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SilverWook

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#430332
Topic
YouTube/Vimeo/etc... Star Wars video finds
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It's Eegah in outer space! Richard Kiel's more infamous movie role if you're an MST3K fan. ;)

Did that other movie steal it's FX footage from Starcrash, or was it from the same studio?

Here's another knockoff, this time from Japan. Message From Space!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSmIJCHqcQ

Those of you who played Astron Belt at the arcade back in the 80's may experience some Deja Vu. ;)

The War in Space is probably the first film to try and cash in on Star Wars' success. The story goes that some Toho studio execs were in Hollywood in summer 1977, and saw the huge lines at Mann's Chinese Theater. They got their own space movie into production soon as they returned home, and into theaters in Japan before Star Wars even opened there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTh_Z-AsDE

Scenes from a spurious English dub version of the film featuring a giant horned Wookiee ripoff. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTU7aXMzVMg

What is it with Japan and spaceships that look like seagoing vessels anyway?

 

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#430209
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Create your own Title Crawl at StarWars.com
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Sluggo said:

ImperialFighter said:

I noticed that Sluggo foresaw at the time, that the idea would probably end up on the 'official' site eventually....  ;)

I hate being right about that.  Lame that it took LFL 2 years to get their not as awesome version on their site.

Reminds me of how they made their own "Han Shot First" t-shirt. Lucas actually wearing one on the Indy 4 set still feels like a bird flip. ;)

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#430079
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Ambitious RotJ Edit (* unfinished project *)
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If you incorporate the EU idea that Papaltine has a slew of clone bodies to inhabit, he can still "die" as usual. There's at least one movie you could borrow footage from to show him waking up in a new body to end on a ominous note. (Judge Dredd comes to mind.) There must be a couple other films with clone labs in them?

I like the idea of Wookiees replacing the Ewoks, but there may not be enough footage from ROTS to make this work.

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#430077
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Create your own Title Crawl at StarWars.com
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none said:

SilverWook wrote:

I guess this explains why Lucasfilm forcibly shut down the site of the fan who created essentially the exact same thing a couple years back.

got a name or web address, my google-fu is failing.  the C&D would make a nice crawl.

 

What little remains is on the internet archive...

http://www.starwarscrawl.com/" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/20080622142907/http://www.starwarscrawl.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/20080622142907/http://www.starwarscrawl.com/

I started a thread on here before it was yanked.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Make-your-own-Star-Wars-crawl/topic/9475/

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#429970
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Free "farewell" Screening of 1977 Star Wars collector's print (British I.B. Technicolor)
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The final nail was the fact they pretend like nothing has been changed for the Director's cut. Lucas talking in the documentary about location shooting in 1970 over a CGI cityscape shot makes my head explode!

I was amazed to find the website of the FX company that worked on the new shots, since they aren't discussed or credited anywhere on the current DVD.

 

 

 

 

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#429788
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Marvel Star Wars
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The last Dark Horse book I bought was the post Chewie death one. Artoo and Threepio travel around to record the recollections of many who knew or encountered the Wookiee. (Amazingly, Chewie's father from the HS is in this.) It was so damn depressing!

Aside from our heroes being devastated, Han is going mental and calling for Chewie. Leia is clearly unhappy with the burdens of government, and isn't with Han. Just about everybody else seems miserable too. What the heck?

Remember when Star Wars was fun?

 

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#429756
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Marvel Star Wars
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I imagine post ROTJ they were still getting memos from Lucasfilm on what they couldn't do. I don't recall Ben, Yoda, or Anakin's ghost ever showing up again, which I believe the novels have done?

They were the first to actually get Boba Fett out of the Sarlacc pit, only to put him right back in at the end of the story.

The comic ending it's run three years after Jedi, and less than a year before the 10th anniversary was the beginning of a long dry spell for fans. The only new comics for years to come were a three issue 3-D series published by Blackthorne around 1988. I only ever saw those for sale at Disneyland.

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#429577
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Marvel Star Wars
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The only downside of the reprints and omnibus is you don't get all the ad pages of the era. The ad with Vader and the droids wearing SW tees was among my favorites.

You also don't get the page of letters sent in by readers each month. Some fans really freaked out over Han's apparent death in one memorable issue.

A few years back, there was a fan created webcomic called "Jaxxon's 11" which spoofed a certain caper movie, and brought back almost every character who first appeared in the Marvel book.

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#429575
Topic
Boba Fett in Force unleashed II sounds like Jango Fett.
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The logic of Boba's own voice coming out of that helmet is at odds with the ability to blend into the crowd while out of the armor. Fett has gone incognito in the few EU novels I've read. It defeats the whole purpose of concealing his face.

You don't see Batman talking like Bruce Wayne in public!

Would Jason Wingreen have gotten residuals for his voice work in Empire?

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#429499
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Marvel Star Wars
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zombie84 said:

The SE comic was a whole new 1990s adaptation from scratch. It was okay, but the balance was weird since they made close to an entire issue out of the "here they come" sequence IIRC.

The Marvel series was great though, and along with Splinter of the Minds Eye was really the only thing that built upon the universe of Star Wars, rather than the trilogy. As soon as Empire came out, the story changed very radically and it just wasn't quite the same. But those first few years, where there was no additional films or other media to offer constraints, showed the potential directions of Lucas film.

The reprint of the Marvel version preceded the SE comics by a year or two, IIRC.

Marvel did operate under a few constraints from Lucasfilm in the early years. The Han Leia Luke triangle could only run in circles, and they didn't bring Vader back into the thick of things for a long while.

Aren't you forgetting the most excellent Brian Daley Han Solo books? ;)

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#429458
Topic
Marvel Star Wars
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For those of us of a certain age, it was about the only thing to tide us over before Empire came out, and between seeing the original at the theater again!

I didn't have a local comic shop near me as a kid, so I was often at the mercy and whim of the local drugstore having the next issue in stock. A month could seem an eternity!

They used one of the background Mos Eisely aliens for Jabba, mainly because nobody knew what Jabba was supposed to look like. The perils of adapting a movie that wasn't finished yet, (and working mostly from still photos) also meant we got all the deleted scenes.

The same thing happened with Empire, as the first paperback printing features a very different Yoda than we saw in the movie.

It's ironic that around the time of the Special Editions, Dark Horse reprinted the movie adaptation with really horrible recoloring. I'm glad I managed to hold onto my original issues all these years, though I'm afraid to handle them too much now!

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#428203
Topic
I will refuse to buy STAR WARS on bluray!
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DVD-BOY said:

SilverWook said:

Since many early Blu Ray titles have nice uncompressed PCM tracks, all these dueling audio codecs seem unnecessary.  But they had to find a way to make my less than five year old receiver obsolete didn't they? ;)

I can hear the difference between Dolby Digital and DTS on DVD, but hearing any subtle differences on Blu hasn't happened for me yet.

With regards to multi-channel PCM, I think one of the reasons it has been dropped as an option by most studios is that firstly it took up too much disc space (Stereo 24bit WAV is about 2Mbps, so 6 channel is about 6Mbps).  Also, in legacy AV receivers, you don't get a proper 5.1 track, just a Pro-Logic track, so studios still had to include something like a Dolby or DTS track on there anyway.

Which was the whole point of having analog 5.1 outputs on the players and inputs on your old receiver to begin with. (Same with the early days of DVD.) They finally got back to the uncompressed audio we always had with Laserdisc, and then they drop it so they can cram in crap that makes movies take forever to load, and most people are never going to bother with twice. None of those BD Live extras are going to be available forever either.

I guess it will be the odd music video or concert title that will even have PCM in the future.

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#427738
Topic
George Lucas Super Live Adventure on You Tube...
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I remember a bit on the SciFi channel in the early 90's about this, but the show sadly never made it to the states. (Or anywhere outside of Japan?)

The camera work isn't the greatest, and the angle gives away a few stage tricks too.

Unless there's ever an official recording released, or they revive it in Vegas, this glimpse may be all we ever get!

Here are all the individual links in case you want to skip to the good stuff. ;)

Part 1: Willow (Was it a big hit in Japan?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqdmrxSZ1rM

 

Part 2: More Willow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAdOElL8ISY

 

Part 3: "Tucker: A Man and his Dream" dance number. There wasn't room for a Howard the Duck sequence I guess...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i12Zc4ENZZY

 

Part 4: Indiana Jones! (There's a long musical intermission when they get to Club Obi Wan where not a lot is going on except for an acrobat act...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE8rwSXZmys

 

Part 5: The action finally starts, and Anything Goes! The Indy set pieces here are pretty impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1B-4BPjxME

 

Part 6: End of Indy, then into American Graffiti. (What,  no THX 1138 dance number?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PuFuPpUvU

 

Part 7: End of AG, the finally some Star Wars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N080exPubvA

 

Part 8: I don't recall strippers in the Cantina scene before. Darn you, George!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmTf2U2I7o4

 

Part 9: Luke and Vader battle it out, with a twist ending!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhSu16xMR4

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#427731
Topic
Cinerama Projection Booth “Return of the Jedi”
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One of the other comments on that page claims the print was later recovered in the home of the thief, a former employee.

A 70mm print wouldn't have done anyone much good back then. Telecine facilities capable of transferring the larger format didn't exist until the early 1990's. Swiping a 35mm print makes more sense from a logistical standpoint.