Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K UHD (1977-2019)

[alexdg1]

Why isn't the Walmart release of Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga listed on Blu-ray.com? I know Wally World will sell it because I ordered mine in Walmart.com?

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by Rizor

I received a shipping notification for my DMC order on Friday, but tracking says it hasn't even left the receiving post office. Was hoping to get them soon.

Originally Posted by steelers1

same here. one thing I think is happening is that the post office is not scanning it but it is on it`s way and when it gets close to your area then they will scan it and then it will say what day it will arrive at your house. the reason I say this is because it happened to me on my order from bbc for 4k seven worlds. it was shipped on the 13th of march and it didn`t get scanned till it was 500 miles from my house and the date that it suppose to be at my house is the 30th of march.

Originally Posted by returnofthemack

That is exactly what happened with my order. No movement on the tracking at all until it showed up

The is normal when DMC uses the current USPS Shipping variation directly and doesn't send through OSM 1st. It's quicker, but there usually is nothing between ready for pickup and it arriving in your local Distribution PO often the day before or day of delivery.

I'm not sure what USPS calls this, but it's a new variation of corporate Parcel Select just like Hamilton Books uses and doesn't get all those intermediate tracking steps

Originally Posted by trevrox

How long after signing up do I get the 60% offer?

Within a couple weeks after your required full priced items are shipped/recorded. Takes a few days from when you order is processed/ shipped to confirm your account as VIP, then another week more or less to get the reward offer. I've been able to go from new enrollee to receiving the Reward Offer in less than a couple weeks if you sign up, then immediately buy your required items the same day.

It's not for signing up, it's for fulfilling your contract and moving from Junior/Probation member to Senior/VIP member.

[mikematt101]

I'd appreciate some honest opinions here. I don't have 4K as yet and currently have the UK BD Saga set on pre-order. However I have the 2011 set and am really unsure whether the Saga set is worth the money. I'd be paying for remastered versions of 1-6 and a few extras I don't already have (I still have my Episode 1-3 DVDs so have all those extras). I guess it boils down to whether the remastered BDs will be noticeably better than the 2011 versions. I appreciate everyone is focussing on the 4K PQ but am hoping there will be some reviews of the BDs.

[Jlouisbarrett]

Originally Posted by trevrox

How long after signing up do I get the 60% offer?

I just joined DMC last month specifically so I could get the best deal on the Star Wars UHDs, and it took about 3 weeks total for the 60% to show up on my account. You just have to make sure to fulfill your commitment titles as fast as possible.

[WJWS Channel 13:Amity]

Originally Posted by alexdg1

Why isn't the Walmart release of Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga listed on Blu-ray.com? I know Wally World will sell it because I ordered mine in Walmart.com?

you sure that wasnt a marketplace seller? cause there isnt a Walmart version, its a best buy exclusive.

[Majoran]

Originally Posted by alexdg1

Why isn't the Walmart release of Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga listed on Blu-ray.com? I know Wally World will sell it because I ordered mine in Walmart.com?

? It’s a Best Buy exclusive as far as I know, maybe you should post a link. Are you sure you didn’t buy from a third party seller?

[Panama Jack]

Originally Posted by WJWS Channel 13:Amity

you sure that wasnt a marketplace seller? cause there isnt a Walmart version, its a best buy exclusive.

Originally Posted by Majoran

? It’s a Best Buy exclusive as far as I know, maybe you should post a link. Are you sure you didn’t buy from a third party seller?

He's talking about the UK Blu-ray set, not the US Best Buy 4K set.

Walmart in the US had the UK BD set up for pre-order for awhile for $129. It was listed as being shipped and sold from Walmart, not a marketplace seller.

That said, it's been listed as out of stock on Walmart's site for a few weeks now. Don't know if that's because of all the virus craziness, or if they only had a limited supply and have simply run out.

I was going to order it, but then noticed that you can get the same set from Amazon UK for about $70-ish shipped. So I preordered from them. No idea if I'm going to actually get it though, with all the shipping restrictions going on. But my order hasn't been canceled yet, so here's hoping!

[wildphantom]

Originally Posted by rotatingfish

I'd assumed

[Show spoiler] Exegol was a kind of save point for Palpatine and after being killed by Anakin, he made his way there and through 30+ years of having the sith cult build that fleet and a succession of failed clone bodies including Snoke(s), he seduced Ben Solo to the dark side from afar. Once the Snoke persona had fulfilled it's purpose, and he was back with a formidable fleet, he made that transmision (The dead speak!). He's lying to Kylo Ren in the opening of Episode IX when he says he wants Rey dead. He's betting his own granddaughter can beat Leia & Han's kid, and is hoping that Rey killing Kylo will sway her to the dark side permanently.

Agree with all of this. Yet imagine the thrill of being in on it, like we were in the prequels. If some of what you said had been referenced with hints in the other two films then it would have played way better.

[Show spoiler] [maybe Ren could have found the Sith cult and the cloning on Exegol at the end of 8. Knowing someone was puppeteering Snoke all along at the end of 8 would have been awesome.

Anyway, I should be watching the movie and reporting on what it looks/sounds like! I want to wait and watch the others first though. Been looking forward to having a marathon whilst in isolation. Make the best of being stuck in more or less 24/7

[trevrox]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

I just joined DMC last month specifically so I could get the best deal on the Star Wars UHDs, and it took about 3 weeks total for the 60% to show up on my account. You just have to make sure to fulfill your commitment titles as fast as possible.

Ahh, I see. I was looking in to signing up right now. It has me put 4 titles in my cart for $1 and then says after that I agree to purchase 5 movies at $19.95. I don't want to rush to spend $100 over the next couple days just to get money off on SW... seems like it would more or less even out at that point right?

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by wildphantom

I read the 'Trevorrow version' and whilst it had some good stuff, I didn't see how it would have been better than what we got.

I don't know.

Would've been neat to see a First Order controlled Coruscant. Definitely would've given the First Order a more intimidating presence now that they have successfully managed to rule over the most populous planet in the galaxy. Along with the ever growing rivalry between Hux and Kylo. But nope. Didn't happen.

The Luke taunting Kylo Ren scenes would have further continued Luke's line from TLJ "Strike me down in anger and I'll always be with you. Just like your father....See you around, kid." Sadly, Rise of Skywalker never gave us that story potential. This goes along with Yoda, Han, Leia, and others doing their best to turn Ben to the Light.

Rey accepting that she actually is a nobody rather than Abrams making her a Palpatine would solidify her story-arc that Rey doesn't need to be related to someone who comes from a greater lineage to have a place in the galaxy. Instead, she would accept who she is as an individual. Not take the Skywalker name.

Finn leading a resistance against oppressed citizens of Coruscant and rallying defected First Order Stormtroopers would have continued his story-arc as well. Being he left the FO in TFA, then went to free those 'broom boys' on Canto Bight with Rose in TLJ, to taking leadership of an army in the climatic battle brings his purpose to completion. Instead, Finn was sidelined and Rose went underused.

Regardless, having made Rey and Ben a 'Force Dyad,' goes along with the overall theme of Yin-Yang that the trilogy had for them. With that established, it alters the Prophecy told in the prequel trilogy. Anakin wasn't the Chosen One. It was Rey and Ben. It was the Force that chose Rey, awakening in her and the bloodline of Ben Solo that empowered him. Together the two were brought to one another in a twist of fate to bring balance to the Force destroying the Emperor once and for all.

However, Trevorrow's treatment further investigated the deconstruction theme that Johnson set up in The Last Jedi. Trevorrow put Rey and Ben down to separate paths of self-discovery. Rey, discovering she doesn't need to be a Kenobi, Skywalker, Palpatine, etc etc to have a place in the galaxy. It's her story. Acceptance is her journey. Also came to the realization that there doesn't need to be a Jedi Order to have peace and balance.

Whereas Kylo Ren went deeper down the path of craving ultimate power. This gave Kylo the realization that his idol and grandfather, Darth Vader failed as a Sith Lord due to him succumbing to his love of Padme. To Ben, the Sith were all irrelevant. Furthering him to have the want of being more powerful than the Sith as he believed to have been above them. In the end, Luke along with Leia and others who reached out to Ben failed to redeem him. It's a sad, tragic end to Ben's storyline.

With that sad, I am actually disappointed Disney/Lucasfilm/Kathleen Kennedy never went forward with Trevorrow's treatment. It would have given the hollowed sequel trilogy more connective tissue that is largely absent. Trevorrow continued and expanded upon the themes/ideas Rian Johnson established in The Last Jedi. JJ Abrams mainly ignored The Last Jedi, doing his best to re-work those plot threads so that it accommodated his continuation in story from The Force Awakens. Which is the one issue I have with The Rise of Skywalker; it feels like a Part 3 to Abrams' Part 1 with Part 2 missing. Because of this, Abrams had to stuff in enough (or lack thereof) story for two films into one rushed 120 minute movie.

Whew.

I apologize for my response being longer than originally intended.

[insomniac013]

It pains me to see how they STILL cant collect all extras from previous releases. in this 259 dollar set. That includes previous blu rays, store exclusive discs and the DVDs.

Empire of Dreams? The cornerstone of Star Wars extras isn't even included.

No new extras either to sweeten the deal

[Jumpman]

Anakin being the chosen one was about bringing balance to the Force but not in the way audiences expected.

Yoda was right in Episode III. They misread what the prophecy was and it makes sense why. The Jedi, at the height of the power, did not understand that they were the ones that had the Force out of balance. The sheer amount of the Jedi during the Republic proves this.

Episode VI’s narrative is not about bringing balance to the Force at all. It’s about Luke saving his father.

This is why Rian Johnson’s film belongs in the lexicon of Lucas’ story, not JJ’s films. Rian Johnson’s film understands Star Wars.

[shane01]

I much prefer Trevorrow's draft. Even if he stayed on board, it would have been altered because of Carrie's death, however.

I think The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi got to deconstruct the Original Trilogy, for better or worse, but The Rise of Skywalker decided it was in fact part of the whole Saga all along, and it just couldn't deliver on that conceit in one movie under the circumstances.

[imsounoriginal]

Meh, I think Rise of Skywalker is fine. If there's one thing I'm grateful for the Sequel Trilogy showing me, it's that people take Star Wars way too seriously (and I'm as guilty of it as anyone, or at least I was).

[Nicolawicz]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

Anakin being the chosen one was about bringing balance to the Force but not in the way audiences expected.

Yoda was right in Episode III. They misread what the prophecy was and it makes sense why. The Jedi, at the height of the power, did not understand that they were the ones that had the Force out of balance. The sheer amount of the Jedi during the Republic proves this.

That makes sense, although considering how idiotic those prequels are, I don't think Lucas meant it that way.

[nodeerforamonth]

Originally Posted by shane01

I much prefer Trevorrow's draft.

It was awful. I can't even imagine the internet outrage over Rey being overpowered or a force ghost using his hand to stop a lightsaber strike (think about it) had they used that amateurish script. I would've been one of the ragers.

[Nothing371]

Originally Posted by Mister B Gone

a B grade for ROTJ sounds about right to me.
Return of the Jedi just doesn't hold up man. Sorry but its true.
The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie of all time (and Star Wars is up there) but ROTJ is not even in the same ballpark as those movies.

yes it is.

[alexdg1]

Originally Posted by WJWS Channel 13:Amity

you sure that wasnt a marketplace seller? cause there isnt a Walmart version, its a best buy exclusive.

It probably is a third-party seller, although for some weird reason the link to the order doesn't work all that well. As it is, I didn't check to see if it was a third-party seller.

[BluOneTwo]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

Anakin being the chosen one was about bringing balance to the Force but not in the way audiences expected.

Yoda was right in Episode III. They misread what the prophecy was and it makes sense why. The Jedi, at the height of the power, did not understand that they were the ones that had the Force out of balance. The sheer amount of the Jedi during the Republic proves this.

Episode VI’s narrative is not about bringing balance to the Force at all. It’s about Luke saving his father.

This is why Rian Johnson’s film belongs in the lexicon of Lucas’ story, not JJ’s films. Rian Johnson’s film understands Star Wars.

Jedi use both the light and dark side of the Force. They use balance. The number of Jedi will not throw the Force off balance. What the Jedi don't do is go all in with the Dark Side. That keeps them from loosing balance personally. We see the Jedi use both the light and dark in all 9 movies.


The Sith actively throw the Force off balance. They use their power to bend the Force to do what they want with it.

[punisher]

Originally Posted by BluOneTwo

Jedi use both the light and dark side of the Force. They use balance. The number of Jedi will not throw the Force off balance. What the Jedi don't do is go all in with the Dark Side. That keeps them from loosing balance personally. We see the Jedi use both the light and dark in all 9 movies.


The Sith actively throw the Force off balance. They use their power to bend the Force to do what they want with it.