The turning point in the whole battle is when Chewie takes over that scout walker.
Not as emotionally satisfying as seeing him pull troopers' arms out their sockets, and beat them up with it, but still...
Someone has uploaded all the deleted scenes from the Repo Man tv cut to youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/user/sublogicrecordings
Someone here want try contacting them?
Harrison Ford on the Han/Chewie relationship. (Starting at 1:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qqzFDVCFk&feature=related
Peter Mayhew said in an interview he was cautioned against wandering off in costume on the Endor forest location, to avoid being mistaken for bigfoot and getting shot by a hunter!
Bingowings said:
Jawas seem to be a fully sentient species with a culture and a language so is Threepio being racist when he calls them "Disgusting creatures"?
I think he is.
They almost certainly have individuals, they are indigenous people who live on the fringes of Tatooine society so labelling them all disgusting creatures based on his experience with a few of them sounds pretty racey to me.
It's been established Jawas don't smell too good, and that Threepio has olfactory sensors. Also, they hot-welded a giant metal nipple to his chest, shot his little buddy, and illegally sold the both of them to the crankiest moisture farmer this side of the Dune sea, who can't even remember he had the exact same protocol droid working for him many years before!
Buying droids from out the back of a rusted out sandcrawler is like buying home theater gear from some guy in a van, but I digress...
And lets not forget who had the thankless task of piling up the dead Jawa bonfire while mister "I'm a Jedi Knight" just stands around? Cut Goldendrod a little slack, he was just having a bad couple days in a row.
Based on the Skywalker family's experiences with the Sandpeople, I'm not about to invite them over for blue milk and cookies! ;)
I think someone here mentioned having the presskit many pages back.
Old magazines with THX articles circa '71 do pop up on Ebay. Cinefantastique being the one I see most often. Could have sworn there was an AC issue up several months ago as well.
Does anyone have this magazine?
The movie was Amercian Zoetrope's flagship production, so there was likely more mainstream coverage than if it was some weird little Italian Sci Fi flick.
THX also got a bit of retrospective coverage in the many Starlog clones that saw print in the wake of Star Wars.
I'm not sure Lucasfilm is a publicly traded company though.
If you do drink today, drink responsibly!
An elementary school production of Rocky Horror?
This one seems affordable?
Will be watching Puggo Grande tonight if all goes well...
Baronlando said:
The second jabba song (the instrumental thing that plays later) is missing too. And so is the negative for the Jabba scene in star wars. All 3 of these things were used in the star wars to jedi doc, and then went missing. Who was in charge of that thing?
I think it was this guy. ;)
Krakatoa said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
I found out the antagonist was going to be named Darth Scabrous.
Are you going to Scabrous fair?
Weird, I know a dragon who does ren fests by that name! I wonder if he could sue Lucasfilm? ;)
A certain doctor used to refer to a Vulcan colleague as "pointy eared" quite often. ;)
You're welcome. That was fast!
Is someone going to take this on once all the audio is available? I still think an optional title crawl based on the Backstroke subs is a good idea!
A pity we may never know who the anonymous voice actors are. They have given BOTW a new level of lunacy.
resonator said:
Moth3r said:
Anyway, why "10-bit TBC"? Does it matter how many "bits" a Time Base Corrector uses? (A 10-bit ADC would make more sense, but surely that's built-in to the Intensity Shuttle?)
The Intesity can capture in 10bit, although it's apparently pretty pointless with analog SD sources, the latitude isn't there anyway. I do it anyway. Best practice would be to make sure that you set up the gear so that highlights aren't blown out and blacks aren't crushed and worry about CC later. The quality is amazing though. The old pinnacle card I used to have was noticably worse.
I'm no expert in how a TCB actually works (other than it does correct the time base of the signal), but it says 10 bit right there on the device. This is a refurbished thing I got from a gear sale of a video rental company. Nobody uses analog anymore I guess. I bought it to use it with VHS and Hi8 tapes, actually I was told to rather NOT use it with LDs. I still have to try it with the X9, but with my own CLD2950 it's actually pretty useless. I guess it has to do with the mastering of the LDs too, because if the timebase is flawless in the first place it doesn't degrade over time as it does on tapes.
Where could I get these Japanese pre-THX discs?
There is a copy of Star Wars on Ebay right now.
No copies of Empire or Jedi for sale at the moment, but the white bordered jackets are similar in appearance.
Behind the scenes stuff of any substance was notoriously hard to come by the first couple years. Even the Making of Star Wars tv special dodged interviewing the men behind the masks.
Seeing Prowse unmasked in a tabloid magazine article was something of a victory for me as kid, what with my peers thinking Threepio was some sort of audio animatronic figure. ;)
IIRC, Ray Harryhausen never allowed photos to be taken while he was actually animating, so it doesn't surprise me the ILM guys would fake it for Cronkite.
Uncle Walter would later pay a visit to the game grid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IOvFPgi2s
Baronlando said:
Or link to the best part of the day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzK0hfIhaKg&t=1m10s
Stormtroopers surrendering to theme park employees? And people thought the whole Ewok thing was bad! ;)
Almost being crushed to death a garbage compactor, and wading around up to your knees in who knows what would also sour anyone's rotten mood even further!
And there's absolutely nothing wrong about kissing a Wookiee. ;)
Awesome!
I went to Monsterpalooza Sunday afternoon, and didn't see this! I did see a crispy ROTS Anakin though. :/
Seems like some new clips are up! :)
CP3S said:
Six movies, hours spent on the same lame backwater desert planet, and we never even get a glimpse of Alderran? Sorry, just now realizing that. Where was I? Oh yeah, I guess we can forgive Leia's out of character racial slam on Wookies since she had just gone through so much. Humorously, I've always thought that line a better candidate for removal than Han's BAMF shooting first moment.
We do see Alderran briefly at the end of ROTS.
It's understandable if you've repressed any memories of the prequels. ;)
miker71 said:
The mouse droid is borderline Prequel humour as is R2-D2 toppling with a cute scream as he gets stunned by the jawas. However it's not awful, but it is dumb in my opinion. Where dumb is defined as "lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted."
Leia's "walking carpet" line has always bugged me, do we even see a carpet anywhere in the trilogy? It's an instant back-to-Earth-ism for me that line. And it's not even funny. "Nerf herder"? Thank you ESB!
You're talking about stuff I clearly recall getting laughs back in 1977.
As for carpets, we don't see bathrooms in any of the movies either, but surely they must exist? ;)
I didn't know the Twilight Zone was so revered in France! ;)
Baronlando said:
Yeah, every time some superfan says it's impossible to present the OT properly because the negative has been special editioned, all I can think is negative shmegative. The Blade Runner final cut even has shots in that are from the workprint, since they never found any better source, and that thing is however many generations removed. And yet there it is, side by side with the negative. (and the Blade Runner '82 disc, which has been our barometer for a quality blu-ray all along, isn't from the negative either.)
If you've seen that featurette on TCM about film noir, a "lost" film was restored from the only surviving 16mm print in existence. That really blew my mind!
And Erin Gray/Col. Deering icon for the win! ;)