Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[DaveSimonH]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

What's the difference?

About 1.5mm

Amaray - 14mm
Viva Elite - 12.5mm

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by oat-a-bix

I agree. It's nothing to get severely angry about but I was disappointed that it was left out of the UK release, just seems unnecessary to me. Same with a scene in Spider-Man 2 where Spider-Man headbutts Doc Ock that we never saw.

Seems like they really have an issue with headbutts.

[Stu123]

Anyone find New Hope front heavy and i dont mean Dolly Parton.

[Albatross365]

The BBFC cut the headbutt out but when they let it back in it's in full HD glory

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by DaveSimonH

Amaray - 14mm
Viva Elite - 12.5mm

Thanks for that.

Funny, I'm all for saving shelf space, but the skinny ones they use for a lot of US releases just feel too skinny to me.

And don't even get me started on those awful "eco" things, the ones with the holes in the side walls shaped like a "recycle" logo, the ones that bend and twist as you try to open them and let you put your finger right through the paper cover slick ...

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[Justwatched]

Originally Posted by gump9452

Does anyone know where the Boba Fett First Look segment is?

I know the German site from a while back had it listed on Disc 7. Can't seem to find it though.

It's on bonus disc 2 under the collection in empire section, go to Boba Fetts armour and it's on there

Quite useful since it was the only thing i botherd to rewatch on my Holiday Special VHS

[gump9452]

Originally Posted by Justwatched

It's on bonus disc 2 under the collection in empire section, go to Boba Fetts armour and it's on there

Quite useful since it was the only thing i botherd to rewatch on my Holiday Special VHS

Thank you, found it now!

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Thanks for that.

Funny, I'm all for saving shelf space, but the skinny ones they use for a lot of US releases just feel too skinny to me.

And don't even get me started on those awful "eco" things, the ones with the holes in the side walls shaped like a "recycle" logo, the ones that bend and twist as you try to open them and let you put your finger right through the paper cover slick ...

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I doubt there's anyone who actually likes eco-cases. Unfortunately even those thick 14mm UK cases seem to be thinner now. There's no holes but there's definitely less plastic on them.

Normally I couldn't care less about silly cases but I think I only own Viva Elite so I try to buy those if only possible.

[DK06CTR]

One thing i have noticed with the complete saga release is it seems the film cell wasnt just an online exclusive, i ordered mine online and yes got the film cell my friend ordered his through the local blockbuster shop and went to fetch it monday and his also has the film cell? what gives there

it clearly states website only on the advert on HMV and elsewere, anybody else notice this.

[The Driver]

Spielberg talking about George's constant fiddling: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7323

If Spielberg Considers Revisting His Work?

Spielberg: That's a little hot topic isn't it? (laughs). Let me put it this way, George does what he does because there's only one George Lucas, and thank god for that. He's the greatest person I've ever worked with as a filmmaker collaborator and he's a conceptual genius. He puts together these amazing stories and he's great at what he does. My feeling is that he can do anything he wants with his movies because they're his movies and we wouldn't have been raised with Star Wars or Indiana Jones had it not been for George.

Speaking for myself, I tried this once and I learned to regret it. Not because of fan outrage, but simply because I was a little disappointed in myself. I got very kind of overly sensitive to some of the criticism E.T. had gotten from parent groups when it was first released in '82. Having to do with Elliot saying penis breath or the guns with the CIA. And also there were some rough around the edges close-ups of E.T. that I had always thought if technology ever evolves to the point where I can do some facial enhancements with E.T. I would like to. So I did an E.T. pass for the third release of the movie and it was okay for a while then I realized that what I had done was I had robbed people who loved E.T. of their memories of E.T. My only contrition that I could possibly do because I feel bad about that, the only contrition that I really performed was when E.T. came out on DVD for the first time. I told Universal, we're going to do this or we're not going to put E.T. on DVD. You have to put two movies in the box and one movie will be the 1982 version and the other will be the digitally enhanced version. What I'd like to ask is this. We'll do a little poll here. I know we're coming out with the Blu-ray of E.T. If I came out with just one E.T. on Blu-ray, the 1982 one, would anybody object to that? (Audience shouts 'No!') Ok, so be it.


A man who has looked into the abyss but not chosen the Dark Side of CGI, memory recall theft and revisionism!

[MacEachaidh]

Great read, The Driver. Thanks for posting it!

[Giles]

Just watched the Phantom Menace, really enjoyed it but some shots show the age of the CG, hadn't realized how much some of the CG does age! considering it was done in 1999 and Jurassic Park 1993 i would say Jurassic park still looks great, Phantom Menace in some shots does look fantastic but others dont. Anyone else watched it?

[tanujdua]

As predicted, Complete Saga from Sainsbury's came today, but I was out all day . Will pick it up tomorrow but having smoke alarms fitted at some point (time unknown) so got to stay in till that's done before embarking on the 4 mile round trip walk to the delivery office!

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by DK06CTR

One thing i have noticed with the complete saga release is it seems the film cell wasnt just an online exclusive, i ordered mine online and yes got the film cell my friend ordered his through the local blockbuster shop and went to fetch it monday and his also has the film cell? what gives there

it clearly states website only on the advert on HMV and elsewere, anybody else notice this.

It was a pre-order exclusive wasnt it? I got it in-store at HMV (alongside a free t-shirt).

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by tanujdua

As predicted, Complete Saga from Sainsbury's came today, but I was out all day . Will pick it up tomorrow but having smoke alarms fitted at some point (time unknown) so got to stay in till that's done before embarking on the 4 mile round trip walk to the delivery office!

Oh man that sucks!

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

It was a pre-order exclusive wasnt it? I got it in-store at HMV (alongside a free t-shirt).

There's so many of the damn things they're probably begging to get rid of them! Same thing happend to me in HMV, I never pre ordered it, just walked in payed and got the shirt anyway. They didn't have the crapy mass produced copy of a copy of a copy of a copy replica cell.

[ZombieTwin]

Some of the blaster-fire in TPM has got the same sort of problem that plagues the lightsabre effects in the Original Trilogy, i.e., the white cores are absent and the colours are off.

Kev W

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by ZombieTwin

Some of the blaster-fire in TPM has got the same sort of problem that plagues the lightsabre effects in the Original Trilogy, i.e., the white cores are absent and the colours are off.

Wow.

OK, this is not meant to be a fanboy rant, just a ... well, a musing, I guess ... but really, these films are Lucasfilm. And they've had how long to get them right since the last DVD refurb? Oh yeah: Seven. Years.

And this is Star Wars on Blu-ray (!!!!!!!!) for crying out loud. Wouldn't you think ... honestly, wouldn't you think they'd have moved Heaven and Earth to make sure these transfers were absolutely spot on to the latest "vision"? That there were absolutely Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! new glitches?

[The Driver]

I see Tesco now own their own distribution company. This may be why Tesco's Star Wars orders were so darn quick (and of course shipped from the UK). It's called "Oakwood" which sounds like a place I'd like to retire to however it also sounds like the state mental hospital George Lucas is sectioned to after his weekly rededit of Star Wars.

Those special features are very intersting as they're a port off the old VHS tapes (TV specials). Very nice to see this sort of stuff but it should have been on the 3 discer release. I suppose the 9 discer is the "definitive" collection now if you don't mind the new 3 films and having no original versions. It's interesting really because the SW series is a phenomena of cinema and there's very little independent opinion on it in the form of documentaries. Shame really. And mind the quite good 2½ hour Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (just the first 3 films) is missing from this set it seems. That's on the SE DVDs of course and is interesting because it has lots of people talking about the non-CGI versions with non-CGI clips. I suppose George doesn't want non-CGI in his universe which is a shame because that documentary does feel a bit independent and has some great insights.

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy - YouTube

Empire of Dreams -Missing in action

That missing documentary is on YouTube if you look and it's nice to see George seems not too bothered with YouTube's 1000s of clips. He ain't all bad.

[micks_address]

I thought I seen something where they talked specifically about fixing the light saber cores?

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Wow.

OK, this is not meant to be a fanboy rant, just a ... well, a musing, I guess ... but really, these films are Lucasfilm. And they've had how long to get them right since the last DVD refurb? Oh yeah: Seven. Years.

And this is Star Wars on Blu-ray (!!!!!!!!) for crying out loud. Wouldn't you think ... honestly, wouldn't you think they'd have moved Heaven and Earth to make sure these transfers were absolutely spot on to the latest "vision"? That there were absolutely Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! new glitches?