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#650941
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SDCC news - OUT "quite likely" on Blu-ray
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doubleofive said:

 

SpilkaBilka said:


Great.  The more sources Harmy has the better.
I'm fairly certain that Harmy would no longer need sources if we had the originals. That's kind of the point.

 

It was a joke.  I was implying that Disney would probably screw up such a release in some manner, but it would at least be another source to work with.

I mean, Disney's track record isn't that great with BD releases, is it?  Someone on this forum posted a discussion about a BD of release of Cinderella (or maybe it was Snow White or Sleeping Beauty or something?).  They compared it to the VHS and DVD and it looked awful because they DVNR'd it to hell.

Of course, this is just me being pessimistic.  I am absolutely DELIGHTED that the OUT could get a BD release soon.  Honestly, it's amazing news.  It's what we've all been waiting for.  That being said, I'm sure it will have some flaws that fans like Harmy will see as worth being corrected.

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#649402
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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Tobar said:

Leave it to George to hire the guy who takes pride in claiming that after he first saw Star Wars he ran home to redesign all the ships to his own liking.

Yeah, that bit from that "making of" webisode where he talks about how he'd draw the X-Wing the way he thought it should look, really left me scratching my head.  THIS is the guy you choose to design your new SW movies???

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#649038
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YouTube/Vimeo/etc... Star Wars video finds
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Anyone remember that commercial that came out maybe a year ago for the Phantom Menace?  I think it was a promo for some station that was going to air the movie.  It was kid-themed and there was some line about, "you're going to be late for the party, Qui-Gon!"

Someone (I believe an OT.com member?) did a pretty funny edit of this and I'm wondering if anyone still has a link to it.  I've tried some searches but can't come up with anything.

 

EDIT: Now that I think about it, it could've been a commercial for TPM 3D.

EDIT 2: ok, here's the original commercial.  Now to find the edit.

EDIT 3: yay, found it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDH60Spj-l8

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#648956
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Return of the Jedi: Radical Re-Edit (Released)
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This radical re-edit sounds... radical!  Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but I'm looking forward to it.

One thing that just popped into my head- and this is a VERY tiny thing that has always bugged me about ROTJ- I always hated the cartoony sound the speederbike makes when it spins out of control after Luke chops off the front of it.  Any plans to remove that?

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#645347
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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I'm in the camp that thinks it's just a regular SD, though I can sort of see how it might work as being the Executor.

But for those who think it's the Executor, let me ask you this: let's say it's 1980 and you've seen SW, and now you're watching ESB for the first time.  You know what a SD looks like.  The shot in question comes up- the massive tower fills up the screen.

It looks just like a SD tower that's been established in SW and the beginning of ESB.  What about this tower would possibly lead you to believe that it's anything but a SD?

If the filmmakers wanted us to think it was a different type of ship... why would the initial reveal of it be a structure that is identical to that of a ship that has been clearly previously established in the movies?

Those in the Executor camp- do you think the filmmakers' intent was for the audience to think right away that the tower belongs to a different kind of ship, OR, after seeing the body of the Executor, was the audience then supposed to think, "oh, that first shot of the tower was actually this much larger ship"?

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#643093
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Where were you in '83? ROTJ 30th anniversary 5/25/83-5/25/13
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auximenies said:

Mielr said:

Yes! Here in the US they had a collector's book/program, too. I had forgotten about that. :-) I think it was sold at the concession counter.

This is the one I have:

http://www.oldcomics.net/images/mag-return-of-jedi.jpg

I have that one, too.  Bought it at the grocery store, i *think* well after i had seen the film.

I have an older sibling (11 years older than me) who got that book when he was a kid, and I looked at it all the time when I was growing up.  It definitely added to the "mystique" of ROTJ for me, and ROTJ was briefly my favorite SW movie.  Seeing all the models and how they did certain things was awesome.

It's hard to describe what I mean by "mystique," but there was something about the book that just made ROTJ feel so... epic, like it was a the culmination of all the greatest filmmaking/SPFX techniques combined into one film, made by filmmaking masters.  It felt like so much care went into making the movie.  But something beyond that too that I can't really explain.

ROTJ is now my least favorite of the OT, so go figure.