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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."
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!
You will buy the DVD's
Not to mention all the guns were replaced with flashlights...
"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.
Ehh wheres is the Torrrent??
> 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!
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Have a Very Wookie Christmas! I know if I get this I will!
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
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.
(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"?