Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Monolithium]

I was being sarcastic, Offender. Very, very, sarcastic.

[Monolithium]

Originally Posted by Illy Scorsese

^^^^End of discussion.

I will NEVER, ****ING NEVER buy this version of the films, with this "NOOOOOO" bullshit...

And I'm not even a huge Star Wars fan... Casual fan at best.

This is a joke... How could you possibly be stupid enough to change the perfectness of that moment???? Unbelievable...

I WILL NEVER BUY a version of these films that contains this change... NEVER.

My thoughts exactly. I guess it's the GOUT forever.

[Barbossa]

I don't have the time to check back through this thread to see if this has been linked to already, but here's George Lucas heavily criticising altering films and art ......... back in 1988:

http://www.slashfilm.com/george-luca...ng-films-1988/

Going by that, the Lucas of 1988 would label the Lucas of today a 'barbarian'.

[sevb36]

Again he was talking about people who alter other people's films, not their own

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by Merlinpants

There has been a lot of mention about the 'standby......standby' being lost in the audio mix at the end of ANH when the Death Star is about to fire at Yavin. Seriously, this never, ever made sense to me, even as a kid watching it. I vividly remember asking my dad why they hadn't warmed up the death star laser in the 20 minutes it took to fly around the moon to get a clear shot. Why are they standing by I asked? What have they been doing for 20 minutes? Didn't they think they might have to fire and since they had 'analysed their attack and there is a threat' need to hit them first and fast?

If a kid of 6 (showing my age) asked that as I did, I'm glad it has gone.

Some changes amend flaws from the original that never made sense. Others take away what once was perfect.

So, as I have gone to bed, come back and another 100 pages have occured, did anyone agree? Some changes work?

[Aquel]

Originally Posted by Merlinpants

So, as I have gone to bed, come back and another 100 pages have occured, did anyone agree? Some changes work?

I would like to know the same, seriously 80 pages since the last time I checked. Though skimming through the last 10 pages I still think it is about "Noooo!". Oh well will see if these are truly legit and what we can expect on the Blu's when they arrive.

[marlon dingle]

Originally Posted by sevb36

Again he was talking about people who alter other people's films, not their own

+1

I agree but it still pretty arrogant of him to make that rousing speech where he says;

"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians"

I don't feel strongly on this, but it's a bit like shooting yourself in the foot, making that massive speech in front of Congress, help set up NFR and now totally angering thousands of fans by distorting your own films.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by madmonk39

Sept 16th.It will be a day long remembered.It has seen an end to the hopes of fans everywhere,it will soon see the end of fandom.

Not, for me. Speak for yourself.

Originally Posted by madmonk39

"It's as if a million voices cried out and then were suddenly...silenced.

Except for the loud "Yipee" after finished the best Saga of all time in glorious HD and lossless audio!!!

Originally Posted by RodChester

That's what I'm most mad about as well. After what Lucasfilm has said I thought all the poor looking saber shots from the OT were going to be fixed. From what I have seen it looks like this is not the case. It's so disheartening to see so many of what are basically unnecessary changes being made while other fairly obvious errors do not appear to have been fixed.

This, I cannot understand either. I never ever noticed anything off about the Ewoks, but I think everyone noticed the lighsaber synching issues, especially in ANH, and particularly Luke on the Falcon.

They should have gone all the way, and I really hope they have actually fixed it.

Originally Posted by Duffy12

From chubigans over at neogaf regarding the recording of Vader's new lines-

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They actually got James Earl Jones to record the lines, by accident.

*phone rings*
"Hello Mr.Jones, we'd like for you to come in and record a few more dialogue samples for Darth Vader for the new Star Wars Blu-Rays."
"Nooooo."
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
"I SAID NOOOO! STOP CALLING ME!"
*hangs up*

...

"He hung up...did it record ok Ben?"
"Hah, I got it!"



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Originally Posted by kingkong650

Not for me, Vader´s ´Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!´ at the end of ROTJ is laughable and just too much to swallow. I expect it will be for many others as well. This is IMHO the worst change of all in this latest incarnation of the OT. I think George may have gone too far this time.

Just cancelled my amazon order.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by nmycon

was it "The Making of Star Wars"?

The only extra cassette I know of was in the Widescreen SE Collectors Set, and it was The Making of Star Wars (repack) that had been aroiund since the mid-80's

The '97 SE Collector's set did have a separate VHS tape with the 30-minute "Making of the Special Edition" feature. In the lower-priced VHS sets, it was broken into three parts over the three tapes.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

Yeah, one that you made up. I've never previously heard anyone say anything about this being a standard and widely recognized sign of respect. Has anyone else here heard of this previously?

Never.

[Michael Harper]

Who knows, maybe Lucas removed the "Noooooooooo" from Revenge of the Sith to counteract the "Nooooooooooo" in Return of the Jedi

[Breather]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

best buy and wal-mart didn't have them.

target is too far away to check there.

and i wasn't willing to go through pawn america's stock.

so i've been scouring ebay and amazon.

If you've got a Toys R Us nearby, check them out. Two months ago I was out looking for a gift for my nephew, and both of my local TRU's had multiples of the blue set from 2008. It contains the 2004 SE and UOT version. Our two local stores always have a lot of out-of-print DVD's for some reason. Of course, that may not hold true for all of them. It's this one:

http://www.starwars.com/movies/saga/20080826news.html

Edit-Just checked the set on Amazon. The private sellers with new sets have jacked it up to $106.95 and up.

I'm glad I bought them at Best Buy in the tin 5 years ago.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by octagon

That's a tough call.

The No at the end of Sith was certainly sillier and more cartoonish and it completely gutted what could have been a really powerful scene.

This No guts a scene that was already great.

I'm not sure which is worse...preventing greatness or defacing it.

It wouldn't shock me if he went back to ROTS and put in the new "Nooooo" from Jedi. Adding it to Jedi was unbelievably stupid, but that same "Nooooo" could only improve the unintentional hilarity of the ROTS scene.

[deado]

Originally Posted by Michael Harper

Who knows, maybe Lucas removed the "Noooooooooo" from Revenge of the Sith to counteract the "Nooooooooooo" in Return of the Jedi

HA...... keep dreaming

I'd be surprised if ROTS or AOTC have ANY changes at all - since they are made directly from the 1080p digital source - probably exactly the same as what we have seen previously.

I do hope I'm wrong though. But don't be surprised if there are zero changes to those two. Wonder if there's any more in TPM we don't know about yet...

[Kryptonic]

Originally Posted by SolidChamp

The apologists are the worst of the lot, IMO.

Why? I don't consider myself one. I like the changes and support the artists right to alter their piece of work if they see fit. There's nothing to "apologize" for on my behalf. But I'd just like to point out it's silly to get all riled up over a single two-letter word uttered twice in a film. Seriously. It's one word. None of these changes alter character motivations or perspectives and most are purely visual upgrades.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

Why? I don't consider myself one. I like the changes and support the artists right to alter their piece of work if they see fit. There's nothing to "apologize" for on my behalf. But I'd just like to point out it's silly to get all riled up over a single two-letter word uttered twice in a film. Seriously. It's one word. None of these changes alter character motivations or perspectives and most are purely visual upgrades.

That's fair enough but might there be some critical mass at which fans are no longer being silly but rather are expressing a legitimate complaint? If a sufficient number of fans were to say 'no, this change is kind of important and damages something we value' would they still necessarily be silly or might they by that point be presenting a reasonable viewpoint?

[moviestar]

those who have the GOUT DVD, you can do a somewhat lossless x264 encode of it and then add anamorphic widescreen AR. that would be better than watching it in letterbox format.

DVD
http://www.imagebam.com/image/4424c249081616
http://www.imagebam.com/image/421ce549464042

Encode
http://www.imagebam.com/image/d5a2e049081625
http://www.imagebam.com/image/c01a2849464030

(someone else made that encode, size is about 1GB and it looks almost identical to the DVD)

[Merlinpants]

I think everyone here is missing the point. The films are supposed to rhyme, you know, it is like a poem.

Therefore, episodes 4,5 and 6 need to be as crap as episodes 1,2 and 3.

Gotta love him, its getting there!

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by nmycon

I have been trying to get ahold of the Star Wars Laserdiscs for years. I don't buy online, so I'm limited to Craigslist, Kijiji and whatnot...

For some reason, people seem to think they can get $50+ for the set of three movies It's pretty ridiculous.

I've replied to some of these ads and sentimental value is always given as a reason for the high price, then why put it up for sale? Like, really...

I wouldn't want to pay more than $6-7 per disc, let alone $50 for the three. I'd be willing to shell out around $30-40 for the Definitive Set, but people want about $100 for that. Although lately i've seen the price begin to drop below $60.

As I said, I wouldn't look now. I'd give it a good 6 months. Prices are probably going to skyrocket.

[sardaukar1977]

pre-order cancelled......