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In retrospect, Return of the Jedi was awesome

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blanghorst said:
Looks like she might need some new medicine, the infection is spreading!

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Well, sir - that second picture is a Paris Hilton....
 
I always thought the Ewoks were added for marketing purposes and to capture the 9 year old girl demographic. Ewok toys were everywhere and they even had their own spin-off show.

I'm guessing Ewoks=billions $$ and that is the only reason they existed.
 
Paladin3 said:
I always thought the Ewoks were added for marketing purposes and to capture the 9 year old girl demographic. Ewok toys were everywhere and they even had their own spin-off show.

I'm guessing Ewoks=billions $$ and that is the only reason they existed.
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I remember how they did their best to hide the identity of the Ewoks before the movie hit. The first wave of Star Wars figures were typically released a few weeks ahead of the movie, and in the case of ROTJ, there were a couple of Ewoks in that first wave. Not only did they delay those but on the backs of the figure packages, which showed all figures in the collection, they blacked out the Ewok figures.
 
blanghorst said:
I remember how they did their best to hide the identity of the Ewoks before the movie hit. The first wave of Star Wars figures were typically released a few weeks ahead of the movie, and in the case of ROTJ, there were a couple of Ewoks in that first wave. Not only did they delay those but on the backs of the figure packages, which showed all figures in the collection, they blacked out the Ewok figures.
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Good god, you're going to break your reply button 🙂

Anyway, the Ewoks were originally supposed to be Wookies, but there were logistics problems, so Ewoks were invented.
 
Fritzo said:
Good god, you're going to break your reply button 🙂

Anyway, the Ewoks were originally supposed to be Wookies, but there were logistics problems, so Ewoks were invented.
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Hey, I don't have to work tomorrow so I am up later than normal and spending time increasing my post count!
 
Fritzo said:
Good god, you're going to break your reply button 🙂

Anyway, the Ewoks were originally supposed to be Wookies, but there were logistics problems, so Ewoks were invented.
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Yea if I remember, they couldn't find enough tall people for Wookies.
 
blanghorst said:
The real tragedy was how he ruined Jabba's band and songs in the special edition. In the original release, you had 3 members (Sy Snootles, Max Rebo, and Droppy McCool) singing a rock song, and then he decided to de-emphasize them and add all sorts of goofy and ridiculous characters and awful music.

I guess it was foreshadowing for how terrible Phantom Menace was going to be.
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I miss my letterbox VHS special editions that I had. Aside from the ridiculously overpriced Laser discs, they were the only OAR non-tarnished versions of the flicks that you could get. 🙁

I never bought any of the garbage DVDs. what a waste.
 
mmntech said:
I always fast forward past that scene. The changes made in Episodes IV and V were subtle but they went overboard with RotJ. One thing that particularly bothered me was replacing Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen at the end. That's just a giant middle finger to the guy, and the poor fellow has been dead for 16 years to boot. This is a guy who acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Chistensen can't act his way out of a paper bag.

That being said, the space battle is still one of my favourite sci-fi moments. Rivals a lot of today's CGI for realism. Not bad for a bunch of models. I still love this movie despite it's flaws.
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yup. Empire was perfectly updated, I thought. Jedi was destroyed with seemingly little afterthought.

The score when the rebel fleet comes out of hyperspace just before the ambush is my favorite of the entire series. (Jedi) That entire space battle/assault on Endor/Luke v Vader v Emperor sequence still gets me, sometimes. 🙁

Models still >>>>>> CGI, anytime. I miss the old, tarnished, semi-ghost town ramshackle world of the original star wars flicks. The clean and sterile cartoon of the new movies is soulless and boring.

The real problem with the new series was simply Lucas taking over every project. He was wise enough in his younger days to realize that he sucked as a writer, and was even worse as a director (The original Star Wars is pretty fucking terrible, one must admit). He stepped away from the sequels when he accepted the fact that he simply hated people, and there are others that could do the personal aspects of movie making much better than he. I think that by the time he came around to dealing with the new flicks, the franchise had become far too much of a cash cow and that legally, he felt he needed to maintain absolute control. In some ways, I kind of respect the tyrannical approach of how "this is all my world, I'll do with it whatever the fuck I want to do with it!" Some part of me wishes he could have made them even worse than they are. :sneaky:
 
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zinfamous said:
I miss my letterbox VHS special editions that I had. Aside from the ridiculously overpriced Laser discs, they were the only OAR non-tarnished versions of the flicks that you could get. 🙁

I never bought any of the garbage DVDs. what a waste.
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I think I actually still have my letterbox VHS trilogy, but I no longer have a VCR so I can't play them. Maybe I should take them to one of those DVD conversion places, but the quality would still suck because of the VHS source material. Damn you Lucas. 🙁
 
zinfamous said:
I miss my letterbox VHS special editions that I had. Aside from the ridiculously overpriced Laser discs, they were the only OAR non-tarnished versions of the flicks that you could get. 🙁

I never bought any of the garbage DVDs. what a waste.
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I finally donated my letterbox VHS special edition set to the local library. I hadn't had a VCR in ages, so I decided it needed a new owner. It had photos and other materials in the set and I think the library got $5 when they sold it in their used bookstore.
 
Pheran said:
I think I actually still have my letterbox VHS trilogy, but I no longer have a VCR so I can't play them. Maybe I should take them to one of those DVD conversion places, but the quality would still suck because of the VHS source material. Damn you Lucas. 🙁
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I still have mine as well and do have a VCR, but from what I recall, my tapes started developing issues so I am a little afraid to play them for fear they'll snap in the VCR. I refuse to buy the latest DVD release which has the original theatrical releases on them, however.
 
Pheran said:
I think I actually still have my letterbox VHS trilogy, but I no longer have a VCR so I can't play them. Maybe I should take them to one of those DVD conversion places, but the quality would still suck because of the VHS source material. Damn you Lucas. 🙁
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yeah, I didn't have a VCR for several years at that point, either, so when I moved out of one of my buildings, I just left my box of useless VHS on the lobby table for the local vultures. And there they went.

🙁
 
blanghorst said:
I still have mine as well and do have a VCR, but from what I recall, my tapes started developing issues so I am a little afraid to play them for fear they'll snap in the VCR. I refuse to buy the latest DVD release which has the original theatrical releases on them, however.
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aren't the theatrical versions only in mono...and perhaps only Fullscreen, though?

I remember something absolutely horrible about the prospect of that set.

It's possible to find transfers of the LD set onto DVD....or so I've heard. :hmm:
 
blanghorst said:
I'll be somewhat impressed if he makes "special editions" of the prequels which removes all fart and poop jokes (don't get me wrong, fart and poop jokes are GREAT, just not in Star Wars!) and deletes most of Jar Jar's scenes. If he added a gruesome death scene for Jar Jar, even better!
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One came out right after the first one. Google "The Phantom Edit". It wasn't professionally done, but it was better.
 
I remember watching the originals when I was a kid... im 27 now. Can you even get the original or THX update release on dvd? when i got it on netflix recently it was the new, special edition crapfest.

favorite part of return of the jedi for me....the space battles around the death star II. that shit was awesome. as soon as TIE fighter came out i was all over that game, i probably played it through 30 or 40 times as a kid.
 
When I was a kid my favorite part was always the big space battles. That's whey Empire was kind of a let down for me because I was waiting for the big space battle that never happened. Jedi did not disappoint.
 
I always liked Jedi. Perhaps that's because it is one of the first movies I can remember seeing in a theater. The others I can recall are Goonies, E.T., and Indy: Last Crusade... wow, some good stuff came out when I was a kid.
 
xSauronx said:
I remember watching the originals when I was a kid... im 27 now. Can you even get the original or THX update release on dvd? when i got it on netflix recently it was the new, special edition crapfest.
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Well, I said nope but then just saw where dwell posted a set that apparently does have the originial.
 
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