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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD
thebus writes "I just wanted to let you know that I got an email from Amazon today informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD on Nov. 23rd 2004. Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor."
Are these the originals or special editions?
The Jedi mind trick doesn't work on us...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
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Let me just start out by saying that the Ewoks are the single most underrated cinematic creations of all time. I love those little dudes! I love these little movies, too. Though I haven't seen them for a good six years or more, I remember absolutely loving them when I was little. They always made me want to go climb a tree and pretend I was an Ewok! Honestly, WHO would not want to live in hundred-foot trees, leaping on vines and speaking in those funky voices?! Um, anyway, just to give you the idea how much I love Ewoks . . . . . .
Plus, to all you Ewok-bashers out there, they were successful enough to star in not one, but TWO solo adventure movies. HA HA HA!!
There had been rumors of an eventual DVD release of these two films for years. (That fawlty announcement of a three-disc ultimate collector's edition was a doozy.) Now, it's official: Come November, Ewoks fans across the nation can rejoice!! Though not in any special edition format (which coud be expected from two 80s TV movies), just having these priceless gems on DVD will be enough."
Um, right. Long live the ewoks!
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I wonder if anyone will buy these, other than people buying them as joke gifts and those unhappy souls who think they'll be collectors' items someday.
Also known as:
Return of the merchandising
Umm... You guys don't get many dates, do you? :)
Notice this DVD has no special features (commentary tracks, making of featurettes, inside the ewok villiage, etc.). Obviously they're planning on releasing a second "special edition" version after everybody buys this one (all 5 of you out there). So wait and don't buy it now!
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
Clearly not all the viewers share the submitter's appreciation of these movies!
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I think I just threw up in my mouth (again).
I demand festive Chewbacca, and animated Boba Fett!
When's the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD? I'm looking forward to the re-edits and deleted scenes (I hear the scene with a few minutes of untranslated wookie dialog was originally meant to be twice as long)!
In this version Wicket better shoot first
Just what I wanted. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen these particular movies, so perhaps they are better than I'm guessing based on ROTJ.)
I always viewed Ewoks as the first sign of the trend that eventually peaked with one Jar-Jar Binks. I heard somewhere Endor was originally supposed to be full of Wookies - what happened to that?? That would have worked. Instead we had teddy bears fighting stormtroopers in armor with rocks! (BTY, I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.)
Thank goodness for Timothy Zahn. Without him I think I would have abandoned Star Wars.
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This is a may be considered a little offtopic, but I lost some admiration for Ewoks after they took the Ewok song out of the new editions Return of the Jedi. WHY LUCAS? WHY??
...that they take place before the Endor Holocaust.
Daniel
Hurry up and jump on the individualist bandwagon!
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
Yah wah, eee chop yah wah,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah
Coat ee chah tu yub nub,
Coat ee chah tu yah wah,
Coat ee chah tu glo wah.
allay loo ta nuv
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa.
Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!)
allay loo tu nuv (3 times)
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah.
Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa
allay loo tu nuv.
I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.
Actually, the hammer/club is an extremely effective weapon against people wearing armor intended to protect against piercing/slashing weapons. Even if it doesn't kill outright it knocks them down and stuns them long enough for you to stick your stiletto through their eyeslits.
Even armor intended to protect against such concussive impacts can only do so much if the wearer is to retain any sort of fighting mobility.
In any case the Stormtrooper's armor was clearly intended to protect against weapons such as the blaster, so you can only really judge it by its effectiveness against them.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
Ok, new theory. Stormtrooper armor was used primarily so that they could go out in public without having to worry about their hair and makeup.
KFG
I remember when I was a little (over 10 years ago), I saw a cartoon with Ewoks. I can hardly remember any of it, except that there was an evil witch or wizard or something with a staff, which had some sort of magic ball on the top of it. Also, I think this ball could shoot out lightning or something. Is this one of these movies? And if not, does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I can see it now... Tusken Raiders perched a top the hillside. Already back from several visits to the Cantina. They decide to have a little fun and pick off Jawas and their junk heaps, Ewoks, a couple of Stormtroopers, no one is safe from their sights. When finished, they laugh incessantly as they place their rifles down. The one Tusken Raider stands up and proclaims, "You know, I think I can do this blindfolded..." The other Tusken Raiders stare at him in silence, then at each other, then they all fallback from the hilariousness of his statement! They are the rednecks from a galaxy far, far away! God love'em!
You mean the one where Carrie Fisher shoots first? Oh. . .wait.
I want the fire back.
Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
I can hardly wait.
Originally Lucas was going to have the last battle on Kashyyyk (the Wookie homeworld) ... a marvelously titanic battle of 'primitive' Wookies tearing down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will. Problem is -- thanks to Chewbacca, we know that Wookies are quite adept with technology, thankyouverymuch.
... try some of the stew. It's pretty good."
Ergo -- Lucas created Ewoks. Little teeensy furry cuuuuuuuuuuuute no-tech primitives that tore down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will.
And ate them.
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Eee-chee-wa-wa! 'Nuff said.
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i am just about fed up with you clowns mocking my masterpiece... my creative genius is far superior to you and the slashdot crew.... directors Note: I modeled JarJar after CowboyNeil
Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.
Yeah, then they would have been The Wookiee Babies Special with baby Kermit and baby Miss Piggy as the guest stars.
KFG
This is a ueseless piece of trivia but what the hell. Did all you Ewok fans out there know that there is an actual Lake Ewok? Its a little man made lake on Skywalker Ranch.
Funny sidenote to that. I lifeguarded for LucasFilm's Fourth of July company picnic there a year ago. Yup, I lifeguarded Lake Ewok. Anyway I got a Skywalker Ranch hat for doing that and every now and then I wear it. Last time I wore it out to dinner the waiter asked me if I was a moisture farmer! I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of dinner.
--HC
So I'm jump'n up and down screaming show me the money.
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Do not say these are better film than Master Ninja 1 & 2 starring Timothy Van Patten and Lee Van Cleef..... "Van^2", as I like to call them.
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If you didn't, I think you're at least right in calling Star Wars populist
Star Wars is NOT populist. How could anyone be so wrong?
Star Wars is elitist. It describes a universe inhabited by virtuous royalty, where a few special people ("Jedi") have the inborn power to shape interstellar empires. It's all about genes and destiny above effort and self-determination.
Star Trek- now there's a populist space-opera franchise.
Facts:
1. Ewoks are mammals.
2. Ewoks fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Ewok is to flip out and cook people.
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Yes, this argument is true from an anthropological standpoint, but for fantasy/sci-fi filmmaking it doesn't work. In these genres, cultures within a species are usually merged into an archetype (or stereotype, if you will). The Empire: white homo-sapiens with British accents, Hutts: gangsters and criminals, Jawas: scavengers. SW isn't the only franchise that's guilty of this. Look at Star Trek; Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans - they have virtually no cultural diversity shown within their ranks. They all revolve around a common racial theme. Even Tolkien, as brilliant and diverse as his world was, found himself doing the same with his races. Dwarves were gruff, short tempered and loved living underground. Elves were stoic and mystical. Orcs were feral and vicious. Only when you got to the humans did you see any real cultural diversity.
Imagine if Lucas had done as you suggest. Would the Alliance have allied themselves with the Wookiees armed with spears and rocks, or would they have made a call to Chewie's friends on the other side of the planet to send over some Ion cannons and thermal detonators??
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
I've seen it. Twice. (Why? Evidence suggests I',m an idiot. No, wait, that wasn't it. I was going to do an article on it for someone, but never got around to it. Anyone out there want to pay me to write and publishthat article? I've just bought a house, so I need the money...)
As God is my witness, The Star Wars Holiday Special is worse than Manos, the Hands of Fate. SEE! Bea Arthur sing a Kurt Weil-esque ditty in the Cantina! SEE! Wookies speak incomprehensibly to each other for ten minutes. SEE! Jefferson Starship perform! (Actually, that's one of the higlights, not because its particularly good, but because it's a blessed relief from the show itself.) SEE! Mark Hamil wearing enough mascara and eyeliner to play the MC in a Fire Island production of Cabaret! SEE! Harvey Korman play three roles! SEE! Grandpa Wookie watching human psuedo-porn! SEE! An embalmed Art Carney! SEE! Carrie Fisher sing! SEE! The lowlight of careers for every single peraon involved!
He only appropriate way to release it on DVD would be with an extra track that consisted of nothing but everyone involved aplogizing for the entire length of the film. ("I'm really, really sorry. It was the 70s and they gave me an awful lot of coke before I signed the contract...")
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But a for more important reason for wearing armour in modern time and I think this was the reason for the Star Wars armour, is to create a uniform anonymous look. Just as the face mask worn by special forces it is not really there to protect by to create a scary opponent. In a movie setting it also neatly allows you to have only a handfull of stunt soldiers and have them die and die again without people noticing. It also allowed the plot device of luke and han dressing up as storm troopers without being noticed.
Plenty of movies use complex full body armour that seems to do absolutly nothing to protect the soldiers inside as the hero goes through them like a knife through butter. It is hollywood.
On a more classic Sci-Fi note it is nothing new that super advanced species get slaughtered by primitive weapons.
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