the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

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

yes, 35 minutes sounds about correct, but his face will continued to be edited until entire portions of his body are removed and george lucas eventually becomes the abyss, black and without feeling for about 10 minutes (which serves as allegory for time he spent editing his script)

his breathing through a oxygen mask will soundtrack the credits

i am a creative genius

and then the deleted scenes will consist of 66 minutes of scrapped jarjar binks skits

God, I just arrived at this thread from the wikipedia article for LingChi. xp

Star Wars is the bestselling catalog Blu-ray Disc of all time, including 515,000 units sold in North America in its first week alone. This worldwide consumer spend included $38 million in North America – unprecedented for a 9-disc Blu-ray collection at a premium price

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/star-wars-complete-saga-on-blu-ray-breaks-global-sales-records/

I watched ESB last week and it was a TREAT. Looks absolutely gorgeous. But IMO the color saturation is a bit much, and the music should be louder throughout the film. I felt like the voices and effects were too loud, and the music was just slightly underwhelming, particularly in the asteroid belt scene where the TIE fighters are getting smashed. I remember seeing the VHS as a kid and the music at that part was way more in-your-face.

I don't think I've sat through it since before the prequels, because when Darth has a chat w the new Emperor it totally caught me off guard. Instantly I thought back to the prequel trilogy. Here I don't really think the continuity works, cos the Emperor says something akin to "Luke is the son of Anakin Skywalker", as if Darth Vader doesn't identify with that person. But when he was suited up at the end of Ep III, the first thing he asks is about Padme. I wish i could remember what the original Emperor speech was (with the way scarier looking OG hologram) but I think I'm going to see out the new HD Laserdisc rips of the original trilogy that are floating around...

I guess you could argue he doesn't say anything about Luke to the Emperor cos he's already started plotting against him.

i thought the empire knowing the anakin connection was already established in the first movie when they bbqed owen and beru?

They did that because they didn't/couldn't tell where the droids were! I don't think they ever established that Vader knew the specific farm where the droids were.

luke blows up the death star and becomes a famous rebel commander.

Well, in that movie the empire were after the droids. The stormtroopers specifically tracked them down after slaughtering the jawas who had sold them to uncle owen. I don't know if anyone had made a connection. I guess Vader could have sensed Luke down there from up on Leia's ship. Its not supported by the film though.

xxp

luke blows up the death star and becomes a famous rebel commander.

― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Friday, September 23, 2011 1:17 PM (0 seconds ago)

^^ this

Was it in ESB when the Emperor says something about "the son of skywalker" or is that purely in ROTJ?

he says that in the original esb, i think, even when he's played by rick baker's wife wearing monster makeup

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

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:30 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

he directed the action portions of the upcoming Red Tails, apparently. though i can't even imagine why you'd come away from the prequels craving more punishment

Darth developed Post-traumatic stress, and blanked out the knowledge of his past life...didn't resurface until Luke surfaced...that'd be my retcon.

hiding a kid with his closest blood relatives is kind of a gimme to the empire, though. darth was prolly all watevs, long as i don't have to pay support until the death star thing.

Also "The Emperor has forseen this" about Darth & Luke taking him out. Vader was telling his kid the truth, presumably, cos he also tells him that he's his father, and that's the truth. Maybe Vader finds out during Ep IV and is pissed off at Obi-Wan for hiding Luke and Leia from him, so that's why he kills him.

Yeah, probably not, otherwise he wouldn't be out there trying to shoot Luke down in the Death Star trench.

Vader doesn't even really know about Luke until after Ep 4 happens!

So the death star blows up. Vader has to talk to the Emperor, says "The force was strong in the dude that blew up our Death Star, my master". Emperor is like, "Btw, dude is your kid."

I'm guessing that's where another "Nooooooooooo!" would go.

there's a (now probably non-canon) comic where the emperor is cackling that he knows that vader is really anakin, like vader's been keeping it a secret from him, too.

What happened to those 3-D ified Star Wars editions? Because it is very important that they come out, to save 3-D.

3D Phantom Menace is out February 2012

Oh man I can't wait to feel like I'm being violated by Jar Jar's tongue.

there will presumably be inserted bits with lightsabers poking right out of the screen at you and that

The real question is: what were the rebels doing flying around Tatooine and how did the Empire find them there? Isn't it supposed to be way out in the middle of nowhere? Seems like a rather big coincidence.

Tatooine is supposed to be this distant, inconsequential place, well past the scope of the Republic/Empire, yet the characters end up there in nearly every film.

^^^ That. Because if you look at a map like this one, you wonder what the hell kind of route would have taken them past Tattooine en route to Alderaan.

C'mon guys

Its fun to think of this stuff, if kind of pointless. I don't see how this is any worse than those threads that spin into endless meta debate about which universes fictional characters reside in and how they cross over with real like contemporaries.

Because if you look at a map like this one

why would i be doing a thing like that now

i'm glad i don't know what you're referring to there xpost

You don't have to. I was just contributing to Moodles' musings. I forgot that ILX is most definitely not the place to geek out over nerdy details.

You better look at the map. Many Bothans died to bring you that information.

lol

At the beginning of ep IV, does Darth Vader recall that he grew up on Tatooine?

omg my 10 year old self's heart exploded with joy looking at that map

if you look at a map like this one, you wonder what the hell kind of route would have taken them past Tattooine en route to Alderaan.

You mean like the fact they were there was a diplomatic mission for Leia to get a message to General Obi-wan?

The "diplomatic misson" was cover, but you are right, they weren't actually travelling to Alderaan (also part of cover story).

Basically it comes down to:

1. Disturbance in force tracked to young force-sensitive kid on Tatooine
2. Kid revisits planet attempting to see dying/dead mother, meets stepfamily
3. Jedi dumps kid with said extended family on said planet after his father self-destructs, then hides in cave there.
4. In escaping the planet, jedi finds outlaw hotshot pilot/smuggler who is on the planet after working for local crime lord
5. Said crime lord pays a bounty hunter to track down and capture said smuggler, causing his friends to come get him (and therefore providing jedi kid to visit his mentor's old home

The only really out there part is Han getting dragged back to this backwater, which was kind of odd for him to have been at to begin with

Particularly odd since he was trying to *avoid* Jabba's bounty hunters.