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Dude !

Wasn't the whole scale issue of all the different starships already beaten to death ?

See the Star Wars Technical Commentaries site, here and here.

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SilverWook said:

Or that the medal ceremony looks like something else from WWII!

It is said to come from a nazi propaganda movie: Triumph of the Will

For Star Wars Origins, see this site.

HotRod said:

Gene Roddenberry......60's dude

 

JJ Abrams......00's dude

 

The spirit of Trek is not about the dudes. *sigh*

Gene Roddenberry put a black woman on the bridge of the Enterprise, that was a bold statement, back in the sixties.

The 00'dude boldly go nowhere, has nothing to say, it's just the same old clichés of your average summer movie...

I saw J.J. Abrams Star Trek yesterday.

I don't know if Abrams is destroying Star Trek. But he's destroying Gene Roddenberry's vision for sure.

Octorox said:

I have a theory that the reason for the extreme coloring on the 04 DVDs may have been to make the films look truer to Ralph McQuarrie's original art. Take a look at some McQuarrie art, all which has the blue cast which can be seen prominently on the 04 dvds. I'm not defending the coloring, just pointing out a probable cause.

 

 

McQuarrie beautiful paintings are only blue on the internets !  Open a good book, such as The Art Of Star Wars (page 87) and you'll see that this particular painting should be grey.

Ripplin said about the SE Wampa:

I don't like it mostly because it really, really looks like a guy in a suit.

A guy in a suit that don't know how to act.

Don't ask for something from the Laserdiscs, or you will get it in Laserdisc quality...

Also to come is The Making of The Empire Strikes Back, to be released in 2010 in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of that film

This is very good news indeed !  But it will be a long wait...

It seems to be the same collection that we have in France for about a year now. Pretty good miniatures, about 9 cm long. I did get the Falcon, the X-Wing and the TIE fighter. I wish I could afford more, but at 15 euros each, I find them to be too expensive.

To see the whole collection so far, in France, follow this link.

SKot said:

Just out of curiosity: did you happen to catch "Au temps de la guerre des etoiles" when it aired 2-3 years later?

(for those wondering, it's the French Star Wars Holiday Special!)

--SKot

 

Yeah, at least part of it, on a (very) small black & white TV set !  And it was completly by chance if I remember well. I had no idea that such a thing had been made.

Dare I say that I enjoyed it ?!  It was bad but at least it was some Star Wars ! Those were the time, before the internet, there was no way to have your daily dose of Star Wars...

1977 (I was 11) at the biggest movie theater of Reims, France. It was dubbed in french (a pretty good and memorable dub), and I'm afraid in mono (just a guess, I have no memory of that !).

At that time everything was translated in french, the movie was called La guerre des étoiles, and the logo in the movie was in french as was the text crawl. The names of the characters, of the places, even the starships were translated !

Shadowheart said:

deliberately kept 3PO out of the loop

3PO is always out of the loop !  :lol:

(remember, in episode IV, he doesn't know the princess when R2 plays the hologram message, but earlier in the movie he says "there will be no escape for the princess"... I wonder if he may have some memory malfunction...)

You can see some pages of the book on the official site: http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/bts/article/f20070220/index.html?page=1

And there's a preview on the publisher site: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345494764&ref=news&name=starwars0507

Don't hesitate to buy it blindly !  It's the best book ever published on Star Wars.  (and get the hardcover version, if you like storyboards, there's a lot of them in the extra pages)

You can restrict a Google search by adding site:www.starwars.com to the search field.

HTH

Maybe it's the retailers that have asked for a boxset of the (existing) prequel DVDs ?  Retailers do like selling us tons of boxsets for Christmas !  The prequels were one of the last movie series not available in a boxset, and it just make sense to repackage the Original Trilogy to go along the Prequel Trilogy boxset...

These aren't the DVDs we're looking for... Move along...

Return of the Jedi is already a remake of Star Wars (I mean the 1977 movie, of course)

The Official Site has now a First Look on this sure-to-be-very-expensive Six-Volume Set...

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