Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Original & Prequel Trilogy - Sept 16, 2011 - Review

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

In which order are you guys watchign it? Prequels first or OT?

Gotta start with the beginning of the story as well as the best film. The Phantom Menace! So I'm watching them in order.

[HandyDandy]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Of course he won't but that will still not prevent people from crying that something is wrong with the Jurasick Park set when it's going to come out ...

too much DNR....
too much tin....
too much green...
screen cap sucks....
I hate the box....
I hate the covert art....
that scene was not like that when I saw it in 1993 when I was 6 years old....

Of course there will be complaining.. But i don't recall if there is any kind of UOT WARS going on with those movies like over here.

[HDPlasma]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Yes that review was highly professional.

Reviews don't have to be professional. They just need to agree with your expectations of what the PQ and changes of the movie should be.

[miniroll32]

Personally, I'd watch the Originals before the Prequels. The difference in quality between the two saga's would be a little off-putting if I did it Episode 1 > 6

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by HandyDandy

Of course there will be complaining.. But i don't recall if there is any kind of UOT WARS going on with those movies like over here.

No since there was never any changes done on them the way it was on Star Wars...then again I could be wrong? I am really no fan of the Jurassick Park series so I don't know what as been release or not,

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by koreyman

Yet, you have to admit, alot of the negative comments are really nothing more than people just wanting to be unhappy for the sake of being unhappy.

Nope, I don't have to admit that at all. That's an assertion put forward to simply make the position you're opposing seem invalid. It's a debating tactic, not a fact.

Please don't assume that I'm defending anyone calling other people "sheep" or "suckers" or whatever else. I'm not. So this is not one of those "you're either with us or agin' us" moments. But I am pointing out that "a lot of the negative comments" have come from those who are content with the release, and so have turned their own complaints against other posters rather than a Blu-ray release -- which is a more undesirable and less defensible position, frankly.

For myself, my own thoughts on this release are that Lucas can do what he wants, quite obviously, but the people he wants to have buy the product can also respond to what he does, positively or otherwise. Especially since the advertising is all focused on the buyer's experience, recapturing memories and owning the definitive version for all time - which is at odds with Lucas' perpetual tinkering, and with strident claims that they're his films and no-one else has any right to a say in the matter. But Lucas has always been one for giving out decidedly mixed messages, so I guess it's in his nature.

As I said a score or more pages back, I personally wish GL would accept that these films will never be completely perfect in his eyes, and let them be for the amazing achievement they are, and move on to other things, expressing his creativity in new movies rather than visual fiddles.

He once talked about Star Wars being nine movies, so where are the other three? We've had the Empire Trilogy, and the Rebellion Trilogy ... so where's the Restoration Trilogy?

[Deromax]

Originally Posted by phansson

I have a 2.35 setup.

So do I. The screen is 2.35 but the projector is still 16:9 native.

[Mavrick]

One thing that bugs me most in TPM is that we clearly see the Jedi super speed at the begining of the movie, yet Obi Wan doesn't use it at the end to get through the red sheilds as they open and close He could have saved Qui Gon's life dammit!

[BluLobsta]

I can't wait to see how the Originals came out. I remember the summer that Ep IV came out I must've seen it 20 times at the drive-in. I love the music and scene where Luke is thinking and staring at the binary sunset on Tatooine. Memories, memories. Yes, I'm pretty old and fairly crotchety

[JTStarkiller]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

One thing that bugs me most in TPM is that we clearly see the Jedi super speed at the begining of the movie, yet Obi Wan doesn't use it at the end to get through the red sheilds as they open and close He could have saved Qui Gon's life dammit!

That's been brought up before. "Why doesn't Obi-Wan run as fast as he can all the time?" Well why don't YOU run as fast as you can all the time? It's called fatigue.

[HandyDandy]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

One thing that bugs me most in TPM is that we clearly see the Jedi super speed at the begining of the movie, yet Obi Wan doesn't use it at the end to get through the red sheilds as they open and close He could have saved Qui Gon's life dammit!

He will probably do that in the 3d version.

[svenge]

Originally Posted by HandyDandy

He will probably do that in the 3d version.

Actually, he'll just hop onto R2-D2 and use its (his?) rocket boosters to swoop in and save Qui-Gon...

[Shaft Windu]

Here is a pic of the scene I meant... Does anybody know if the braid is still on the wrong side in this scene?

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by JTStarkiller

That's been brought up before. "Why doesn't Obi-Wan run as fast as he can all the time?" Well why don't YOU run as fast as you can all the time? It's called fatigue.

But... Obi Wan is practicly a Master Jedi in the prime shape of his life

Originally Posted by HandyDandy

He will probably do that in the 3d version.

Hell, maybe he will even go as far as have Obi an killed instead of Qui Gon... amn, I better not put ideas into his head!

[Roonan]

Originally Posted by JTStarkiller

It's called fatigue.

Touché.

Originally Posted by Mavrick

But... Obi Wan is practicly a Master Jedi in the prime shape of his life

So? Is that (even if true) supposed to mean he can't get tired?

[philzilla]

Originally Posted by JTStarkiller

That's been brought up before. "Why doesn't Obi-Wan run as fast as he can all the time?" Well why don't YOU run as fast as you can all the time? It's called fatigue.

He needs to work on his cardio then

[JTStarkiller]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

But... Obi Wan is practicly a Master Jedi in the prime shape of his life

That's true, you're right. That means he never gets tired. I forgot.

[John Bierly]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

In which order are you guys watchign it? Prequels first or OT?

OT. But the first scene I'll watch is from Return of the Jedi, from the moment Luke is pushed out on the plank above the Sarlacc. It always gives me chills when he jumps and flips and the music punches, punches, punches up, and he looks at his lightsaber with an expression that says, "Hey, it DIDN'T just blow up in my face."

That's the first scene I watched when I got the DVDs, and it'll be the same for Blu.

Then I'll watch the entire OT. I probably won't watch the prequels again other than to check out the picture quality in a few random spots -- I saw most of them on Spike recently, and that was enough for a long time. I'm in it for the OT and the deleted scenes.

(And for what it's worth, put me in the camp that does believe Lucas will eventually release the original originals at some point, and maybe even sooner than later.)

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by JTStarkiller

That's true, you're right. That means he never gets tired. I forgot.

Yoda is like 900 years old and can do shit loads of acrobatics and Obi Wan can jump up a few levles and swing a lightsabre about for a few minutes and he's done o.O

Maybe the lightsabres are real heavy, like broadswords...

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Deromax

So do I. The screen is 2.35 but the projector is still 16:9 native.

Yes but if the anamorphic option was there you could have 1080p lines of information because the black lines would not be hard coded into the movie. So we would get a much better picture.