I wonder if they gave credit to the fan who made a life size JarJar in Carbonite several years before the game came out?
Is that the eye of a Dianoga and the head of Salacious Crumb on the sides?
I think Adywan has the best idea though. ;)
Robot Chicken killed him already.
There is a mod for Jedi Outcast that can be very soothing when those homicidal urges need release. ;)
Jonno said:
They're on the Dr Gonzo laserdisc transfers (maybe others too - Editdroid?) IIRC they're fairly intermittent, rather than wall-to-wall observations, but I suppose commentaries weren't all that common in 1993 and the potential had yet to be fully realised.
I agree that after-the-fact commentaries are generally best, as are those recorded 'live' with one participant or a small group (I'm not sure who these cut 'n' paste jobs are supposed to impress - as someone already mentioned, it's not as if we haven't heard it all before).
Criterion had been doing commentary tracks for several years by 1993. (They invented the idea!) If they couldn't get someone who was still living, they got the best historian to discuss a particular film. In the case of Robinson Crusoe on Mars, they made good use of an interview the late director had given in the 1970's. His remarks were synched up to relevant scenes.
The "Definitive Collection" was rightly razzed for the long gaps of nothing and not getting remarks from key personnel no longer working at ILM. Not to mention some of the worst packaging in the history of the Laserdisc format. ;)
That's interesting if it's the case. They would have had to make a new "glass master" disc to add a digital track to any reissue. I don't know what video format the master tapes would have been at the time. Could they have simply added a digital track and left the original analog alone?
Are you listening to the analog with the CX noise reduction on? Leaving it off can often make things sound a little different. Some later Pioneer models are guilty of having lower analog output to make the digital sound "better".
70mm reels of Star Wars have popped up on Ebay in the past, so you never know! ;)
Not every director enjoys as much control as Lucas does, and movie scripts are often rewritten by many others whose names never appear on the final product.
Some of the better dialog between Indy and Marion in Crystal Skull has been attributed to Kasdan.
skyjedi2005 said:Also people praise Gary Kurtz but other than being involved with The dark Crystal and Return to OZ after leaving Lucasfilm what has he done?
Not even the Godfather has had the impact on generations of people that the original star wars trilogy has.
Gary's latest project. Maybe you've heard of it. ;)
It's sad that when the AFI picked Star Wars to represent the entire 1970's for a retrospective of movies made in the 20th century, Lucas missed the whole point, and mandated they show the special edition instead. :(
Lucas visited the Empire set often enough. This is documented in the making of book.
Most movie producers never even set foot on a soundstage. Unless you have a reason to be there, you're going to get underfoot.
The control panel with the actual firing lever was in reality a Grass Valley video switcher.
My local cable company had one in their studio when I was a lowly student intern back in the 80's. I was pretty floored when I recognized it!
There's another 16mm print of this on ebay right now if anyone's interested.
You can add "jenny2009" to the spambot list. I got two similar messages except the email was different. bubablessing@yahoo.com
Since when are we so popular? ;)
Comedy Central ought to have an HD channel out there somewhere by now? The individual episodes may be airing in widescreen, and simply be cropped for the standard def feed.
fishmanlee said:SilverWook said:I thought the younglings were only ever given the "safety scissors" version of lightsabers to begin with? The blades are too weak to do much damage?
isnt that EU stuff?
and i guess GL's relatives must be spoiled cuz his [grandson?] killed some clones
I'm was thinking of the little ones we saw Yoda training in Episode II. Who would be insane enough to give a six year old a full blown lightsaber? Padawans would be cutting off limbs daily! I'm sure the older kids like the one who was fighting clones get the real thing, or else he grabbed someone else's saber.
I thought the younglings were only ever given the "safety scissors" version of lightsabers to begin with? The blades are too weak to do much damage?
I found Robot Chicken's parody of Anakin's slaughter hilarious though.
Isn't it weird Hasbro has made action figures from a cut scene for which we only have seen one second of!
I'm sure they were. It's just most old copies that pop up tend to be rentals and are worn out. The Magnetic video label release was generally not for sale.
Putting one hour on a 16mm reel means a bigger reel. And apparently not all projectors can handle bigger reels. Note how all the 16mm Star Wars prints we've seen are all three reelers.
The Japanese LD has usually been expensive to get. The early 80's LD is easily one of the worst rotters in the history of the format.
I have all the Japanese making of LD's except this one. All those releases have Japanese subtitles.
The last VHS release was a cereal mail-away promo that inexplicably replaced William Conrad's original narration! (This has the Vader face art.) The original came out very early in the days of home video, and finding a playable copy would be a crap shoot.
It this film print isn't pink city, it would be interesting to make a hybrid version with all the movie clips in proper widescreen. :)
Could have sworn I posted about the NATM2 appearance a couple months ago. ;)
Am I seeing things, or is there a makeup line on Nimoy's nose?
In an alternate timeline, this fellow replaced Spock. ;)
The transporter malfunction scene seriously creeped me out thirty years ago, and I still skip past it to this day. But sans FX, it looks like they are disco dancing! ;)
They make new prints of ride films on a regular basis. (But probably run them to death.) There is more than one copy around! The original negatives ought to be sitting in a vault at Disney or ILM.
It's a safe bet the ride makeover will put in HDTV screens and be able to switch "destinations", so I doubt the original footage will vanish completely either.
I gave someone on here a copy of my capture of the Gil Gerard special several years back. Wonder if that's what out there now?
The problem is nobody gets the difference between paying homage to something and ripping it off.
Back in 1977, the letters column of the late Cinefantastique magazine was full of rants from cranky people listing everything Lucas "stole" from. The fact Tatooine was a desert planet, and there was a reference to "spice" had some Dune fans pissed! IIRC, everything from Forbidden Planet to the Lensman novels were also mentioned. Others wondered what happened to the Lucas that had made THX-1138!
(Of course, some less informed critics would later claim the 1984 Dune adaptation was ripping off Star Wars. Go fig.)
Far fewer people ever catch the homage to the WWII epic "The Dam Busters" in the final Death Star Battle. Or that the medal ceremony looks like something else from WWII!
If any SF film is a Kurosawa clone, it's Battle Beyond the Stars. ;)
Wow! And thank you! :)
MTV was two years old when ROTJ came out.
Seems a curious programming choice for them though.
There are ways now that we could all watch and chat in realtime these days. (Ustream comes to mind.) Might even be good for a world premiere of a fan edit or restoration.
I'm still holding out hope we actually have a OT convention someday! :)
