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TV's Frink said:

There's no point in worrying abut a release date.  The answer is and ever shall be "it will be done when it is done."  That is, until it is done, at which point the answer will be "now."

When will then be now?

^ Hell yes!

My 2 cents on the latest duel clip is that it would help to see Anakin catch Dooku's falling lightsaber. As it stands, that moment is cut so fast that it's not entirely clear what's happening.

I also think Dooku entering similar to how Bob Garcia did it would work much better than the flip.

I thought everything else was great. Looking forward to your next preview clip.

No Yoda, yay! :)

Aside from some trimmed dialogue and removing Anakin's jump, I'm not exactly sure what else you did to that clip, but it sure seems to play through a lot better.

As for Dooku's death:

MrInsaneA said:

Unless you have Anakin just stare at Dooku after he catches the saber....have them lock eyes....and THEN Anakin cuts Dooku's head off. That would have Anakin being un-manipulated, but still show that he made the wrong decision. 

I would like to see this suggestion tried as well. I think seeing the lightsabres at Dooku's throat would visually clarify the scene.

^ That was hilarious.

"Hey boys, it's Porkins! I survived--"

:-)

Being born in '77, ROTJ is the only installment of the OT that I remember seeing in theatres. Prior to seeing it, I remember buying a package of ROTJ cookies that were shaped like the characters, and being excited about seeing who the "pig guys" were going to be. My parents had also bought me a Bib Fortuna figure, and I thought he looked really neat (I liked that his cape was made of cloth, unlike the plastic capes that my Vader and Obi-Wan figures had).

When I saw the movie itself, I thought it was fantastic. I remember thinking how cool it was to finally see Jabba after hearing about him in the previous two films. I also liked the Sarlaac pit and speeder bike sequences (for years afterward, any time I played with my SW figures outside, I'd dig a hole in the sand and  throw my guys into the Sarlaac). And, of course, I thought the Royal Guards looked pretty awesome.

The coolest thing for me as a kid, though, was the "drama" of the whole thing. The conversation between Luke and Leia at the Ewok village, Han finally dropping his guard and saying "I'm sorry" to Leia, Ben telling Luke the truth about Vader, Vader and Luke's conversation before being taken to the Emperor-- it all felt very epic to me, like the story and the characters were really culminating in something big and emotionally satisfying, and that is what, to this day, keeps me digging this movie.

Anti-Matter [an*tee*mat*ter]

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TheBoost said:

And what do they call a French Press? 

A Royale with cheese?

georgec said:

This is pretty solid.

I refuse to see any new Star Wars film in which Han is wearing an ascot.

Nice visuals and sound effects.  I liked hearing that same "computing noise" as R2 accesses the computer terminal :)

Bingowings said:

...with two micro penises... maybe.

ALLOL

SilverWook said:

How about this fellow for Grievous? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw

I thought the line @ 1:56 ("Hello Cutie Pie.  One of us is in deep trouble") would be good for Greivous to say after Obi-Wan and Anakin are captured and brought to the bridge.

The "Chill out, dickwad" @ 2:08 would also be funny during Greivous' conversation with Palpatine's hologram.

But... if it's Vork you want, then it's Vork we'll get.

I had to take a screen capture and toggle between them to really appreciate the difference.  Looks like everything to the left of the image is entirely different--clearer, more detail in the shadows, and all-around better colour.

Twister111's gifs are starting to scare me.

Oooo... ESB:R goodness!  Thanks for sharing Ady... the colouring looks terrific.

Akwat Kbrana said:

To kick off the discussion, since I've provided a positive review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey elsewhere, I thought I'd mention a few things here that I didn't like about the film. (Spoilers ahead.)

 

1. The portrayal of the dwarves. This is one of the things that consistently annoyed me in Jackson's LOTR trilogy. Tolkien's dwarves are not particularly crude, vulgar or gluttonous, and there is no reason to portray them as such. Jackson's dwarves come across, much of the time, as a bunch of dumb jocks that like to drink a lot, scratch themselves inappropriately, burp and fart, and generally behave in a riotous frat-boy manner. Tolkien's dwarves were much more elegant, refined, and cultured. In my own fanedits of the LOTR trilogy, I cut down significantly on Gimli's dumbness. Eventually, I plan to apply the same treatment to The Hobbit trilogy.

I found this reaction interesting. Textually, of course, you're correct: Dwarves are not depicted as being as jocular in either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings as they are in Jackson's adaptations. Personally, however, it never occurred to me that they'd act otherwise. I must have had the same preconceptions about this race as Jackson, because I always found their gruff, uncivilized antics to be totally in keeping with my personal expectations of what a dwarf would be like.

Two things worth thinking about, however, are:

1) why object to Jackson's depiction of Dwarves but not Elves? In both TH and LOTR novels, Elves are depicted as being a very whimsical, light-hearted people, but in the films they're portrayed as serious and somber. If one is to find fault with one race's portrayal, why not the other?

2) as an in-universe explanation, one could argue that, unlike Elves and Men who were created by Illúvatar (i.e., "God"), Dwarves were made by Aulë, one of the Valar (i.e., a "lesser power"). Aulë was concerned with rock and metals (essentially the substances of Middle-earth). As such, Dwarves might be expected to be a little more a "salt of the earth"-type race than their Elven counterparts.

georgec said:

I think Abrams did a good job on the first one, and the alternate universe thing allows him to leave every preexisting thing in the myths intact. But his works seem less like ST movies and more like action movies set in the ST universe. And I don't mean that in a negative way.

That's exactly what Abrams did--and I do mean that in a negative way. He wants to make a sci-fi action movie? Fine. I just don't get why he'd brand it as Star Trek. He's taken a TV and movie series that was about thought-provoking stories with moments of action and created action stories with... Well, who are we kidding, with no thought-provoking content at all.

It'd be like making a movie of All In The Family, but instead of having a character-driven film that centers around challenging Archie's world views, fill it up with car chases, explosions, killer robots sent back from the future to kill Edith before she can give birth to Gloria and start the Resistance... oh, and have Archie walk onto the bridge of a naval destroyer and have him instantly promoted to the rank of Captain.

I'd have nothing against a movie like that, mind you. I just don't think it should be called All In The Family.

Brooks said:

30 years later and Lando is STILL wearing a cape!

Some things just never go out of style.

I became an OT purist in 2004, following the purchase of the OT trilogy on DVD.  Being a massive Star Wars fan, I bought into all the hype at the time and got the 2004 SEs along with the masses. After getting home and watching all three films through, however, something dawned on me... this was it. This was THE version of Star Wars I was being given to watch by Lucasfilm instead of the original films I grew up with and loved.

It was then that I started looking around the internet for others who felt like I did.  I stumbled across this site, joined, and signed the petition.  I then came across my first Laserdisc preservation (Dr. G's set) and realized that this place was totally for me.

As 005 said, I always thought of the shields on Hoth as being "above the ground," intended to stop orbital bombardment, with nothing making contact at ground level.  This is why the walkers land farther away and simply approach by ground.  Unlike the spherical Gugan shields, which protect from all sides, the OT's shields seem to have the capability of being isolated to face a single direction (as seen when the rebel pilots switch their defelctors on "double front" during the Death Star attack in ANH).

Awesome :)

William Shatner may or may not be the best actor that ever lived.

Winston Zeddemore said:

That's a big Dr. Pepper