Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Brandon K]

Originally Posted by Oubadah

Jabba eats a frog, Jar Jar attempts to eat something in a market...

Which Sebulba then proceeds to eat

Shortly after that, in a scene with Anakin, Shmi and Padme, Jar Jar and Qui Gon eat fruit, while everyone has a plate of beige sludge.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Brandon K

Which Sebulba then proceeds to eat

Shortly after that, in a scene with Anakin, Shmi and Padme, Jar Jar and Qui Gon eat fruit, while everyone has a plate of beige sludge.

Mmmmm, beige sludge.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

(if anyone in Star Wars has ever eaten anything, which I don't think I've ever seen).

Originally Posted by Arawn

TFA spoiler -->

[Show spoiler]Rey eats food in TFA.

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

And blue milk. Don't forget about the blue milk and whatever else Luke was eating with Uncle Lars and Aunt Beru.

Originally Posted by Oubadah

...and Padmé Amidala eats a force assisted pear, which incidentally is another example of the janky CGI I mentioned on the last page. Could they not have had her bite an actual physical slice? It looked so weird.

Originally Posted by Oubadah

Jabba eats a frog, Jar Jar attempts to eat something in a market...

So we ran out of other Star Wars things to talk about.... we moved on to food and the act of eating?

[stvn1974]

The way the blue milk moved as it was being poured by Aunt Beru is still a better performance than what Hayden Christensen gave in AotC and RotS.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

The way the blue milk moved as it was being poured by Aunt Beru is still a better performance than what Hayden Christensen gave in AotC and RotS.

I can't believe there was a time when I tried to defend his performance. I wanted to convince myself so badly back then that I liked the films (the exception being TPM, which I was young enough that I truly did enjoy it at the time).

Dark days.

[crissrudd4554]

Not to mention Lucas himself has recently admitted that they were not keen to have him around during pre-production on TFA and hence why none of his story ideas were used in the final film. So I dont think the opinion of the 'creator' is really a factor at this point in regards to a future release of the OUT.

[Brandon K]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

The way the blue milk moved as it was being poured by Aunt Beru is still a better performance than what Hayden Christensen gave in AotC and RotS.

LOL

In AOTC, Padme brings Anakin some blue milk when he's pouting after killing the sand people, but when Anakin first visits the Owen homestead, Beru serves some type of red berry juice (which no one drinks). You can see the red berries (cherries?) that the juice was presumably made from in a glass cannister on the counter.

Originally Posted by Scarface32

So we ran out of other Star Wars things to talk about.... we moved on to food and the act of eating?

LOL yup.

I'm watching the PT, on Blu-ray, for the first time since ROTS was released on DVD. Sigh... sadly, being on the lookout for food is the most interesting part of revisiting these movies, as they're much worse than I remembered, which I suppose is what time does to you.

Despite all the Hayden and cringing dialogue, what I'm dreading the most is my memory of the three close-ups of Padme pushing her magic button in her flyer. She presses the same one button twice in AOTC and once again in ROTS, and every time it magically does something different. That just might be the thing that I hate the most about the PT

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

It'll be millions sold, if Lucasfilm/Fox/Disney pull their collective you-know-what's out of their you-know-where's.

Seeing as a best selling new ultra popular title is lucky to sell 3 million on Blu these days I think you're vastly over on your prediction. The Force Awakens? Sure. GOUT? Unlikely.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

It depends if they feel the potential profits in the hundreds of millions outweigh Lucas' hurt feelings.

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

This guy I was talking to is a strong Lucas apologist. He thinks maybe 20,000 people would buy them if that.

I'm hardly a Lucas apologist but I think tens of thousands of units is probably a lot closer to right than profits in the hundreds of millions.

The number of people who want Star Wars on BD is relatively small to begin with (the Saga moved less than three million units...that's a lot for an expensive catalog set but it's still less than three million units) and a large number of those people are perfectly happy with the BDs they already have.

Purists like to think that deep down the rest of the world thinks the way we do because what we think is so self-evidently correct but that just ain't so.

Some of us really, really, really want the UOT on BD but most people couldn't care less.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by octagon

I'm hardly a Lucas apologist but I think tens of thousands of units is probably a lot closer to right than profits in the hundreds of millions.

The number of people who want Star Wars on BD is relatively small to begin with (the Saga moved less than three million units...that's a lot for an expensive catalog set but it's still less than three million units) and a large number of those people are perfectly happy with the BDs they already have.

Purists like to think that deep down the rest of the world thinks the way we do because what we think is so self-evidently correct but that just ain't so.

Some of us really, really, really want the UOT on BD but most people couldn't care less.

My favorite posts on this forum are the ones about how you'll lose your hat if you put Star Wars on video.

[crissrudd4554]

From what Ive heard, apparently a scan of the original film from the Library of Congress was scanned some months back at Disney's request. Someone over at originaltrilogy.com claims to have contacted the Library of Congress who confirmed that Star Wars was scanned but they didnt reveal why. If theres any truth in this, I guess we just have to wait.

[starman15317]

I don't own the Blu-Rays or DVDs (only the UOT laserdiscs), but I recently watched the OT on Blu-Ray. Good lord. I knew the new effects were bad and that I loathe the special editions, but in some ways, I still forgot how bad it actually is!

We desperately need the UOT on Blu.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by crissrudd4554

From what Ive heard, apparently a scan of the original film from the Library of Congress was scanned some months back at Disney's request. Someone over at originaltrilogy.com claims to have contacted the Library of Congress who confirmed that Star Wars was scanned but they didnt reveal why. If theres any truth in this, I guess we just have to wait.

Disney's pretty great at protecting their assets. No less than Robert Harris has commended them for taking care of their films. Gotta figure Day One of the LucasFilm acquisition, they went looking for those negatives they just purchased, and made plans to preserve and protect them.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by octagon

I'm hardly a Lucas apologist but I think tens of thousands of units is probably a lot closer to right than profits in the hundreds of millions.

The number of people who want Star Wars on BD is relatively small to begin with (the Saga moved less than three million units...that's a lot for an expensive catalog set but it's still less than three million units) and a large number of those people are perfectly happy with the BDs they already have.

Purists like to think that deep down the rest of the world thinks the way we do because what we think is so self-evidently correct but that just ain't so.

Some of us really, really, really want the UOT on BD but most people couldn't care less.

But it's Star Wars. And a lot of things regarding Star Wars sells as we saw leading up to the new movie.

If they marketed the unaltered original trilogy restoration, for example, as a special 40th anniversary/limited edition package which we know Disney likes to do anyway - I think the sales would be very high. It would sell a hell of a lot more than 20,000 units. They would probably release it digitally too. There would be a lot of publication and news stories about the release too for the 40th.

[HeavyHitter]

I just checked and there are almost 328,000 members that belong to this web site. Even taking into account some are probably inactive, surely far more than 20,000 of these people alone would purchase it.

[Arawn]

Originally Posted by Aragorn the Elfstone

I can't believe there was a time when I tried to defend his performance.

He reminded me very much of someone I knew in the real world at the time. I thought, "If someone like this can exist in real life, someone like this can also exist in Star Wars."

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

You also have to factor in general hype and enthusiasm for Star Wars. When people are looking forward to something "new", they'll buy more related merchandise.

For instance, a release of the Original (Original) Trilogy would move much more if put out shortly before the release of Episode VIII (when Star Wars fever will be at an all time high), versus if it had been put out, say, two years ago.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Originally Posted by Arawn

He reminded me very much of someone I knew in the real world at the time. I thought, "If someone like this can exist in real life, someone like this can also exist in Star Wars."

He reminded me of a wooden stick.

No, scratch that. A wooden stick would have been more compelling.

[jjdpw50]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

I just checked and there are almost 328,000 members that belong to this web site. Even taking into account some are probably inactive, surely far more than 20,000 of these people alone would purchase it.

I would say half at least, 160,000+

[crissrudd4554]

Originally Posted by octagon

I'm hardly a Lucas apologist but I think tens of thousands of units is probably a lot closer to right than profits in the hundreds of millions.

The number of people who want Star Wars on BD is relatively small to begin with (the Saga moved less than three million units...that's a lot for an expensive catalog set but it's still less than three million units) and a large number of those people are perfectly happy with the BDs they already have.

Purists like to think that deep down the rest of the world thinks the way we do because what we think is so self-evidently correct but that just ain't so.

Some of us really, really, really want the UOT on BD but most people couldn't care less.

Grouping the 'I dont care' crowd as the majority I think is a little unfair because we dont know the complete statistics on who wants what. Regardless if theres people who 'dont care' doesnt change the fact theres still a big market for the original cuts. As the user above has noted, more than half this sites users would probably buy the OUT if it was remasterted and reissued. How do I know this? Because many wouldnt be making such a big deal about it if it wasnt. Those who 'dont care' dont have to buy them again. They have the current versions and they can be happy, and those who want the originals will get what they want and be happy. People fail to calculate the fact that the SWs generation is always growing. Just because some have the current editions doesnt mean in another 10 or 15 years theres gonna be a new generation that doesn't own any version. The argument that goes on and on is what the past or current generation wants or dont want. If youre gonna say people 'dont care' you as well say no one 'cares' if SW is available in the future for the next generation to own simply because the current generation owns it, SE or not.