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LeeThorogood said:

 

Anchorhead said:

Lucas, who is also producing and financing, needs reshoots and must do them himself. According to two sources close to the project, Hemingway was hoping to stay on for the redos, but was already committed to direct episodes of David Simon's New Orleans series Treme for HBO. (Lucas wasn't willing to wait.)

Lucasfilm confirms the directorial shift, which FirstShowing.net broke, but denies any conflict with Hemingway, saying Lucas and producer Rick McCallum will oversee the reshoot — with Hemingway's approval

With Hemingway's approval.  Sure.

Call me cynical but it sounds like George isn't even waiting for the 1.0 release before he starts making alterations and revising his original vision for the film! *sigh*

 

Not sure where you're going with this. The majority of films have reshoots before they're done.

marioxb said:

So does this mean no new scenes or fixes? Like no digital Yoda in TPM, no recolored lightsabers, etc?

Darn good questions. Lucas was all about the new TPM Yoda on that "Star Wars in Concert" promo.

I've always firmly believed that Luke's wrong colored light-saber was a deliberate mistake, just to F with us. No way that could have passed however many levels of workers, quality checkers, printers, and Lucas himself without being noticed. Wont be surprised if it's not 'fixed'.

NoelGallagher said:

"Star Wars is Oasis."

• Crafted by an arrogant man with delusions of grandeur.
• Extremely derivative of earlier works.
• Hasn't had anything good out in a long long time.

Yeah, I see his point.

xhonzi said:

I thought that Watchmen was a pretty decent adaptation.  Just this morning I heard someone else dismissing it. 

I think the movie ending may actually (literally) be my preferred ending... though I'm still thinking about that.

What's your beef?

I found the film lost a lot of points with me personally when Dan and Silk Specter are attacked by the goons in the alley.

In the comic it's a spontateous act of surprisiong and frightening violence, and both are clearly shocked in the aftermath.

In the film they smirk at each other before entering a slow-mo orgy of bone breaking. They practically high five at the end.

I think Snyder's love of filmic violence occasionally clouded his attempts to be faithful to the (themes especially of the) book.

xhonzi said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anchorhead said:

The novel had a feeling of everything must be viewed from a Prequel point of view.

This pretty much sums up the current state of the EU.

And even the colouring books.  I saw one the other day I was going to buy- it had OT vader on the cover.  It had the 80's double line going around the edge.  I figure'd it had to be OT.  Then I flipped through it and only saw pictures of 10 year old Annie, Jar Jar, and Sebulba.

What the H-E-double-hell??

Got this for my boy. It contains the following:

• CGI Yoda
• SE Han running into Stormtroopers
• SE Millenium Falcon take off
• AOTC Anakin
• ROTS Anakin
• ROTS Vader

And it's only like 13 pages long!!

Who are you, Sarah Palin?

Not every great person was a founding-  uh- 

...

Oh sorry. Misunderstood the title.

theprequelsrule said:

Was not the whole modern ROTJ backlash started by that Kevin Smith guy?

?????

Not that I doubt that the narcissistic hater would have done so, but how?

xhonzi said:

CP3S said:

I don't think my young mind would have spent any time considering that sort of thing, anymore than I spent time wondering what must have been inside Bugs Bunny to make him work.

 Now that you mention it, what does make Bugs work?

A wife and kids to support.

I always thought of R2 as kind of a really clever puppy... like the Littlest Hobo, or Lassie.

I know dogs have genders, but they don't really matter when you're stuck in a well.

captainsolo said:

see you auntie said:

American Hominid said:

Jesus. They didn't miss a beat.

They never do. Especially at around $10 a pop. Freaking ridiculous. You have to pay $10 for a over-detailed tiny action figure that isn't even of a character you would want to play with.

PRUNEFACE!

I sure want that Mon Cal pilot to play with, and as a kid I played with my Pruneface figure all the time.

darth_ender said:

TheBoost said:

I want to see this dude added to the fight.

And this LADY re-dubbed with a lady voice (as "BigBadGMan" pointed out).

That would make the rebel pilots as a whole much more interesting.

 Hey!  I thought I said it first!  I demand royalties and rights when you mention redubbing the woman's voice!  

<whining> but the thread's so loooooooooooooooong!  </whining>

TV's Frink said:

 

TheBoost said:

I don't get the hate.

Sure it 'sucks' on the level that it's an uninspired pop ditty sung by someone with no great talent. What I don't get is how it's somehow worse than the 10,000 other songs over the years that fit that description?

The hate has nothing to do with this song and everything to do with Friday.

 

Fair enough, but even "Friday" isn't that much more banal and/or uninspired than this tune.

I want to see this dude added to the fight.

And this LADY re-dubbed with a lady voice (as "BigBadGMan" pointed out).

That would make the rebel pilots as a whole much more interesting.

I don't get the hate.

Sure it 'sucks' on the level that it's an uninspired pop ditty sung by someone with no great talent. What I don't get is how it's somehow worse than the 10,000 other songs over the years that fit that description?

Is the hate somehow that this girl dares to break away from the system of how pop musicians are supposed to make it to the limelight? Because Ms. Black's rise to pseudo-popularity doesn't involve nepotism, extreme luck, corporate backing, and age-inappropriate sex-appeal, is she really worthy of all this hate. Why are people mad that her path to success isn't based on talent, when most pop-musicians's aren't.

And how many pop songs are based on the someone cloying wish-fulfilment premise "I'm not gonna give up, I'm special!" At least 80%. The fact that this girl actually isn't that talented and now has this celebrity is exactly the appeal.

SO COOL!

I hope that somebody inserts these scenes into the movies, in whatever quality possible, just because they look so cool (even the wampa!)

danny_boy said:

 

@boost

All we can do is speculate until we see for ourselves:

 

a: I want that in my house.

b: You're right about speculation.

c: I really meant grammatically if something is already 'flawless' it has no flaws. It cannot become 'more flawless .' Sorry, it's the high school teacher in me. ;-)

DuracellEnergizer said:

 If I listen to any of her songs even once, it would be like shooting a malignant tumour full of steroids.

Small point of order, but certain steroids, notably Prednisone, are useful in cancer treatment for their ability to shrink tumors.

danny_boy said:

 

A blu ray forum poster linked up to this:

... ...  There were some Special Edition shots included and they seemed to match even more flawlessly than before in high definition. ...

http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/30405

 

 

Maybe it's just my SE hate talking, but isn't that impossible?

timdiggerm said:

Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven (1960), A Bug's Life (1998)

I haven't seen the original, but it's considered a classic. I've seen the other two, and they're both excellent, though obviously A Bug's Life is a bit different in tone.

"Bugs Life" seems more of a riff on "The Three Amigos," which is itself plainly poking a bit of fun at "Magnificent Seven." 

xhonzi said:

doubleKO said:

 While I can't compete with the picture (very nice, BTW) I can agree with the sentiment.

Scattergories RULES!

Dude! Why even bother when "Princess of Mars" was adapted not that long ago?

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don't think I've ever read a single book he's ever penned.

I'm sure you have. The man wrote 81,002 books. You can't avoid him.

Hell, he wrote 17 autobiographies, half of the Talmud, and most of the Encyclopedia.

And here he is chilling during the war with Heinlein and L. Sprague DeCamp. I have this pic framed by my writing station.

RedFive said:

Yojimbo (1961), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Last Man Standing (1996)

So "Last Man Standing" is a remake of "Yojimbo," which had an uncredited remake in "Fistful" and is itself an uncredited adaption of the novel "Red Harvest" which has to be unique in all novels as having three adaptations, none of them official.

I hope someday "Red Harvest" gets made and everyone says "This movie is a rip of of 'Last Man Standing!'"

EDIT

Even kookier, but I haven't seen it, supposedly Yojimbo was also remade as The Warrior and the Sorceress with David Carradine.

RedFive said:

Threemake:  When a movie has been remade a third time.

Gojira (1954), Godzilla (1998), Godzilla (2014)

The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), I Am Legend (2007)

Yojimbo (1961), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Last Man Standing (1996)

King Kong (1933), King Kong (1976), King Kong (2005)

I rather like "Last Man Standing."

Don't forget "The Maltese Falcon" (with Bogart) is the third remake of that particular novel.

I'd hesitate to call the US "Godzilla" a remake. I'd just call it 'another big monster movie that bought the rights to a recognizable title.'

Cant they just as easily make a movie out of Garindian from "Star Wars"?

He does just as much as Boba, and doesn't die on screen.