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It's Official -- Star Wars on DVD
savagexp writes "There's yet to be an actual press release, but according to DVDFile.com, 20th Century Fox and LucasFilm have confirmed that The Original Trilogy will arrive on September 21st in a four-disc set. More info can be had here."
OMG! The Force and my Mastercard will be with me!!!!
Now to just wipe the memory of the two new films completely from memory...
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
Ah, to be 18 again.
these are not the dvds you are looking for...
tim
I really would like to own all the star wars movies ever in one giant dvd box set of super awesome. I don't even like eps 1-3, but the geek in me must own them. However, there is one problem.
GREEDO SHOOTS FIRST!
FUCK THAT.
I know it's super nerdy to complain about it, but I'm not willing to pay for a copy of the movie if that's the way it's going to be. Solo is supposed to kill him in cold blood.
Lucas, if you want my cash you're going to have to release the real deal. Spielberg, you too. I didn't buy none of your walkie talkie E.T. shit. Good thing I still have the real deals on VHS. But still, DVD would be nice.
Man, I am such a freakin' fanboy sometimes.
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Actually the secret is this: Lucas has "artistically" re-edited the scene yet again. Now Han and Greedo hug each other and Greedo keels over from a heart attack after being overcome with emotion that they're no longer enemies.....
Han shoots first dammit!
but not strong enough to resist buying dvd versions of movies I already have on vhs.
Not to mention all the guns were replaced with flashlights...
....looks like I'm going to have to take a sick day on Wednesday the 22nd, boss.... *cough, cough*
Chris Knight is my hero.
I'll buy this as quick as i can, before he adds jar jar in a new release!
this is the best you'll be able to get
"There's yet to be a press release..."
So unofficially, it's official?
Chris
The words "get over it" come to mind. You remind me of the guy on Mr. Show that wore a scarf in summer and complained that wax cylinders were the only true way to appreciate recorded music.
OK. I need your geek license. Hand it over now!
You should use AdiumX on your Mac.
1. Making of the movie 2. Making of the special effects 3. Making of the money with footage of George Lucas hauling bags of cash to bank.
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I'd only buy the set if I could guarantee that my money buys the exact slice of pizza you choke on.
Pizza the Hutt!!
Ehh wheres is the Torrrent??
I will buy the DVD's
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
I will buy them when Lucas has finished all three trilogies, and all nine movies are bundled together in the Ultimate Death Star Box, including both the classic and the extended editions, at least three special feature DVDs, and with and without Jar Jar replaced by a pink furry rabbit.
According to Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn, both the studio and Lucasfilm arrived at the September 21st date to gain maximum exposure during the holiday season: "We sold about 17 million VHS 'Star Wars' units during two fall release periods in '95 and '97," he explained. "With that in mind, we designed our release strategy to pick the best release date that had the most gentle sales curve decline on home video."
translation: we are waiting until the best possible moment to extract the maximum mileage from getting these poor dumb slobs, err, fans buying the same content yet again. We are timing the release relative to the seasonal holiday buying spree (formerly known as Christmas).
duh
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
1. 5 minutes of yet unseen footage of Princess Lea in chains and bikini
2. 15 minutes of extended (grusome) Ewok death scenes during the final battle.
3. 10 minute conversation of luke and Darth reminicing and coming to terms over their 'broken family' .
4. cut scene of Luke working on the farm....tilling perhaps...or milking the cows. - you know, to add context
5. an indepth and real explanation of the implications of the kiss between luke and his sister....ewwww.
6.ummmmm, more cut scenes of lea belly dancing in the casino ship.
that would add atleast another 40min easy! :).
> You remind me of the guy on Mr. Show that wore a scarf in
..."
> summer and complained that wax cylinders were the only true
> way to appreciate recorded music.
Slow-witted guy eating donut: "You wanna watch the new Star Wars movie?"
Guy wearing scarf: "Oh, puh-lease! The new Star Wars movies blow! People were not meant to see movies with good special effects. People need to see strings, rubber suits, and that shit."
Digs out worn VHS copy of the original Star Wars movie.
"What is that?"
"This, my friend, is the only version of Star Wars I will touch," he says while lovingly stroking the VHS tape.
"Is it the THX remastered version?"
"No! I just -- it's the original Star Wars movie on VHS. It allows me to watch the only decent movie ever committed to celluloid."
"Celluloid?"
"Yessss!"
"Does it have computer effects?"
"Jesus! Just watch. It's so pure it hurts
Screen zooms in to a rubber suited alien flopping around a dingy sound stage threatening a young Harrison Ford. A man in a metal robot suit starts prat-falling on the scene.
The fact is, the new Star Wars movies are just as good as the old ones. Complainers were just 20 years younger when they saw the originals.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
The trilogy, featuring the classic franchise films "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," will be released on three DVD discs, with a fourth disc likely to hold a newly made documentary about the "Star Wars" franchise and never-before-seen footage, among several other bonus materials, said Jim Ward, Lucasfilm's VP of marketing and distribution and the DVD trilogy's executive producer.
Oh please let the bonus materials be a digitally restored copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special!
Imagine the marketing possibilities! You could promote the touching "Life Day" celebration! Multicultural wookie Goodness!
If you haven't seen it, go here. You really need to.
Have a Very Wookie Christmas! I know if I get this I will!
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
I will get the DVD version but I'll get a pirated copy and I'll be sure to distribute to all of my friends and family.
Illegally copying Star Wars makes baby Annakin cry.
Return of the Jedi: 13. We see more planets celebrating at the end of the movie. We see an aged Jar Jar, who is now the leader of the Gungans, on Naboo celebrating with the people of Naboo and the Gungans. We see an old Watto, who is now unable to fly, sitting in a hover chair cheering on Tatooine. During these scenes Across the Stars plays transitioning to the victory celebration music at the Ewok tree village.
They want to add in Jar Jar...
Well... There goes all that was pure and good about those movies.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
Carl: Attack of the Clones sucked more!!!
All the while fighting with plutonium rods.
Simpsons and Star Wars
Yeah, but we'll complain about it in top Comic Book Guy form!
Worst. Special Editions. Ever.
I only bought four copies.
Feh.
Education is the silver bullet.
Its more effective than harsh language
(I thought I read somewhere that Marlon Brando was actually playing Jabba in that scene
Common misconception. Marlon Brando was actually Jabba in Return of the Jedi. A lot of people think it's a big puppet, but it's just Brando naked.
". . .the original version technically don't exist."
You can't blame him. I mean how many times have you clicked on "Save" in the File Menu instead of "Save As"?
Not to mention all the guns were replaced with flashlights...
And Leia's suddenly wearing an iPod.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Noticed on the linked website, at the top, where they list the titles included in the box set that they say Empire(Viewed by some as the best in the series)
Who are these people?
My Picks go like this.
1)A New Hope
2)Empire
3)Jedi
4 & 5) Episodes II & III
6) Any Episode of Barney the Purple Dinosaure
7) Phantom Menace
Return of the Jedi is actually pretty good once Lucas purged the "Yub Yub" song.
They needed it for Phantom Menace.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
You obviously are using the standard scale in your judgement of acting and not the weighted SciFi scale.
In non-scifi works, actors are expected to have emotional range and be capable of pulling the audience into the plot for the plot's sake. Their ability to project the suspension of disbelief is key into the audience feeling that they are part of an actual event instead of simply an observer.
The SciFi sliding scale, however, is broken into several sub-categories of attributes that are appealing to your typical SlashDot reader. This attributes include such qualities as bust size, scruffiness, ability to immediately represent a given stereotype, bust size, how they look sitting naked on a rock on a desert planet, how they look in a form fitting uniform, bust size, and how they look shooting a ray gun. Occasionally, if they are not female, thus making bust size irrelevant, their acting ability may come into play unless they can show documented proof of being on such hits as "The Scarecrow and Mrs. King".
I hope that George Lucas releases a Special Edition of Episodes 1 and 2, and edits them into better movies.
I will rip the video, and edit the audio so that Ben Kenobi says:
"Skywalker Ranch. You will never find a more greedy hive of scum and re-releases."
It is precisely because those lines are well done, funny, clever, or have bravado that they were edited. Lucas seems to think that good dialogue is bad, because it distracts you from all the fancy effects.
No.
The correct order from best to worst is :
Some may argue about the 5th item on the list, but honestly... what is the enjoyment of watching a guy sleep for a couple hours?
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