Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by Beast

Funny. I seem to remember a "Episode IV: A New Hope" title to it way back in the very early 80's.

Hilarious! I seem to remember those three movies totally functioning as the all-encompassing "Star Wars" for at least a couple of decades.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by goldenrod

and in the first draft of Star Wars, Vader died. So I don't buy the story that everything was already written and he just couldn't do episode 1-2-3 because of whatever technological reasons

He had a big ol' notebook full of notes and key story points detailing all the things he kind of wished he could incorporate. Of course, he had no reason to think he was going to get to make a 2nd film, let alone a 3rd or 4th, because he had no idea if the 1st one would be a box office hit. Had the first film tanked at the B.O., obviously that would have been the first and last SW film.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

Hilarious! I seem to remember those three movies totally functioning as the all-encompassing "Star Wars" for at least a couple of decades.

1983-1999 is at least a couple decades? In what world?

[goldenrod]

on a different note, anyone knows why the opening crawl of The Empire Strikes Back is wider that the image size? I mean, in I-IV the text takes only the size of the image and you can read every word as the line appears, but for TESB, you have to wait for the crawl to move up before reading a full line.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

As someone born in 1984, I can safetly say the "Star Wars Trilogy" was considered, by yours truly, to be the holy grail of movies and had been around, in that form, for what I (at the time of the first prequel) considered to be an eternity.

There will never be a Star Wars Saga (1-6) for that young boy.

[sevb36]

Originally Posted by MCT

AOTC is a giant XBOX cutscene with real humans spliced into the foreground.....and it leaves me cold every time I see it....but the last 20-30 minutes are inexplicably fun to me. It's all utterly pointless, right on down to the Yoda fight, but it entertains me. Defies logic to me.

Even at the Lars homestead? Meadows of Naboo? Even with all the physical models built? As seen in the making of books and the docus.

[sevb36]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

I don't know if GL set out to make a trilogy that "fit more with today's crowd", though I guess I wouldn't rule it out, either. The bottom line is, I like all of Star Wars, all six episodes of it. Some are stronger than others, but to me it's all a big, sprawling and terrific space saga.

Maybe the reason that younger viewers usually enjoy the PT more is that maybe they'd never had an old trilogy to put up on a pedestal. I got as big a kick out of TPM, AOTC and ROTS as an adult as I did of the OT when I was a kid. It was just as exciting, exhilarating, captivating, and mind-blowing. It wouldn't occur to me to go up to GL (if I could) and say, "George, you made a mistake with the PT, you should make the movies I want to see, not the movies you wanted to make".

In the end, it was thanks to the OT that GL had the financial independence to make the PT, wasn't it? So if we, as fans of the OT, enabled him to make the movies he wanted to make, why should we complain about it? We more or less gave him the money to make them, either through box-office receipts or merchandising. So more power to him for staying true to his personal vision, imho.

Well said, matches me almost exactly, I love all films, there are things about each of the films that I like over all the others.

[LordCrumb]

Can anyone tell me, is there much difference between the 1997 Special Editions, and the Special Editions released on DVD in 2004? (aside from Hayden in ROTJ).

[Bluyoda]

I don't mean to interrupt all this pointless bickering, but can someone provide me with links to Blu-ray screenshots of the Saga.

Thanks in advance.

Especially VFX settings of the PT, or planet views of the OT.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

Can anyone tell me, is there much difference between the 1997 Special Editions, and the Special Editions released on DVD in 2004? (aside from Hayden in ROTJ).

Here you go http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/a...-part-one.html

Thats part one follow the links for the next 2 films

[TruBlu06]

Originally Posted by sevb36

Well said, matches me almost exactly, I love all films, there are things about each of the films that I like over all the others.

Yes, I like all the movies individually. Sure, there are things that could have been improved, but for God's sake don't mention it to George Lucas.

[Stinky-Dinkins]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

I don't mean to interrupt all this pointless bickering, but can someone provide me with links to Blu-ray screenshots of the Saga.

Thanks in advance.

Especially VFX settings of the PT, or planet views of the OT.

Hahaha, what bickering?

Anyway, there are lots of OT screens here.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Stinky-Dinkins

Hahaha, what bickering?

Anyway, there are lots of OT screens here.

"Yippiee!!"

That's all I have to say about that.

[crazyBLUE]

I haven't seen any ~ At least that isn't normal for this thread

[frogmort]

Isn't this the guy from one of the Super-Man movies?

[brianh78]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Isn't this the guy from one of the Super-Man movies?

yes general zod from superman 1 & 2 and every other bad guy practically

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Isn't this the guy from one of the Super-Man movies?

Terrance Stamp

[millwork400]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

Who is saying Panasonic 35 is a garbage he is totally wrong and disagree with him,Anyway let's back to topic maybe is not an issue with the discs if they are working on other players,i do think an issue with the firmware maybe a new version will be online very soon.My Panasonic player is working wonderful with every disc i throw in except for its slow at disc start up,wish i have my complete saga maybe will answer you very soon i promise .Anyway last BD watched on it was Fast Five and what can i say about AQ just exceptional hard to beat.A demo disk all the way.

The Panny 35 is garbage. Horribly slow load times. Bought one in October 2009 and 3 months later the blu laser went out. Nice paper weight.

[jtwise]

Jar Jar Binks looks so much different then the other Gungan on the blu-ray, or am I seeing things? Also the intro scene on the federation ship, seems shrunken down in time?

[Shaft Windu]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

Yes, it was. For like 30 years.

You're living in the past! It's always good to let go and invite change. Keep an open mind!