Tallguy

I'm not sure if this has been raised anywhere.  Most of the times I watched Teh Hobbit was in the early 80's from a videotape recording at a friends' house.  He recorded it in '77.

It opened with the network's caption of "This film has been edited" that many theatrical films carried when broadcast on network TV.  I've never gotten an explanation as to why this might be there.

Does anyone have similar memories of even an explanation?

Since the word on the street (or the unfounded hope of the fans) says that we'll be getting honest to goodness theatrical releases of the Original Trilogy (someday) I started wondering:

What tiny thing will they mess up that will ruin it all?  (Or not so tiny:  That sound mix has to be fixed.)

The links that I have are all expired.  Is there a "fresher" batch?

TechTuts said:

If someone could send me the direct links, I would be incredibly grateful

PMed you.

I just have to say thank you!  My 3 year old has finally started asking to see Star Wars.  Now I finally have something to show her.

While I'll admit, we're obsessive (it's why we're here) I'm getting tired of the "Star Wars was always for little kids" crap I hear in the media and from GL.

I bet Lucas doesn't say "Hey look at my little kids version of the Oscars!"  In 1977 Star Wars was still escapist fantasy but it was considered the best of it's kind.  

I wonder if Woody Allen went crazy(er) and started mucking with Annie Hall every few years if we'd be hearing this "get a life" thing.

I can accept "Get over it.  It's just a movie."  But instead we get "Get over it.  It's just Star Wars."

In answer to the question?  Star Wars stops being fun every time this nonsense comes up.  It starts being fun again every time I can watch the movies.

Welcomed.

I've got the Imperial Audiophile Edition.  Can anyone PM the links to Star Wars and Jedi?

Yoda's lines to Obi-Wan at the end of ROTS was the biggest "Oh, wait!  I forgot to ever explain like the FIRST mystery that was ever in Star Wars and now the movies are over!  Um, ok, here's a speech!"

I had NO idea what the hell he was talking about.  I had to have it EXPLAINED to me.  (And I followed all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies without missing a beat.  Did you catch that Will is killed with the sword that he made at the beginning of P1?)

So if Clone Wars screws that up, I'm all for it!

Akwat Kbrana said:

Tallguy said:

Now look at all of the people posting on this board:  Have any of us met before now?  Any unknown relatives?  Did anyone take anyone else's job or know anyone else's cousin?  Does anyone own my old Firebird?  And we're only separated by thousands of miles.  In Star Wars we're talking the freaking galaxy!

Waaaaait a minute. Tallguy? As in Rob Tallguy?? Dude! It's me, Alistair Balderdash, your long-lost second cousin thrice removed! I'm only using "Akwat Kbrana" as a pseudonym because I'm in hiding from our mutual great-uncle, Count Vendetta, who sometimes lurks on these forums since he, in a weird coincidence, happens to be married to Jay's ex.

Don't tell anyone.

Well played, sir.

Darth Vader: Luke... I am your father! 

Luke Skywalker: Noooo! That's impossible! 

Darth Vader: It's true! And Princess Leia is your sister! 

Luke Skywalker: That's... improbable. 

Darth Vader: And the Empire will be defeated by Ewoks! 

Luke Skywalker: That's... highly unlikely... 

Darth Vader: And as a kid, I built C-3PO! 

Luke Skywalker: ...wha? 

[time passes] 

Darth Vader: And you know that all-powerful Force? That's really just microscopic bacteria called Midichlorians! 

Luke Skywalker: [smoking a cigarette] Look, if you're not gonna take this seriously, I'm outta here! 

Akwat Kbrana said:

Tallguy said:

(None of the stormtroopers in Star Wars were ever mean.)

You mean besides murdering all those jawas, blowing up Luke's boyhood home, and burning the flesh off of a kindly old farmer and his wife? ;)

I didn't say they weren't killers.  But I bet they were very business-like about it.  Makes them scarier, I think.

I stopped watching Clone Wars last year (is it a bad sign when they can't keep politics out of kid's show?).  But I actually liked the Mandalorian story line.  It acknowleged that back in the day (1980) Fett wore "Mandalorian armor."  He had WOOKIE SCALPS and supposedly the Mandalorians HUNTED JEDI.  Never said HE was Mandalorian.

Now I don't know what EU crap has come up about Fett and his kin, but Clone Wars did a nice nod to what was old-school Star Wars folk lore.  And I believe that the show runners said as much.

Kind of like how for all of it's other problems it was actually kind of cool that "Sith" found it's way back into Star Wars.  When I was a kid you hardly ever said "Darth Vader" without finishing in ominous undertones "DARK LORD OF THE SITH".  Then he somehow became Luke's dad and that all went to hell.

Now if someone can make sense of the line "helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights".  Somehow I never got "killed a room full of kids while the stormtroopers slaughtered all of the grown ups" from that.

Any stormtroopers that talk.  In Star Wars they were SO awesomely cool.  The swagger that was carried in those voice overs was astounding.

But yeah, I'll go with the "Maybe it's another drill" guys.  Again, laid back, cool, just doing their jobs.  (None of the stormtroopers in Star Wars were ever mean.)

I'm with you on everything except Han and Lando.  "Hey, let's go get help from this guy I know."  And it turns out he knows the guy!  It's a little like saying that it was too convenient that Leia's father knew Obi-Wan Kenobi.  It's a relationship that is defined from the start.

And what better way to introduce a rivalry than the Falcon?  Han might have stolen Lando's girl, but we've never heard of the girl, so why do we care?  Go with the ship, the romance that we know.

Now, when it turns out that Ben has been hiding out nearby Darth Vader's kid's house on the planet that Vader grew up on when he gets a message from Vader's other kid by way of Vader's old droids-- AND NOBODY REMEMBERS ANY OF THIS -- then the universe gets too small.

When it turns out that the guy who captures Han Solo and is a fairly anonymous (if supposedly bad ass and notorious) bounty hunter is in fact the clone of the fellow that ALL OF THE STORMTROOPERS ARE BASED ON then the universe gets too small.

So Chewbacca is apparently intrinsically involved with the Jedi knights.  Then Obi-Wan Kenobi shows up on his ship WITH LIGHTSABER IN HAND and he calls him an old fossil?  Huh?!?

I think that it is nothing short of amazing that Lucas did NOT give in to the temptation to bring back his most popular character.  Good on you, Mr. Lucas.

Now look at all of the people posting on this board:  Have any of us met before now?  Any unknown relatives?  Did anyone take anyone else's job or know anyone else's cousin?  Does anyone own my old Firebird?  And we're only separated by thousands of miles.  In Star Wars we're talking the freaking galaxy!

What can we say?  We're generous folk.

PMed both of you.  You've taken your first step into a larger world.  Damn, wrong film...

And it's alllll wonderful.

Now I'll listen to this for another four days.

Star Trek V is waiting under my Christmas Tree.

Mmmmmm Williams and Goldsmith.

This was pretty good.  http://rockwoodcomic.com/toons/10-1129.GIF

"I know."  See?  One of the greatest lines ever.

re: TCM's reel.  I had no idea Tom Mankiewicz passed away this year.  And David Brown.  Good grief, Empire, Superman, and Jaws!

SilverWook said:

I was watching the new Robot Chicken special last night, and thinking Marquand and Kershner haunting George would be a great sketch. ;)

A little obscure, even for RC.  But WOW I would love that!!  Throw in Sebastian Shaw for the win!

Well, we've waited, what? Ten years?  Twelve?  We can wait a little longer.  Man your ships and may the force be with you.

I've finally torn myself away from the IAE to listen to Tron Legacy this week.  But I'd be interested in v2 and v3 just for "historical importance" as well.

TV's Frink said:

Um, you do know Ghostbusters was kidding that time, right?

"I know."

From Anthony Daniels' twitter:

"Kersh fell asleep & snored, listening to me dubbing ESB. Just one reason I loved him. He was a lovely, thoughtful, talented man. We owe him."

So, if that's the rebel cave that the Falcon just flew out of, doesn't that mean that Darth Vader is RIGHT THERE?

Everyone talks about the scene in Raiders where Indy shoots the swordsman.  

But that's nothing compare to "I love you." "I know."  It's perfect.  It fits the character perfectly, it fits the scene perfectly.  You get tension tension tension a big laugh and then more tension.

And Ratatouille was awesome.