Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Billz]

Any coverart yet?

I don't have time to read 190+ pages to find out, lol.

[Mr. Joshua]

Originally Posted by BellesPrince

Ahem, Ridley Scott didn't 'make' Blade Runner look like it was filmed in HD.

It looks damn good on my TV!

[Mr. Joshua]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Really? That's peculiar.

It was on this one, the one people were talking about said video on, that's all.

Its cool. I totally agree if the guy is just trying to get autographs.

[Mr. Joshua]

Originally Posted by billz

any coverart yet?

I don't have time to read 190+ pages to find out, lol. :d

lol!

[Billz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua

lol!

Why is that a lol to you?

[monkeyjb1988]

Originally Posted by MisterPilgrim

I might be one of 10 people on the planet who doesn't have it out for George Lucas. LOL. I, like most other people, have grown up on the Original Trilogy, and my first real theater experience with them were the Special Editions. My reaction to the changes amounted to something like "Oh, that's interesting!", and nothing more. Never did I think that the entire SW community would explode into anger at the time.

As for the prequels. Yeah, they're flawed movies. TPM more than the others, but they're still enjoyable films IMO. I still love Revenge Of The Sith to this day.

As for the Blu-Rays, I cannot wait. I'm interested to see how they look in HD, along with what/if any alterations Lucas made to the Saga.

I would only say Lucas went to far if he ended up taking the original trilogy, and replaced all the puppets and minuatures with CGI.

11 people. I don't have it out for George Lucas. I hope he would release the original versions in equal quality, but I can't wait for the Blu set, as Star Wars is awesome. I don't buy the toys and books, but I watch The Clone Wars every week and I got the first season on Blu (excellent, by the way) and I plan to get season two soon too. Finally, earlier in the thread, I mentioned how I thought Greedo shooting first without Han breaking a sweat made him more of a bad&%#. Yeah, Mr. Lucas, it would be nice to have both versions of the OT (and PT, if changes are done to them), but you still got a fan in me.

[STARKILLER--1138]

Originally Posted by MisterPilgrim

I might be one of 10 people on the planet who doesn't have it out for George Lucas. LOL. I, like most other people, have grown up on the Original Trilogy, and my first real theater experience with them were the Special Editions. My reaction to the changes amounted to something like "Oh, that's interesting!", and nothing more. Never did I think that the entire SW community would explode into anger at the time.

As for the prequels. Yeah, they're flawed movies. TPM more than the others, but they're still enjoyable films IMO. I still love Revenge Of The Sith to this day.

As for the Blu-Rays, I cannot wait. I'm interested to see how they look in HD, along with what/if any alterations Lucas made to the Saga.

I would only say Lucas went to far if he ended up taking the original trilogy, and replaced all the puppets and minuatures with CGI.

Originally Posted by monkeyjb1988

11 people. I don't have it out for George Lucas. I hope he would release the original versions in equal quality, but I can't wait for the Blu set, as Star Wars is awesome. I don't buy the toys and books, but I watch The Clone Wars every week and I got the first season on Blu (excellent, by the way) and I plan to get season two soon too. Finally, earlier in the thread, I mentioned how I thought Greedo shooting first without Han breaking a sweat made him more of a bad&%#. Yeah, Mr. Lucas, it would be nice to have both versions of the OT (and PT, if changes are done to them), but you still got a fan in me.

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[aramis109]

Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua

It looks damn good on my TV!

Dude, are you really that oblivious or being intentionally obtuse for the lulz? Film is by nature capable of resolutions well beyond 1080, so Ridley didn't have to do anything with it.

[OG Pooh]

Originally Posted by monkeyjb1988

11 people. I don't have it out for George Lucas. I hope he would release the original versions in equal quality, but I can't wait for the Blu set, as Star Wars is awesome. I don't buy the toys and books, but I watch The Clone Wars every week and I got the first season on Blu (excellent, by the way) and I plan to get season two soon too. Finally, earlier in the thread, I mentioned how I thought Greedo shooting first without Han breaking a sweat made him more of a bad&%#. Yeah, Mr. Lucas, it would be nice to have both versions of the OT (and PT, if changes are done to them), but you still got a fan in me.

I prefer Han shooting Greedo straight up. I know GL had said that he felt Han's character (by the end of the trilogy) simply wasn't that type of guy anymore... What about character DEVELOPMENT? The character obviously wasn't the same person as when the trilogy started. It's ridiculous to go back and make him monotone from the begining. Besides, the way they redid the scene with Greedo shooting first just never looked right to me.

That said, the only things that really bother me about the OT at this point is the fight between Obi-Wan & Vader in ANH. GL always used the excuse that it was a battle between an old man & half a man. Sorry, that doesn't hold up. Vader was much more spry battling Luke in ESB & RotJ. And we all see what an old Jedi is capable of with Christopher Lee's lightsaber duels in Clones & Sith. I'm hoping GL CGIs the Obi-Wan/Vader duel much moreso than replacing the Yoda puppet. The Ewoks can go though. The other thing that bothers me is that the OT feels more like a bunch of isolated sets rather than a living, breathing galaxy. The changes made to Bespin in the ESB SE helped, but it needs to be taken further to bring it on-par with the PT.

[groove93]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

It wasn't a Wilhelm scream (and those are very distinct). It was just a scream that was originally recorded for Empire in 1980 and left out. It was put in for the 1997 SE, nobody liked it, and it was taken out again for the 2005 DVDs.

I have the 1997 SE LDs so comparisons are easy.

If you listen closely, it's actually Palpatine's scream as Anikan threw him over the banister in Return of The Jedi.

[Bluyoda]

Originally Posted by monkeyjb1988

11 people. I don't have it out for George Lucas. I hope he would release the original versions in equal quality, but I can't wait for the Blu set, as Star Wars is awesome. I don't buy the toys and books, but I watch The Clone Wars every week and I got the first season on Blu (excellent, by the way) and I plan to get season two soon too. Finally, earlier in the thread, I mentioned how I thought Greedo shooting first without Han breaking a sweat made him more of a bad&%#. Yeah, Mr. Lucas, it would be nice to have both versions of the OT (and PT, if changes are done to them), but you still got a fan in me.

Originally Posted by STARKILLER--1138

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13 Well, obviously!

[jlmb0b]

I really hope the original trilogy holds up in 1080p.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by groove93

If you listen closely, it's actually Palpatine's scream as Anikan threw him over the banister in Return of The Jedi.

Well that certainly makes a whole lotta sense.


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[Indyjones]

Originally Posted by OG Pooh

That said, the only things that really bother me about the OT at this point is the fight between Obi-Wan & Vader in ANH. GL always used the excuse that it was a battle between an old man & half a man. Sorry, that doesn't hold up. Vader was much more spry battling Luke in ESB & RotJ. And we all see what an old Jedi is capable of with Christopher Lee's lightsaber duels in Clones & Sith. I'm hoping GL CGIs the Obi-Wan/Vader duel much moreso than replacing the Yoda puppet.

I would have to agree to an extent, but do you know how much s*** Lucas would get for that? And he gets bloody ripped apart now!!! All I see Lucas doing to the OT is continual f/x clean-up. From what I remember reading at the Bits back in 2004, ILM had continued working on the OT when the stopped work on the DVD's. I'm curious as to what's been done. I believe the OT has gone through another sound mix recently as well, at least that's how I took Matt Woods comments. I'm really not expecting much with the PT, other than the Yoda puppet being tossed.

And add another who doesn't have it out for Lucas.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

13 Well, obviously!

Only 13? Including myself it may well be 1,000,000,014 !!

[DRS]

Do you guys think Lucas will change things in the prequels for the 3D re-release? You know, to give even more incentive to see them?

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by DRS

Do you guys think Lucas will change things in the prequels for the 3D re-release? You know, to give even more incentive to see them?

This is one case I doubt he will. Outside of the 3D technology I can't see anything that can really be improved upon content-wise aside from completely re-making Episode I or removing Jar Jar Binks entirely from the prequels, which won't happen. No marginal changes are going to make Episode I a good film.

[SethRex]

I think it would be nice to see Lucas release the extended DVD cut of The Phantom Menace, and give us extended cuts of EP II and III with some of the deleted scenes reinserted, like the rebellion subplot from Episode III.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by SethRex

I think it would be nice to see Lucas release the extended DVD cut of The Phantom Menace, and give us extended cuts of EP II and III with some of the deleted scenes reinserted, like the rebellion subplot from Episode III.

Wasn't the extended cut of Phantom Menace just another half hour plus of that already drawn out, boring pod race?

[BellesPrince]

The extended cut of TPM is hardly another half hour, it's probably about 5 minutes at most. It's mainly the Pod Race, but it also has some extra material added when they arrive on Coruscant.