The review is extremely junevile and unprofessional. Calls the book by John Phillip Peecher a whitewash but spells his name Peeler.
Is it way too early or is Kathy Kennedy looking for directors for the other two episodes? Personally i would like a different one for each like the oot.
The prequels were way too uninteresting in my opinion because Lucas directed them all, wrote them all and there was a single director of photography. and the same editor on all 3.
Well Snyder consciously decided not to watch any of the original filmic material and went back to the original comics according to what he has said.
I think what he said is basically bullshit but he wanted to distance himself from Christopher Reeve obviously as the man of steel.
The moving of star wars from its summer release to December to accommodate the second Avengers movie has been expected for a while, does not mean it any less of a betrayal to the fans who expected star wars in May.
But now JJ gets the delay he wanted. Just like he delayed the last 2 star trek films.
Also there was no way Disney would have star wars and Age of Ultron open within weeks of each other because they consider that bad for business.
Would have been interesting to see a Whedon VS JJ match of who is the better director and which film makes more money.
Some channel showed the BD version which i don't own and it was so orange that is was horrible.
Glad i don't own it.
My first thought was why is Han Solo in Ender's Game,lol.
Seems Harrison Ford is in everything these days, Anchorman II, Expendables III etc.
I get what Abrams is trying to say but i think its more correct to say star wars was otherworldly but familiar.
The tatooine stuff could have easily have come out of any old Hollywood Western.
Like a Howard Hawks film, or John Ford.
He did a project based on the fullscreen vhs tapes of the special edition i am almost 100% sure of it.
As he also did the faces tapes in fullscreen. Which were never commerically released on DVD that way.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/
On Russ's site click on special edition and look at the right hand of the page for the mention of dark jedi full screen special edition.
Click on the link it exists.
The real unfortunate thing is it mentions the capture method he used for the laserdisc widescreen release. Not how the fullscreen VHS tapes were captured.
If fullscreen laserdiscs exist for either the 1995 faces transfers, or the 1997 special edition they must be bootlegs because i believe all commercially released versions were letterbox.
Never understood why the UK only got the VHS set and not the laserdisc masters that france and germany got.
Dark Jedi did a preservation but that was like the better part of a decade ago. Not with the newest tech not even sure they were ivtc'ed.
It was obvious Lucas wanted to take the prequels in a different direction but the references to the originals were very badly done.
Its obvious that even with special edition 3.0 in 2011 the continuity does not match between the trilogies.
I do hope that sensibilities and design are the same as the OOT with the updates in film technology.
Ignore the prequels i hope so.
How often are these lost lines and alternate takes in the novelization?
A lot of the time as far as the oot films. But how many were actually filmed? well the Rinzler stuff and the blu ray makes it appear a good many of them were filmed.
I am hoping it is not a space revenge movie like the last 2 star trek's with a cgi millennium falcon that is all shiny and lens flares.
Maybe make the Falcon cockpit also look like the apple store.
Wish there was more Ralph McQuarrie design in III. or even the first two films.
I hope the next ones get that same look as Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston etc gave to the originals. Not the least bit interested in a shiny lens flares kind of look.
Not that the prequels could have had the right look, lived in look, less cgi more like the originals and still sucked because it had terrible direction, bad actor for the lead and a horrible script.
What i liked the Tantive IV in episode III. Kenobi's lightsaber a throwback to Star Wars 77, and Luke's in ROTJ. Anakin's being sort of like lukes lightsaber in star wars 77. The costume design was not bad but wish it was more John Mollo. I hope the new films borrow from Nilo's designs from VI but that is my opinion.
To me Cumberbatch's Khan was more comic book than a throwback to literary figures as Khan was in star trek II. the New Khan is decidedly not Ahab, or Lucifer from paradise lost.
You don't see him being this really intelligent guy where are all his books and he does not quote from classical literature.
He is more like an evil Superman who cannot fly.
I am not the least bit interested in seeing him in Bond or in star wars. Especially as a albino sith in star wars VII, VIII, or IX.
I know the movie is horrible but would you consider doing Supergirl the movie?
I do however think making changes to another directors film like return of the Jedi when the man who made it is dead is another thing.
Richard Marquand is dead and every thing since the 1997 version of Jedi is an abomination to me as a fan.
Kershner is dead now as well but when alive he was okay with the changes made to empire so as much as i hate them there not as bad to me as changing the stuff on JEDI.
As for star wars again Lucas directed it i like the 77 version the best, but it was his movie and if the oot was released on blu ray all the years of fan hatred would probably be made moot or subside.
poita said:
The best analogy I read was someone's tag here, the SE is like having someone run a long scratch down the side of your car with a key. It doesn't affect the performance of even the look of your car all that much, it would equate to less than 1% of the paintwork being changed, but every time you looked at your car it would piss you off, and you couldn't help feeling annoyed and wondering why someone would do that to you.
No disrespect to you the the person's sig and i am against the changes Lucas made but it is a poor analogy. Star Wars was Lucas creation if anything he was keying his own car not ours.
Now its Disney's car.
Am i incorrect in thinking Kevin McClory owned titles like Spectre, the blofeld name as well as all the material related to thunderball's story?
Now that he is dead could they conceivably use them or would they have to pay his estate?
Doubt they ever revisit Blofeld though not after Austin Powers. Its too silly to even think about.
Telly Savalas was great in OHMSS but Donald Pleasance was horrible in YOLT.
The whole quantum thing was dropped and unresolved because people thought Quantum of Solace was a turkey.
Has the complete soundtrack for film 1 been released yet or is that also a future item to wait for?
Anchorhead said:
Personally, I'm much happier with the writer of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back handling this over the writer of Toy Story III.
Star Wars has been a children's cartoon for decades. Let the adults have a few hours for a change.
Kasdan also wrote Return of the Jedi .
What really worried me is that Simon Kinsberg guy who wrote X3. How involved is he?
Love this film wonder if it will ever get a BD release in Japan.
The only anamorphic version i have heard of was i think from madman in Australia now out of print, plus it was in PAL format.
The US remastered version is laughingly non anamorphic but so is the Japanese DVD.
A fully uncut version with both soundtracks the Japanese and US one and the dub is highly unlikely to ever happen on BD. But a BD with just the japan soundtrack and no subs is something i would willingly pay 90 bucks for.
Marioxb version was great for its time being Standard Def and non restored. I still have the DVD.
There is a fan site that has a good deal of them but i don't know about printing options.
Sadly the site i mention does not have the Williamson Color Sundays. The sundays are all black and white just like the Russ Cochran collection i own.
Here is the website i mentioned.
http://dailysw.blogspot.com/2012/01/star-wars-daily-strips-bonus-content.html
The Han Solo at stars end original black and white artwork has never been reproduced, the color sundays or dailies are only original if you can find the pages the dark horse version was recolored.
The most interesting thing to me is a different director was used on each original trilogy film, and a different director of photography or cinematographer whichever you prefer.
Each film is kind of different visually.
All three prequels were directed by Lucas. All three shot by Tatterstall.
All three pretty ho hum and boring other than some nice cinematography in Phantom Menace which was still a terrible film.
To me the biggest divergence is that the new star wars are solely made for money by Disney studio and not the singular vision of one man.
The three new films are not Lucasfilms even if Disney can now slap that label on them because they purchased the trademark to it.
Lucas directed 4 out of the six original movies.
He is not writing or directing anything on these new movies nor will he have any say in their editing or be behind the B camera on set like on Jedi.
This is not the sequel trilogy Lucas would have given us in 2005 had he decided to continue on, nor is it any of the other attempts at having it made.