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#1075164
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Question about the 2006 "GOUT" DVDs
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crissrudd4554 said:

doubleofive said:

Those are both illegitimate. IIRC, the “Limited Edition” was never sold in a set, and not in skinny packs.

Yes they were, in 2008. I saw them in fye and Best Buy countless times before they were pulled before the BD release. There was a prequel set and an original set, the latter containing repackaged versions of the 2006 DVD sets. That aside the 2006 sets was also available in a tin case at Best Buy when they first came out (I know cause I have it).

I was not aware of this. I ignored the entire thing, honestly. It is funny that a “Limited Edition” release was repackaged a couple times.

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#1075152
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Jetrell Fo said:

I’m glad that you see it so simply and fairly because that is exactly what it is not.

He thanked the man for not investigating him while firing him for investigating something he was convinced was worth jailing Hillary over. And his opinion changed in the last week about his usefulness. If Trump is going to fire everyone who is incompetent, he’s got a lot of work to do.

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#1075009
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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I never thought about replacing the Lambda with the cargo ship from R1. Thinking about it, the problems would be the full size sets. We see Han going up the ramp and the cockpit which would take impossible amounts of work to make match R1. Since we never see the interior of the Sentinel and it looks like a stretched out Lambda, with a couple of wide shot model replacements it would fit right in.

As for ship classes being seen in R1 and never seen again, I would argue that each one of those is a specific class that wouldn’t be needed in any other movie. Save for a cargo shuttle of course, but it seems like RotJ was just saving money by using the same model/set for Vader’s shuttle, the Emperor’s shuttle, and the cargo shuttle. I wonder if the Sentinel was introduced in ANH SE for an eventual replacement of Tydirium in a future SE but the idea was abandoned. Who knows?

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#1074203
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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They know the audience wants the originals. I think the fact that when Fox released one movie from each of their first 75 years in a box set had a movie with 2004 CG in their 1977 spot is appalling. The distributors should care, the owners should care, the creators should care, historians should care. We need to convince them to preserve the original for history, not just for our childhoods.

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#1074152
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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stealthboy said:

Possessed said:

Not just the accomplishments themselves though. The actual workers and labourers who physically made it happen don’t deserve to have their hard work erased.

Indeed. Some people even have Academy Awards on their mantles that are utterly meaningless now.

doubleofive said:

Star Wars:

Won Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Won Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Won Academy Award for Best Film Editing*
Won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects*
Won Academy Award for Best Original Score
Won Academy Award for Best Sound*
Won Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Alec Guinness)
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (George Lucas)*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Director (George Lucas)*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture*

The Empire Strikes Back:

Won Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score,
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration

Return of the Jedi:

Won Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing*
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Sound*

*Not available in this release.

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#1072678
Topic
Rogue One * <em>Spoilers</em> * Thread
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Lord Haseo said:

flametitan said:

Lord Haseo said:

A five year old could follow the plot of Rogue One. I know they don’t like the film but damn…

I’ll admit my first couple times through I didn’t understand why they had to blow a hole in the shield gate when Bodhi could get a signal to the Rebel Fleet no problem, but there is an explanation. If you have it on Blu-Ray, you can take the time to rewatch a given scene to get a better idea of what’s going on for your commentary.

(The data files are too big to get through the shield, or something, but the smaller communications from Bodhi wasn’t big enough to be blocked. I don’t like that explanation, but it exists.)

Admittedly I was projecting so I apologize if my comment upset you in any way. As it pertains to the chain of events during the Battle of Scariff I found the whole thing with the shield to be unnecessary. The pacing of the battle would have been so much smoother had Jyn and Cassian taken the floppy disk we see in STAR WARS to Leia. The best way to do this of course is to have them travel to Coruscant which would kill two Mynocks with one blaster shot. I don’t even want to know the explanation for why Leia was at that battle.

They had to BEAM the transmissions to her ship to line up with ANH.