the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

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Had those! The mask was disappointing. The cereal was good.

hamill sounds surprisingly wkiw in that interview.

I recently watched this, Star Wars Revisited, which is now basically the definitive version, imo. The picture quality and sound are superb too. Fuck the SEs.

So what exactly is the revisited version? It isn't really clear to me how he's deciding to make a lot of these changes. What was it like for you?

I keep seeing references to new Laserdisc rips of the OT but my searches have come up empty. I think those would pretty much be the definitive versions.

Also it is somewhat funny that there exists a whole facet of fandom intent on "recreating the original cuts" and then end up doing things like adding in new CGI Tie Fighters and putting blinking lights on Darth Vader's voice box. Isn't all that why you guys were pissed off at GL in the first place?

yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out about the Revisited version. It seems like less of an effort to bring back the original versions and more just this guy getting up to the same highjinx that got everyone pissed at Lucas.

Is Revisited HD for New Hope done?

I only watch the ASCII version of SW now. http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ (/hipster)

Yeah I don't get the Revisited nerds at all. I'd be down if they were intent on recreating the theatrical cuts, but this whole "OH GOD GEORGE DON'T MESS WITH MY MOVIES AGAIN, but here, let me tell you how *I* think they should look" is nagl.

Revisited isn't about taking it back to the the original as it was in '77. It's more like Blade Runner: the Final Cut, in that it corrects multiple errors and inconsistencies, and shonky effects, jarring edits etc. As well as cutting out, cutting back, or re-doing some of the CG revisions on the SEs. It's amazing to me that ILM didn't do this, mostly basic, work themselves, but they didn't. Now it has been done. The only quibble I might have is that the Revisited guy may have overstepped his mark on the final battle over the Death Star (which looks fkn excellent now, btw). He's pretty much redone the whole thing in CG quite liked the original model work. That said, it does look better, and play better, than it has ever done. So...

Cannot wait for Empire Revisited tbh.

I quite like the original model work.

(Chewie now gets his medal, as well)

Is there an official place to download this or is it just available through various file sharing sites?

All that stuff is available thru illicit channels. A cool thing about GL is that he doesn't necessarily hunt down fan-made reinterpretations of his stuff.

Oi, I'm really nerding out on Star Wars recently. Here's a story about a rare Technicolor print of the original. Check out the comparison between it (bottom) and the DVD (top):

http://savestarwars.com/images/goutstluke.jpg
http://savestarwars.com/images/goutstluke.jpg

http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html

That link is great! Would dearly love to see the original Star Wars in the cinema again, the Technicolor print looks gorgeous.

I've been on a Star Wars Ripoffs kick lately, with "Battle Beyond the Stars" and now watching "Starcrash". I'm starting to enjoy them more than the genuine article. There are lots of gratuitous special effects, silly plot points, hotter babes, and usually some gorgeous pulp-style paintings used for planets. Plus since the plots and acting are so cheesy, you can just kind of run them in the background while you're doing other things.

In "Starcrash" there is a great scene where the Emperor very smugly commands his spaceship "Computer, STOP THE FLOW OF TIME!" so they can escape a nuclear holocaust. This comes right after David Hasslehof has a light saber duel with two Harryhausen-style robots. The Luke Skywalker guy has a huge fro and rainbow-colored Force powers. The main damsel goes through the film in a space bikini and thigh high boots, and she has some awesome hot mess eyes. The main villain looks like a Liberace version of an Italian crime boss and has the greatest evil laugh ever. Some of the effects sequences resemble 60's psychedelic light shows more than anything. Lots of great, quotable batshit lines throughout.

I think the greatest gift "Star Wars" inadvertently gave was the contemporary ripoffs. Does anyone have any favorites?

Holy crap the bad spaceship is a giant hand that turns into a fist!

Battle Beyond the Stars is hilarious

giant boob ship!

In "Star Crash" they fire torpedoes that have soldiers in them! They fly in through the window and the guys pop out and star shooting. LOL

I love Star Crash.

One thing I see is that lots of these films are using scenes that actually ended up in the "Star Wars" sequels, which were made after these. For instance, "Star Crash" has the ice planet (Hoth) and the girl gets kidnapped by the savages being saved by a golden god (Ewoks).

last night i had a dream that george lucas was shooting at me with a laser (it was some sort of new addition to one of the movies) while i yelled "OCCUPY HOTH" at him

omg

where might you find Star Crash or Battle Beyond the Stars? Netflix doesn't seem to have either...

Amazon has 'em.

Torrents.

another noted ripoff is Kinji Fukasaku's "Message From Space"

http://lotuswatcher.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/battlebeyond1.jpg

http://brianorndorf.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ee7b642883301538f4d5727970b-500wi

^^^George Peppard

Message from Space looks great. Vic Morrow!

Is that a ship, an alien's head, or a scrotum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaEGDNeDQk

Is that a ship, an alien's head, or a scrotum?

That is a ship, and I'm pretty sure they've come out and said they were boobs. The ship has nothing on Syb Danning tho.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iBuNz7Kv1jk/TIUubJ-kuUI/AAAAAAAAA2o/6vmCX5EtfgE/s1600/Battle+Beyond+the+Stars.jpg

looks more like a nutsack with ovaries

looks like Hammerhead!

Here are some still from Star Crash, emphasis on the crazy lofi effects. When they go into hyperspace, it does some extremely gritty video feedback stuff that looks very chillwave.

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hmm that looks kind of awesome!

Note to self: Watch Starcrash this weekend.

srs

David Hasselhoff is in Star Crash, fwiw

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/ht_darth_vader_burger_nt_120106_wblog.jpg

jedi burger is totally scarier

giant jedi mouth w/mayo teeth & cheesy tongue

For the Jedi it is time to eat as well. Eat, eat. Hot. Good food, hm? Good, hmm?

Also you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as the burger is slowly digested in your stomach over a thousand years.

what are those chunks on the top of the jedi burger?

Garlic or brie maybe?