SilverWook

Is that indicative of it's peak and decline?

Way too much for a flat print. Your mileage may vary...

Perhaps, but it still got Kershner the Empire gig.

Haven't seen the Disney version yet. I did see about half of the SciFi version, and it was pretty awful. The alien makeup was literally falling off an actor's face in some shots.

They also managed to make the most iconic movie location of all time look drab and uninteresting.

It's sad some people have no idea how many stories and films have taken their inspiration from Edgar Rice Burroughs' source material. Disney is probably in shock over getting edged out at the box office by yet another Dr. Seuss movie, and yet another joke fest based on an old tv show.

Meanwhile, that teeny bopper Running Man clone I never even heard of prior to a couple weeks ago, is probably going to gross even more obscene amounts of money than all of them. ;)

It would serve the same purpose as fake script pages. To confound and confuse as to the real plot line. ;)

Bad form if it's really a doctored photo though.

Bester said:

Thanks, SilverWook.

That photo of Fett and Lucas looks Photoshopped to me.  I could be wrong.

It's an "official" photo apparently, like all the others fans often buy to have to the actors sign at conventions these days.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-AOTC-Jango-Fett-with-George-Lucas-Color-Photo-8-x-10-Inches-/110820268748?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19cd671acc

Would Lucasfilm fake a photo to confuse fans during production? Otherwise they dragged Temura Morrison, (or whomever else fit the costume) all the way out to Tunisia.

It was filmed in Tunisia during Episode II, but reshot on a green screen set during production of Episode III. The reasons for the reshoot aren't clear.

Photos here:

http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?categoryid=14&p2_articleid=324

The on location version should have been on the Blu Ray extras. Darn it!

I've been puzzling over a photo of Lucas and Jango Fett that looks like Tunisia too.

On a related subject, there is a documentary about the National Film Registry out on DVD.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/55212/these-amazing-shadows-the-movies-that-make-america/

Maybe there will be some nuggets of useful information in there?

TV's Frink said:

SilverWook said:

Another idea. Nute Gunray uttering "Get on with it!" in one of the deleted scenes could have the same function as the phrase itself does in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I don't remember this from the deleted scenes, but it sounds fantastic. :-)

It's at the end of the trial scene, where the bugs on Geonosis sentence Padme and Anakin to death.

CN doesn't hesitate much in killing off shows that don't pull in the numbers, or sell enough toys.

I had no idea there was a fuss over the Blu Ray. I'll have to compare it with my old Laserdisc copy sometime.

In case anyone is keeping score, the print is safely in the hands of it's new owner. Nothing else has happened with it yet, so no new info on anything like the soundtrack.

This video isn't from Star Wars, but it is another example of a Derann Super 8 scope print.

http://vimeo.com/38613700

(In no particular order.)

Blade Runner

The Dark Crystal

E.T.

Conan The Barbarian

Gremlins

Most of the good Star Trek sequels with the original cast.

Tron

Back to the Future

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Batman

And last, but not least, the only good Transformers movie! ;)

Was Mommie Dearest panned critically? It's considered a camp cult classic now, but I can't recall how it was received back then.

Jake's IMDB listing shows a flurry of work before PM, but only one movie credit afterward.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206113/

And that film apparently sat unreleased for four years.

There is mention of the name of a kid he beat in the Episode I auditions, but no idea if it's the kid we see on the DVD extras.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005157/

Related posting about Jake:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206113/board/thread/19096049

It doesn't make for good gossip, but some child actors do decide to simply "retire" from the business.

A silent movie just won the Oscar for best picture, so there's still hope this "talking pictures" fad will also die a long overdue death. ;)

Ironic that "Operation Kid Brother", AKA "Operation Double 007" (starring Sean's brother Neil!) feels more like a Bond flick than NSNA. ;)

What little I've seen of the NSNA fanedit was quite an improvement though.

I take great offense at the 80's being called worst movie decade ever. ;)

Another idea. Nute Gunray uttering "Get on with it!" in one of the deleted scenes could have the same function as the phrase itself does in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Nobody is getting the torches and pitchforks out. Relax.

TFN isn't exactly held in high regard outside TFN.  (MF.com members consider them a joke.) We have a lot of TFN refugees here. I don't think I was even on there more than a few weeks before getting frustrated with the mindset there in regards to the original versions of the the OT.

The person Dave said was upset about the remark claimed to be transgendered, not a transvestite. But don't worry about it.

In any event, this site is like Casablanca. We don't pry into where you came from, or what you did before you fled here. Just pay your bar tab once in a while, and never ask the piano guy to play a certain song when Rick's around. ;)

Kenner Give-A-Show projector version of Star Wars.

http://youtu.be/VHRTiXEaW2w

I inexplicably never had these as a kid, so it's great to finally see these projector strips! Still sifting around the other videos to see if they have done Star Wars. I'm pretty sure Kenner didn't make a Jedi one, although there may have been an Ewoks set.

EDIT: Found Star Wars!

http://youtu.be/hLzmOBvnx_I

And the Ewoks...

http://youtu.be/-Dlldfictio

bkev, transvestite and transgender are not the same thing.

Anyway, I think this getting a bit off topic now.

I've tried it with the SW Blu Rays, and you can't even still step more than a few frames without the chapter/timeline thingy popping up, and you can't advance any further. About the only Blu I can even do that with was Metropolis, (the Moroder cut) and that may have something to do with the lack of Java crap on the disc.

DVD's on my Panasonic Blu Ray player have no such problems. In fact I can still/step backwards and forward better with it than my DVD player can.

Given what we know now about the way Star Wars was assembled in the editing room, it's probably a bit of editorial slight of hand, like the extension of the Tusken Raider shot.

They also probably didn't want Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker too close when the explosion was set off.

And now I'll have to go looking for that shot. ;)

I first saw dummy Greedo in 1988, when I rented the Japanese CAV Laserdisc from a video store in L.A. that is sadly long gone now. Great fun running the explosions backwards and forwards, in super slow motion too. It bugs me Blu Ray can't really do that stuff.

The Reader's Digest version is someone once deeply involved with the TFN website claimed to have a lot of insider plot spoiler info. They claimed Yoda acts "crazy" kind of like he does when we first saw him in Empire to escape capture. Part of this deception involves breaking wind.

Needless to say, the lie got bigger and imploded. I tried looking for the thread on their forum couple years back.

http://boards.theforce.net/Revenge_of_the_Sith_(Spoilers_Allowed)/b10331/17297520/?190

There is a huge four month gap in posts on page 138 around the time this all went down. Make of that what you will.

Related links:

http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?categoryid=16&p2_articleid=495

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=35936