Sluggo

Ah, that takes me back to 77.

If anyone feels the need to add any unnecessary ships to the scene, it ought to be the Slave 1 and not a star destroyer.  And then, I still wouldn't do it.  Wrecks the surprise.

That thing is hardcore!  Or, to quote Star Wars: "Look at the size of that thing!"

I have comitted heresy against The Mighty Gonk.  I must be punished. :)

Ripplin said:

I didn't mind the voice, it's just that it feels a little too...direct, maybe? Like someone sitting in a room recording themselves with silence around, rather than in a noisy bar. ;)

 That was something that TM was struggling with.  He was getting close to fixing the problem, but I don't know how close he was to doing it.

Has Jambe seen this?

Mr. BMW

Welcome to the boards!  I look forwards to following your projects with great interest. 

DLP?

Janskeet said:

I was always like huh? Droids don't feel pain. and then the one foot droid's foot bein burned with the steam shooting out of it, I was like you have got to be kidding me. Hopefully Adywan will remove this.

Really?

EXT. LANDING PLATFORM - CLOUD CITY - DUSK

They race for the Millennium Falcon as a battalion of stormtroopers reaches the main door.  Lando and Leia hold off the troops as the droids get on board with Chewie.  As Chewie bounds to the ship the Threepio on his back, Threepio hits his head on the top of the ramp.

                    THREEPIO
          Ouch!  Oh!  Ah!  That hurt.  Bend down, you thoughtless... Ow!

Chewie starts up the ship.  The giant engines begin to whine as Lando and Leia race up the ramp under a hail of laser fire.

                    LANDO
          Leia!  Go!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON

Beeping while he works, Artoo is busy connecting some wires to Threepio who now has one leg attached.

Chewie enters through the doorway, grunting to himself.

                    THREEPIO
          Noisy brute.  Why don't we just go into light-speed?

Artoo beeps in response.

                    THREEPIO
          We can't?  How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated?

Artoo whistles knowingly.

                    THREEPIO
          The city's central computer told you?  Artoo-Detoo, you know better than to trust a strange computer.  Ouch!  Pay attention to what you're doing!

I think some of us are missing the point here.  The problem is not whether the droids can feel emotion or can feel pain (which can be argued are two different things), but the execution of this scene in the film.

I don't know how or why droids feel pain and emotion in the SW Universe; but speaking from a perspective of filmmaking, I am glad that they do.  The characters of the droids are much richer because of it.  However, it has to be handled realisticly.

The Gonk droid being tortured in Jedi didn't make any sense because it had steam blasted from small jets built into his feet when heat was applied.  This bit would have actually made some sense if they were just melting his feet without the steam.

Of course, if Lucas really wanted to go over the top, the droid who was being dismembered could have oil of hydrolic fluid bleed out when the limbs were torn off.

It is all about the nicknacks, my man.  I picked up a die-cast NCC-1864 to peek out of my DVD shelf.  Just a little touch to highlight my dorky-ness.

It will get out there, count on it.  Just let them do their work.

The senseless death of a great baseball.

Nice craftmanship, C3

This is my favorite thread ever. 

lol!

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Now Ady, were you needing the theatrical version to replace shots or is just for timing?

DJ, that is better than what I have.  Mine is only 4:3.

Sluggo said:

Somewhere I have a TPM laserdisc transfer on DVD.  I'll take a hard look tonight through me files.  I don't think the transfer was that hot, but it might work for what Ady needs.

 OK, I have it here.  What is the best way to get this to Ady?

Johnny Ringo said:

I'm tinkering with a fairly 'game changing' idea at the moment. It started with an idea and i'm looking through the rest of the film to see if it will work out right, So far it's looking good. I'll post details on that soon.

I can say right now that this idea wold include the removal of the entire helicopter scene, But if I do it right then the scene shouldn't be missed at all.

Right now I'm really looking at ways to bring some more DOOM flavour into DOOM.

 

 

 Don't you mean more of a DOOM mood into DOOM?  ;)

I think the Casino Royale remake (could you even call it a remake?) was excellent.

Condorman would be a cool remake if a studio took it somewhat seriously.  I'd hate to see Will Farrell piss all over it.

C3PX said:

I couldn't agree more about the disposable mentality. But I do think that in some cases, some stories are just too good to let go. And that is where you see two different mentalities behind various sequels and remakes.

Some remakes really strive to take a loved story and give it a new spin. And others just seek to remake an old film because they see the opportunity to potentially to rake in cash because of it.

 ... 

Thus far, the current century seems to have been wholly devoted to remakes, sequels, reboots, spin-off, and adaptions or readaptions of well known books and comics. At this point, I think we are all pretty sick of it and are frantically reaching for the window hoping for a breath of freash air.

 Well spoken C3PX.  I absolutely detest the disposable mentality, whether it applies to movies or just consumerism in general.  But this thread is interesting.  As just an intellectual excercise, it is interesting to explore these 'what if's' in the alternate reality of imagination.

Somewhere I have a TPM laserdisc transfer on DVD.  I'll take a hard look tonight through me files.  I don't think the transfer was that hot, but it might work for what Ady needs.

Edit:  Coov!  I'm thrilled to see new work of yours again!

Hey xhonzi, the idea of clones and superweapons is an interesting one. You should start a new thread about this. 

Clones certainly had the potential to be the superweapon in the prequels, but the movies didn't really treat them that way.  It would also be interesting to see if someone would research how the clones were viewed in the EU from 1977-1991, from 1991 to 2002 and from 2002 today.

Bingowings said:

I really can't see why George thinks the story has ended now, surely there is at least three films to be made about the perils of re-building the Rebublic and not becoming the Empire in the process?

It might make an interesting TV show, but I don't see the movies touching this terrain.  According to Lucas's thinking (as I understand it), the story arc was about Luke Skywalker and his adventures.  By the end of ROTJ, he has come from being a whiny farmboy to a being a Jedi.  Lucas reinvented things by saying the new saga including the prequels was now the story of the redemption of Anakin Skywalker.  Whether this new reimagining is plausible or not, it doesn't leave room for a sequel trilogy.  The movies would have to be massively remade to match Lucas's original 9 or 12 movie story arc for there to be any room for the sequels.