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The-Tennis-Ball-Kid  840 posts
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Date Posted: 1/9/05 1:39pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
It pains me to say this, it really and truly does. CGI Yoda. I have a hard time taking in the CGI to puppet switch.

Why? Because the puppet has three times the life the CG one has? tongue In any case, I find it hard to believe they could do anything to improve those scenes...
In ANH, add in Star Destroyers near the Death Star and add a whole side battle where it and some ties engage part of the rebel fleet. It seems kind of weird to have the Death Star all alone.

Actually, no, it doesn't seem strange, because the Death Star was considered essentially invincible. It's self-reliant, why would it need escorts?
Once you are that old, the accent will likely never go away. He will carry it the rest of his life.

Nope, adults can have their accent change too.


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Date Posted: 1/9/05 5:23pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
CG yoda?? are you insane that CG yoda STINKS!!! I wish he would go back to the puppet. Or at least make the CG look like the puppet. BTW check my bio for my true opinion on CG. LOL

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 12:48am Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
You have some good suggestions Strilo.

But I think that the puupets should not be completely taken over with CG, just touched up with it. For instance, add a second pair of eyes to Ponda Baba and remove his blood. And add some Dugs to the background of Tatooine and in Jabbas palace.

I do agree with removing Jerjerrod from ESB landing dock, it is too obvious.

And just generally make areas look lived in with CGI, and re-do all of the display screens, and schematics.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 1:14am Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
Nope, adults can have their accent change too.

CAN... but many of them DON'T. It's not 100% of the time either way. Thus it is PLAUSIBLE that Boba could still have the accent.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 10:06am Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
Indeed

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 10:37am Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
I think the changes should stop now. There is a fine line between critique and abuse....

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 10:41am Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
I actually don't mind if the films are not changed. But a lot of people will never be happy, but personally I think Lucas wants to change them further. But its up to George. Whatever he does for 2007 will be interesting, but it's not necessary.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 2:28pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release - Date Edited: 1/10/05 2:46pm (6 edits total) Edited By: Mos_Eisley
Here is a mammoth post of every touchup and change that I could think of that I would like to see for a 2007 saga release. Most of this stuff deals with fine details and is very nitpicky so if you don't like nitpicking, then skip this post. You've been warned. Enjoy!


2007 Star Wars Saga DVD changes that I’d like to see.

By Mos_Eisley

Lightsabers.

This is the main issue for me that needs to be addressed. The ILM crew needs to look at the bright, vibrant sabers in the PT and apply that to the OT sabers.

Darth Vader’s lightsaber is red, not pink. His saber should have a bright, reddish glow like Dooku’s saber in AOTC that is consistent throughout the OT. Darth Maul’s saber looks a little pinkish in some shots in TPM too so that could stand some touchups. Again, Dooku’ saber should be a reference.

Luke’s saber in ANH and ESB should be a bright, vibrant blue like in the PT. And the shot on the Falcon in ANH where his saber turns green obviously needs to be fixed.

Obi-Wan’s saber in ANH looks better but could stand some touchups and also needs to be a bright, vibrant blue and the shot on the DVD where it looks like Obi-Wan’s saber fizzles out in his duel with Vader looks better but could be improved.

Luke’s saber looks better in ROTJ but could be touched up to look even better and more in line with what we see in the PT. The shot where Vader and Luke lock sabers in front of the Emperor needs to be fixed. On the DVD, it looks like the sabers are partially passing through each other. It needs to be fixed so that it looks like they are actually locked against each other. Since this shot lasts for a few seconds, it is definitely noticeable.

As for the duel choreography in the OT, it’s fine just the way it is. We don’t need CG stunt doubles added. No wirework. The duels are fine, including the ANH duel which I thought looked the best it ever has on the DVD.

TPM

This film is pretty much fine as it is on DVD. Maybe replace the Yoda puppet with the CG version.

Fix up some minor bloopers.

There’s a shot when Qui-Gon, Padme, Jar-Jar, and Artoo are heading to Mos Espa except if you look closely you’ll see that the animators forgot to take out the poles in between Artoo’s feet that keep them together and stable for going over sand terrain.

There’s a shot in the podrace where Sebulba’s podracer is behind Anakin except the animators forgot to put Sebulba in.

There are some parts where the shots have been “flipped”. There are a couple of shots in the film where Artoo’s face has flipped and his hologram projector is on the other side on the front of his “face”.

Obi-Wan’s padawan braid flips from one side to the other when talking to Qui-Gon in the desert.

I’d love to see the end battle scene edited or redone so that Jar Jar makes more of a deliberate contribution instead of being such a fluky idiot but that’s not going to happen. [EDIT: Speaking of fluky, they could take out Anakin's "Ooops!" when he fires those torpedoes into the droid ship.]

By the time 2007 rolls around, this film will already be 8 years old so it could probably stand to be digitally remastered for picture and sound again.

AOTC

There are a couple of CG issues which I would like to see addressed.

Anakin riding that potato thing could stand to look a little better and when they’re on that thing in the arena, it might be touched up a bit.

I’d like to see John Williams add some music to the asteroid scene with Obi-Wan and Jango, which is mostly silent although maybe that’s to highlight the sonic charge sound effect. If they could pull it off, that would be cool.

But C-3PO in the droid factory is my biggest and pretty much my only CG complaint in AOTC. When Artoo pushes C-3PO and he falls, it is painfully obvious that we’ve switched from the suit to a CG version and when we see the next shot where he is hanging on to that droid and being shaken around, it just doesn’t look good at all. It needs to be edited like the IMAX version or the CG needs to be worked on so that it blends in better with what we are used to seeing in C-3PO.

When Obi-Wan is fighting Dooku at the end, there is a shot transition which looks slightly jarring just before it goes to the shot of Dooku holding his saber and telling Obi-Wan, “Master Kenobi, you disappoint me. Yoda holds you in such high esteem.” Maybe that could be adjusted.

And when Anakin is fighting Dooku and then seems to just freeze for a few seconds and offer up his arm, well, maybe they could find a way to make that look better.

Again, Dooku’s saber looks a bit pinkish in some shots so the sabers need to be looked at throughout all the films so that the colors are bright, vibrant, and , therefore, consistent.

Some people love the Yoda duel. Others think he looks like Sonic on speed. I like it. I think it looks okay as it is, although maybe they could tweak it a bit so that it looks like Dooku and Yoda are connecting with their lightsabers more or something so that you don’t realize it for what it is: Christopher Lee swinging his saber at nothing.

Some of the wide shots of the clonetrooper army, like at the end, might be touched up a bit but that’s really splitting hairs and it’s probably because I’m getting spoiled with cinematics and graphics from games like Halo 2 which are catching up with CG special effects that we are seeing in films.

This film will be 5 years old when 2007 arrives so it may have to be remastered for picture and sound.

ROTS

Based on what I’ve seen so far, which is the teaser trailer and some pics, this film looks fantastic so far. I’ll have to wait for May 19 before offering up suggestions for touchups.

One thing that has been raised in the Episode III Spoiler forum is that Vader’s hands in the trailer look a bit small in terms of proportion to the rest of his body which I didn’t even notice myself so that might have to be addressed. Also, Vader’s height and stature needs to look intimidating and consistent with what we see in the OT since he is a cyborg and cyborgs don’t really grow.

I can’t wait for this movie. Hurry up, May!

ANH

Some people have suggested that they should put in the Imperial March when Vader enters the Tantive IV. I say nay. In the OT, the Imperial March is introduced in ESB and I think that it should stay that way. This scene is fine as it is.

I love the sandtroopers with the dewbacks that were added in the special edition. Fine as it is!

The scene transition to when C-3PO is having a much needed oil bath might be changed so that it is more consistent with scene transitions in the rest of the films. This is the only scene transition where we black out in the saga as far as I can remember.

I’d like to see some changes in Mos Eisley, my namesake. In the DVD, they improved the rendering of the speeder as it approaches but I think they could improve it even more.

That little comedy bit with the droid knocking that other droid could probably be taken out but that won’t happen. Maybe they could at least change the droid’s sound effect from “Nah nah nah nah nah” to something a little less juvenile.

I liked the rest. The rontos and the increased trooper presence. And again, I love them dewbacks! Maybe it’s because they bear a close resemblance to a cross between dinosaurs and dragons.

The cantina is great and fine the way it is on DVD. Maybe a few minor bloopers could be touched on. I think there’s one shot where you can see through the eyeholes in one of the masks and when Ponda Baba gets his arm sliced off by Obi-Wan, his hand on the severed arm appears to be different than the hand in previous shots. Also, maybe remove the blood. As far as I can tell in the rest of the films, lightsabers cauterize a wound immediately when severing a limb and so there is no blood.

Then we have Han Solo and Greedo. In magical fairy land, I would like to see this scene go back to the way we originally saw it. I think that if someone has a gun pointed in your face and is about to shoot you, you are definitely justified in shooting first and taking them out. It was self-defence before and not murder as far as I’m concerned but oh well.

I think it looks as good as it’s going to get with the DVD but maybe they can tweak it a little bit.

Jabba the Hutt. I like the added Jabba scene except the CG animators just cannot seem to get a handle on Jabba.

Of the three CG versions of Jabba that we’ve seen, (1997 SE version, 1999 Episode I, and 2004 DVD), the Episode I version has been the best, followed by the DVD version, and then the ’97 version easily being the worst.

But Stuart Freeborn’s puppet creation for ROTJ still reigns supreme and I hope that somebody at ILM can try a CG version that gives it a run for its money for the ANH scene for 2007.

When Artoo is trying to get down the stairs to join the others to meet up with the Falcon, there’s no way that he could get down them in time in the way he is shown in order to be in the next shot, yet he is. This could be fixed so that it is consistent with what we see in the PT like AOTC when he is with Anakin and Padme and climbing stairs much more efficiency. Still, this is a fun little blooper that might be better just left as it is. I dunno. I’ll have to think a bit more on this one.

When the Falcon is escaping and being pursued by Star Destroyers and Han tells Luke that he knows a few maneuvers, it would be neat to see the Falcon actually do a few maneuvers. Nothing as spectacular as what we see from Han in ESB, but a little taste.

When they’re at the Death Star and the troopers come in to discover the droids, one of the troopers on the right famously bumps his head on the door. This should not be touched whatsoever even if it is a blooper. It is a part of Star Wars lore and is the best stormtrooper scene in the OT. Lucas even made a reference to it in AOTC with Jango banging his head on the door of the Slave I. I’ve watched that ANH scene a few times with the DVD and it puts a smile on my face every time. I’d love to get a picture of that scene and then track down the guy who played that stormtrooper and get his autograph.

I like how they changed the English on the tractor beam to basic SW language and tweaked some other things in the Death Star to make it just a little bit cooler.

When Vader is talking to Tarkin in that one scene and then makes a hand gesture after he is done talking, it is definitely out of sync. Maybe this could be adjusted or fixed. It is kinda funny though.

When they escape in the Falcon and are taking on the four TIE fighters, it’s a great scene. The only thing is that the Falcon seems to look like it has stopped in space while the fighters fly around it and take shots at it. Maybe they could adjust it so that the Falcon looks more like it is moving at its famed speed while handling the fighters.

And this is just a general thing about Vader’s suit in ANH but in some shots his eyes appear to be reddish which is why you saw some vintage toys with reddish eyes. Maybe they could go through ANH and make sure that his suit looks a little more consistent.

People have talked about updating the graphics in ANH especially in the Rebel briefing room on Yavin so that they are more inline with the more advanced displays that we see in ROTJ. But the thing is, under the Empire, people like Han Solo with the Falcon and the Rebellion have to make the best out of whatever they can find so it makes sense that they would be using older technology, so this could either be updated or left as is. Either way, it works.

When Artoo is being plugged in to download Death Star data, there is a “flip” shot where his face is flipped. This could get fixed.

Ilike the Death Star trench battle with the blend of classic models and CG although some of the CG could get worked on a bit so it blends a little better with the models.

Also, in the new (well, SE 1997) shots of the CG X-Wings approaching the Death Star, the CG could be touched up a little. Also, there’s a really minor blooper that only a fan who has watched and read about the changes would notice. When the animators were doing this new scene, they basically copied and pasted Wedge’s X-Wing. The only thing is, each of the models had individual striping for each pilot. So this scene makes it appear that an army of Wedges is taking on the Death Star. But Wedge is pretty damn cool. They could leave it in.

I think that’s about it for ANH. I’ve already mentioned lightsabers at the beginning of this post.

The only other thing is to ensure that the picture and sound are as top notch as humanly possible.

ESB

I think this is the OT film that needs the least amount of work. Except for Vader’s pinkish saber, this film looks great on DVD and makes my favourite SW film even better.

But, of course, there are a few minor things.
First; a general comment. Some people have said, “Let’s CG all the stop motion effects and everything else in the OT. Then let’s go back to the PT and CG everything that wasn’t CG.”

To this I say, “Hell no!” The stop motion is fine, even the Tauntauns and the creature effects in the film are fine too. GL could have CGed Yoda for the DVD but didn’t and I don’t think he ever will because he respects the work of the crew that worked on the original films. One of the first things he said when Rob Coleman proposed a CG Yoda for AOTC was, “let’s show it to Frank [Oz]”.

When Luke is escaping the wampa cave, his lightsaber is still ignited, yet there's a distinct sound effect of a lightsaber being turned off. Either the sound effect needs to be removed or the saber needs to be shown as turning off in sync with the sound effect.

I like that they added in Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor in the hologram although he looks more like the ROTS Sidious with a little more “weight” in his face (obviously shot during ROTS) than the cooler looking ROTJ Emperor (IMHO).

I don’t really know why they altered the dialogue slightly. It seemed fine the way it was but whatever.

And Dagobah? It’s never looked better. The DVD really makes the color and sounds come out.

Maybe touch up the CG a bit on the new shot of the Falcon’s approach to Cloud City.

There's another stormtrooper blooper. When the two troops bring Han into the holding cell, one of Han's arms comes up and nearly knocks one of the trooper's helmets off. But the actor in the suit played it cool and walked out as if nothing was wrong with his helmet halfway up his head.

Boba Fett’s voice. I can see how GL wanted more conistency with Jango in the PT but Morrison needs to watch the earlier cut of ESB and redo his lines so that he sounds more menacing as with the earlier version.

The only line that is fine is when he says, “Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.”

The one that bugs me the most is when he says, “As you wish.”

The way he says it now just sounds like he’s kissing his boss’ butt. Needs to sound more like the original lines where you felt like Vader and Fett had met before and Fett could take on Vader if he wanted to.

I like that they took out that stupid Luke yell from the SE when he takes a plummet after getting his hand chopped off by Vader and Vader reveals that he is his father. Keep it like this please, as it was originally done.

Vader’s line, “Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival.”

I didn’t like this line in 1997 and I still don’t. I guess they recycled it as an unused line from ANH, hence it sounds out of place in ESB. Get James Earl Jones to redub it or better yet restore the original and better line, “Bring my shuttle.”

As for restoring lines, I wish they would restore Luke’s line on Dagobah when he tells Artoo, “You’re lucky you don’t taste very good.” instead of the current, “You were lucky to get out of there.” I guess it was a technical issue with sound editing or something which is why they had to use the current, less impressive dialogue.

Also, the whole Vader returning in his shuttle to the Executor doesn’t need to be there but whatever. Take out Jerjerrod though.

That’s about all I can think of for ESB except there are a couple of shots that need to be looked at when they are remastering it for 2007.

On Dagobah when Luke is training with Yoda on his back and in Cloud City when Lando is checking the controls on the carbonite slab to see if Han survived, there are some brief shots where the top portion of the picture seems to phase and get kind of, weird. I’m not sure how to describe it exactly but it might have to do with the transfer to DVD. Hopefully they can resolve this for 2007.

And now, finally,

ROTJ

There’s not too much here to change either.

I think there’s another flip shot where the smoke from Jabba’s bong seems to be going downward rather than up. Fix this up.

Along with the majority of fans, I’m not very keen on the Jedi Rocks sequence. The CG Sy Snootles needs to be better. I wish that they would take that wuzzum out of the sequence completely. He looks like a reject Ewok design concept. But that probably won’t happen so maybe just improve the CG.

And it would be nice if John Williams could just rescore that scene completely with something better and more like the original music from the pre-SE cut.

Also, more Boba? Really? Cut that shot of him hanging with the dancers. He’s a mysterious bounty hunter, not a pimp.

The rancor is fine on the DVD. As I said before for ESB, we don’t need a CG version and certainly not for Jabba. Please god, don’t let them touch ROTJ Jabba. They fixed up the matte line issues for the rancor and it looks great. Love it!

And when Luke is taking Jabba’s henchmen out with his saber, well, his saber seems to have become more of a nerf bat than something that cuts stuff but the PG rating would probably go right out the window if you had him slicing and dicing live people all over the place. Maybe compromise a bit and have one or two limbs get chopped. This is the most kid-friendly OT film though, so you don’t want to get too carried away.

I’m not a fan of the EU by any stretch and I think that Boba Fett is like the Wolverine of the EU but he really did go out like a punk, even worse than his father who was at least killed on purpose by a Jedi Master.

Let’s redeem his less than stellar death scene and have him crawl out of the Sarlacc. I’d like to see this amidst the chaos as Luke and Leia are setting up the guns to destroy the barge. Have him crawl out and use his jet pack to fly off. Otherwise I guess we could show a brief shot of him crawling out as the skiff heads off from the exploding barge and he watches the skiff fly off into the distance. Or maybe show the Slave I taking off from Tatooine and flying off into space. There are certainly a few scenarios that could work.

There’s really no way to go back and re-shoot the death scene but having him crawl out of the Sarlacc would be do-able. I just don’t want to hear EU fans then exclaim that GL now fully endorses the EU as canon on par with the films and reads and follows the EU on a daily basis. Just a little extra bone for the EU folk like the Outrider in ANH:SE and character cameos like Alaya Secura in AOTC. I may not enjoy the EU or debating canon with EU fans but the money they shell out for it is partly responsible for making the films possible and for touching up the films for DVD releases.

The Emperor’s arrival at the Death Star II is great but let’s see some Star Destroyers in the background. Or maybe that might make the shot too cluttered. Hmmm, scratch that one maybe.

And let’s touchup the legion of stormtroopers assembled, likely with CG as in AOTC. I think they still kept the matte painting in the DVD that makes it look like there are far more troopers than there actually are but you can definitely tell that it’s a matte painting.

When Han and Lando are talking in the docking bay of the rebel cruiser as Han prepares to board the shuttle for his covert mission, Lando’s bandolier seems to flip and I think it disappears in some shots. Needs to be fixed for consistency.

Again, maybe some matte work on Endor with backgrounds could be touched up a bit.

Speeder bike chase? Awesome. Fine the way it is and it’s never been better than on DVD.

In the Endor battle, I wouldn’t have any objections to adding some more ships, especially on the rebel side. That way, having them last as long as they did before the shield goes down would have been a little bit more believable.

Maybe show some more rebel commandos taking out some stormtroopers. The ewoks are good but not that good.

As I mentioned before, the shot where Vader and Luke lock sabers in front of the Emperor needs to be fixed so that it looks like the sabers are actually locked and not passing through each other.

End celebrations. I definitely like the new SE music. Keep it. I didn’t mind Naboo being added in. Maybe add Kashyyk with the Wookiees for a little nod to ROTS.

I thought having Hayden Christensen replace Sebastian Shaw as a Force ghost was fine except that Hayden’s eyelines seems to be slightly off which is understandable since they obviously shot him by himself and the eyeline just came out slightly off. He needs to look at Obi-Wan in the eyes and then Yoda and then at Luke. In the DVD, he looks like he’s looking at the camera rather than where Luke is.

I think that about does it for ROTJ and the saga for me. The films just need to be remastered for the best possible picture and sound and lightsabers should be the first thing that they work on. Also, just go through the films and check for consistency and bloopers that might be fixed which I haven’t already mentioned. [EDIT: Oh, I forgot about the fabled matte boxes. To be honest, I've never really noticed these at all. LOL. I'm still looking for them. But if they can fix them for fans who have noticed them, that would be great.]

The DVD set should also have tons of extra stuff like new interviews, new documentaries as well as Empire of Dreams, which was great on the 2004 release, deleted scenes (especially the OT which were absent from the 2004 release), and more stuff from the archives than you can shake a stick at!

And finally, if LFL goes all out, let’s make a better slipcase for the set. The coverart for the 2004 release was great but the actual material wasn’t so great. A metallic slipcase, like one made out of metal or something more sturdy and durable would be great. The slipcase with the 2004 DVDs was good but could have been put together a bit better.

And for the individual DVDs themselves, let’s use Drew Struzan poster art for the prequels and some tweaked versions of the OT: SE posters that Struzan did. The photo DVD covers have been adequate but nothing mindblowing. Drew Struzan’s stuff is more in line with the feel of Star Wars and that’s one of the reasons that GL sought one of the most acclaimed poster artists in Hollywood to do some work on Star Wars.

LOL These changes and touchups would probably cost several million dollars. Oh well, it would be worth it to put out a definitive Star Wars saga.

Thanks for reading my essay. Here’s looking forward to 2007!

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 3:54pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
Here's my opinion:

Fix the lightsabers.
Fix the sound problems in ANH. (Do NOT add imperial march. I'm talking about the actual audio problems. some times they speak loud, then the next line is soft, it is annoying.)
Redo Jabba.

Everything else is OK.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 4:37pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
I say leave it as they appeared when released in theatres. Some of the little things you guys want to change are the reason Star Wars is cool. back then they had so little and made up technolgy to get things to work and that is much better than the new ways.

Wampa was better before.

Using vaseline on the lense when shooting the landspeeder then call it a force field. That's just cool!!


BTW: Boba's voice is NOT Jeremy Bullochs voice in Cloud City he could never get the words right. True story its in his book as well as he told me last april.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 5:48pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release - Date Edited: 1/10/05 6:25pm (1 edits total) Edited By: -_-_-_-_-_-
More unneeded changes to the OT now would be the equivalent of putting bamboo shoots under my nails.


While we're at, why not add some midgets doing cartwheels through the town square during the Mos Eisley sequence.

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 6:35pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
You already have a Star Wars dvd set,so if you don't want anymore changes to them,why would you care if they make another set with even more changes to them?

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/05 6:46pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
I care because I would like to see the OT retain some integrity when this is all said and done. It's alright to make changes when they are needed, for the sake of the story and character arc. If there is another re-issue with more changes, when will it ever stop? Who is to say that they won't release a 'Make Your Own Cut' Saga boxset ten years from now. The bottom line is that I want some shred of the reason I began loving Star Wars intact in the future.

 

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DropKickAnt  201 posts
Title: New Jersey Order FF Secretary, NJ
Registered: Dec '04
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Date Posted: 1/10/05 7:45pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
Lucas is insane and needs to be stopped....he needs to hook back up with his exwife so she can convince him of his stupidity



Who's leading the raid on Skywalker ranch?

 

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Mos_Eisley  865 posts
Registered: May '04
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Date Posted: 1/10/05 8:33pm Subject: RE: DVD changes for 2007 HD release
While we're at, why not add some midgets doing cartwheels through the town square during the Mos Eisley sequence.

Good idea! Star Wars can always use more midgets!

Why didn't I think of that?

Oh yeah, we also need Force ghosts of every single dead character in the saga, (and I mean everybody) to appear at the end of ROTJ.

But seriously, if you didn't like the originals being changed at all, why post in a thread about DVD changes you'd like to see? You know it's just going to piss you off.

Why not post in a thread about the original cuts?

 

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