the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

he has a son Jett, born in 1993 a contraction of jango fett

I made up the last bit I think

The inside of Lucas's head must be so weird

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/253932597_a23322970f.jpg

right so he's like 17:

a: all his sex and rap-related suggestions were nixed
b: any further suggestions he made were REALLY SULLEN AND SARCASTIC

yeah I bet that's where the nooooooo came from but he was six or less and racist for the phantom menace hence jar-jar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAVn4DCB1wQ

"jett" is the name of the hero in l ron hubbard's "battlefield earth" series

small kids would request actually interesting insertions, like a FIRE ENGINE and a TIGER

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by the way i can not OTM this enough

The inside of Lucas's head must be so weird (not that the outside isn't weird)

underrated post

george lucas in '88

The destruction of our film heritage, which is the focus of concern today, is only the tip of the iceberg. American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.

oops meant to quote this one:

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as "when life begins" or "when it should be appropriately terminated," but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-g3BFJWhqI&feature=related

j/k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPKZhXth7M

2 crimes in 1 day!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/15/star-wars-blu-ray-lucasfilm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/15/carrie-fisher-princess-leia-lucas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39lCjSAdztE&feature=fvsr

So my wife surprised me and bought the Blu-Ray set for us. We ended up watching (at her request), the first four movies (in chronological order) in bits and pieces over the last four days. They look great, even if the content is still laughable in the prequels. Still, I was reminded of the sequences that I do love - the pod race in Ep 1, some of the epic space battes in 3, etc.

The deleted scenes are laughable though. Not much beyond rough storyboarding, kinda cool I guess if you are into the development of the CGI stuff, seeing very early cuts of things.

One thing I'm still not sure about: did they really change obi-wan's "dragon call" in the tuscan raiders scene? I couldn't tell if that was legit lucas mentalism or clever internet fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6FkzFyfeE

No, they didn't change that. I thought that had been revealed as a hoax last week. Anyway, from what I saw of Ep 4 yesterday, they didn't change anything beyond what had already been changed with the last DVD issue.

Watched Eps. 1 & 2 over the weekend. They do look and sound fantastic, that's for damned sure. One addition I noticed in Ep. 2: When Anakin is having his nightmare about his mother, they dubbed in some of her screams, so it looks less like he's having a wet dream.

... or is he having the world's most disturbing wet dream

Don't.

I didn't notice that nightmare thing! To be fair, I should mention that I was watching all of these in about 20 minutes bursts while watching my newborn son so I should be excused if I missed some details.

I think these work best as movies to watch while you cook dinner/do laundry/feed baby etc

otm, particularly if you time your distractions to conincide with all of the Naboo scenes in Ep 2

"You're so...

...beautiful."

One thing I did notice when watching Episode IV yesterday, is how stilted and awful the CGI stuff added to the Mos Eisley scene looks in comparison to the CGI stuff in the prequels. There is one shot in particular, with a very jerky and stilted Threepio, that reveals the limitations, particularly in crisp Blu-Ray on a big screen.

I thought that had been revealed as a hoax last week

Really? So the dragon call is the original? Cos that new clip sounds like someone getting goosed and then growling into a delay pedal. But in a really crappy way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCEJYiaNtk

Watched some of the new deleted scenes on youtube today. This is the coolest thing ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPpWlTs48Bg

I'd seen a camera job of part of this but, wow, damn. I think that new shot of Darth Vader walking down a corridor is almost as cool as Luke Skywalker putting together his lightsaber and that last shot of the Millennium Falcon parked in the desert. This scene is better than 90% of the finished movie.

Hadn't watched the original trilogy deleted scenes yet, that one alone blows away every single one for the prequels (unsurprisingly).

I want more Hoth footage.

They should have dubbed Hayden's voice in for Vader's. That would have been awesome.

good deleted stuff. is there much more on the dvd box?

if anyone has the time to engage in my frivolity: what is the main menu like?

i remember being particularly agitated at my 2004 cuts for the "BRUM BRUUUUUUUUUM BRUM" that started off each and every time you put it in the disk. god dammit, save that for when it actually happens! b/c when it does, it's kinda underwhelming/annoying

it's like when dvd's first started coming out and KEY SCENES were just used as ladeedadeedadee infinite loop gif images in the background, while i'm trying to sync my remote w/ the dvd player

There is probably eight or nine total deleted scenes for the prequels, but they are all pretty much worthless - low quality storyboard type with basic 3D stand-in renderings for any efx, etc. And they don't add anything at all plotwise. The only even close to interesting one is the extended lightsaber battle between Darth Maul and Qui-Gon at the ship on Tatooine, but again, pretty low quality. Haven't delved into the extras on the original trilogy yet.

The DVD menus are decent, but tbh nothing special considering how well done a lot of Blu-Ray menu screens have been lately. The music isn't as jarring or whatever, good background. Functional, but not really as impressive as I'd hoped.

can't believe any of you are actually buying this shit

mind you i don't typically ask about movie menus,

but sometimes when you're presenting a movie to your friends that you've seen before and they haven't do i suddenly become conscious of them and utterly disappointed in how tacky/boring they happen to be. as an example, i've always loved everything the criterion collection art dept. does w/ the graphic design element of their movies, but a black screen with the movie title and an elongated underline can only be seen 17 times before i start to notice

/rant

xpost

a boycott against george lucas is useless. i'm only making this statistic up, but i'm certain purchases made for 14yr old sons/as presents to children & filmic illiterates far outnumbers the admittedly large base of old fans whom've noticed the changes, but are buying this shit anyways b/c they love star wars that much

i mean there must be 890732897 petitions in existence *right now* demanding that george lucas release the originals, unedited

NOPE

can't believe any of you are actually buying this shit

Well, like I said, my wife surprised me with this, knowing that I loved the originals and assuming I would want them on Blu-Ray.

Well, you did say something about a baby, so I guess you can't disappear in the night never to be seen again at this point.

Lol, no, and her heart was in the right place. I mean, its pointless to hold out for the originals at this point, so I'll take gorgeous looking crappy movies and re-works over nothing.

can't believe any of you are actually buying this shit

Gotta say that seeing the remastered deleted scenes and all the behind the scenes stuff, it looks pretty tantalizing. I bought the '95 original VHS box so I passed up on the Special Edition that soon followed. The lameness of the prequels turned me off to getting the DVDs. But seeing some of the bonus footage on this set, I'm far more curious than I thought I would be.

I now own the original trilogy on VHS, not sure the dates but I definitely got them when I was still in high school so it was pre-1994, the Special Edition VHS, the Special Edition DVDs, the prequel DVDs as they came out individually, the original trilogy 2004 DVDs, and now the Blu-Ray Complete Saga thing. I'm that guy, apparently. But, in my defense, only the Special Edition DVD set was what I paid for myself, the rest have been given as gifts.

good god

GL probably could have kept making Star Wars movies or TV shows or whatever but i think his divorce was so traumatic and tied up with SW that by the end he wanted nothing to do with it for a while. Which is a shame, cos he probably could have a dozen Star Wars movies, had he also ignored tinkering with the original trilogy. The CGI work developed alongside the films, there would be no reason for Special Editions. There would just be more movies.

I kinda wish he would make more movies, tbh. The prequels were horrible films but great entertaining b-movie stuff.

10bucks says lucas will get his own 8 1/2 come 2033, directed by martin scorses's brain-in-a-jar and it'll revolve around him being the world's most celebrated mastermind behind the biggest cultural phenomenon yet, and his struggle to cope with it in the consecutive years after. it'll be surreal-ish and involve george lucas's life being re-edited with crappy cgi, a la Run Lola Run

the last scene will be a portraiture of george lucas against a black background, soundtracked by trent reznor, as a mouse cursor edits out his turkey wattle

So you're saying the last scene will last about 35 minutes?

http://i.imgur.com/mVOX6.jpg