Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

aiman,

Is that a legit picture? If so, booyah!

Yes, you can read the article here:

http://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/A-...-to-Town.shtml

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

And, remember, the term "for kids" might not always refer to age. I am a certfied "kid" at heart and so are many other of age "adults" out there. Maybe SW is too campy or kiddie-ish for the valedictorian, smug adults out there who'd rather watch slow, boring foreign films. Thats their problem. The Sci-Fi genre has produced some of the best actual films ever made. Its assumed Sci-Fi is nerdy and dorky. But, take a look - lots of great films are set against a Sci-Fi backdrop. Its not just for nerds anymore!

Star Wars crosses all age boundaries, IMO.

When I refer to kids, I mean kids at hearts but the movie is still for kids. Adults, real adults have nothing to do with these stories. Adults in 1977 found Star Wars boring childish and a silly movie, it was true then and it is now. A kid movie mean's a movie that is for kids and the kids in all of us. Peter Pan is a kid story but the adult who still have a kid inside their heart will like it anyway but that does not make Peter Pan an adult story. It's the same for Star Wars. Just because I am 43 and enjoy Star Wars does not make it an adult movie.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by starwarsagent

Well, for me kids range between 0-15. Do you agree????

Not really, kids are from 0-120 if they choose to be such....most people when they reach 20 or so decide to become "adults" and as such the kid inside them is no longer there. I am 43 and I can tell you I am still a kid at heart and plan on being so for the rest of my life. Keep's me young.

[Jumpman]

An interesting quote from that link you and I both posted, aiman...where it states that in the Star Wars Archive special feature, it has over 100 HD mini-documentaries (2 to 5 minutes each).....

That's not even listed on stawars.com

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

An interesting quote from that link you and I both posted, aiman...where it states that in the Star Wars Archive special feature, it has over 100 HD mini-documentaries (2 to 5 minutes each).....

That's not even listed on stawars.com

Yup, those must be part of the "and more!" in the list.

As posted above, another article of the same event:

http://www.bryanreesman.com/blog/201...rs-on-blu-ray/

I wonder why Blu-ray.com wasn't invited.

[Jumpman]

I'm not great at math but if that's the case, then that's well over 300 minutes of mini-documentaries....

[ST2012]

Originally Posted by aiman04

They heard me! Exactly what I wished for!

wow, those look great!

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

I'm not great at math but if that's the case, then that's well over 300 minutes of mini-documentaries....

You're right. Maybe they saw the long list on the screen and just throw out a number. I'm thinking maybe less than 50 of those mini-docs.

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Star Wars was and will always be movies made for kids to begin with.
The reason Star Wars also took hold with many adults (and by many here I am being generous, let's not kid ourselves here the plus 40 population of the time saw Star Wars as "nice but come one" " ask my parents), it was a much different time and a much different society. Star Wars was extremely popular with kids from 5-25 and some of the 30 something. Society back then was very different then today. Vietnam, oil crises, recession....the entire planet was pretty much looking for a way to escape and Star Wars was the fun thing to escape with. Kids had the toys (I know me and my friends were kids and we had the toys, in wagon loads). Society was more innocent then, less jaded then the society of the 21st century more concern with their cell phone and social networking and complaining on the Internet Do you think disco would catch on with today's society like it did with the mid 70's society? Of course not because things were different back then, very different. The 35 years since as pretty much break out the innocent view we have of the world. We are jaded, tired, very skeptical of everything and complaining on a global scale is our new past time.

Star Wars was always for kids, then and now. Only the jaded view and the pink tinted glasses some use make them thing it was a serious thing back 35 years ago. By the way, if Planet Of The Ape was such a adult film, how come the adults did not go see it en masses, why did it not break box offices records? Or 2001? Or any other scifi movies? Because most adult see scifi as kid stuff, then and now. Some adults will like it, of course they will. I am 43 and I enjoy scifi! Maybe because as a kid I enjoyed it but the kids who did not (and there are some) as adult they can't stand it. Plus even if they did, a lot of people stop caring about such things as they grow older, that is just a sad fact but the truth as well. They look at it as kid stuff and they are adult now and want adult entertainment, not kid stuff, never mind they use to enjoy it once.

Planet of the Apes was very much a box office success. It was made on a budget of 5 million dollars and earned 32 worldwide in the box office.

Originally Posted by Ryan0503

Here is a bit of REAL news to break up all the debates. You can read the full article here

That 'review' is ridiculous. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the only film that holds up in HD? Is he joking?

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by aiman04

They heard me! Exactly what I wished for!

Awesome, I love digibooks and I'll certainly grab it for my favorite movies of all time. No weird need for uniformity on my BD/DVD shelf here.

[oaguirre]

Originally Posted by aiman04

They heard me! Exactly what I wished for!

Is that a legit picture? Digibook for the entire saga? Awesome!

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by starwarsagent

Well, for me kids range between 0-15. Do you agree????

Well of course - but I clearly stated that the phrase "kids" can often mean us adult-age people that tend to gravitate to "kid-centric" films and hobbies. Im sure you've heard the phrase "a kid at heart"...right? Ya know - someone who doesnt take anything too seriously, has fun at work and at play, easy-going....like a kid. That would be me

Oh and, 0 years old maens you are at best a developing fetus so you cant be a kid. lets say the range is 1 thru 15, not 0 thru 15.

[bboisvert]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Oh and, 0 years old maens you are at best a developing fetus

Might want to recheck your math on that one...

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Oh and, 0 years old maens you are at best a developing fetus so you cant be a kid. lets say the range is 1 thru 15, not 0 thru 15.

What if you're 3 months.

[nmycon]

Originally Posted by oaguirre

Is that a legit picture? Digibook for the entire saga? Awesome!

Thats not a digibook...

I digibook would be like Dirty Harry, Batman, The Shawshank Redemption, etc.

These have 20-30 paper pages of info and a disc tray at the back.

This set (as well as the Alien Anthology) is would just be several cardboard pages. 5 would be required to hold all of the discs and maybe a couple sides would be used for pictures.

Completely different from a digibook.


THIS is a digibook

[Chordata]

I don't care what it's technically called, it's more a digibook than it is a regular case. I'm fine with either.

[chip75]

I'm shocked that the separate trilogies and the complete set have two different packaging styles, I wouldn't have guessed that! They look great though.

Although the complete set doesn't look as robust as I thought it would and the separate trilogies look compact to say the least. I wonder if the UK will get the Digibook? We've missed out in the past.

On the Star Wars for kids thing, it was most definately designed for kids but due to the climate at the time adults wanted and really needed the kind of escapism that Star Wars provided, it wouldn't have been a huge success it was without the crossover audience it found. Sure the merchandise was aimed at kids but when those kids grew up so did the collectables and we see a lot of high-end stuff in members galleries here.

As for sci-fi/fantasy been aimed at children or been a lesser form of entertainment it's really not accurate some of the best work in movies and literature has been science fiction and it's also challenged tabboos and subjects when other mediums/genres have been to afraid to tread.

Roll on September the 12th (for us Brits)....

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by chip75

I'm shocked that the separate trilogies and the complete set have two different packaging styles, I wouldn't have guessed that! They look great though.

A way to try to hook in the collectors in some of us

[chip75]

Originally Posted by nmycon

Thats not a digibook...

A Digibook is a case which has it's discs on pages (like a book) it doesn't have to have actual pages. A Digipak uses the gatefold system to house it's discs.

I'd class the complete set as a Digibook.

[Petyr_Baelish]

I'm betting the complete saga is going to be like the sopranos which the cardboard pockets you pull the discs out of.