I like that much better than the roadkill deer ass the prop guys used for bait. ;)
It can be hard to see in the movie, but many of the Ewok warriors had knives on their belts. In the ROTJ novel, even Wicket is described as having one.
Lucasfilm actually had some '90's Topps trading card artwork changed, to remove a knife held by an Ewok fighting a stormtrooper.
Given Lucas' early involvement with Apocalypse Now, the Ewoks could be considered a version of the natives in that film. Which makes Threepio Col. Kurtz? ;)
The fanfilm "The Invisible Enemy" is as close to vicious Ewoks as we're likely to get.
Luke being forced to stand by and watch the Rebel fleet getting slaughtered was also calculated to put pressure on him.
I've long wondered if the Ewok battle was toned down in the editing room. There's a shot in the movie where an Ewok is waving an Imperial blaster, but we never see it being used. Plus, there's unused footage from Jedi in the second Ewok tv movie that didn't show up on the Blu Ray.
I wanted to shed a tear when I saw VHS blanks on clearance at my local Walgreen's recently, but then I remembered all the good times in college, when hours of work in the edit bay was ruined by a flaky cassette. ;)
Modern VHS tapes are also useless for repairing an old damaged cassette. They have heat welds instead of screws.
VHS did cling to life a little bit longer in Korea...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moreska/6530843017/in/set-72157629554410759
What really bakes my noodle is there's still a market in Asia for VCD. Tempted to get all the SW movies on them sometimes.
zombie84 said:
You must live in the United States pf Blockbuster Video.
But seriously, the last time Blockbuster mattered was 2004. The company has been effectively dismantled since 2008 or so.
It seems so. I'm sure location and demographics have something to do with it. (The major indie video rental place in the area is also a record shop.)
I've heard some video stores are still rocking with VHS in predominately senior communities. I imagine the new release section is a tad thin?
What scene had missing lines? When Blofeld is talking to Tracy before the helicopter attack? I can at least check the copy I bought a few years ago.
I suppose he could have shot the Biker scout dead, but that would have alerted someone, and they did need the uniform for one of the rebel commandos to don. Which means there's a unconscious naked scout in the bushes somewhere.
Has that black blob on the bunker door always been there? o_O
Not to mention he's taking hits off a bong filled with frogs, and looks stoned out of his mind in many scenes.
Look at this movie between the lines, and there's all sorts of sick and wrong things going on in it. ;)
Would these fixed versions have ever been sold as singles? I've seen lots of copies of the OHMSS SE at Big Lots lately.
The OT "Art Of" books had the complete film credits on the final pages. Were there similar books for the prequels?