More like the unmaking of an icon! :P
Love him or loathe him, Prowse looked great in the suit. I don't think a skinny fellow would have worked in 1977.
And what idiot during the photo shoot thought tucking the gloves into the sleeves was a good idea?
You slept in that thing? You're braver than I thought...
And if it ever gets infested with bedbugs, tell the kids they're just Mynocks!
May have? I guess you had to be there.
It was an oft quoted line by the early 90's. (Spaceballs also kept it alive in a way.) Plus this guy went and ruined it for millions of tv viewers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuMyI8M5fc
There are still people on the planet who haven't seen the movie. I encountered a young horror movie fan yesterday who's never seen Psycho, and hasn't had it spoiled for them yet!
timdiggerm said:
Do you mean the forest, or the sky? If you mean the forest...it's the same forest. If you mean the sky... In the original, the clouds in the sky of Yavin IV are somehow behind Yavin. It's one of the 2004 changes that really, really made a lot of sense.
I honestly don't see any clouds behind Yavin in the original shot. And unless someone has a photo taken while standing on one the moons of Jupiter on a sunny day, you're going to have a hard time proving the original shot looks wrong anyway. ;)
Nobody sitting in a plastic garbage can on a pole 50 feet off the ground is going to be that casual with any sort of craft passing that close to them either!
You're all forgetting George's original original vision! ;)
Qui Gon wanted to know who Anakin's father was though.
Baronlando said:
Yeah I never got why Luke and Leia having a trait passed down to them by their dad has to exclude anyone. You would think if it did they'd have the jedi banging each other all the time to produce the next generation. It'd be like Caligula in that council building.
I can't be the only one who spotted this guy in Episode One, and thought the resemblance to Yoda was implying something! ;)
Baronlando said:
Wait, so is Han just a moron now that he doesn't believe in something that can be physically measured? (I guess he doesn't believe in the Jedi in general, since they were killed off in public 19 whole years ago. Which seems sort of like saying he doesn't believe in the '92 Houston Oilers but whatever)
Who called him a moron? Scruffy looking nerf-herder maybe...
And what is King Arthur's midi count? Must be pretty high to be able to yank that sword out of the rock it was stuck in! ;)
Star Wars managed just fine for 22 years without some damned technobabble explanation for the Force.
That's a weird release pattern. All the other cult SF shows on LD were at least released in chronological/production order, even if they didn't get to the final seasons before DVD took over.
Since it's still hotly debated as to whether the whole sister thing even existed at the time ESB was filmed, I think you have to leave ROTJ out of the equation. Luke also tried calling to Ben first.
It might also be a "one way call" scenario. Leia senses Luke, but can't send a message as Vader does. Luke obviously couldn't call Han, (could he sense Han was frozen?) didn't know Lando, and I've no idea if you can telepathically call a Wookiee. It might also help if you're sending to the one person who's probably also thinking about you at the time.
Did the term "Force Sensitive" exist prior to the prequels?
I once thought it was as simple as "you gotta' believe". Believe in the Force and in yourself. Han is too cynical to buy into a bunch of "simple tricks and nonsense". Luke made a leap of faith when he turned off his targeting computer. His later disbelief is what keeps him from pulling the X-Wing out of the swamp. Yoda's trembling little hand is what sold me on his powers in that scene.
Jedi toss big stuff around far too easily these days.
Midichlorians, which I believe is actually the special additive that forever marks the person who whizzes in a swimming pool, undermine the OT. ;)
If it isn't on DVD, would there be interest in preserving the original aired pilot from the Japanese Laserdisc? Of course, there would be pesky burned in subtitles...
If you've read "Once Upon a Galaxy", he was getting all sorts of crazy fan mail, so Sir Alec can be forgiven for being a little testy about what became his most famous role.
He really should have looked at his bank account before venting frustration on a little kid though! ;)
Which is why the Laserdisc gods created Letterboxing. :P
I'm all too familiar with that one. Movies on tv have it as well, along with "edited for content", "edited for time", and the infamous "time compressed." Still trying to figure out what the hell "time expanded" means. Is the movie running slower?
I just cackle maniacally over the "your screen" part. How the @#$! do they know what fits my screen! ;)
I thought the original pilot aired in syndication?
IIRC, one actor's voice was dubbed in the original aired version, and there were several shots of background aliens deleted in the second version. The music might have been different as well.
It would be nice to have the original if only to compare the differences, much like Star Trek fans have the unaired "The Cage" pilot, and the version incorporated into "The Menagerie" two part episode.
They can paste Christopher Lee's head on a stuntman, but can't put a puppet head on a CGI body? ;)
I'm betting the long delayed Dark Crystal sequel actually does this for some shots.
Is there such a disclaimer in existence? There are only a handful of films outside the OT that would qualify for having one.
With all the reference material at their fingertips, how did they botch Yoda so badly? The "he's supposed to look younger" argument doesn't hold much water for a guy in his 900's already!
The weed smoking pervo wizard puppet in "Your Highness" looks better than TPM Yoda. ;)
I could have sworn the disclaimers that used to appear in front of colorized films when shown on tv were a tangible result of those lobbying efforts?
So what version is it then?
And I don't recall Capt. Sheridan being around in the pilot. ;)
Lucas wasn't about to pull a Darth Maul back then. ;)
I'm surprised there's never been a fan film adaptation of the book. I still wonder if there's any pre-production artwork in the vault for Splinter we have yet to see.
Did Foster have an early script draft to work from?
Do other fan editors get this kind of crap from people with raging cyber hate boners?
Mielr said:
The comments on the ESB clip used to be mostly polite and civil, but
apparently the trolls are migrating there now since I shut the commenting down on the other 2 clips:
"I lol'd. This is Lucas's film, not yours. He can do whatever the hell he pleases and neither you, me or anyone else can change that. Besides, I don't know why anyone should complain about THIS particular scene... the change in the 'new' version makes the transition from Palpatine in the new trilogy to the old one much more fluid and believable."
This falls into one of the most annoying comment categories: the "It's Lucas' film he can do whatever he wants" category.
Do these guys all read from the same script now? It's starting to sound like a mantra...