Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Yeah, this can't be underestimated. I don't think Lucas really brought the writing or performances home in Sith, but he did a much better job directing and that is a big reason why a lot of people put that movie above the other two prequels.

Well, actually Spielberg helped out quite a bit on Sith from a directorial standpoint. Lucas did him a solid on Jurassic Park when Spielberg stepped out towards the end to go direct his real passion: Schindler's List.

[motorheadache95]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Hell, if they'd just made Anakin a bit older to start with and so were able to use the same actor across the entire trilogy then there would've been no need to place such a huge gap between I and II, and personally there would be so much more resonance for the boy who became a monster (even if they told the story much as it is now, timelines aside). But Jake is so far apart from Hayden that they might as well be two different characters, and yes: I do realise that we change dramatically when growing up, but not being able to actually see that transition happen across the films hurts TPM quite a bit in the grand scheme of things IMO.

Yeah, Anakin should have been the same actor in all three films (like Luke) and less of a time-gap between I and II. You know, 'cause poetry and rhyming and stuff But that's a big reason I think "machete order" is so ingenious-- it puts the focus properly on the actual backstory that doesn't need Ep. I. At this point, I consider The Phantom Menace to be a standalone "kiddie" Star Wars movie. I'm retro-actively dubbing it the first of those "Anthology" movies coming out.

While I'm saying "should've, would've, could've" on the prequels, I think characters like Bail Organa and Owen Lars should have had bigger roles in the story starting in Episode I. I know I would have cared more about what Organa was doing in III if his character had been built up more previously-- his role in AotC was pointless, and I don't think I even realized who he was until Sith.

[Geoff D]

Yep, it's felt like an 'anthology' sidequel to me for a while now.

[happydood]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

Well, actually Spielberg helped out quite a bit on Sith from a directorial standpoint. Lucas did him a solid on Jurassic Park when Spielberg stepped out towards the end to go direct his real passion: Schindler's List.

Spielberg came up with a couple of short sequence ideas for the fight at the end- If you're implying this one is better because of Spielberg's involvement. Spielberg also gave feedback on the cross-cutting of the three stories at the end of Phantom Menace, so I don't think you can necessarily claim his involvement is make or break.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by happydood

Spielberg came up with a couple of short sequence ideas for the fight at the end- If you're implying this one is better because of Spielberg's involvement. Spielberg also gave feedback on the cross-cutting of the three stories at the end of Phantom Menace, so I don't think you can necessarily claim his involvement is make or break.

The end of The Phantom Menace is great though.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

The end of The Phantom Menace is great though.

Well, the duel is pretty awesome. No, make that totally awesome.

The ground battle and space battles? I dunno, not so much. Even taking Yipee! and the antics of General Binks off the table those sequences are both pretty iffy.

[Arawn]

the cross-cutting of the three stories

Technically there are four.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by octagon

Well, the duel is pretty awesome. No, make that totally awesome.

The ground battle and space battles? I dunno, not so much. Even taking Yipee! and the antics of General Binks off the table those sequences are both pretty iffy.

Oh I kind of forgot about the ground battle, yeah that's terrible. The space, palace and jedi stuff is all great though.

[octagon]

Oh, I forgot about the palace. Yeah, that is pretty good too.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Arawn

Technically there are four.

Correct. I think Lucas did it like that just so he could one-up the three cross-cut strands in Jedi's third act.

[SethRex]

The worst mistake I made, Star Wars wise, was trading in the Limited Edition Star Wars trilogy DVDs I had when I got the Blu-Rays. Thinking about it now, I wish I hadn't. I wish I still had ALL 6 dvds of the saga. But alas, what can I do?

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by SethRex

The worst mistake I made, Star Wars wise, was trading in the Limited Edition Star Wars trilogy DVDs I had when I got the Blu-Rays. Thinking about it now, I wish I hadn't. I wish I still had ALL 6 dvds of the saga. But alas, what can I do?

Why, oh why?

I keep it all. VHS, DVD, etc.

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by SethRex

The worst mistake I made, Star Wars wise, was trading in the Limited Edition Star Wars trilogy DVDs I had when I got the Blu-Rays. Thinking about it now, I wish I hadn't. I wish I still had ALL 6 dvds of the saga. But alas, what can I do?

yeahhhhhhhhh, I didn't make that mistake thankfully

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by SethRex

The worst mistake I made, Star Wars wise, was trading in the Limited Edition Star Wars trilogy DVDs I had when I got the Blu-Rays. Thinking about it now, I wish I hadn't. I wish I still had ALL 6 dvds of the saga. But alas, what can I do?

Get the Harmy de-specialized 720p editions of the original trilogy. They look and sound much better than the muddy Laserdisc transfers on the DVD's.

[Havok83]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Why, oh why?

I keep it all. VHS, DVD, etc.

probably bc he didnt feel a need to keep two copies of the same movie, especially with a new, better looking one out? I got rid of most of my DVDs as films were released on BR as well

[svenge]

Originally Posted by Havok83

probably bc he didnt feel a need to keep two copies of the same movie, especially with a new, better looking one out? I got rid of most of my DVDs as films were released on BR as well

Normally that's an OK idea, but the 1997 and 2004 DVD releases had already set a pattern of progressive degeneration of the films by Lucas' tinkering.

The handwriting should've been on the wall for owners of previous releases of the unmolested OT that the 2011 BD would fare no better, and that selling them would be an exceedingly bad idea.

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by SethRex

The worst mistake I made, Star Wars wise, was trading in the Limited Edition Star Wars trilogy DVDs I had when I got the Blu-Rays. Thinking about it now, I wish I hadn't. I wish I still had ALL 6 dvds of the saga. But alas, what can I do?

I regret throwing away my DVDs too. I had no idea Fox would omit a ton of extras that were included on the DVDs.

[Kaiju]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Correct. I think Lucas did it like that just so he could one-up the three cross-cut strands in Jedi's third act.

It's stylistically designed to be that way.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by tigertron

I regret throwing away my DVDs too. I had no idea Fox would omit a ton of extras that were included on the DVDs.

Nothing to do with Fox, it's all Lucasfilm and they've always been dicks when it comes to carrying over special features. I kept my DVDs as a matter of course.

[Blu-21]

Originally Posted by Oubadah

I've just completed the three prequels in this set. I think I've seen them twice before, once in the cinema and once on TV. I have to say that I'm a little disappointed in the quality of the films on BD. It seems to me that some of the effects in the films aren't really fit for resolutions above 1280x720. Aside from generally showing up the dated CGI, I noticed some weird pixelation in parts, like at the beginning of the final duel where a bridge moves over the lava. I also saw a lot of what I believe to be green screen spill over.

TPM and AOTC look pretty flat on BD. TPM has a great new master but is ruined to death with DNR, and AOTC because it is the victim of primitive digital cameras.

*first post in 2016 in this famous thread.*