It's an interesting short scene, but like many deleted scenes it's easy to see why it was cut.
The opening (following the Death Star II scenes) with R2 and Threepio walking to Jabba's palace is good enough on its own.
In addition, this particular cut scene was more or less done at the end of TESB when the group is escaping Cloud City and about to hyperdrive away.
It's unlikely to get a theatrical release, but it ought to given the man's iconic works of art for the cinema.
A definite DVD/Blu purchase though.
Sluggo said:
DVD's were still pretty new in '98. And for a fully interactive CD-ROM, the quality was pretty decent.
Yeah, it wasn't too bad really; it was very interesting at the time. I don't remember what I did with mine.
Mike O said:
More to the point, all of the fans who've cried that they'll never buy anything again are going to be suckered in by the deleted footage and such.
Most of these deleted scenes were on the 1998 Behind the Magic CD-ROM, although in poor quality given the day.
Mike O said:
There we go folks. It's coming. And sans the OOT. Lucas says that that's just not what he wants, and his word is judge, jury, and god. It's over. It's done. They're gone. We've lost. R.I.P. Star Wars.
Like your sig, I have no interest in giving any more to the LFL empire without the quid pro quo of being able to buy the OOT.
The lowly "bonus feature" status given to the 2006 non-anamorphic Laserdisc DVD transfers was the last straw; this Blu-ray set... I have no words.
Did Han shoot first, or Greedo?
skyjedi2005 said:
After the announcement of no originals on the blu rays i felt like seeing an encore of that infamous hot waffles song.
I haven't watched that before, so thanks. I half expected some SE fans to tackle them on the sidewalk.
Ripplin said:
Who's Vadar? ;)
He's a new character in the SW universe to be inserted into the original movies in the next box set :)
Rebel1one1 said:
This picture says it all.
Isn't Lucas holding Vadar's OOT blooper lightsaber in that pic? :p
generalfrevious said:
why live?
"Because dying is a pain in the ass."
^^ That billion-dollar smirk on GL's face...
You're right, Nerfherder -- it's time to move on. As a 36-year-old, I've enjoyed watching the OOT dozens of times and I'll just remember those times and movies as they were.
Nerfherder said:
Like CO, I've finally had enough of this nonsense too. Lucas has flipped the bird at the original films - the ones that MADE his Empire! - one too many times.
P.S. If anybody from Lucasfilm - or indeed anyone that knows the bearded one - happens to visit this site, it would be awsome if somebody had the balls to say to Lucas, "This (release) is wrong. These films were created via a LOT of talented people. Many of whom have had their work erased from the trilogy.
Yes, it was the originals and the original fans who made his LFL empire, and he just continues to give the big middle figure to both.
And since 1997, it's been a sore spot that the talented artists who worked their asses off to make the visual effects of the OOT get remembered and disrespected by having that work replaced with inferior CG effects and additional useless scenes.
Going back to the James Cameron discussion a few pages back... I agree with him to a point, although just "dropping scenes in" can still change the overall movie to an extent. This happened with his Aliens SE; although on that occasion (on DVD at least) there was the branching option and the original (IMO, better) version was available to the viewer.
Also with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Director's Edition included a couple of new scenes which didn't really add anything to the already perfect movie (unfortunately, no branching option on that particular DVD).
But Lucas seems to be entirely driven by generating more and more profits for LFL at the expense of the original fans. The earlier reference to his embarrassment of the OOT is nothing more than a smokescreen for milking more dollars from SW. He's just a business man, not an artist.
I'm with you, CO. Although it doesn't matter to GL that old-timer fans really dislike/hate what's happened to the OOT over the years. The next generation is eating the new Star Wars stuff up in droves.
This Blu-ray news is the worst yet, though. GL is so full of shit about the state of the original movies, the negatives, blah blah blah... Lucasfilm could easily release the OOT is HD with little effort, but they simply refuse to.
Unless GL dies and someone (not Rick McCallum) steps in to take over with a clear head and actually listens to the long-time fans, nothing will change.
Nothing but extreme disappointment about this. Long live the HD bootlegs.
BmB said:
Actually I think the only real pace-breaker is the actual landing sequence. Everything from that rather nice matte of Vader going up to the shuttle to it flying off into space before the breathtaking "space dawn" shot looks nice without really breaking anything. And seems to add needed pause to a scene that otherwise feels a bit rushed.
There was never any need for a "pause" in this sequence. The quick cuts and short bits of dialogue were perfect.
Jetrell Fo said:
Fang Zei said:
The fact is that in 2006, in a world where we now had high-definition video discs (hddvd and blu-ray), George Lucas literally gave us 1993 quality transfers of the star wars trilogy and acted like he was doing us a favor.
A favor, it was not. An outright slap in the face for fans of what started it all, it was. On this, most all of us agree.
:(
Yes, this is exactly how I feel - then (2006) and now. Betrayed by Lucasfilm after years of devotion and buying SW products. The "bonus discs" were just a big middle finger to long-time fans.
skyjedi2005 said:
The entire special edition was pointless. The restoration was necessary, but the changes and bad added cartoon cgi added nothing and actually take away from the experience. Things i'm for are reducing or removing the garbage mattes or blue screen bleed or fringing.
Exactly my feeling. I don't mind minor clean-ups (as were done on the Raiders of the Lost Ark restoration), but wholesale destruction of scenes is completely wrong.
I loved Vadar's "Bring my shuttle" line for years... since I was a boy in the early 1980s, and it was never confusing. It was one of the best moments in TESB; and swapping it out for that p*ss-poor line and then inserting a totally useless scene, ruining the pacing of the escape sequence (and the brilliant music score that goes along with it) just proves how clueless Lucas and his sycophant Yes-men are.
