Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[punisher]

[QUOTE=DarkDune;5222363]They ARE clones, and others.

/QUOTE]


no accents on the OT Stormtroopers..but all clones in prequels and tv series have heavy Janga Fett accents..a new type of clone for the OT?..I think not..they were real soldiers and the clones in prequels are more after thoughts by Lucas

[LordStewie]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

OOOH! I just got chills from the new audio on AOTC when Anakin has a nightmare about his Mom!

Wow

actually jumped out of seat scared sh*tless during AOTC when the sound of Jango's saber dart to kill Zam came from the rear speaker!!

This set gets very high marks for its AQ!!

[22soultaker]

Sorry for not having the best quality but this is by far the best scene on the bonus discs.

Star Wars Return of the Jedi Deleted scene (Darth vader reaches out to Luke) - YouTube

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by Falaskan

After watching and enjoying most of this blu-ray set, I want to say I am ashamed for coming to this nerdy 1700+ page thread. What a bunch of whiners.

Well, we are so glad that you could be bothered to post here and whine about everyone else whining. Thank you so very much.

[punisher]

Originally Posted by Mr. Grieves

An artists rendition of a bald, beardless, glassesless, George Lucas.

Seems like it would be true lol.

can you DNR it to a waxy lifeless image as in TPM

[-RONIN-]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

It looks like they are the thicker cases unlike the slim Firefly case. But I can't quite tell.

Star Wars Trilogy blu ray Prequel uboxing review Complete Saga - YouTube

Edit: Looks to be slim

Yeah they are slim. I was checking them out at WallyWorld. I definitely liked the Saga better.

[ranitasus]

Originally Posted by Kuma

Just checked this myself and I believe its a result of his accent coming out in the dialog. Thats my 2 cents anyay

So it does sound different?

[greg_achen]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

I noticed that too!

A lot of "Hut, hut, hut!" Soldier talk that wasn't there before.

Nice addition IMHO.

Just checked the DVD. It is a new addition! I don't like or hate it. It's just different. I do find it interesting what things bother Lucas enough to make such minor changes and what things don't.

[Mr. Lost]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Here you guys.

Star Wars Trilogy blu ray Prequel uboxing review Complete Saga - YouTube

I had your video on mute and when it hit 2:23 I started laughing hysterically. You whipped out the complete saga out of nowhere

[bluski73]

Originally Posted by fgomike

I had no problems with the BDP S350. My Vizio Piece of Sh** on the other hand.......

So I found that if I change my BD Audio Setting from "Direct" to "Mix" it gets rid of the clipping issue. I still hear distortion though in certain spots and mostly during ANH. When I switch to "Mix" my receiver, of course, displays "PCM" instead of "DTS Master Audio". No other discs in my collection give me this problem, just these Star Wars discs.

[Jumpman]

Possible change in RotS. When the Clone Troopers ambush Utapau after Obi Wan duels with Grievous, I don't recall ever hearing the clones shouting at each other as they do in the Blu Ray. I thought they dropped in silent. Is this a result of the lossless audio or did Lucas make the clones more audible during this moment?

Yeah, noticed that too. Had to rewind it to make sure I wasn't hearing things. But, it's new.

[Shanester]

Originally Posted by Post Prod

he wasn't in phantom menace.

Thanks!

[RudyC]

im starting to think AOTC is better than ROTS to me
not sure..
the movie not the transfer :P

[metalinvader]

Originally Posted by burningkeys

I have a Panasonic DMP-BD30 V3.0 firmware (Aug 24, 2011) and have the same issues with AOTC: macro-blocking-type effect at 1:19:29 and 2:00:05 that clears itself. Upon rewind, effect is reproducible. From rgray_69's post, it appears that this is isolated to Panasonic BD30 and BD50 firmware since the disc played correctly with a store BD player on display.

I have the same problem and I'm using a Philips bdp7200.I was about to return my set for a replacement until I read others where having the same problem as well.

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Yup, I experianced them, but don't atribute them to a player or disc error as I've noticed them in other films too.

Of course it could be an error in the transfer or even intentional.

Yeah, its just a bit weird when this isn't in AOTC, but then again that film was made soft on purpose.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by punisher

no accents on the OT Stormtroopers..but all clones in prequels and tv series have heavy Janga Fett accents..a new type of clone for the OT?..I think not..they were real soldiers and the clones in prequels are more after thoughts by Lucas

With Jango's death, they had to use different stock for the Clones.

According to the handbooks and stuff, by the time of the OT some are Clones and some are Recruits.

[DarkDune]

Originally Posted by RudyC

im starting to think AOTC is better than ROTS to me
not sure..
the movie not the transfer :P

AOTC was pretty interesting in its own right. Especially the Jango/Obiwan "mystery thriller" parts. At the time, we had no idea "how" the Jedi would discover what was going on with the Sith. Mr. Obi did a great job investigating the issue for sure.

[DarkDune]

I am gonna get an image later, but...

Anyone else ever notice the RED LIGHTS on the back tips of the Clone Trooper's helmets in AOTC before?!?!

I seriously never noticed that, and am wondering what the heck those red lights are supposed to be!

[beckmen]

I watched TPM last night. Honestly, this is one of the best cases of DNR I have ever seen. That infamous shot of Qui-Gon? Only shot in the entire movie that looked remotely that bad. For the most part, the movie is sharp and detailed. It's smooth, yeah...and grain has been scrubbed away. But it's an artistic choice; I am going to assume made by the director; and it's not sloppily-done. So in this rare case, I can excuse it. Also, 12 years later...despite being very annoyed by Jar-Jar and Anakin (and to a lesser extent, Ralph '85' Brown), I love this movie. Kind of feel sorry for fans who can't enjoy it, but I know the feeling as I feel that way about the Clone Wars CG series. Just cannot get into it, doesn't feel like SW to me at all.

I guess this means I am switching to the IV, V, I, II, III, V order of viewing. Watched ANH and ESB, then had a hankering for TPM for some reason so I skipped over ROTJ. Going to keep this order and see what I think of it. It does have a few positives.

Originally Posted by Yojimbo68

I hear what you're saying but at the end of the day it's the director's responsibility for all the performances in the film. In this case, Lucas was the guy saying "Cut. Print. We got it."

Interesting that you brought up Kiera Knightly. I watched TPM this afternoon and her name is in the end credits! I had no idea she was in the film.

I think she is the queen's decoy on most scenes where Padme is around. Really hard to tell, though...in the white makeup, I cannot tell her and Portman apart at all.

Originally Posted by DouglasRobert

I was just wondering if anyone is having issues with the little video segments that plays between menu option.

Mine pauses at times and after a short time goes to the menu option I selected.

On a related off-topic topic, I just came back from a garage sale and got the original Empire Strikes Back storybook. But even better I got a "Saga Edition" chess set with all the pieces and game board (no box though) for just $5.

Sort of a Star Wars weekend, starting with the Blu-Ray purchase and now the garage sale finds.

Damn, I miss scouring yard/garage sales and whatnot for SW merch. One of my favorite activities as a kid. Being born in 1982 and turning into a SW fanatic sometime around '88 or '90 was kind of tough.

Originally Posted by punisher

there are a few inconsistencies in the story lines from the OT to the prequels....especially how aged Owen and Buru and Obi Won look in the OT and they were so young at the end of EP3..Obi Won has no recollection of R2D2...and of course you never hear the name Padme..ever..but that is because there never was a pre story line and never was there ever going to be any more movies made no matter what Lucas says

Owen and Beru were probably in their early/mid 20s in AOTC, making them pushing 50 or maybe a tad older in ANH. Plus, a desert planet isn't probably the best environment for silky smooth skin.

Obi-Wan doesn't remember R2 because he's a damned racist. For Obi-Wan and a lot of the other characters in the films, droids are just tools. When it comes to astromechs, 'they all look the same'.

It would be cool if somebody put together a fan-made Blu-ray that collected all of the DVD features onto one BD-R. Maybe put in some of the stuff from VHS and LD releases that never made it to DVD or BD. Would almost certainly have to to be a dual-layer disc, though.

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

And that's what I hate about Lucas. The work Frank Oz did was amazing. This is essentially spitting in his face. Same thing would be if Ridley Scott went and CGI'd the creature in Alien - screw you genius Stan Winston. Of course Ridley Scott wouldn't do that to begin with.

Stan Winston didn't have anything to do with the original Alien film, it was H.R. Giger and Carlo Rambadli.

Originally Posted by opticzar

Noob question: Are stormtroopers clones or not?

I could have sworn I either read or heard Lucas say that probably at some point the clones were phased out and the Stormtrooper corps became recruitment-based.

[PRO-630HD]

http://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/St...-Blu-ray.shtml

Finally a review that get's it right! rating the original trilogy last in terms of PQ, TPM a notch above marred by DNR and episodes 2-3 at the top.

A New Hope was exquisitely photographed by Gilbert Taylor, and the Blu-ray unleashes detail that has been lurking on that DVD master unappreciated for years. But especially when watched after I-III, the image here looks soft, grainy and noisy, while the blacks have an unfortunate murkiness, which can be particularly unpleasant in darker scenes, pulling in characters like a famished Dianoga. Some nice nuances emerge, such as an exhaust plume from a ship leaving faraway Mos Eisley spaceport, while the color and appearance of the lightsabers--long a problem on home video--is improved but not perfect.

Unwelcome, seemingly random geometric "garbage mattes" around vehicles--inherent to the original film element but seldom seen in the theater--have been all but banished here, while Empire and Jedi are still awash in these ugly things, with the TIE Fighters getting the worst of it. These spindly little Imperial ships also have a tendency to get lost in the unforgiving blacks of these video masters, although detail appears superior to that in A New Hope, particularly in actor close-ups.

Phantom Menace is the only installment of The Prequel Trilogy to be shot on film (although it was all over the news at the time for its DLP digital theatrical presentation on four screens), and as such it has a unique look, superior to the aged Classic Trilogy but not quite on a par with the clarity of the all-digital Episodes II and III.