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Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D
Warlock7 writes "You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 19 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Well, not so fast. It seems that George Lucas is planning to re-re-release the Star Wars films in a new 3-D format. There are also several other directors that are interested in this new technology and they are trying to get theaters to install new technology to allow the showing of their films in the new 3-D format [req free reg]."
What does Lucas do anyway, just wake up every now and then and think "in what new ways can I rape the fond memories of a younger generation"?
This guy's gone totally batshit insane. I think the best thing anyone could do for the franchise at this point is put the man in a damned straighjacket and throw him off the brooklyn bridge with a lead weight in a backpack on his back.
I can respect that some people may have liked the first two pieces (even if it wasn't my cup of tea, so to speak), and this third one might be okay, but this is a little ridiculous.
PLEASE GEORGE JUST STOP. It was a great idea the first time through with episodes 4-6, and I understand that you had to round it out with the first three parts of the series, but you're just hurting us now. Please.... please stop hurting us.
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"You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 15 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith."
I don't know anybody that is foolish enough to believe that this was over. As long as there is an interest and the opportunity to make some money, it isn't going to be over. Many folks thought that Star Wars would end in the 70s. It is still around decades later and still making a profit. You don't get rid of a profitable interest.
If the entertainment factor is there, I'll go see more. Will the market of 'Star Wars Enthusiasts' allow more movies to be made? Will we see different plots in the future? Will we see more 'enhanced' versions? I'd think probably. They may suck, but I would bet that we are not done with 'Star Wars' for quite a while. I hope that what comes out is good.
When are we going to get sick of it?
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
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anyone else remember the southpark bit about this?
Solo won't shoot at all.
He'll have a badly redubbed over diplomatic way out of it...
Naaah. This'll be a good thing, if Lucas doesn't mess with his own work again.
Oh yay.
Jar-Jar in even MORE 3d.
I guess he needs money during his retirement.
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3d Jar-Jar...
Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares. The bad kind.
yippie. fuckin. kai. aye. what is really the point? if he must muddle in the SW universe, why not expand it? why the remake? is hollywood that empty of ideas?
I vision mostly little kids going "wow it's in three dee" and star wars zealots complaining about George Lucas' loss in taste.
Let the Debating begin!
This DVD set will be called "Star Wars: The Expensive Edition".
Four words: Jar-Jar in 3D
"Oh the humanity!"
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Purely from a technological, eye-candy standpoint I'd like to see this.
Of course, what other "brilliant re-edits" will we be subjected to for the re-re-re-release?
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You might have thought that it was going to all be over on May 15 with the release of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Lucas originally promised 9 episodes.
his fans are going to make sure he delivers, even if it involves necromancy.
Isn't a 2D JarJar torture enough?
If anyone at Lucasfilm reads this, please, please convey my hopes that we can put Star Wars (the original three movies) away and, if we MUST perpetuate the franchise, do so by releasing new films by up-and-coming directors and writers who have interesting stories to tell.
I know that's a tad radical for Hollywood, but then Lucasfilm WAS a tad radical once....
What do the theaters have to do, will it cost them millions to gain $10,000 in profit from this?
Could he possibly add a third dimension to the characters as well?
Deep Throat next, perhaps?
One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The end of days are comming soon.
Jar-Jar was bad enough in 2 dimensions.
Why am I on Slashdot? I'm bored. Why am I bored? I'm on Slashdot.
Another format, another payday, eh, George?
Its like a million voices all cried out in agony, and were suddenly silenced. Surely this is some cruel early April fools day joke? How much more craptacular can he make those movies? And how many ways can he find to ruin them again and again?
its the pr0nography industry that'll have the final say........ and let's hope they go for it!
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Let it die...
Forget Star Wars, I'm more excited about "The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D." I mean, c'mon, with a title like that you know it's gotta be good!
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Anyone have any information on how these 3d films are different from past attempts at 3d? Do you still wear glasses? If not, how would this look any different than a normal film?
Due to the fact that I can only see out of one eye, I'm usually let down by such presentations of 3d. They all depend on the viewer wearing a set of glasses and being able to see out of 2 eyes. I wonder if this new 3d technology can actually do anything for people like me?
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Filmmakers hawk new 3-D technology DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press LAS VEGAS - After a brief incarnation in the early 1950s and a short-lived revival in the 1980s, 3-D movies are now getting serious consideration among filmmakers who want to send images leaping off the movie screen and into the audience. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Titanic" director James Cameron were among those promoting a new digital alteration that converts two-dimensional movies into 3-D. Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts. Lucas said he hopes eventually to release all six of his "Star Wars" movies in 3-D format that can be shown in regular moviehouses, not specialty theaters such as IMAX. "It looks better than the original, to be honest with you," Lucas told theater owners Thursday at their annual ShoWest convention. Developed by In-Three Inc. of Agoura Hills, Calif., the new technology involves converting a movie into two slightly offset images, one for each eye. The special glasses trick the brain into perceiving the picture as a single image. Unlike some 3-D systems that require two side-by-side film projectors, In-Three's system operates with a single digital projector, the filmmakers said. A snippet of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" converted to 3-D was screened, and the images showed remarkable depth in a scene where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi pursue an assassin in a flying vehicle. While the filmmakers all have an interest in releasing old movies in 3-D and shooting new ones in the format, they also tried to sell theater owners on digital systems to replace film-reel projectors that have been the standard for a century. The digital projectors can be inexpensively modified to handle 3-D, they said. "I can't shoot in a lesser format," said Cameron, who is filming the science-fiction adventure "Battle Angel," in 3-D. "I believe that 3-D is absolutely the future. ... They'll have to pry my glasses out of my cold, dead fingers."
I fully support George Lucas in his endeavors to make the Star Wars films fit his original vision.
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Now that that flamebait is out there- where can I get tickets? My sleeping bag is ready to go!
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"I'm KING OF THE WORLD when it comes to 3-D," Cameron said.
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If something need redoing, it's episones I and III. Don't need any fancy sounds or 3D effect, just redo the damn movies to get rid of Jar Jar Binks, and add something called a plot to the damn story.
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Will it never end? Can we hire ninjas to go beat the crap out of him? Not kill him. Just hurt him a lot. No perminant damage. Just lots of bruises and abrassions.
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From the article, Jackson screened remastered portions from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that featured a looming Gollum and battle dust that virtually fell onto the audience.
I do hope that Lucas doesn't adopt that particular idea of Peter Jackson's.
Jar Jar is bad enough when projected on a screen. I'd hate to think about how I'd feel if he were "out and about" in the audience, so to speak.
Please, Jar Jar, stay where you are. Don't come any closer.
I thought the much hyped trailer said it was 'may 19th' ?
Why doesn't he try to do something new instead of working on milking us for the 43 different version of the star wars serie, he could try to milk us for other versions of new series. I am truely a genius!
This is totally insecure, but very convenient.
Dear Mr Lucas ,It is really annoying.
For the love of *insert deity* Stop this
Mr Lucas your works are classics and should remain such (the origional movies are atleast) please stop defecating on your own masterworks
I think i speak for a large percent of the people here when i say please stop it
You are doing the same as Di$ny does to my childhood faviourits and completly bastardisng them
So for the love of god please give it a rest
I will admit 3d movies do sound cool , however please make a new movie and dont *insert explitive* star wars IV V VI anymore
oh btw , do what the hell you want to I and II I honestly dotn care about those (Destroyer droids look cool though , so leave them alone)
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Penny-Arcade already covered this very topic. Damn, those guys are good.
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Am not willing to pay a higher ticket price at the theater because Lucas wants the opportunity to re-re-re-release the Start Wars series in 3D this time.
Cinema owners will pass this on to the consumer, and that'll suck.
And, quite frankly, Lucas is starting to seem more and more irrelevant with his one-trick pony.
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I also wonder how he can "dimensionalize" the original films which, as far as I know, weren't shot in 3-D.
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This is all for the point of getting the Jar-Jar tongue scene from Ep 1 in full Muppet-Vision-3D. The effect Lucas REALLLY wanted for the scene.
2 hours of sticking different colored light sabers in my face.
Jesus H. Christ on a grilled cheese sandwich, give it up, George! You've raped Star Wars repeatedly in the ass with a razor-coated cock sheath while beating it over the head with a broken bottle and biting it in the neck! It's dead, you fucking necrophiliac! You've killed it, and yet you STILL want more? Burn in hell, Lucas.
So if they are all gung-ho about this new technology, how do they expect it to match sales long-term? 3-D has been tried before, several times, and is only appealing for a little while, until the novelty wears off and people realize it's a fucking gimmick.
Besides, as far as I can tell, this new technology can't translate to DVD/any-other-form-of-consumer-owned-media, so do they really expect to make that much on theater sales alone? Lucas, of *anybody* in Hollywood, should be advocating a technology that will be easily transferrable into homes for years to come, not limited solely to theaters.
I have tried stereo movies and stereo glasses for my computer games. The 3D effect isn't novel enough to outweigh an image that just doesn't look as good as the 2D image, IMHO. I get tired of trying to make out detail in certain parts of the image and trying to calibrate my monitor with little improvement. Also, I've found that the motion in the 2D image evokes enough 3D cues that the novelty of the stereo effect isn't even that satisfying.
And I really hate blue/red 3D.
Does anyone like this stuff?
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Why, Jesus had 3D technology
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shroud_posit
The shroud has a 3D imprint of Jesus's body.
And all I found was a pleasing-to-the-eyes blonde chick.
She definitely does not screw up my eyes.
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Natalie Portman..... 3D hot flying grits everywhere. What is there not to like?
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anyone else think this is a pithetic attempt to get more money?
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So we'll be able to see the holographic "chess" match as it was intended...finally....of course too many releases of Star Wars are prone to make original fans want to pull Lucas' arms from his sockets.
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I had the scan and pan tapes. The widescreen tapes in the ubercool box still grace my video collection (mostly DVD now). I even shelled out for the Special Edition widescreen tapes (though I question why now - Son of Special Edition DVDs . . . *sigh*). I saw Phantom Menace thrice in the first week. Clones got one trip to the theater, haven't seen it since. Sith will get a trip to the theater as well. Just maybe not the first week. I'd even consider seeing the 3D versions in the theater (IMAX possibly).
Maybe if my daughter likes them in a few years. But not for me anymore. Not until Lucas has returned to dust.
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From the imdb.com:
Hire a production crew who grew up during the original Star Wars era. Get a director like Peter Jackson, who has shown that he understands how to use great effects, tell a story on a grand scale, stay faithful to the original spirit and respect the fans. Have this production company make episodes 7,8 and 9 that were planned long ago. Now that might kick ass.
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I think that Lucas will stop re-re-re-re-mastering episode IV to VI when people will stop buying it. I mean come on, when he released thhe dvd version, i saw so many maniacs who thought this was cool and they went and bought it. This is ridiculous, Star Wars doesnMt need all that attention, okay there're great movies but I would watch like once every 3 years.
You've taken the Star Wars franchise as far as it goes, move to something else for God's sake. If anything else, do it so atleast i won't see a SW story on Slashdot every day!
Lucas was a creative guy with an idea that worked. It became a business. I think Lucas is a far better business man than he is a creative man. Judge this by the success of the franchise and merchandising compared to the quality of the written dialog.
Without a moral judgement on purity of art, etc... Lucas is simply doing what any shrewd business owner does... Market the franchise. Find ways to resell an old product in new packaging, and keep the money flowing in.
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
From TFA:
"It's really a beautiful system, and one of the reasons I'm promoting it today is I'm extremely anxious to reissue that old group of films I did so long ago in a galaxy far away," Lucas said.
Well, you know, it has been almost eight years since the original trilogy was rereleased in theaters, and six months since the DVDs came out. Of course Lucas is anxious to reissue the movies - the public has pretty much forgotten about them in this fast-paced world. Lucas needs to bring the movies back to the forefront of the public consciousness, because they haven't been there in months.
Seriously, though, does Lucas think he's kidding anybody anymore? It's so obvious that his vision isn't artistic, it's financial. He sees a way to keep making a mint with a minimum of effort, and every new film-oriented technology allows him to release Star Wars according to his "original vision," which was somehow compromised in every previous release.
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... in this version, prequel-Anakin will be two-dimensional!
I predict after this his next project will be to do Episodes 7-9 as movies.
He will then finally die.
But dont think its over just yet.
Lucasfilms as a company will probably take over at that point with some more Star Wars "entertainment".
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Just keep the camera on the empty table for 5 minutes and then cut to the next scene.
I remember when Metalstorm was in theaters, they had the clear/slightly grey cardboard glasses, similar to what they use for Terminator-3D and MuppetVision.
I'm sure it's probably related to the capabilities of the projector and screen...but if Lucas has always been a perfectionist about THX quality sound in his theaters, shouldn't be just as dedicated to visual quality?
Or will JarJar be forever associated with red & blue patches in my vision?
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Wan't to see the film entireley from Luke's eyes? Buy DVD 1, from Han's buy DVD 2, from JAR-JAR - buy the doubly expensive special edition redux.
Hmm strange I don't see any posts linking the story title to the department...
Nature Trail to Hell was the last (and best IMO) track on Weird Al's "In 3D" album!
"Coming this Christmas to a theatre near you......."
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He realizes he's still a billion dollars short of retaking that all time box office draw http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= world-wide
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""Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Titanic" director James Cameron were among those promoting a new digital alteration that converts two-dimensional movies into 3-D.
Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts."
There are two big problems with this. Firstly, as it only requires on projector, this solution apparently uses Red/Blue glasses instead of, say, polarized glasses like at the Imax. This might allow more theaters to use it, but my head is already hurting at the thought. Red/Blue (anaglyph, I guess) glasses always seem to reduce the light hitting your eyes, as well as screwing up the colour. The result is not incredibly pleasant, causing you to strain more to see the picture.
The other thing is that this is a 2D -> 3D conversion. Those almost never turn out looking natural. Too often you'll see a few characters or objects in the foreground that stick way out of the scene and look out of place.
But then, heck, I like stereoscopic 3d thingies. I want to see how this turns out, I'm just not optimistic about it. IF it does turn out pretty good, I wouldn't mind seeing more (or all) movies in the format.
instead of rehashing old ones over and over again? (watches episode I and II) on second thought, just keep releasing the old ones and never make another movie again.
"...These new active glasses that you're wearing and seeing 3-D with are a breakthrough in technology." "Active glasses" or shutter based glasses are not new. They shutter each eye so the right or left eye will see one side while the other eye's view is blacked out. It happens quickly enough and does create 3D but it DOES cause bad headaches after about 20-30 minutes of use. These have been available for some time now on computers. I even had a pair when I had an Amiga computer. Last time I saw 3D that didn't give me a headache was using Polaroid lenses in the frames. No flickering, no headaches and very clear 3D in full color.
Oh Ya, Lucas forgot to mention that he has full rights to the new 3-D glasses to be used. Each one will be priced a low,low price of $199.95.
And in 2010, Lucas will announce another edition wherein at appropriate times your theater seat will squirt water on you, the seat will vibrate and shake, and puffs of air will tickle your legs.
The original post talks about George re-releasing Star Wars in 3D, but there's more to the story than that. Where are the 'purists' begging Peter Jackson to not redo LOTR?
Simply put, this is a story about some new means of 3D projection in which George is only one of the heavyweights who would like to see this move forward. So why does it matter that he'd like to put his movies in 3D? I could see if he was talking about axing 2D formats, but at the moment that would be mere speculation and nothing worthy of generating this knee-jerk reaction...
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Is it sad that the first thing I thought of when I read this article wasn't outrage at George screwing up again, but that the date is wrong (May 19th, not 15th)?
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From the article. "It means we can repurpose a lot of old movies, and at the same time it really gives a whole new dimension to the movies we're making now." Something's loose in there... I think he means "reheat" like in macaroni... I like remixes in music, but in movies they just dont feel right (at least to me). Anyway, that old SouthPark episode when the kids stopped Lucas and Spielberg from messin with "Raiders.." is now bound to have a sequel. :P
2. Release the SAME MOVIE in new ??? format.
3. Profit!
Any 'creative genius' that man ever possessed was whored out a long time ago in a galaxy not-so-far away. As far as I'm concerned these days the only brilliant idea he really ever had after writing the original trilogy script was to secure the merchandising rights. Look up 'laughing all the way to the bank' in the dictionary and you get a picture of Lucas farting cash while humping a vader mask.... Come to think of it, I have a wiki entry to go make. ;P
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Star Wars IMAX would be slashdotting amazing! I dont have time to read the article so I dont know if this is IMAX or some new 3d kinda thing but if its better then IMAX you people need to stop bitching and begin your digital orgasms now!
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The ONLY new thing this version would give us (beyond the previous versions) is cooler special effects. This is not enough reason for to re-see (and re-pay for) those movies.
I have a filter for a "blockbuster" movie: If the *first* thing somebody tells me about it is how good the special effects were, my desire to see it drops by 95%. That is usually a guarantee that the movie had a lousy plot, bad acting, or usually both.
This filter works great; I have missed a lot of turkeys. (If only I'd used it for Attack of the Clones!)
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1) Darth killed Luke's father, no Darth IS Luke's father, no Darth is C3PO's father, no Obi-Wan is Luke's father (hey, it's only fair: Anakin was being seduced by the Dark Side)
2) Han shot first, no Greedo shot fist, no Episode IV shot first.
It's like they're following me...
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If they are going to do a 3D retake, they might as well make it a 3D-animated version so that we are not subjected to furhter abysmal acting as we had in Episodes I and II..
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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Since when does news about Starwars in 3-D mean a damn?
According to the press release, tROo FaNBoyZZ will be able to spawn alternate time lines. Already there is buzz about a timeline where ROTJ takes place on the wookie homeworld instead of a moon that is, as one fan was heard to say, "infested with those godamned, motherfucking, cockgobbling Ewok pieces of fucking shit damn damn damn them to heeeellllll!"
Other timelines being discussed by fans are the "that motherfucking cockgobbling Jar-Jar gets his head blown off in his first scene" version, the "Han Solo not only shoots first, but hunts down and kills Greedo's whole family execution style, and bangs several whores along the way" scenario, the "Anakin tuens to the dark side because he gets anally raped by space monkeys" gambit, and the "Boba Fett kicks everyone's ass ten times over and opens up entire fleet sized shipments of whoop-ass on every dumbass alien in the galaxy" fantasy.
If you seen Episode One on the IMAX big screen, imagine the close-up shot of the kiss scene (where the lips are at least six feet wide) in 3D. This is what you call an abuse of technology.
As for Jar-Jar, they might want to do weapon checks at the door to prevent someone from putting a hole into the screen.
... the goggles do nothing!
Someone hand Mr. Lucas a bong filled with the finest sticky available. When he cut down on the weed, his movies started sucking. ;-)
first 3D experience was at Disneyland watching Michael Jackson talk to a flying gismo in Captain EO.
these are the types of things 3D glasses lend themselves too....
Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch... why does Slashdot insist on maintaining SW as a category when it's obvious that most of the crowd here has gotten far to cynical and old and whiny to enjoy these films anymore? I expect to modded as a troll for this, but it's a serious question. It's obvious that the old SW fans have gotten too entrenched in the daily stresses and strains of grown-up life and can no longer connect with the magic of the films that they claim so vehemently to love. Why not let it go and let the next generation of dreamers enjoy the films without us, the old broken guard, sitting around carping about how things were better "back then?" We didn't have to deal with that when the original films were released and those films were flawed and corny and riddled with plot holes and cheesy effects too (and please... save the "but the characters were so real" argument for someone who hasn't gotten old and bitter enough to see that Carrie Fisher couldn't act her way out of dark room with a flashlight and a map.) So, we've all gotten too old and broken-down by life to continue enjoying these films. Let's get on with important, tooth-and-nail engagements over vi vs. emacs and screaming about the latest outrage of the DMCA or Microsoft and let the kiddies enjoy their escapist fantasy without our whining? What do you all say?
You lack discipline! No not really, but I'm tired of any post that falls under the star wars category on here resulting in a million comments that can basically be summed up as follows: "Jar-Jar is stupid! Not more Jar-Jar!" "Lucas just wants more money" etc etc etc Alls I'm sayin is you guys need to learn to deal with the fact that George Lucas has a good time making these movies: they're like a hobby. Of course, a very-well paying hobby, but I think he genuinely enjoys making them. If you watch ay behind-the-scenes stuff its very apparent that he's putting alot of work in to them. Personally, I've liked all the movies and I don't find Jar-Jar overly annoying. He's just a different version of Treepio. Sure the dialogue is crappy here and there (rewatch the originals with the mindset of "oh these are ghey" and i'm sure you can find cheesy dialogue and whatnot), but he's just building more lore into the SW universe, which is always fun.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Oh, great! Now they can re-release such masterpieces of the cinematic arts as Bwana Devil.
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I am sick of this too. I mean Han Solo just doesn't look right shooting guys with his walkie talkie.
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Build a personal 3d cinema at home for under $500, and download the movies with bittorrent?
oh the horrors!
Every time he tries to add to it, it reminds me of that South Park episode, and how his improvements have never really improved anything so much as made it way too busy and too flashy and unreal.
The only good improvements he ever made were getting rid of the shadow boxes around the ships and the see-thru aspects inside some of the fighter cockpits.
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Ok, that'll probably require some re-rendering which I'm sure they have stuff away someplace, but without two camera angles I'm curious how you're supposed to see perspective. Maybe they do it with some re-shading, frame-by-frame, like the colorizing process.
The thing is, the boogerhead could just re-run all the films, as they are, during the summer and they'd pack theaters anyway.
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The new version will feature lots of digitally-added shit being thrown at the audience. Probably to counteract the popcorn, goobers and raisinets being thrown at the screen.
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In other news, George Lucas has announced that he will digitally re-edit the original three Star Wars movies so that Darth Vader will randomly break out into rap. "I just think it's so cool when older people try to show the young people that they are still hip and with it by trying to rap", said Lucas.
George Lucas does to Star Wars fans on the white screen,
what Michael Jackson does to kids at his Neverland ranch.
A destroyed childhood, is just that... destroyed.
Must thank God each and every day for George Lucas taking attention away from him.
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I have a problem with my sight: my eyes don't line up and point at the same spot exactly - its unfixable by surgery (well it might work or might blind me and they say the odds are bad). As a result I am Right-Eye dominant, my left eye produces only peripheral vision.
Does this new technology mean that I am going to be unable to view movies at all in the future because I am effectively only using one eye? Those 3D glasses things never did a thing for me except annoy me. I can't see how this technology is going to change things in any way.
As well, does this mean that watching the movie on DvD we would need the special glasses, or would this be a theatre only thing? Just curious. If its theatre only I can blithely ignore it...
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By "adding" to it, he can insist the copyright be extended another 70 years, kind of like what Disney did.
And since copyrights worldwide don't use the US method, this gives him a few decades more money from international showings that would soon expire their copyrights and get used in music videos and game systems.
It's all part of his master plan.
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And here I thought that after May 19th I would not ever have to go out of my parents basement again!
Talk about aggressive marketing overkill. MercuryNews is EVIL! I had to click through 12 advertising screens after finishing registering. This has to be some kind of record for the Internet (or at least a reputable news site).
That said, I will probably go and see the 3D re-releases (which has nothing to do with MercuryNews of course). Quit whining about Lucas raping your childhood. Just don't go. I didn't like Jar-Jar either. Get over it. Because it's based in space, many techie types feel they own the franchise more that Lucas and the public he is hawking it to. Last time I looked there are about 100 Star Wars novels available in bookstores. It's rapidly catching up with the Star Trek novels. To stop the movies, you would have to stop the books, which show how rabid people are for the saga to go on -- whether it meets your high standards for entertainment fair or not.
Maybe the 3-D will be good, maybe not. I have wondered why Disney/Pixar haven't re-released their films in 3-D. Some have been presented in IMAX (though not 3D IMAX as far as I know). Here you know the 3D re-rendering will be spot on. Technically it would have to me 2-orders of magnitude easier than converting 2D photographs. Disney will be Making a Toy Story 3 (alone), I'll be very surprised if it isn't Toy Story 3D.
That said, my viewing experience at home on HDTV is often better than what you see at the Cineplex (especially stuff shot directly in digital, rather than converted from film). I would gladly pay full ticket price to watch my stuff at home while in recent release if I could get it. The point is Cinemas will increasingly have to compete with a viewing experience in the home that rivals that of the theater. Just going wider (Cinamscope) like they did in '50s (and wider yet in the late '60s with Cinerama) wont cut it. People will increasingly start to wait for Movies to come out in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD if the industry doesn't do something to augment the viewing experience. Start looking for things like Sensoround to make a comeback, introduced for the 1974 disaster flick "Earthquake." Also expect several variations of motion simulation, some quite cheap like tilting chairs, and other that require individual pods with 6 degrees of freedom and everything in-between.
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I don't see how it can be more cost effective to equip theaters with active LCD shutter glasses rather than cheap cross-polarized glasses and a polarizing projector. Does anyone know more about this technology? I have seen visualization displays that use both approaches. The passive polarization seems the most simple. I guess, the key thing is that the movies need to be masters with two perspectives per frame...how it is put on the screen and filtered into our eyes is irrevelant. I just can't see the active glasses thing being cost effective.
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Midichlorians. Okay, maybe some more, while I'm at it: Jar-Jar; Ewoks (and their damned singing); the no-pre-emptive strike, self-defense Solo. Never underestimate how willing the public is to eat up this crap...in fact, I once heard that if George Lucas were to take a big dump, fans would line up in droves to buy a little piece of it. Star Wars and Empire were watchable. THX1138 was interesting. Everything else has been drivel. Now excuse me while I go watch Howard the Duck.
I mean, there was always a part of me that hoped it was true that when he originally made SW, GL really didn't have the technology to make the movie he really wanted. Of course, after hearing about how really awful the first cut was, a little doubt crept into my mind, but still, there was a sliver of hope that the re-releases wer born more out of a desire for change, than a desire for change.
But now, there's no doubt that GL is truly just a greedy bastard. I can see how discussions of how cool it would be to see the opening screen crawl in 3D, followed by the corvette being overtaken by the imperial ship, but beyond that, christ.
This is going to be as bad as Jaws3 (in 3D), and there's really just no excuse for it.
Is neverland ran...i mean skywalker ranch losing that much money? Did he heavily invest in pumpkin futures and then hold them for too long? What the hell is he thinking?
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And then, I didn't the article. It goes on to say this, which is slightly contradictory but raises my optimism slightly. They aren't 80's style anaglyphs.
Forget the old days of wearing the red and blue glasses and the eyestrain. All of that is behind us now. These new active glasses that you're wearing and seeing 3-D with are a breakthrough in technology.
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they way I imagine this whole 3d thing is those silly glasses. As a kid i can remember going to to Epcot center. As we sat in this "movie theater" of the future gave me a real sense of 3d. projectors were located on every wall, "Surrounding" you. I can understand it would be rather annoying sitting in a theater with people looking backwards and to the left to follow the movie, but, it would be... bad ass :)
I'm sure "quad-projection" -- if i recall right is not exactly 3d. But the experience was nice.
oh well, back to work
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All I can say is thank god he isn't a videographer! Can you imagine hiring him to do your wedding video, and that every few years he would send you a revised edition of it? Please George, stop it! Time for something new. Let it die in peace....
Now while I admit, seeing the balrog, or the battle of Minas Tirith in 3D would be just way too cool, I have to say that of all the things I have wished for from the movies in all my life, Jar Jar Binks in 3D is NOT one of them.
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.. what will this do to the value of my mint-in-package action figure collection?
Get those crazy blue/red glasses like they used for Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street! There's just something about hard plastic cutting into your nose to really make you feel the axe chopping and finger slicing goodness. Or shell out of one of these: http://www.edimensional.com/product_info.php?cPath =21&products_id=28 for use in your home instead.
Will the market of 'Star Wars Enthusiasts' allow more movies to be made?
I have stated before that there will be many more SW movies, and more middle earth books. In both cases, the studios don't have control of the properties, so it would seem that they can't get their money grubbing mits on them to crank out tons of material.
However, with copyrights being so long these days, eventually someone will decisde they need a new ferrari or more hookers and blow, and let the studios crank out more sequals/prequals, whatever. Maybe it will be GL's grandkids, maybe it will be his great grand kids, but it will happen. I just hope that whoever gets put in charge of the project(s) has the brainpower to hire some truly brilliant writers and directors, so as to keep the property strong, as opposed to that stinking piece of crap that passes for star treck these days. Great example of how to ruin a property.
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It's crap like this that makes me glad I'm a Star Trek Fan.
Lucas, If it's really necessary to "remaster" the 4-6 episodes so many times, just start all over and get it over with. Apparently you think you made so many mistakes that the whole thing should be basicially replaced with a totally new concept to match the newer movies. The first trilogy was great for the 70's but thats not good enough for you so just quit beating the dead horse and start a fresh flogging with a living breathing steed. At least when you completely remake the entire 4-6 episodes you can say you made it in the perfect image and leave the old ones alone for once.
And 3D? Seriously, Did anyone see the torture that was Spy Kids 3D? Basicially all the 3D was was "WOW THATS COMING OUT OF THE SCREEN AND MOVING AROUND!" type of crap that you would get in one of those Sea World or Disney Rides. They could have made that entire movie in 2D and the only thing it would have lost is the time spent by the kid Actors sticking their arm or something else out to the audience so they go OOOO!!
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and stormtroopers had light sabers too. Now luke a girl, leia a girl. Han sure is a lucky boy :P or make him a girl too and go for the ultimate in movie history, 3 way lesbian love interest. Lucas would own every male on the planet.
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George,
Knock it off already. You're destroying the value of the Star Wars saga by doing this. If the first remakes didn't realize your "vision", why did you do them? Are you positive this next go-round will do the job? If not, don't do them!
If you're that picky about the quality of your work, why don't you wait another 20 years or so, when you'll probably be able to do what you want with them? Stick them in "the vault", like Disney. Establish a moratorium until you have no doubts at all that the technology to do it your way is at your disposal. Just don't fuck with our heads every few years about "this is the way I wanted to do it".
I saw Star Wars in the theater when I was six years old, and I was absolutely astounded. You're never going to have that magic again, no matter how many times you tweak these movies. And if you keep it up, you're going to end up putting a lot of us off seeing them again. And again. And again.
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I went and saw the IMAX NASCAR 3D, and I thought, and to some degree still think, the idea of a four hour left hand turn is totally stupid.
That said, if you adjust the eyewear correctly, and I had to do it for my neighbor too, and have a set that's working correctly it is completely spectacular. I can't say enough good things about it. There are some weird effects like objects appearing to grow larger as opposed to come closer under some circumstances.
Now, by fighting it a little I could resolve the images seperately, which was a little interesting and queasy. But if I just sat back and relaxed, it was pretty brilliant.
And the glasses do fit most sizes, I've got a gigantic misshapen melon of a head. So I'll leave the door open that some NBA players might be sol, but the rest of the masses won't have a problem. Unless of course they are unwilling to think for two seconds about how to adjust the glasses.
...just scarier.
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
In 2006 Lucas will release episodes 4 to 6 in Smell-o-vision.
You can smell the oily robots.
You can smell Luke's sweaty shirt.
You can smell the ozone as light sabers split the air.
You can smell it when Lord Vader's battle cruiser dumps the garbage! (ignore that it was in a vacuum)
And best of all! You can smell Princess Leia's hot, sweaty, brass bikini!
Anybody care to comment on this new 3D technology? How exactly is it different from the old one? How realistic will it look? Any possibility of seeing it on home computers anytime soon?
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Would this 3D thingamabob cinema be cool enough that I couldn't reproduce the experience in my own living room? Cool enough to... GET MY ASS TO THE THEATRE?
heh, "2 hours of sticking different colored light sabers in my face" Am I the only one still laughing at this?
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The main patent is #6,686,926 (linked above, this incorporates an earlier patent). Another related patent they have is #6,515,659.
In short: someone manually draws lines around each object and scoots it over for the right eye, background-cloning the gap. Their software assists in adjusting the object placements from one frame to the next, saving what would otherwise be a monumental task. Their "shift" algorithm is capable of assigning a bump-map-like distortion so the objects have a natural curve rather than being sprite cut-outs.
Side-note: to get a similar effect (for a few minutes at least), watch a movie with a pair of cheap sunglasses with one glass removed.
Star Wars is a trilogy of trilogies. There were three more stories George Lucas hasn't touched yet. He's only done the first and second of the trilogies. So it won't be over for quite some time.
> Lucas's ideas are so pedestrian, so cliched, so utterly devoid of originality or creativity. The GOOD GUYS WEAR WHITE (Luke), and the BAD GUYS WEAR BLACK (Vader). (Yeah I know, the stormtroopers break the rule, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they're only white so Vader stood out on film).
You just contradict yourself and try to get out of it, but even you know you're not making any sense. Yes, the Stormtroopers were white so why are you making this stupid comment? And what's wrong with Vader having a black outfit.
Hey Luke wears black on ROTJ, and General Grievious is all white in Revenge of the Sith. What the hell are you talking about???
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I have never read more posts that include little winey ass bitches complaining about something that has no direct effect on them.
How many times does it need to be said. For the 1 millionth time, if you dont like the movies, DoNt effin' Watch them.
All you babies are crying like little bitches. Is it cool to dislike starwars, it must be the "in thing" to dislike starwars now. Your measly complaints will not stop Lucas from doing whatever the F he wants. So just relax and be little fonzies as apposed to little winey, complaining, babies.
The idea is for the advancement of 3-D films, maybe if you would think about the technology that is involved in that endevour you would appreciate lucas for being one of the first to make that idea a reality.
Get over yourselves, its not about you, Fricken babies. cry me a river
With a 3D IMAX theater locally, I've been wondering why movies are not being produced in 3D. Maybe some people just don't see the effect, maybe some are tired of "wow! look! 3D! let's shove something in your face!" cheesy movies. When it is done right, and not in-your-face about it, 3D is magnificent. The Polar Express was amazing, plunging the viewer into the scenes without being gratuitous about it (the 3D effect more than made up for the objected-to eerie realism of motion capture).
With for computer-generated animations, there is no excuse for not releasing 3D IMAX upscaled movies. The Incredibles was amazing; simply re-rendering 2 inches to the right would have made it incredible.
While "dimentionalizing" existing 2D classics (Star Wars included) may be debatable just as "colorizing" was, I'm thrilled to see high-end directors taking 3D seriously - both to see good movies with real visual depth, and to finally push 3D viewing into the home.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
"It's not like the old 'Star Wars,' " Lucas told theater owners at the ShoWest convention. "This one's a little bit more emotional. We like to describe it as 'Titanic' in space. It's a tearjerker."
Sweet -- does this mean Jar Jar dies quickly, yet abhorrently painfully???
and now back to the fallout shelter...
"Jackson screened remastered portions from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that featured a looming Gollum and battle dust that virtually fell onto the audience."
Wheres the outcry with messing with a "classic"?
Lucas: BAD
Jackson: GOOD
to make the /. crowd whine, moan, and bitch than to post a Star Wars story. Seriously, if you people hate it so much, why go see it? I'm really sick of it. The movies aren't great, but they're better than 90% of the movies that come out each year. I'm willing to bet the new one will be better than any movie I've seen this year except the rental of Harold & Kumar go to Whitecastle.
Relax.
I only have one eye!
Before reading TFA, I thought he was about to redo episodes 4,5,6 in 3D animation...
What a relief.
Lucas should ask Pixar to make the next Star Wars film..?
Personally speaking I think it would be interesting to see what Pixar would do with something dark and semi-serious.
This isn't the technology that they're using in the movie.. however, if you're looking for a true 3D display, I saw an awesome one at siggraph 2004's vendor show. I can't find the name of it right now, but the basic technology was a back-projection, with a bunch of vertical planes that could be turned translucent. They simply projected images continuously, turning on the appropriate depth plane, so that each depth plane displayed the correct image. I believe they got around 15-20 fps, and it was the first true voxel display I've seen. That way, because the display is actually 3d, you'd get as much 3d as you get with the real world.
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George Lucas is such a fan of the latest 3-D technology that he is planning to remaster all of the "Star Wars" films for rerelease in 3-D."
should probably have read:
"George Lucas is such a fan of money that he is planning to remaster all of the "Star Wars" films for rerelease in 3-D.
Lucas will be taking his Star Wars Puppet show to a theatre near you.. NOW with previously cancelled scenes!!!
Any more, I'm beginning to think that Lucas is really Count Frankenstien....a vampire trying to suck every ounce of precious life out of his creation that is made completely of decomposing movie ideas!
Well at least some of the characters will have some depth now..../
Forgive me for sounding rude, but you don't see 3D in real life either. I don't think you can see a 3D movie unless someone can hack into your central nervous system, and simulate some sort of 3D vision.
Does this mean they will be re-doing Jaws3D in 3D?
I can't wait to see the stormtrooper walk into the closing door in 3-d!!!
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that you've never seen THX-1138.
To paraphrase Freud, "Sometimes a trash compactor is just a trash compactor."
Obviously The 3D Hobbit.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Does that mean an entirely new cast? That might be interesting.
*maybe*
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Nah, somebody oughtta encase him in carbonite.
It's true, the 80s were good for something. I've got my bootleg VHS tapes from back when these movies came out the second time, and I have no intention of partaking in the pathetic "Make George Richer" society he seems to so desire.
No, it'll just be me, my woodgrained VCR, three tapes I have no doubt will become artifacts to some future era, and my precious, precious tracking control.
Greedo is shooting right at you!! Quick, dodge the shot then BLAST HIM with your own light gun that Lucas is including on the Re-Re-mastered edition!!
Transplant American Graffiti to the SW universe. Replace all the hot rods with Sand Speeders, and Pod Racers.
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It's polarized lenses. As you probably recall, photons have an electric field that oscillates in a given plane. Basically, a polarizing lens blocks all light except that which oscillates in a specific plane. In new 3D glasses, one lens is horizontally polarized, one vertically. The sreen sends out two images, one eye sees one image, the other sees the other.
They have a Shrek-3D thing at Universal's theme park (to which I was unwillingly dragged...;P). I figured that's how the glasses worked, and convinced myself by overlapping the right and left lenses (using two pair of glasses). Blocks out effectively all the light. Then, overlapped two left lenses, which I could see through. Then, I turned one lens 90 degrees, and it blocked out all the light.
So, ultimately, it's just plain old plane polarizing filtering lenses
I like it when people see only cable and think Star Wars is never released anymore and seen by millions , every 6 month some public TV channel broadcast it ...
*SO* want to see luke go bad as predicted by Yoda and Ben in Empire.
Jackson would be an excellent director for this.
Another option:
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I think he ought to take a cue from the Python crowd and rework them as musicals. After all, they're only slightly less pretentious than your average Andrew Lloyd Weber schlockfest.
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"I feel that I've made the movie the best I can and it turned out the way I wanted it to be, so I'm happy," Lucas, 60, told The Associated Press in an interview. "I never try to anticipate what the world's going to think or even worry about whether they're going to like it or not. That's not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don't. That's completely out of my hands."
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Could this be an idea to reinvigorate the movie-going experience? The last movie I paid $9 for meant overpriced food, stepping out for 5 minutes to find an employee to fix minor problems with the projector's focus on an overrun print, and then fellow-moviegoers who apparently paid $9 to answer cellphones and talk loudly to friends.
So what else is there? Digital theaters haven't taken off like Lucas obviously planned. While the quality of the theater experience has generally decreased, the quality of the home experience has increased. Add to this the increasing availability and quality of pirated movies, and what point is there in even going to the theater?
3D, if Lucas and friends have their way.
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You're doomed. It's in 3D. After an hour and a half of a space flick, your head will feel like the last mmoments of the Death Star . .
The only 3D I recall leaving without a headache was spy kids 3D--which was only part-time 3D.
Maybe Lucas can pull it off, but the problem is things at different depths competing for focus.
ANd that's without starships zooming in and out, and laser fire, and . .
You're doomed. This one is *really* going to hurt.
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No dont stop! Think of the possibilities:
Star Wars redone with chimps and with a special "planet of the apes" ending.
A special version of the star wars for America's heartland. Just replace the words "the force" with "christ." Works fairly well. Han Solo instantly becomes a doubting Thomas who learns the errors of his ways. Maybe they can get Heston to shoot a wookie or something to spice things up.
Replace all the human actors with muppets and all the muppets with humans.
MST2K special edition. Yeah, you want it.
Insert the actors actually playing with the toys of themselves to help merchandising. We'll call this the Kenner special edition.
Tie in with Matt Greonings' work. Han can have a space fight with the crew of Planet Express while Luke meets up with the Simpsons on a strange watery planet called E'rth.
Replace R2's beeps with a human voice. Preferably something deep like Barry White.
Have the movie end with the CGI cast giving kids a stern warning about recreational drug abuse. Claim it created all these remakes. Listen to the audience gasp in horror.
Please Lucas, continue your crazy work. I mean, if I learned anything from this its never trust a guy who lives in a fantasy theme amusement park "ranch." And the more Lucas screws up the more precedent there will be for other directors to never, ever do this kind of shit ever again. There will never be a special CGI-added Godfather, and for that I am thankful.
How can Lucas ? He is raping my childhood! First he , then he ! All joy in my life has been drained! (Pick one or more of the following to rant about:)
STOP MESSING WITH THE MOVIE. Just leave it the way it is. Do you really need that many more royalty cheques? This is pretty weak.
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Recently, I saw George on PBS saying that he likes the new versions of Star Wars more than the original versions and that's why he released them on DVD. George, what about us fans who like the theatrical versions more than the modified ones?
If I write and direct a film to exist in a specific way, then that's the way you'll watch it for all eternity. It should be ILLEGAL to bastardize films like George has. I can understand "digitally restoring" as a form of cleaning up old prints, but this is just insane.
Guess what, George? If you want to see Star Wars in 3-D, you should have filmed it that way.
Sorry for the rant, but yet another round of "modification" of Star Wars just pisses me off.
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
"It's not like the old 'Star Wars,' " Lucas told theater owners at the ShoWest convention. "This one's a little bit more emotional. We like to describe it as 'Titanic' in space. It's a tearjerker."
THAT WAS NOT A JOKE. THAT. WAS AN ACTUAL QUOTE.
Wow you seem to have pissed off the only people in the world who think the new films dont suffer from a case of "Hamicus Acticus".
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A turd, even rendered lovingly in 3D, is still a turd.
his fans are going to make sure he delivers, even if it involves necrophilia.
I'm a sci-fi vegan: I don't want the aliens to think we have as much right to live as the fried chickens we eat.
Dude - POLARISED!
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Let's hope in the re-re-rerelease we get an Episode I and II that _don't_ suck, and an Episode IV wherein Greedo fires first.
You've only got one eye that works (like me)?
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I can see myself getting real nostalgic for the old "special edition" versions.
Why stop at burning in hell?
Think of burning in hell, side-by-side with Jar-Jar, who is similarly being overcooked. And it doesn't STOP!
(shudder) I have to stop thinking of it as I type this. The screams are getting to me.
wireless glasses? no eye strain? This is some kewl stuff!
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The OT? What is the OT?
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Darth Vader has to wear that mask following a narrow escape from the House of Wax. Sort of a latter day Phantom of the Paradise I guess.
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I think I see where the movie industry is going for the next 20 years. We've already had half the films from the last century remade (badly), and half the books and comics and cartoons adapted into movies, the next stage is to re-re-make all these movies in the latest format - 3D, so basically the industry will be kept alive by satisfying peoples curiosities yet again, using the same story bases. The way this works is quite simple: people want to satisfy their curiosities, theres a certain novelty to seeing scooby doo or inspector gadget as a real life film, it may only last about 10 minutes but thats often just enough time to get you into the cinema. Films often don't need any real content as long as they have a hook. Personally I think its great, capitalism is teh r0x0r.
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He's more machine now than human.
But given some of the perspectives in the original movies, such as the long hallways with stormtroopers and Vader coming towards you, the pursuit of the Corvette by the SD at the very beginning, or the Emperor going down the tubes (so to speak), what would be wrong with rendering them in a well-done 3d? You'd get a film experience closer to a play, or (optimistically) being there.
We've been using 3d in sci/technical visualization for years now, so maybe it's time to try it for entertainment again. If you actually go to a basketball game, do you think, "this sucks! I want the players flat and out of focus just like on TV!"
Ten years from now they'll have worked out Smellovision, and you'll be complaining than the Millenium Falcon smells like WD40 instead of silicone grease and wet dog like you always thought it would.
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Am I missing something here?
From TFA:
Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane
and
Unlike some 3-D systems that require two side-by-side film projectors, In-Three's system operates with a single digital projector, the filmmakers said.
It's a zarking anaglyph system! Why in the sodding hell WOULD it need two projectors? it's two colour tinted images (left eye/right eye) overlaid onto the same position. That can be done perfectly well with a single projector
Am I missing something here? Are they seriously wheeling out the same old crappy anaglyph technology, saying "Hey! look! it can be done on just one projector" and calling it revolutionary?
Seriously, can someone more knowledgeable about cinema enlighten me
There are a LOT of ways of getting stereoscopic vision to people through a display. Of course, the best are either HMD or a display where different parts of the image are "aimed" at the left or right eye, neither of which are practical in a cinema.. but still. Anaglyphs suck! Yes, even the really good ones which barely distort the colour and have compensation in the movie. I was really hoping for some GOOD 3D tech, because god knows it's overdue.
Oh well. At least there's the likes of those DTI3D monitors, and the ones in some of the funky laptops these days.
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Ack. I went to a 3-D theater using this technology a few (like maybe 5) years ago.
About 20 minutes in, massive headache.
I hope they've upped the refresh rate since then. I don't seem to have a problem watching regular 24fps movies in theaters. But anything less than 70Hz with a monitor bothers me.
fuggit! I'm holding out for smell-o-vision!
Slices, dices, eats your lunch.
Star Wars was one of the first (if not the first, perhaps Jaws was earlier) big ass blockbuster with huge mechandising and as such made some serious money. The studios realized they didnt have to dole out x amount here and y amount here, they just had to make one blockbuster per summer and they would make more money than the old approach of, you know, making art and making money from it.
Suddenly everyone wanted a blockbuster. Scripts and projects which didnt smell of "blockbuster" were never greenlighted.
Now look at Hollywood. Compare today's offerings to what was going on pre 1977. I see a lot more variety, good art, good story telling, people taking chances, etc then than I do now. But why fund something as crazy as Raging Bull when you got Angelina Jolie with a video game tie and merchandising.
Arguably, this would have happened anyway. People created the blockbuster by going crazy over a space opera. Still, this is a sad testament to the film industry and the post-star wars era is a very real dumbing down of the movie industry. Its not that surprising to see that the "genius" behind star wars is anything but, and has ruined whatever film legacy he once had through odd re-releases and pathetic prequels.
Some related articles:
BBC's rise of the blockbuster
Film history of the 70s
The book Blockbuster, amazon review:
Someone tell me: Is this the shitty remake, or the original shitty one from the 70s?
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It is almost like Godwin's Law, where once a director or producer decides to make a 3D movie, his/her days are numbered and is at the end of their career. Look who is advocating this kind of idea, and it tends to reinforce this concept. (George Lucas is really at the end of his creative lifespan of movie making, with the Star Wars movies going downhill rapidly in quality.)
I am serious here too. 3D technology has been around since the 1950's, and in reality hasn't been able to get much better since then. There have been a few modest advances, but if you looked at 3D movies that were made back in the 1950's and 1960's, they are really not too much better than what is currently being produced. Indeed, many of the filming techniques "pioneered" in those 1950's 3D movies are still in use, such as:
One serious problem with 3D movies is that tend to over emphasis these techniques (and others) and use them over and over again, even if it does nothing to advance the story. Why go 3D when it doesn't have any real effect on the audience? This is also perhaps why putting a movie not made 3D would not have the same effect as something filmed specifically for a 3D movie, because the actual acting techniques (good or ill) are quite a bit different.
3D movies also are used to cover up bad dialog, acting, or directing. In other words, the technology of going 3D is emphasised over the fact that the movie might be worth going to for other reasons... or perhaps the only reason to go see the movie is because of the "cool" technology of seeing something in 3D.
I will admit that with digital projectors it will be possible to improve on the cumbersome problems associated with filming in 3D. In addition, since the scenes are already done as a 3D environment, it would be cool to see some of Pixar's movies rendered as steroscopic 3D movies. In the case of these movies (as Pixar has already proven), the story is already good where the technology is merely another way to experience the story telling, not a means unto itself.
Otherwise, all of this talk about "new 3D technology" is utter bulls**t, and wading very deep in it as well. Steroscopic prints date back to the 1870's (not 1970's), and some 3D perspective work even predates photography. This is not something new. BTW, if you havn't seen one of those old stero viewers, find an antique store and check one out (if you can find one). A really cool hack on what appears to be a very mundane technology.
Now if you could make a true holographic projection (aka like Princess Leia in SW:ANH) without special glasses (or even with) and the ability to walk around the characters in a fashion like a Star Trek holodeck, that would be an awsome technology advance. And something to brag about. There are some virtual reality environments that come close to that and is cool technology. What George Lucas is talking about is more of the 1950's 3D garbage merely repackaged through marketing to make you think it is something "new".
be damned.
I saw his re-release and didn't like it. For me, star wars is the original and I have them on VHS.
Anybody know if the DVD special edition version has the original unmodified release?
Actually, 1/48th of a second in the past.
it always cracks me up when people whine and moan about the changes lucas makes to the originals or the prequels when the fact is that the originals sucked when the first came out as they were. all the sw films are bad filmmaking. bad acting. bad storytelling. bad writing. bad directing. bad effects (yes... too many effects just looks silly after a while.) so what, they were popular? so what they had some pseudo-intellectual nods to myths? that doesn't make them good. they've always been sucky, b-grade, low-standard sci-fi-wannabe soap opera garbage anyway. what does it matter if someone tinkers with this crap?
I'm a projectionist for cinemark and have worked for them for well over a year. I work in one of their newest theaters and can tell you for a fact that 95% of movie theaters are not equipped for one digital projector, let alone many. only the newest built theaters are being set up to have a digital one. very few of those are ever going to get one too. cinemark is just too cheap for that.
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corny monster movies with cheesey effects aimed at 10 year old intellect. Let's put buzzers under the seats for when energy beams are fired
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Burn, Star Wars, burn!
Well I for one couldn't think of another way to bastardise the films. That's lateral thinking for you...
Here we observe a new twist to the Star Trek vs Star Wars fight. Which of these is the cooler punishment?
1. Collect underpants.
2. Put George Lucas in a straitjacket and throw him off the Brooklyn Bridge with a lead weight in his backpack.
3. Profit!
or
1. Collect underpants.
2. Fire Rick Berman from a cannon.
3. Profit!
Choices, choices...
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Kirk: What the hell is that?
Bones: It's dead, Jim.
Spock: Fascinating.
Chekov: Keptin, we still need to fire Rick Berman from a cannon.
I only have one working eye you insensitive clod!
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