Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Arawn]

Originally Posted by happydood

I don't know if it's worse, but yeah, definitely not a good idea. I really wish someone would de-specialize that. Or maybe some dark corner of the internet has.

When it comes to THX I'm like those people who grew up with the Star Wars SEs instead of the originals. I've never even seen the unaltered THX so I don't care.

[motorheadache95]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Star Wars threads get like 5 new pages a day on here. They're the only threads I don't bother reading every post in because there's too damn many. When you guys care THAT freaking much about a movie series is it any wonder some of you take it too personally and start battles over this or that? Doesn't surprise me at all. Reminds me of the early HighDefDigest days and their format war bullshit.

"Yes but your BD-Java profile is slow compared to HD-DVD's gingblott interface, you peasant!"

You were there for that? Oh man, I was a member there at that time (that was just about 10 years now!) during that whole format war thing. I remember there was this one guy, Lestat, who treated the whole thing like some kind of religious crusade. He would call the marketing President of Toshiba "his Lady in Red" and post all kinds of weird shit. But yeah, so much bitter arguing over a disc-format for watching movies...

But on the topic of Star Wars, yeah, virtually nothing else goes on and on, its just Star Wars. Stuff like DC movies and MCU arguments will fade away long before this does I think.

[motorheadache95]

Originally Posted by master gandhi

I consider every altered version since 1997 the "Special Editions." You could call them SE '97, SE '04 and SE '11, but those further alterations were done on top of and alongside the other alterations. The SEs are like a living creature that keeps growing. After 2011, they stopped, all because Lucas will presumably not be involved with any future home video releases of his films. So the '11 versions are now the final SEs, for better or worse.

Disney doesn't need to do seamless branching for all the various changes. That's overkill. Let's not ask too much of them. Do we have seamless branching for any other Disney properties? I can't think of any.

Phantom Menace does deserve to have its original theatrical version released too, complete with that awkward puppet Yoda. It would be hypocritical to not include the original cuts of the prequel trilogy, unless they just re-release the original trilogy, and not the prequels. That would make things slightly less complicated.

Just release the unaltered original trilogy in Full HD/4K and be done with it.

I've always thought that if anything about the films should be considered "rough drafts," it was the 1997 Special Editions. They were basically "George Lucas Revisions: Phase 1." That being said, I think they are now a legit part of the film's history and I wouldn't mind if they were included, even if I'd rarely watch them (like having the workprint version of Blade Runner). Rumor has it they were the initial versions scanned in 4K since the original negative was cut into those versions.

And yes, I would actually appreciate a theatrical cut of Episode I. I'd trade having weird awkward Yoda puppet back for the tighter editing of the film (the pod race sequence was long enough already!) and a nice new remaster without all the DNR.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by motorheadache95

I've always thought that if anything about the films should be considered "rough drafts," it was the 1997 Special Editions. They were basically "George Lucas Revisions: Phase 1." That being said, I think they are now a legit part of the film's history and I wouldn't mind if they were included, even if I'd rarely watch them (like having the workprint version of Blade Runner). Rumor has it they were the initial versions scanned in 4K since the original negative was cut into those versions.

This.

And yes, I would actually appreciate a theatrical cut of Episode I. I'd trade having weird awkward Yoda puppet back for the tighter editing of the film (the pod race sequence was long enough already!) and a nice new remaster without all the DNR.

Oh, and this too.

[crissrudd4554]

Originally Posted by WhySoBlu?

I couldn't stand Easter Bunny E.T. hippity-hopping away - it just looked ridiculous, imo. I'll take Charlie The Choo-Choo E.T. running in a straight line along a track any day.

The revised ET didn't irk me as much as the Star Wars SEs did but I'm glad to see Spielberg learned the downfalls of movie revisionism.

[Hardback247]

Could someone help me come up with a good defense for Starkiller Base as being something other than "just another Death Star"?

[Mighty Max]

Originally Posted by Hardback247

Could someone help me come up with a good defense for Starkiller Base as being something other than "just another Death Star"?

Sure, It is
1/3 Hoth
1/3 Death Star
1/3 Endor

[A Sith Lord?]

Originally Posted by Hardback247

Could someone help me come up with a good defense for Starkiller Base as being something other than "just another Death Star"?

It's a Death Star, that can shoot at multiple planets at one time.


lmao

[TM2-Megatron]

And I believe it can also fire through hyperspace, so it doesn't actually need to be in the same star system as the planets it's destroying.

It also isn't quite as huge an engineering feat, as it was built within an existing planet.

[Hardback247]

How can I tell anyone that SB was anything but a boring retread?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Mighty Max

Sure, It is
1/3 Hoth
1/3 Death Star
1/3 Endor

So it's the Hoth Death Endor Star?

[Lope de Aguirre]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINTOr0vpDg

[A Sith Lord?]

Snoke was horrible CGI.

All these times of complaining of prequel CGI and Snoke was as bad as anything from 11-15 years ago. I know he's just a hologram but man... Leia holo from ANH looks better than he did.

Tarkin in R1 looked better than Snoke.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by MasturB

Snoke was horrible CGI.

All these times of complaining of prequel CGI and Snoke was as bad as anything from 11-15 years ago. I know he's just a hologram but man... Leia holo from ANH looks better than he did.

Tarkin in R1 looked better than Snoke.

But Tarkin is a human and he didn't look like a real human to me, especially when he was talking.

Smoke isn't a human, or doesn't appear to be, so it's not as weird. But I agree that it was bad looking. Kind of reminded me of a CGI Voldemort.

[bobbyh64]

I've never seen THX-1138. If I want to watch it, should I watch the official version or try hunting down a copy of the original version?

[A Sith Lord?]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

But Tarkin is a human and he didn't look like a real human to me, especially when he was talking.

Smoke isn't a human, or doesn't appear to be, so it's not as weird. But I agree that it was bad looking. Kind of reminded me of a CGI Voldemort.

I think Tarkin CGI will come around for a lot of people.

I thought it was well done. Every time I watch R1, it looks better and better. My only complaint was Guy Henry didn't 100% match Peter Cushing's dialect and speech patterns. The voice was good enough, but Cushing's speech patterns were very unique when he'd form his sentences.

[Caseyscott]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

I've never seen THX-1138. If I want to watch it, should I watch the official version or try hunting down a copy of the original version?

The original if you can, but I don't know what the best version available is.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Arawn

Everything you hate about AOTC is right there in ROTS.

Everything you like about ROTS is also in AOTC, if you're willing to go into it with your eyes open.

Sardines and anchovies are both a mix of fish, oil and salt.

I enjoy one but not the other.

Funny how that works sometimes.

Originally Posted by Hardback247

Could someone help me come up with a good defense for Starkiller Base as being something other than "just another Death Star"?

My defense is 'sure, it's obviously another Death Star but who cares, it's fun. It's not as much fun as the first one but it's a hell of a lot more fun than the second one'.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

I've never seen THX-1138. If I want to watch it, should I watch the official version or try hunting down a copy of the original version?

The Blu-ray is great. It also has wonderful special features.
Love that movie.

[Dragon Ranger]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

I've never seen THX-1138. If I want to watch it, should I watch the official version or try hunting down a copy of the original version?

I've only ever seen the George Lucas Edition but would love to see the original. If you find somewhere that has the original please let me know.

I like the version that is available; it's a good dystopian sci fi movie with amazing atmospherics. Yeah the CGI inserts are clear but they don't detract from my enjoyment.