philraid

I listened to the ones for the original trilogy a few years ago. They were well produced, it was nice to have the John Williams music and the same sound effects. I thought the one for Star Wars was better than the other two. The audio dramas for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi felt rushed, especially the one for Return of the Jedi since it was only six episodes. The first one added a lot of scenes that had more character development, so that was interesting. If you want more of Biggs or Luke on Tatooine you definitely get that. The part where Leia gets tortured and sees Alderaan explode are even more intense than in the actual movie.

The different voice actors took a bit of time to get used to. Especially Vader since James Earl Jones is one of those voices that is irreplaceable, although Brock Peters (Tom Robinson from To Kill a Mockingbird) did a good job. Perry King as Han Solo felt a lot sleazier than Harrison Ford’s portrayal, which set him apart. He kind of reminded me of Dennis Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And then for some reason they had John Lithgow as Yoda and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. I was glad they at least had Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams, but it just didn’t feel the same having so many of the parts recast, although most of them did a good job. And then the one for Return of the Jedi didn’t even have Mark Hamill in it, which was disappointing.

One thing that’s interesting for EU fans is that Mara Jade appears in the one for Return of the Jedi, disguised as a dancer at Jabba’s palace named Arica.

I probably won’t listen to the Empire and Jedi ones again, but I might listen to the first one again sometime. It kind of reminded me of listening to some of those Doctor Who Big Finish audio dramas. I would say listen to them if you’re a huge fan of the Original Trilogy and want more of the story.

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They better call it Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. Otherwise what’s the point?

Aquaman- bluray
Conan the Barbarian/Conan the Destroyer- bluray
Conan the Barbarian (2011)- DVD
Galaxy Quest- DVD
Game of Thrones Season 5- DVD
Gladiator- bluray
King Kong 60th anniversary- VHS
Mel Brooks collection- bluray
Planet of the Apes collection- DVD
Recording The Producers- DVD

I found it on Internet Archive again. If you go there, you might find it. It doesn’t have the subtitles, though.

Connor MacLeod said:

I think George is out of his mind and the quote from American Cinematographer illustrates how self centered he is and how much he is blinded to reality. He expected the theatrical cuts to fade away. But then relented and released the theatrical cuts on DVD with the GOUT. Therefore the theatrical cuts are NEVER going to disappear because releasing the GOUT was an act that brought the theatrical cuts into digital format to live forever on the net and to be used as a source for fan edits to cut with the special editions, at least until 4K77 came along. My point is that George really thought “no one” would ever see the theatrical cuts again and it would “fade away” but at the same time, he is the reason why they won’t fade away! He’s nuts. And contradicts himself. The theatrical cuts will NEVER be forgotten both because he refuses to release it in HD AND because he released the GOUT which paved the way for Harmy, which in turn paved the way for 4K77. I really think George lost his marbles back in 97.

I agree with you on most of that, but I’d argue George lost his marbles before 1997. Howard the Duck, anyone?

But yeah, I’m glad Harmy and 4K77 exist. I don’t understand why George is so stubborn about it. I get that sometimes a project doesn’t go your way and you look back on it and see all the problems (I know that I cringe sometimes when I watch some of my old videos), but that doesn’t mean you should just try to delete it from existence and redo it. Especially when it’s something as groundbreaking as Star Wars. You’d think he’d be more appreciative that people loved them so much in spite of what he sees as their perceived “flaws.”

There’s tons of Star Wars ripoffs that have blu-ray releases like Starcrash and Battle Beyond the Stars. Hell, even Turkish Star Wars got a limited release blu-ray. They’re fun to watch and laugh at. And yet, no “Han shot first” in HD. Maybe they’ll finally put it out on its 50th anniversary? Fingers crossed.

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He just recently finished the rest of it off. Don’t know when he’ll do Dark Force Rising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPg4aKdbCPQ

JadedSkywalker said:

Can someone explain why everyone thinks Mace is this badass lightsaber duelist?

Because he’s Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson and he has a purple lightsaber.

The first two episodes were… fine. I wasn’t expecting anything amazing and I didn’t get anything amazing. The production values were fine. The lighting could have been better, parts of it were hard to see. At the least I thought it was better than what I watched of The Acolyte (unless it just plummets downhill in the third episode like that show did.)

I was shocked that there was a reference to the Star Wars Holiday Special. That was weird.

They did cast Nick Frost as a pirate droid. That was kind of fun. Steve Urkel was in it as well for some reason. Those expecting Jude Law don’t really get to see him until the end of the second episode.

If you want a kid’s show about space pirates, then you’ll get that here. Don’t know what I think of the story or characters. All I can say is that I’m indifferent so far.

Rebel Moon is like if you took Battle Beyond the Stars and Dune, put them in a blender, and then made it pretentious and boring.

As for Denis Villeneuve’s (huge fan of his movies by the way) comments, I can sort of see where he’s coming from, even though I love that movie (in fact, it’s my second favorite of the series and I’m even wearing a Return of the Jedi shirt as I type this, lol). It did fall back on formula a bit (another Death Star for example). I don’t mind the Ewoks, but he said he was 15 when he saw the movie and at that age I didn’t really care for them. I mainly love the movie because I love Jabba the Hutt, The Emperor, and the stuff with Luke and Vader. And it’s optimistic, which is nice. It ends on a good note.

Anyway, maybe he’d have liked Return of the Jedi more if David Lynch had directed it.

“The power of one! The power of two! The power of many!”
That scene and episode was so bad, it made me give up on The Acolyte. I haven’t watched any of the episodes that came after that one.

Replaced on the schedule by Ice Age 6. Wow.

While we’re at it, I’m announcing my own Star Wars movie. Why not? It has just as much a chance of being made as these.

For the remakes of the original trilogy they would be directed by Zack Snyder and feel like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9X_FmCbrIA

All of the characters would be played by George Lucas, except Mark Hamill is Darth Vader and Ewan McGregor plays Ben Kenobi.

All the characters are CGI, including the humans. In fact, the entire movie is CGI. Even George Lucas is CGI.

It would use the original drafts with none of the rewrites. This needs to be George’s unembellished vision before people started reining him in. Well, except for whatever Zack Snyder offers to the table.

The prequels would be three hour experimental films just like the movies George Lucas wanted to make before Star Wars became successful. All completely visual, no actors or dialogue. Basically make them a Star Wars version of Stan Brakhage movies or Koyaanisqatsi.

And then the remake of the sequel trilogy is basically just shot for shot remakes of the other movies, like Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake. Maybe have Vince Vaughn appear in them as Darth Vader, why not?

For anybody out there who didn’t realize this was a joke, please do not actually do this, I beg you.

But it’s from the same writer as Fant4stic and Dark Phoenix. It should be great, right?

Jamilion said:

Should we all start calling it Citizen Kane: Mystery of the Snowglobe?

Or Citizen Kane: Who or What is Rosebud?

Guess it says a lot about how excited people are about this upcoming movie that it’s now turned into a thread discussing Rogue One.

I’ll admit, I wasn’t a huge fan of Rogue One when I originally saw it, but it grew on me after I watched Andor. I won’t go into too much detail on my thoughts, but I think it’s good, not great.

Channel72 said:

The best duels are ones where the duelists have some major personal history and backstory that led to the duel happening in the first place. That’s why the duels in ESB and ROTJ are always the best. In ESB, you have Luke fighting the man who killed his father (or so he believes), and in ROTJ you have a son fighting his own father.

Also helps that those two duels had really good lighting and cinematography (especially Empire), something which I’ll admit is a bit lacking in the prequel duels.

Hal 9000 said:

philraid said:

somebody HAS MADE a 40 or 50 minute version of Rogue One that’s basically just a series finale for Andor.

NFBisms did already, and it’s pretty heckin’ good.

Nice. Maybe I’ll watch it when season 2 comes out.

When the show’s done somebody will probably make a 40 or 50 minute version of Rogue One that’s basically just a series finale for Andor.

It’ll probably just end up having the same fate as the Batgirl movie.

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