Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[bullets]

Originally Posted by svenge

I don't know if anyone's done this yet, but I compiled a list of all the bonus features of the all 13 of the Star Wars DVDs (2 discs per movie + the 2004 bonus features disc). That way people can compare and contrast what the 9-BD set has versus what the previous DVDs had. Obviously spoilered due to massive length...

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The Phantom Menace DVD

DISC 1 - 2001 Extended DVD Version (2:16:04)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
English Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448 kbps, English Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audo Commentary w/ George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires
THX Optimizer

DISC 2: Bonus Features

"The Beginning" - Making Episode I (66 min)

Deleted Scenes Documentary (7 min)

Deleted Scenes (available w/ and w/o intros)
- Complete Podrace Grid Sequence (6:59)
- Extended Podrace Lap 2 (3:54)
- The Waterfall Sequence (1:50)
- The Air Taxi Sequence (1:08)
- Dawn Before the Race (1:10)
- Anakin's Scuffle with Greedo (0:56)
- Farewell to Jira (1:04)

Featurettes
- Visual Effects (9 min)
- Costumes (8 min)
- Design (7 min)
- Fights (8 min)
- Story (8 min)

Web Documentaries
- All I Need is an Idea: George Lucas Begins the Arduous Task of Writing (4 min)
- Thousands of Things: Discussing the Design Challenges of the Film (4 min)
- Home Sweet Home: Anakin's Hovel Comes to Life (4 min)
- Boys in Paradise (The Property Department Gets Down to Business (4 min)
- This is a Creature Film: Crafting the Movie's Aliens (4 min)
- Prime of the Jedi: Evolving the Jedi Fighting Style (4 min)
- Assistant Directors: A Day in the Life of an A.D. (5 min)
- 3000 Anakins: Searching for the "Chosen One" (5 min)
- It's Like War Now: Production Maneuvers in the Tunisian Desert (7 min)
- Costume Drama: Creating Fasion for a Galaxy (4 min)
- Bad Droid Karma: The Trouble with Artoo (6 min)
- Movie Music: John Williams Strikes a Chord (5 min)

Animatics and Still Galleries
- Introduction to Animatics (2 min)
- Pod Race Lap 1 Animatics (4 angles: Storyboards; Animatics / Live Action Tests; Finished Footage; Split-Screen of all 3] (2 min)
- Submarine Sequence Animatics (Same 4 angles, 1 min)
- Production Photos
- Print Campaign
- Posters
- "Star Wars Starfighter": The Making of a Game (4 min)

Trailers and TV Spots
- Teaser
- Theatrical Trailer
- "Duel of the Fates" Music Video
- 7 TV Spots

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Attack of the Clones DVD

DISC 1 - 2002 DVD Edition (2:22:20)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
English Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448 kbps, Spanish Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow
THX Optimizer

DISC 2: Bonus Features

Documentaries
- From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in Episode II (52 min)
- State of the Art: The Previsualization of Episode II (23 min)

Featurettes
- Story (9 min)
- Love (10 min)
- Action (8 min)

Web Documentaries
- Here We Go Again: Digital Cinema Revolution Begins (6 min)
- Wedgie 'Em Out: Designing the Jedi Starfighter (5 min)
- We Didn't Go to the Desert to Get a Suntan: Location Shooting Around the World (6 min)
- Trying To Do My Thing: Hayden Christensen is Anakin Skywalker (4 min)
- A Twinkle Beyond Pluto: Extras Fill Out The Star Wars Galaxy (6 min)
- It's All Magic: Visual Effects Wizardry Starts on the Set (5 min)
- Revvin' It To The Next Level: Sounds From a Galaxy Far, Far Away (5 min)
- A Jigsaw Puzzle: Building Model Communities (5 min)
- Bucket Head: Introducing the Fett Family (5 min)
- Good to G.O.: The Jedi Knights in Action (5 min)
- P-19: The Wardrobe of Padme Amidala (5 min)
- Reel 6: Creating the Action in the Geonosis Arena (6 min)

Deleted Scenes (available w/ and w/o intros)
- Padme Addresses the Senate (1:58)
- Jedi Temple Analysis Room (1:08)
- Obi-Wan & Mace: Jedi Landing Platform (1:55)
- Extended Arrival on Naboo (1:55)
- Padme's Parents' House (2:23)
- Padme's Bedroom (1:23)
- Dooku Interrogates Padme (1:06)
- Anakin and Padme on Trial (0:43)

Dex's Kitchen and Still Galleries
- Films are Not Released, They Escape: Creating an Universe of Sounds for Episode II (26 min)
- Episode II Visual Effects Breakdown Montage (4 min)
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (6 min excerpt of full 20 min mockumentary)
- Production Photos
- One-Sheet Posters
- International Outdoor Campaign
- Star Wars College Campus Want Ads (Easter Egg)

Trailers and TV Spots
- Teaser 1: "Breathing"
- Teaser 2: "Mystery"
- Teaser 3: "Forbidden Love"
- Theatrical Trailer
- "Across the Stars" Music Video
- 12 TV Spots

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Revenge of the Sith DVD

DISC 1 - 2005 DVD Editon (2:19:58)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448kbps, English Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, Spanish Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, and Roger Guyett
THX Optimizer

DISC 2: Bonus Features

Documentary and Featurettes
- Within a Minute: The Making of Episode III (78 min)
- It's All For Real: The Stunts of Episode III (11 min)
- The Chosen One (15 min)

Web Documentaries
- Two Worlds, One Movie (5 min)
- One World, Two Movies (6 min)
- We Still Do a Little Bit (5 min)
- Creating General Grievous (6 min)
- This Weapon is Your Life (6 min)
- Video Village (6 min)
- Epic Designs For an Expanding Universe (6 min)
- C-3P0: His Moment to Shine (7 min)
- Pick-ups and Re-shoots (6 min)
- Becoming Obi-Wan (8 min)
- The Wookies are Back! (6 min)
- B-107: The Life of an HD Tape (4 min)
- The Creatures of Episode III (7 min)
- Endlessly Compelling: The Music of Episode III (9 min)
- Becoming Sidious (7 min)

Deleted Scenes (available w/ and w/o intros)
- Grievous Slaughters a Jedi: Escape from the General [Animatic] (2:50)
- A Stirring in the Senate [Bail's Office] (1:54)
- Seeds of Rebellion [Padme's Apartment] (1:02)
- Confronting the Chancellor [Palpatine's Office] (2:09)
- A Plot to Destroy the Jedi? (1:01)
- Exiled to Dagobah (0:41)

Video Games and Still Galleries
- Production Photos
- One-Sheet Posters
- Outdoor Print Campaign
- "Star Wars Battlefront II" Trailer
- "Star Wars Battlefront II" XBOX Game Demo
- "Star Wars Empire at War" Game Trailer

Trailers and TV Spots
- Nostalgia Teaser
- Epic Trailer
- "A Hero Falls" Music Video
- 15 TV Spots

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A New Hope DVD

DISC 1 - 2004 Edition (2:04:38)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
English Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448kbps, English Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, Spanish Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt, and Dennis Murren
THX Optimizer

DISC 2 (2006 LE and 2008 boxset releases only) - Original Version w/ Re-created 1977 Opening Crawl (2:00:56)

2.35:1 Non-anamorphic letterboxed video
English, Spanish, and French Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps
Optional English subtitles
THX Optimizer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" Trailer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" XBOX Game Demo

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The Empire Strikes Back DVD

DISC 1 - 2004 Edition (2:07:15)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
English Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448kbps, English Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, Spanish Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt, and Dennis Murren
THX Optimizer

DISC 2 (2006 LE and 2008 boxset releases only) - Original Version [2:04:46)

2.35:1 Non-anamorphic letterboxed video
English, Spanish, and French Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps
Optional English subtitles
THX Optimizer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" Trailer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" XBOX Game Demo

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Return of the Jedi DVD

DISC 1 - 2004 Edition (2:14:10)

2.35:1 Anamorphic video
English Dolby 5.1 EX @ 448kbps, English Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, Spanish Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps, French Dolby 2.0 @ 192kbps
Optional English subtitles
Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Ben Burtt, and Dennis Murren
THX Optimizer

DISC 2 (2006 LE and 2008 boxset releases only) - Original Version [2:11:34)

2.35:1 Non-anamorphic letterboxed video
English, Spanish, and French Dolby 2.0 @ 192 kbps
Optional English subtitles
THX Optimizer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" Trailer
"Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy" XBOX Game Demo

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Star Wars Trilogy Bonus Material DVD (2004 boxset only)

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (150 min)

Featurettes
- The Characters of Star Wars (19 min)
- The Birth of the Lightsaber (15 min)
- The Force Is WIth Them: The Legacy of Star Wars (13 min)

Episode III Preview: The Return of Darth Vader (9 min)

Video Games and Still Galleries
- Production Photos
- One-Sheet Posters
- Episode III: Making the Game (6 min)
- "Star Wars Battlefront" - XBOX Game Trailer (1 min)
- "Star Wars Battlefront" - XBOX Game Demo

Trailers and TV Spots
- ANH (Teaser, Launch, Re-Release)
- TESB (Teaser, Launch, Re-Release)
- ROTJ (Revenge Teaser, Launch, Re-Release)
- 1997 Special Edition Trilogy Trailer
- 11 TV Spots (4 for ANH, 4 for TESB, 3 for ROTJ)

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Hopefully someone will find it useful...

Thank you for posting this

I'm gonna keep my dvds.

[Einherjar81]

WOW, what a difference a firmware update makes! I've had my player for about a year and never updated because I never had any glitches until this set came out. The glitches were small(slow load times, very small infrequent video glitches, slow menu response), but with the firmware update everything plays flawlessly.

These films look awesome on blu ray!

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

You make perfect sense. Lucas decided to take Episodes VII - IX and fit them into ROTJ. These Episodes would have dealt with Luke finding his sister and re-establishing the New Jedi Order as per George Lucas' outlines. He was going through a divorce and did not want to make anymore Star Wars films.

Glad I made sense.

I would have loved to have seen VII-IX I think about it a lot sometimes imagining how much more scope might have been given to the charecters and to the entire Star Wars universe for that matter.

Although I don't think I would like to see a sequal trilogy now, not that there's much chance it would happen.

I think that what they are doing with the Clone Wars series is great (still need to get it on Blu-ray) And I've read various places that he has the scripts written for the long rumored Live Action series. Which I think is probably the better way to go rather than any more films.

But I can't see that happening for many years still. I think once the Clone Wars has come to an end and we have seen how far the 3D re-releases go.

Depending on the success of TPM of course, I think even though now it is often regarded as the worst of the PT if not the Saga, it would still do well enough to warrant the release of AOTC. And I belive even if they didn't end up releasing all 6 theatricaly we would probably end up with a 3D BD release regardless.

Once all thats out of the way, I think he will start to focus all of his time into the live action series. At least thats what I like to think. I do like having hopes for the future

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

See, all of this trying to make sense of continuity errors throughout the different trilogies is why I will never bother trying to consider the films as 1-6. They are and always will be 4-6, then 1-3. The biggest eye rolling changes to the OT have come about because Lucas is trying to tell people that the films must be watched as one whole saga. The mistakes matter a whole lot less if you just consider the saga for what it is - two different trilogies.

[darkpoet25]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

You're using LPCM option on your launch model right?

Yes I am. It would only show 2 channel LPCM when I selected auto setup, while using the Onkyo. So I had to go back under HDMI and manually pick the audio options. When I do that with the Yamaha, it picks every audio option available. I could never figure out why the Onkyo did that, as it hadn't until recently.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Aragorn84

See, all of this trying to make sense of continuity errors throughout the different trilogies is why I will never bother trying to consider the films as 1-6. They are and always will be 4-6, then 1-3. The biggest eye rolling changes to the OT have come about because Lucas is trying to tell people that the films must be watched as one whole saga. The mistakes matter a whole lot less if you just consider the saga for what it is - two different trilogies.

I agree, prequels are usually made to fit around what has already been established, not the other way around. Unfortunately Lucas has tried to change what he already established to fit in with what he wants now. Which doesnt work brilliantly. Still love the saga though.

[nmycon]

is it just me, or are the clips from TPM on Disc 7 free from DNR?

I saw a 3 second clip of the Darth Maul fight on Tatooine (in between menus) and thought I saw grain in the sky, which wasn't present on Disc 1.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by darkpoet25

Yes I am. It would only show 2 channel LPCM when I selected auto setup, while using the Onkyo. So I had to go back under HDMI and manually pick the audio options. When I do that with the Yamaha, it picks every audio option available. I could never figure out why the Onkyo did that, as it hadn't until recently.

Thats strange I know that the launch models can't do HD audio via bitstream but it sounds like you had it set to LPCM anyway. Odd.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by nmycon

is it just me, or are the clips from TPM on Disc 7 free from DNR?

I saw a 3 second clip of the Darth Maul fight on Tatooine (in between menus) and thought I saw grain in the sky, which wasn't present on Disc 1.

They might not be taken from the BD transfer.

At least a lot of the scenes used in the features themselves arent. It's especially noticable on the OT bonus features. Almost all of the scenes used in the special features are from the DVD transfer, it still has the blue escape pod lid for example, and the weird blue glow to the right of the screen when the 1st Deathstar explodes. So it wouldn't surprise me if they were using the older transfers in the same way on the PT bonus disc.

[Chaotic]

God, Jar Jar sucks. every scene is ruined with him being a jackass

[Gojhawks]

Originally Posted by maxmercy

First Post...

But I have a problem: there are audio dropouts throughout Episodes II and IV on my BluRay player. Places where it comes to mind are in AOTC at 31:26 and 31:32, as the transport ship takes off with Anakin, Padme and R2...

I exchanged the complete saga for a new one, and it drops out at the exact same places. I run a Sony BDP and a Denon 2809CI receiver, and I upgraded firmware on the BDP with no effect.

Has anyone else experienced this?

JSS

Audio dropouts have cropped up, especially in Episode IV. I had 3 or 4 drops while watching IV, bitstreaming from a Panasonic BD-35 to a Denon 3311. There have been reports switching the BR player to output PCM solves the drops. I have not tried it yet. It is unclear if it is a player, receiver or disc problem.

[bullets]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

God, Jar Jar sucks. every scene is ruined with him being a jackass

I get a huge laugh out of Qui Gon's initial reaction. He hates him right off the bat.

[nmycon]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

They might not be taken from the BD transfer.

At least a lot of the scenes used in the features themselves arent. It's especially noticable on the OT bonus features. Almost all of the scenes used in the special features are from the DVD transfer, it still has the blue escape pod lid for example, and the weird blue glow to the right of the screen when the 1st Deathstar explodes. So it wouldn't surprise me if they were using the older transfers in the same way on the PT bonus disc.

It's definitely HD.

They're the little cutscenes that play when you select a different location.

[MovieFanatic2010]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

God, Jar Jar sucks. every scene is ruined with him being a jackass

Whatsa wrong with yousa? Whosa speaks like that?

[phin]

Watched A new Hope last night.
Looks great except for some of the added CGI which is pretty obvious, more so the stuff filmed on Tatouine as opposed to the space scenes like Death Star, fighters etc.

The CGI rocks for R2 are pretty silly, the call from Obi on is silly. The beefing up of the space port by and large I found distracting, dont like the added Jabba scene. (most of this not new to this version of course). Oh and of course the Solo not being the only shooter is just retarded the whole build up its obvious that Han is going to shoot and thats why we love Han.

All in all though it was worth the cash, I have the originals on DVD and this is a big step up.

I hope one day Criterion will get permission to release a cleaned up original OT. That would be very nice to have.

But was the trilogy worth 40 bucks, so far yes!

I did not buy prequels they kinda ruin the series for me, I like to pretend they dont exist like Indy4

[bigpapy]

Question, when I'm watching this movies I notice the black bars look red is this normal?
Ubaldo

[darkpoet25]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Thats strange I know that the launch models can't do HD audio via bitstream but it sounds like you had it set to LPCM anyway. Odd.

Yeah I did find it to be quite odd myself. I got the Onkyo from my brother when I moved into my apartment.(His wife wasn't into the whole home theater idea) I actually got a really good deal with the Yamaha, amazon.com had it new for $359, and with Prime, a $50 GC and one day shipping it only came out to a little over $313. Now to get the Complete Saga so I can hear what everyone has been bragging about on here.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

But Obi-Wan tells Anakin that they are nothing more than dreams, nightmares pass. Obi-Wan does not call them visions. Anakin is asleep and not using the Force, so is this different then?

I don't think so. During Luke's training on Dagobah, Obi-Wan tells Luke that he is entering a difficult time when he will be tempted by the Dark Side, implying it is a rite of passage. In other words, what Luke or Anakin go through is likely a common thing, only Anakin held the most important details secret, while Luke was open about it. If Anakin had told the truth and owned up about Padme, Padme would have lived to see her children and Anakin wouldn't have 3rd degree burns on his ass.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by darkpoet25

Yeah I did find it to be quite odd myself. I got the Onkyo from my brother when I moved into my apartment.(His wife wasn't into the whole home theater idea) I actually got a really good deal with the Yamaha, amazon.com had it new for $359, and with Prime, a $50 GC and one day shipping it only came out to a little over $313. Now to get the Complete Saga so I can hear what everyone has been bragging about on here.

Sweet!

The saga is awesome.

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by bullets

I get a huge laugh out of Qui Gon's initial reaction. He hates him right off the bat.

too bad Maul didnt cut off his head with his lighsabers