Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[skyofcrack]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

When do reviewers get their hands on these?

It says at the end of those scans that there's a review on page 134. Any chance of getting a scan of the review?

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by HandyDandy

Probably in about a week.

But i suspect they may already have them and are waiting to hear from Fox with the go ahead to put up their review.

Reviewers have not gotten copies yet. Fox titles are typically received the day of release or maybe a day earlier for Blu-ray titles. This has been the case for quite sometime now, probably to prevent copies from going onto torrent sites. I wouldn't expect reviews until the day of release or later.

[skyofcrack]

Originally Posted by Chordata

Once again, you can see almost all of those scenes in those spectacular fan-made YouTube documentaries on the OT. The Biggs one is awful - such a great decision to cut it. The pacing was bad and made Luke look like a bigger wuss than he is.

I do wish the ROTJ scenes remained, however. Those add some depth to an otherwise shallow movie.

I've seen all those scenes but I haven't come across any Wompa attack scene as described in this article.

[jyenor]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

So Spielberg staged Order 66, the Wookie Battle, the Yoda/Palpatine Battle, part of the Mustafar duel and the Grievous chase?

I always understood he worked on the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel, and an unknown second scene, I didn't know he worked on so many other scenes in the movie.

Also during filming Francis Ford Coppola flew down to Austrilia to visit Lucas on set and did some uncredited second unit work for Revenge of the Sith for fun for a few days.

There was even pictures of him on set doing this captured by the StarWars.com web cam that you could pay to view that was running all throught production but I don't think anything from that is still floating around out there online.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by georgec

Enjoy your one-week suspension.

This board only allows blind praise and defense of the deity Lucas. I've made similar points as you and I've been called a bully, a whiner, an a**hole, and other things before being suspended while those hurling the real hatred and insults go unnoticed.

Regarding these blu-rays with all the tidbits of additional changes, Matthew Wood remixing everything, etc., I'm really curious to see what reviewers say and how the lists of all changes from the 2004 versions add up.

Not to drag us off topic... but I'm sure that's not what the ban is for. Pro and Anti Lucas people are suspended equally.

They don't want any discussion of the actual films in the thread. Which I know sounds weird, but eh... maybe they'll relax once the films are actually out. Nor do they want continued Pro-Lucas/Anti-Lucas debates. Or Pro-Prequel/Anti-Preque debates. Nor do they want bickering and fighting. Light discussion related to the actual Blu-Rays and any new info that surfaces about them is on topic. Continued attempts to drag it off topic after the Mods spent HOURS cleaning it is what isn't allowed. From what I was told this morning, like 20 pages had to be dealt with. That's all.

[earmullet]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

I do feel a tiny bit sorry for Frank Oz, since he worked so hard to bring Yoda back to life for "Phantom Menace", but the digital version does match a lot better with the other prequels.

Based on what Frank Oz said in some of the commentary on the Episode II DVD and since, I don't think he cares much.

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by skyofcrack

It says at the end of those scans that there's a review on page 134. Any chance of getting a scan of the review?

Yeah I would be interested to see what the review says as well. My guess is it's probably BS and will be written quite vaguely.

[jyenor]

Originally Posted by earmullet

Based on what Frank Oz said in some of the commentary on the Episode II DVD and since, I don't he cares much.

Plus by 1999 Frank Oz did not enjoy doing puppetry at all. At his older age it was far harder for him to work the puppet (he even complained as much in some behind the scenes TPM footage). He had retired completely from The Muppets by this point due to that as well, and to this day he only will do one day of puppetry on Sesame Street each new season because of how much harder it is to operate puppets once you start getting advanced in the years.

[gallandro]

Originally Posted by earmullet

Based on what Frank Oz said in some of the commentary on the Episode II DVD and since, I don't he cares much.

True, in fact in the Episode I DVD documentary Oz is showed some footage of one of the digital creatures in the film. He turns to GL and says, "You don't need me anymore."

Yancy

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

For Revenge of the Sith, Spielberg worked on the animatics for the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan, and at the time, it was stated he worked on an unknown other scene. After having seen the film, I speculated the "other scene" was the Grievous/Obi-Wan chase. So if there is a "Spielberg chase" feature, I bet my deduction was right, and it's his animatics for the Grievous/Obi-Wan chase on Utapau or whatever the name of the sink-hole planet is.

He also "Directed" the opening space battle

[Roonan]

Originally Posted by joliefan

will lucas get every single doller out of this release or will it go to 20 century fox too ?

Of course Fox will get some of it. They are the ones who are publishing it.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by skyofcrack

It says at the end of those scans that there's a review on page 134. Any chance of getting a scan of the review?

Warning Empire hate Grain and loved Predator Ultimate Hunter.

[Jumpman]

gallandro,

I remember that moment about Oz from the documentary. That was a pretty telling moment from Oz.

The fact that Lucas hasn't touched the Yoda from Episodes V and VI should be a clear indication of what he thinks of Oz's work.

I just think he wanted digital from the get go with Yoda in the Prequels because he knew he would have to involve Yoda in more of the action during this part of the saga.

[MrJoeKalel]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

He also "Directed" the opening space battle

It's no wonder why ROTS is such a better movie.

Still, best bet is to keep either the B&N and DD preorders? I really don't care in BB's film cell 'exclusive'.

[Roonan]

Originally Posted by mvckalel

It's no wonder why ROTS is such a better movie.

Debatable.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by RodChester

Yeah I would be interested to see what the review says as well. My guess is it's probably BS and will be written quite vaguely.

I can't remember one negative magazine review of the 2004 DVD's. In fact a lot of magazines used A New Hope to benchtests TV's and players.

EMPIRE rarely even go into detail with their BD reviews they rarely mention picture and sound. They didn't mention 'Greengate' with The Fellowship of the Rings' or that Super was 1080i. They don't even give a guide price for the releases anymore (even books).

Shame as I stopped buying one of the UK's top DVD/BD magazine because the reviewers got weird....

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by mvckalel

It's no wonder why ROTS is such a better movie.

Because Spielberg has done anything decent in the last decade???

[MrJoeKalel]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Because Spielberg has done anything decent in the last decade???

Because he directed good scenes. Granted, that doesn't mean he wrote them or cut the scenes, but it has a 'feel', he IS strong with the force.

[fgomike]

How many of you are going to junk the packaging and put the discs in individual cases? I'm concerned about scratching the disc with the way they have it now.

[skyofcrack]

Originally Posted by fgomike

How many of you are going to junk the packaging and put the discs in individual cases? I'm concerned about scratching the disc with the way they have it now.

Unless the discs are in danger of falling out, I'm going to keep them in (Complete Saga packaging). BD's are pretty tough these days. I've had floaters arrive in the mail with not a scratch on them.