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Episode III Deleted Scenes Leaked Online
Master_of_Tumbleweeds writes "Like the previous Prequels' arrivals on DVD, Revenge of the Sith will have several deleted scenes included when it's released next month. We now have a sneak peak (thanks to various online spies like the infamous Darth Psychotic) at a couple of these sequences, one that depicts General Grievous actually dispatching a Jedi Knight (something we didn't even see in the theatrical release) and Yoda's arrival at the swamp planet of Dagobah. Episode III comes out on DVD November 1st"
or a lack of common sense...Either way those scenes are nice ;)
I can understand the idea behind the exile, but the execution needed a lot of work.
But then, the same can pretty much be said of most of the recent trilogy.
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It made sense to me. Anakin knows Obi-Wan is alive. Palpatine couldn't find Yoda's body, so assuming he was dead would be an unwise idea. So, it would be a very good idea for Yoda and Obi-wan to lay low for a while. A long while. I didn't particularly need expository dialogue to figure that out.
Frankly, the big studios tend to under-estimate the intelligence of the audience sometimes. For instance, the scenes of the T1000 searching John Connor's room by touch being cut at the studio's request from "Terminator 2: Judgement Day".
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I'm guessing one of the missing scenes doesn't have Jar Jar Binks being Force-choked by Death Vader then.
Who ordered that?
Number of versions of Star Wars released on DVD: 1.
/.: 3,720 to 1
Number of versions of Evil Dead 2 released on DVD: 4? 5? 6? Another new one just came out with yet another screaming rubber cover.
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"The acting was so bad in the third I was embarrassed to even be watching it"
I don't think the acting was any better in Episodes 4-6.
The difference was that we were not yet jaded by the setting and story.
What Lucas seemingly failed to realize is that since Return of the Jedi, others have done similar sci-fi movies and stories better. Lucas failed to leap past these other movies, and instead made movies only marginally better than Ep 4-6. Since we expect better movies, in general, we were majorly disappointed.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I'm convinced that the reason Lucas hasn't released the original trilogy is because that's the one that everyone really wants: he can get us to buy all the touched up versions for a while then release the original unre-edited version and everyone will buy all of the episodes all over again. If he goes the other way there'd be less rebuying: "well I've already got a version, why do I need this new version where greedo couldn't hit a barn door with his pistol touching the door."
since that version is not available on DVD, people will have to "make do" with the versions that are. I don't think he came up with this plan until after the first re-release (which was before the laserdisk contract ran out IIRC)
Of course, he might not ever release the originals and really milk it with improved versions. Let me be the ten-thousanth to say, "I'm not buying another episode until the originals are released on DVD" and probably not really mean it.
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Actually, I seem to recall from the Thrawn Trilogy that Yoda already lived on Dagobah when the Dark Jedi showed up. So, it could be worked in that, to help consolidate his rule in the early years, Palpatine cloned off some Jedi, possibly even using materials collected by clone troopers during the mass purges shown in EP 3.
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It gets a LOT better after that. If you haven't seen episodes like "Our Mrs. Reynolds" (Best ever!), "Out of Gas", or the original pilot, you have no idea what this show is about. "The Train Job" was a real hackjob, having to be written and filmed at the last minute because Fox thought that the pilot didn't have enough action. (Shades of Star Trek?) The only redeeming feature of this episode was when Reynolds kicked the guy into the engine.
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The second episode "Bushwhacked", was probably also done as a hackjob. The original pilot had them outrunning Reavers, so this episode was obvious created or reworked to explain who the Reavers were.
One more episode, and I think you would have fallen in love with the series.
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Did it ever occur to you that it might get better as it went along? It's an incredibly rare TV show that gets everything perfect in the first few episodes or even the first season, especially in a genre setting where there's a lot of pressure to not be TOO out there and different as you're trying to build an audience.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
So, all the MPAA has to do is use a *different* frame for each source, and see which one was cut?
What happened to her??? She was supposed to be in the movie until she possed in playboy.
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