Ehm, not having seen the Magnoliafan Edit (I'm going to buy it next month, thanks Rikter) so I have a couple of questions.
- Is the quality still the same as the "original" - How do you "edit" these movies. FX and GFX wise ? - Do you incorporate your own ideas or do you change other people's ideas in the edit aswell.
Just interested. Coz I had never heard of people "re-doing" a movie.
Oh, and since the titles of EP1 and 2 are also altered, I'd change the 4/5/6 ones too.
I waas never much bothered by the PT ... I kind of like the movies. I mean there is some good stuff in there(Can I get a Hoorray for Darth Maul) but ... just like the Ewoks in the OT ... The gungans should have lost this war and be annihilated to the last long tongued water breathing freak.
Or make them less funny and dumb ... they survived for a long time underwater ... so why not make them sneaky :barf:
Anyway. Jar Jar and the Luuuuv scenes sucked bigtime.
PS: Made me feel just like the scene from the Matrix where Neo "makes sweet sweet love" to Trinity :r
PPS: Mind you ... sex is good ... but not for these movies
HotRod ... dude ... damn ... what the hell were you on ... and where can I buy it
Anyway ... it sounds good ... but ... why would Lucas bother with saying that the OT doesn't exist anymore ... And from the looks of it, he's not lying.
So why would he go through all the GL Bashing over the SE and New SE coming to DVD ... just to release it anyway.
On the other hand ... if he DOES release all the versions of the Trilogy ... he can finally get all the nagging (j/k) OT Fans of his back. And say: "Here ... watch it and love it but stop nagging or I'll change even more, like take out the Leia Gold Bikini Scene"
Once again ... I do hope he does release the OT. It'll look nice alongside the Bootleg DVDs I bought
04. The ewoks are now mostly CG and there are a lot more of them. Why ? It was bad enough as it was ... rocks defeating lasers ...
07. In the battle of Endor there are thousands of Ewoks and they are more vicious than there midgets-in-suits counterparts. More bite the dust now.
More die ... well thats ok then
Some of these changes are ok I might add. Like the voice of Boba Fett for all the stormtroopers ... interesting idea.
Btw, if this list is false ... why would anyone come up with this. Maybe Luca$ found it and is now thinking: "Those are some good ideas for the 30th anniversary editions"
Nice post, and nice rants. I even agree with most of them.
Problem is, people who sent you the (funny) hatemail, are the black and white doormats (as you so nicely described some people) that will hang onto the poor movies. It's just like popular bands. You make one very good song, perhaps even a second and a third(the OT ) and when the fans are hooked they could probably make a fart song with the same tune and it would, according to the fans, be awesome.
And perhaps its just they hang on to the SW church so much, saying that the PT sucks would feel like blasphemy. I must say I feel a bit like this. Ofcourse it's also a matter of taste. I mean, I really enjoy watching B flicks. While alot of people can't stand the bad acting, the poor costumes and the shabby decors. I also think there are two types of fans the so-called true fans and the movie-fans.
For starters, if you don't know the OT (shame on you) the PT are fairly nice movies for the movie-fans. There's action, romance, intrigue and comic relief. If you DO know the OT, the true-fans don't want the romance and really don't want the Jar Jar Binks crap.
I must say I'm in the middle here, I like quite some scenes in the movies, but as stated above ... for all I care Jar Jar Binks was crushed by that tank in the beginning of the movie. Or if he was to be in the rest of the movie, ritually sacrificed by the Emperor for being an annoying pain in the @ss.
For instance, you have to agree with me that the Yoda fighting scene rocked. And the Clone Army Factory was impressive. But the romance and picknick scenes we're ... not ... Star Warry ... if you get my point.
And I'll also be standing in line to see it ... because ... maybe ... it'll be good afterall.