Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Deromax]

Originally Posted by Merlinpants

Positives: Not burned in subtitles (on TPM anyway) for the characters who don't speak in english. They appear on screen for the relevant translation, but change the language and they change with it.

You can have the commentary subtitles running while watching the film, without the commentary actually running.

Are the titles on the actual image or in the letterbox black bar area?

[jala12]

Hey Merlin, did you notice the battledroid voices changed in episodes 1 and 2 to sound more like their episode 3 and clone wars counterparts? Or are they the same robotic tones as before?

[Adam_ME]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

Oh. My. God.


I guess the years and my overwhelming desire to make the PT something it isn't has dulled my memories of this movie.

That scene is LAUGHABLE. Even Ewan McGregor comes off like he's in a high-school play! When he says "Your new Empire??" it sounds like some voice Seth McFarlane does in Family Guy. Then Anakin's "don't make me kill you"... my god. I don't know if I can even buy this 'saga' anymore, I may just stick to the OT as per my original plans. This is seriously cringe-inducing stuff.

Hilarious that people want to love these enough to ignore such obviously terrible over-acting and even claim it's "good". It's seriously hard to watch.

That was a horrible scene. But ROTS is full of them. BTW, isn't Obi-Wan telling Anakin that "only a Sith deals in absolutes" kind of an absolute itself? Just wondering.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Deromax

Are the titles on the actual image or in the letterbox black bar area?

He's already answered this dude, like not even 20 posts ago.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Adam_ME

BTW, isn't Obi-Wan telling Anakin that "only a Sith deals in absolutes" kind of an absolute itself? Just wondering.

Let's also debate lightsaber weights.

[bboisvert]

Originally Posted by Chordata

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Deromax

Are the titles on the actual image or in the letterbox black bar area?

He said that they are in the image area and follow the characters position on the screen.

[Deromax]

Originally Posted by Chordata

He's already answered this dude, like not even 20 posts ago.

Sorry about this. I hadn't read the remaining posts until I posted.

I use a 2.35:1 screen so I'm happy about this news!

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

I'm not saying everyone who enjoys the prequels loves the acting. I am saying there are people who are convincing themselves throughout this thread that the acting in Ep 3 was legitimately really good.

Oh -- yeah those people are totally delusional lol. While the acting in the OT isn't necessarily Oscar-worthy all the time, it does make the acting in ROTS look like a high school play using middle schoolers.

[Post Prod]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

I'm not saying everyone who enjoys the prequels loves the acting. I am saying there are people who do and I am kind of in disbelief.

I dunno, I will probably still buy the stupid saga but man I had forgotten how groan-worthy some of that dialogue was. Eeeesh. Especially when it's McGregor and Portman delivering like that. Does not compute.

You don't love the acting, ok, so that wasn't regarding you.

I was put on a day long suspension for this kind of off topic stuff, post at your own risk El Jay.

[Adam_ME]

Originally Posted by Chordata

I love them despite the problems. I don't ignore them - I know they're there, I just don't let them ruin an otherwise good saga. I find it hilarious that people put so much time into hating them. To each his own.

Some are too hard to overlook. I remember reading the TPM script before I saw the movie and it honestly didn't seem like the dialogue was that bad in written form(although Jar Jar's made no sense). But that dinner scene was freaking horrendous in the actual film. Anakin came off as a fun-loving, kind-hearted little kid in the script and Jake Lloyd just brutalized nearly every line. Crappy acting can ruin even the best of screenplays which no Star Wars movie(even Empire) has ever been the beneficiary of.

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by Uncontrol

Hitler Learns About the Star Wars Blu Ray Changes - YouTube

Has anyone seen that before?

Man, I was laughing so hard.

The Hitler thing has been way overdone, but this one is actually hilarious and pretty well done imo.

Thanks

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by DarthMarino

I've seen this done when you have subtitles for the hearing impaired but you are saying it does this even if you just have the default alien languages on (Jabba, Greedo, Watto, etc)?

Sorry work called LOL. The alien translations appear in the middle bottom of the screen, subtitles for the hard of hearing follow the character on screen.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

I'm not saying everyone who enjoys the prequels loves the acting. I am saying there are people who do and I am kind of in disbelief.

I dunno, I will probably still buy the stupid saga but man I had forgotten how groan-worthy some of that dialogue was. Eeeesh. Especially when it's McGregor and Portman delivering like that. Does not compute.

You don't love the acting, ok, so that wasn't regarding you.

Originally Posted by Post Prod

I was put on a day long suspension for this kind of off topic stuff, post at your own risk El Jay.

What's so off-topic in what he says?

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by Post Prod

I was put on a day long suspension for this kind of off topic stuff, post at your own risk El Jay.

Eh? It's about the release in the title, I don't see how it can possibly be "off-topic", but you're right, if it's anything that might fan the flames and make a certain sect of people unhappy (even if I wasn't posting it for such a reason), mods like to make examples. I will delete those to be safe.


How'sabout this old chestnut for "on topic":


I can't wait to see all 6 movies in The Saga of George Lucas' Original Vision™ in glorious 1080p High Definition with 6.1 DTS HD Master audio on September 16th!

All hail our bearded overlord!

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by jala12

Hey Merlin, did you notice the battledroid voices changed in episodes 1 and 2 to sound more like their episode 3 and clone wars counterparts? Or are they the same robotic tones as before?

Same as before, but then again I have no reference to hand as to what they sounded like? They are still robotic tones Roger Roger

[daveyf]

The problem in acting in the prequel trilogy is directly related to the Anakin Skywalker caracter. Some will blame Natalie Portman's portrayal of Padme and she is a bit stiff but she's at her stiffest when in front of either the god-awful Jake Lloyd or Keanu Reeves inspired Hayden Christensen. How can you act convincing in front of a vacuum of human emotions like him?

And don't mention Ewan McGregor. He's just in another league. He's got great imagination to act with the CGI heavy sets and the dummy known as Heyden Christensen. And to say that they could have gotte someone taller, bigger and better at acting in Chris Hemsworth. Sad.

[DarthMarino]

Originally Posted by Merlinpants

Sorry work called LOL. The alien translations appear in the middle bottom of the screen, subtitles for the hard of hearing follow the character on screen.

Great. Thank you for confirming.

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by phansson

Merlinpants, can you give us a quick rundown of your equipment, what size your tv is, if it is calibrated or not?

Samsung 51" 1080p plasma, sony BD wifi player and sony DA2400ES amp in 7.1 setup

All brand new apart from sony amp which was too darn good to replace

The only calibration done on the TV was using the THX calibration tools on a pixar Blu ray

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by HandyDandy

What about AOTC is there a teal tint to it.??

And...

How about the opening crawl of TPM is it different from the dvd??

No idea on both counts as I do not have the others to hand to compare. I think AOTC looks superb though.