Why not just reshoot the entire fucking Trilogy? MacCaulay Culkin as Luke, he's about the right age, Hilary Duff as Leia, Christ-only-knows-who as Han. . . It's because of this the Prequel Trilogy sucks so much, Lucas knows he can come back and fix it all later.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Luckily, I've got the original trilogy on laserdisc and the special edition on widescreen VHS. I'll still get these DVD's, but I've got the non-spoiled version still.
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
wtf? Yay for Hayden Christensen... Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
I think the positive changes will outweigh the questionable ones, but I think the decision to make the Stormtroopers confirmed clones, although there's a certain logic to it, feels bad. We obviously saw the clones practicing unarmed combat in the pens at Camino, so now the Old-Trilogy troopers have no excuse for sucking in combat, they should be elite...
I like the saberfixing, that frame when Obi-Wan's saber disappears almost entirely on the Death Star has always bugged me. And Luke's unproportional one in ROTJ.
Too bad they didn't fix crappy CGI-Jabba at Mos Eisley in the ANH-SE.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Er, apparently they have. . .
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Why does this look like a particularly crappy Photoshop job?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I'd say cause it is blue/greenscreen work. They weren't really hovering above a desert on some sort of hover-barge. A helicopter would have taken the footage and they composited it together at a later stage.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
No No No NO No NO NO NO NO NONONNONONONONONO!
Hayden Chritensen at the end of ROTJ (anyone click the link for the rip!?!) is WRONG. PLAIN WRONG. It has each of them in the form when they died... Annakin might have looked like that when he 'turned' but he 'turned back' at the end of ROTJ that is why we see his older form as a Jedi Spirit - like the older Obi Wan and older Yoda. This just doesn't sit right with me. PLUS Christensen doesn't really look like he's interacting with the others and has that same blank look he had for pretty much all of Attack of the Clones! NO! Bring back old Annakin!
Gawd just let us have the original versions on DVD!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Oh and they didn't change the song back to the Yub Yub song - which REALLY disappointed me in '97.
I love the Yub Yub song. Can you get it anywhere on the net? Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
This I like. Much. The other confirmed changes I can live with (barely), since they're just cosmetic.
Christiansen one-upping Sebastian Shaw, however, is enough to make me choke on my own vomit.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
'scuse me while I kiss this guy. *beow-deow-deow, boah-bwaaaw-bwaw, boah-bwaaw-bwaw*
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
but why doesn't this projection look like other projections we've seen? That looks like they just dropped the opacity on a Photoshop layer.
And the least they could've done is put Hayden in old man makeup. Or use an image of McGregor and the young Yoda puppet. Consistancy is all I ask for.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Agree whole-heartedly with you Aban. They aren't being consistent. The whole POINT of it is the rise, fall, and redemption of Annakin Skywalker - and the end of the ROTJ had that - him as an OLD MAN with the aid of his son. He may have turned back in ROTS but he 'died'/'became one with the force' etc. at the end of ROTJ.
And reguards the title, I've told two people - both unrelated and different - they both said after I told them "Revenge of the Sith" they said... "Revenge of the Nerds". Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Are they implying that the Sith are nerds?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: but why doesn't this projection look like other projections we've seen? That looks like they just dropped the opacity on a Photoshop layer.
And the least they could've done is put Hayden in old man makeup. Or use an image of McGregor and the young Yoda puppet. Consistancy is all I ask for.
I agree....Christensen should've been aged via makeup.
The Emperor's hologram is waaaay too crisp, but, hey, he should have the very best holoprojector so...
Jabba still looks like shit: not even vaguely like there's a big sluggo alien there.
The awful Ewok song may well cause me to leave the theatre early- it's replacment with good music is the one redeeming feature of the current S.E.
It could be far worse though: I heard a rumor a while back that Hayden would be in makeup as helmet-less Vader for the "redemption" scene in RTOJ. Thankfully, that has not come to pass. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
They did that, they'd HAVE to have Vader vaporise or transmogrify or discombobulate or whatever it's called. Given his wooden acting, it'd be the only way anyone could tell he was supposed to be dead.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Regarding the quality of some of the shots, according to an "insider" on theforce.net, the images from those links are rough and unfinished. ILM is supposedly going to put a great deal of effort into making the final shots fit with the original footage, unlike when they did the '97 special editions, which were basically "tests" for what could potentially be done with a project such as this.
I really wouldn't have any problem with this if the original versions were being released as well, but as it stands, I'm rather pissed at Lucas for trying to replace the films that shaped modern popular culture and have been beloved by fans for decades. Bleh.
-MMoM Posted by newark (Member # 888) on :
Lest we forget, there is the thirtieth anniversary of the first film's release in 1977. I am thinking here that Mr. Lucas hasn't completed his revisions just yet. As he succintly put it, a film is never finished, just a thing in flux.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
What he needs is a swift kick in the flux.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
What good would that do? You'd just scare him away, then he'll certainly never listen to fan wishes again... Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Oh, if it was a hard enough kick, he would.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
A BOOT COVERED IN MONEY
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Well pardon us, Mr. Gucci loafers.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Lucas listening to fans is like Bermbraga listening to fans.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Far far less.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
POsted over at SSM:
quote: Ways Lucas could screw up Episode III:
11. Show Amidala being artificially inseminated by C3P0. 10. Have Greedo's father shoot Han's father. 9. Have the Empire invade the planet of Erak on the pretext that they have weapons of mass destruction. 8. Anakin shouting at the end, "I'll get you, Obi Wan, if it's the last thing I do!" 7. Forgetting the whole plot and killing Anakin and Yoda. 6. Tell the actors and actresses that they were over-emoting during the last two movies, and they should act with less excitement. 5. End the movie with the Sith holding a large celebratory barbecue in the woods, with fireworks bursting overhead. 4. Cast John Stamos and Dave Coulier as Luke and Leia's Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey 3. Have the actors make light sabre and blaster sound effects themselves 2. Have the incident that finally pushes Anakin over to the dark side, be the Jedi Council making fun of his new haircut 1. Entitle it Revenge of the Sith, and continue to write and direct it on his own.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
Without context, things are usually unfunny, though I think even with context, this would be too.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Ah...I fixed the part that did not copy over...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Far far less.
Far far less like Bermbraga or... Far far less listening than Bermbraga?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Lucas is listening less that Berman/Braga are/were.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Like, I cannot physically roll my eyes enough.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Try...mabye you'll get to see your frontal lobe...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Well no. 1 screwed up episode I and II.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Try...mabye you'll get to see your frontal lobe...
No... Ned Flanders removed it. Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Ah "Re-Neducation".
Alas poor Sol! I knew him, Andrew: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his posts a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination he is!
Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the forums on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
LOL! WTF!?! Shak-e-speare?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yeah, a take on Hamlet. Nothing's too classic for 'ol Sollie. Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
To kidnap this thread and drag its chloroformed, frothing and peeing husk back on topic, the original thread the bayou-bumpkin linked to in the first post here has also been updated, with more piccies now, showing the cleared-up movie quality. This is a good change.
"Threads feeding on threads? How perverse."
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Ultra-Bumkin"?!? HA!
Anakin looks like he became a roadie for Pearl Jam in the next life.... Truly he IS in hell.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Oh my God! They killed Kenny!
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Nice, you can see Kenobi's saber still lit, although it blends in with the wall lighting.
Posted by MarianLH (Member # 1102) on :
Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
quote: POsted over at SSM: 3. Have the actors make light sabre and blaster sound effects themselves .
You know, I read somewhere that Ewan McGregor was making lightsaber noises during his scenes in Episode I...until the sound guys finally told him to knock it off, and "leave it to the professionals."
Marian
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yes, I've heard that, too. Probably because that story is even older than this thread...
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