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Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September
wiredog writes "A bundle of all six movies will sell for $139.99, while sets of the original three films, and the three prequels, will go for $69.99 apiece. Obsessive types can pre-order them on Amazon now. Han shot first!"
I can be at my post in *HD*!
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
In this edition, obi wan shoots first.
Can I see the original theater version or do I have to watch parodies of the original?
The original theatrical releases will NOT be included, only the heavily edited "Special Editions" from the 90's (no doubt with even *more* edits from Lucas piled on, as if he didn't fuck them up enough already).
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Fifth time I've paid for a license to three of these movies.
If I'm going to respect copyright, tell me why I don't deserve to have these movies on my Nintendo DS, Netbook HDD, PS3, etc in whatever the latest resolution is. I've cumulatively shelled out hundreds of dollars (with inflation adjustments) for these three movies and yet I'm continually paying for them in the latest format. I bet if they figured out a way to approve lifetime licenses to this media, a lot more people would feel okay buying a copyright. Right now, I'm 28 years old and I've been nickel and dimed since age 12. Also, for those who didn't like the sequels, there appears to be a cheaper subset for $45 of the original three.
I'm sad that there isn't BD-Live for these in the Amazon description, I'd love to listen to fan commentary and possibly add my own. Has anyone had good/bad experiences with BD-Live commentaries? I was hoping that'd be used to do MST3K versions of popular movies or add insight to movies like Donnie Darko or Lost maybe. Unfortunately, having only received my PS3 this last holiday I've discovered that very very few movies are BD-Live.
My work here is dung.
Pony up, suckers.
I was beginning to think Lucas stopped liking money.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
Han Shot First!
Also, not giving another dime to Lucas ... EVAR ... if I can possibly avoid it.
The Ewocs were rubbish, but JarJar was unforgivable.
The Digital Sorceress
All I have is a grainy copy from the 1980s analog LaserDisc (better than VHS but not as clean as DVD). I want to see the ORIGINALS released in high-def, not these idiotic bastard-ripped, CGI-damaged special editions.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Enough I will not buy them again. Old movies are still old. When they all start i know how they are going to end.
I still chuckle when someone tells me they just bought a bluray player.
I ask why because
1. powerdvd (and it's equivalents) will upconvert
2. you can buy a upconvert dvd player for $35
My tinfoil hat tells me that they just want us to buy the same shit in a different format.
Every new technology gives yet another opportunity to milk the crazy fans, who are willing to buy anything with words "Star Wars" on it...
Why?
So is this version still going to have the new actors replacing the original actors at the end to Return of the Jedi
by buying the two boxes separately?
My guess is that you save on postage when buying the 6-in-1 bundle online as most shops (Amazon definitely) charge per shipment AND per item postage.
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'If they're dumb enough to leave their window unlocked, then they _deserve_ to be stolen-from.' '[...] why not [....]' ---Because, as Mr Nixon once observed in a different context, 'That would be wrong.' '
Unless it includes the most excellent Star Wars Christmas Special it isn't complete.
In the 3D version, Han shoots you first!
At what point does a franchise transition from beating a dead horse to beating the pulp that remains of the horse to hitting the ground where it used to be because the thing's turned to dust?
There are nice visuals---I like the worn-looking tech in the first two (release order) movies, which I saw---but I've never been a fan of knights of any stripe.
I prefer science fiction to heroic fantasy.
But from what I've heard, wouldn't it make more sense to charge $140 for the first three released, and $80 for all six?
(And, yes, Jaws was never my speed---I figured that either it would leave me cold, which would make it a waste of money, or it would scare me, which I don't like---sometimes I think I'm much simpler than many people...I hate roller-coasters.)
I see an awful lot of complaints regarding rereleasing Star Wars in a new format. This is incredibly common. Its not like George Lucas is the only person releasing their movie again in a new format.
This is not the penguin you're looking for.
Its a UPS truck bearing Star Wars bundles!
Have gnu, will travel.
Does this mean we're a year away from the next-gen successor to Blu-ray coming out?
Nice to see the films joining Clone Wars on Blu-ray, currently the only Star Wars content available in that format.
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If I'm going to respect copyright, tell me why I don't deserve to have these movies on my Nintendo DS
Because Nintendo made the DS and DS Lite for games, not movies. Homebrew is piracy according to Nintendo, even though I disagree with Nintendo's stance. Otherwise, it wouldn't have successfully sued distributors of R4 and R4i style microSD adapters in multiple countries.
I've discovered that very very few movies are BD-Live.
That's because BD-Live is an ongoing cost center: the publisher has to keep servers running.
I would pay as much as $0 for all 6 movies, or I would pay up to $40 for episodes 4-6 and would accept as low as $40 in payment to take episodes 1-3.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Just checked on amazon.
Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) [Blu-ray] comes with 9 discs - for $89.99.
Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (Episodes IV - VI) [Blu-ray] and Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I - III) [Blu-ray] are both 3 disc sets for $44.99 each.
So, you get 3 extra discs in the complete set for 1 cent more, and you save on the shipping if you don't want or don't qualify for the FREE_Super_Saver_ShippingTM.
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Please watch your tense. Optical media will be dead as soon as the broadband situation in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand improves. Right now, a lot of households in the anglosphere are stuck with low-cap satellite being the only remotely broadband Internet connection they can get. Good luck downloading a high-definition movie at 5 GB per month. Until then, optical media is not dead.
Hmmm, buy separately and save a penny. Sounds like the groundwork for a new economic policy...
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How much for just Episode 1?
is it dead yet?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
Someone better invent a new format fast, else how am I going to pay for Star Wars again next year? (That's after the Blu-ray Remastered and Blu-ray Collectors' editions, of course).
sic transit gloria mundi
Or copies of episodes 1-3 might join your collection or worse, the thief will swap your 4-6 for his 1-3.
It was hand-waved months ago, when they first made the announcement.
http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/8/14/george-lucas-star-wars-blu-ray-coming-in-2011-and-watch-a-de.html
Lucas also went on to explain that the original trilogy films included on the Blu-Ray release will be the remastered special editions.
Releasing the originals is kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.
In other words, no ORIGINAL original trilogy, cause that would mean some "people" would actually have to be "hired" to do some "work" on those and they would presumably require to be "paid" in return.
But have no fear. Few years down the road, and Lucas will have his slaves do that for free.
Or for more actual coffee in their coffee and an additional bathroom brake.
Cause nothing is too good for his slaves if it will help sell everyone yet another "very, very expensive" set of plastic discs.
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Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will be available for $139.99 US/$179.99 CAN and the Star Wars: Trilogy Sets for $69.99 US/89.99 CAN. Pricing for each set will vary by international territory.
Given the Canadian dollar is at parity and will likely be there for the foreseeable future I for one will be passing on this. Fuck you Lucas.
Wow... does that mean that David Prowse who played Darth Vader will finally see some money from Georgie Lucas?
In this version Spongebob Squarepants will replace Jar Jar and the Emperor will be played by Plankton!
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Take the Star Wars angle and you'll always get front page on Slashdot.
I am sure they are coming and I am sure the 2D versions will be just as good as these. In fact these will probably be the sources for the 3D versions.
Well, when you're out of ideas, just sell the same thing over and over again in a different shiny box.
I'll take just the first two in the bundle, thanks.
United States, Australia, and New Zealand improves.
WTF? Two tiny countries.
You could have said "Optical media will be dead as soon as the broadband situation in the United States, Côte d'Ivoire and Central African Republic improves".
When the first movie came out on VHS video, my friends asked me why I didn't buy it. I said "This is an obvious stopgap. They are clearly going to release a better, more fully-featured version in the future. I'm going to wait for that version. Only once I'm sure that it's the 'totally complete, fully featured' last version they are going to put out, will I buy it."
I'm still waiting. I've given a lot of my money to a lot of different movies in the years in-between, but somehow Lucas manages to convince me with every release that there's another, better release coming soon.
So now I'm waiting for the 3D version...
So this is one of those oh so often times when buying the two separately is slightly cheaper. Can't they nock down the price of all six to $129.99
Barf: Merchandising? What's that?
...we release the boxed set, and then... ...the Han shot version in uncut format, and then...
Yogurt: Moichandising! Come, I'll show you. [to the Dinks] Open up this door.
[Yogurt walks over to a wall filled with Spaceballs merchandise.]
Yogurt: Heh-heh. Come! We put the picture's name on everything!
Lucas: First, we release the individuals, and then...
Slashdotter: And then!!!
Lucas:
Slashdotter: Yes, and now what!?!
Lucas:
Slashdotter: Okay, okay, now what...
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As someone who has owned a video copy of SW since RCA Selectavision (gack), I welcome our new format overlords.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
United States, Australia, and New Zealand improves.
WTF? Two tiny countries.
Two tiny yet industrialised and English-speaking countries that might revolt should all six major motion picture distributors abandon disc sales in favor of paid downloads. Besides, the United States isn't small; it's the majority of the anglosphere by population, yet broadband there is still considered a luxury, not an expectation.
I'm going to wait 5 or 6 years and buy the 3D Blue-Ray editions. Because that's just what we need, Jar Jar Binks in 3D.
Anyone else find it funny that it's a penny cheaper to buy the two sets (and get extra packaging, to boot?
antipaucity
...most media groups release the "new digitally remastered" or the "20th anniversary edition with new interviews" and simply do it once. George has demonstrated how to successfully milk a cow even after it's desiccated.
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Do people here really worry about the "risk" of a troll mod? Do they really cry if they get modded troll or something else that's not +1? Jeez, I thought I spent a lot of time around this place, but apparently not as much as some people.
luckily I only bought it once and it was the vinyl version I am not buying it again.
I bought them in a bundle in an ebay auction CED player and the complete trilogy. I removed the original case of the CED player and made one of acrylic.
The first sci-fi movie I remember seeing as a kid was They Live.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
Will the Red Letter Media reviews be included in the bonus materials??
And apparently overpriced to boot. Over at deals.woot.com they had The full saga as well as just the original trilogy, both on blu-ray through Amazon.
However, not only did they have them posted yesterday, they also had them for lower prices through the same vendor.
If we can't be at least as relevant as woot, why even bother reporting on this?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I've been saying for years that ultimately, the system I describe below is the most fair and equitable for both consumers and studios.
Someone--probably either the government or a government-regulated entity--should set up a "copyright clearinghouse" for media such as movies. If you want to buy a movie, you play a license fee plus a media fee. So say you went out and bought the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV) on DVD for $15. That $15 would technically be, say, $12 for the unlimited private viewing license, plus $3 for the cost of the box, media, distribution, etc. Inside the DVD case you would get a code that you register with the clearinghouse so that they now know that you own the rights to watch Episode IV.
Okay, now let's say that you want to be able to stream it online. Instead of paying another $15, you only pay $3, which covers the cost of hosting and bandwidth for whoever it is streaming it to you. Want to Blu-ray version? Okay, that will be an extra $5. $2 of that $5 is the cost of upgrading your license to the high-def remastered version, and $3 of it is for the cost again of the media and distribution. Oh, now you want the whole original trilogy? Well, normally it's $45, but since you already own a license for Episode IV, you get $8 shaved off the license cost and only pay $37.
Content providers could offer discounts on license fees for things like stores that buy the licenses in volume, or for customers who buy several licenses for different products (e.g. a Star Wars/Indiana Jones bundle) at once. Retailers like Amazon could pass those discounts on to customers, or have bundle discounts by applying some of their cut of the media fee to the license fee as a loss leader.
Content providers win because there would be a shitload more legal copies of the premium editions of their products sold. Retailers win because their profit comes from a cut of the media fee, not the license, and more sales--even for lower amounts--means more money. Consumers win because when you buy a movie on physical media x today, you don't get screwed from having to re-buy it on media y tomorrow or media z in five years.
Some of you may have had pause when I mentioned the government being involved. The reason why the government needs to be involved is twofold. First, for this idea to work, there needs to be one and only one clearinghouse. Because it would be a monopoly, it would need to be regulated as such. Second, if it's solely a private company endeavor, it would take exactly three nanoseconds for that company to say, "Hey, you know, with all of this data on what media people own, we could make a killing if we sold it to marketing companies," and it would take either direct government ownership or strict government regulation to ensure that privacy is upheld.
Overall they are viewable and enjoyable.
It is Star Wars...
However, most of the added cgi "fluff" IS distracting, forced(pun very obviously intended), and doesn't really add to the original films.
They just appear as "Look! I can put kewl computer stuff in my old movies".
You know what? I don't even need these.
The saint known by me as "St. Adywon" has cured all my original trilogy needs. Tons of graphics fixes (light sabers cmoother coming out, laser blasts all fixed), enhancements(better space landscapes, burning on reentry, death star scene makes sense now), audio cleaned up, cool stuff added, etc. I mean this guy does Star Wars right. Even better than Lucas
here are the various download links. For best quality burn it to a dual layered DVD, should be DVD-9. Make sure to get the NTSC\PAL version as needed.
http://fanedit.info/SW.html
Look for STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 Special Edition REVISITED by Adywan
http://fanedit.org/517/
(You can see the list of edits by clicking CUTLIST: >>>view: (its javascript so couldn't link directly)
This is the DL DVD NTSC
http://www.faneditfiles.dreamhosters.com/dlc/adywan/adywan_starwarsrevisited_NTSC_DL_DVD.rar
The download took us 3 days, we used this JDownloader software for it. http://jdownloader.org/download
This is seriously worth it! You can even watch side by side to see all the fixes. Adywon is my hero.
I need to watch the Redletter Media review of Sith this weekend. I hear it's great. Whenever I feel the urge to pop in Star Wars, I do these instead.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I cant wait to leech this and have my childhood pissed on once more!
Isn't this already on torrents anyway? google HD torrents of Star Wars... What's so new then?
Only reason I keep my old DVD player is that it is region free.
I bought the cheap Sony BDP-360 (it's slow) and used Blu-Ray disks and prices look the same as DVD 5-7 years ago...with better quality.
Blar.
seeing the cut out where they masked the tie fighter flying around isn't cool and I remember that from some early versions of the film as sold to the public.
So I can see where he is coming from, if you start with the originals you will need to do all the work all over again to achieve the clarity that is needed to put it out on Blu-Ray. Some movies just don't cut it. Hi Def reveals lots of flaws and it makes some distracting.
What I do think he misses out completely on is that we want the story as originally presented. I don't give a rats ass about the effects, its the story I want unaltered, holes and all.
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I have a bad feeling about this.
I don't want to waste my money on Blue-Ray... I am holding off until they come out with the Red 4K version. :)
I bought SW, ES and RotJ on LD individually, then the "Definitive Edition LD Box Set", then the DVD Box Set. I will NOT PAY FOR THE SAME MATERIAL AGAIN. Lucas, you may have created the some of the most iconic scifi flicks in recent history, but WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Not without a soothing bath of buttdents remover, anyway.
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There was a post awhile ago that after the BD editions come out they are going to re-process it for yet another release in BD-3D.
Amazon has pre-order for the set for 89.99 free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZSJ212
I believe the notion is that Anakin Skywalker died at a young age when he was burned alive and finished his transformation into Darth Vader. Your force ghost represents how you looked when you died. It adds a Frankenstein element to Darth Vader, that he really was more machine than man.
More importantly, I guess, is that we actually get to see Anakin in the prequels, and from a story-telling perspective the audience needs to be able to recognize that ghost as Anakin - the only way that works is if the ghost is an image of Hayden Christensen.
I always kind of liked that Anakin's ghost was an older dude, I thought it fit better with him being an old friend of Obi-Wan... I sort of pictured Obi-Wan meeting a young Anakin (like around Luke's age) and some time later, the betrayal and Anakin turning to Vader. But I never had a clear picture of how much time was in between. 20 years? Seems a bit much, since Vader supposedly killed Anakin while both were still apprentices. (Judging from the fact that Vader was "just a learner" when they last met - he wouldn't have considered himself "just a learner" after being trained for 20 years, right?) So even looking at it just in terms of the information from the original trilogy, ignoring the information that was later presented in the prequels - A 40-something version of Anakin (not Vader) never existed. Certainly this isn't Anakin as Obi-Wan knew him... Is it what Anakin would have been, if he hadn't decided to be evil and gotten turned into a cyborg? Maybe... I don't think there's a clear answer to how Anakin's ghost should look, really. As Vader? As the mutilated human parts inside the Vader cyborg? As the middle-aged man he would have been? As the young man he was? It seems like all the options are equally valid. For the ghost to be the version of Anakin that Obi-Wan actually remembers seems kind of fitting. But for the ghost to be in a form Luke could identify as a father figure also seems fitting... <shrug>
Bow-ties are cool.
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Ben Franklin's not a Jedi, he's a Voodoo demon-sorcerer.
Bow-ties are cool.
I thought Han shot Greedo.
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In the BluRay version, Han only shoots Greedo's foot, and he steps on Jabba's back.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I still feel burned by spending over $100 for the special edition boxed set of the originals on laserdisc ... although maybe I can interest George Lucas in copies of both the original release on laserdisc and the remastered laserdisc.
Episode 3 was the biggest cinematic missed opportunity I can think of. The whole point of the movie, and the whole point of the prequel trilogy, was to see how and why Anakin went to the dark side. It was the reason we stomached the first two awful movies and should have helped us find new way to look at the original 3 movies. If they could nail that scene, the rest of the garbage might have just been worth it. Instead, the big payoff scene was clumsy and unbelievable and it manages to make all of the prequels all the more pointless. Unless they can get that aspect right, tweaking the rest hardly matters.
Palpatine: So you see, Anakin, being evil offers terrific health benefits. If you needed, say, extensive prosthetic work, that would be covered with zero deductible. The pay is good, plus you have the opportunity to study obscure black arts and transfer the credits toward a degree program.
Anakin: I don't know... I'm not sure about the whole "conspiring to kill all my friends and comrades" thing. Won't that sort of go against everything I've stood for all my life?
Palpatine: Oh, let's not dwell on that... Think of the opportunities! Oh, and don't forget your lady is gonna die unless you take drastic, horrifying measures to save her. Remember what happened to your mom? How she was kidnapped and tortured in such a way that the timing of her death coincided exactly with your effort to rescue her? That's what happens if you delay your decision too long.
Anakin: Well, I know Padme is gonna hate me for this, but OK, you have a deal.
Palpatine: Good, good! Now, you need a cool Sith name. How about "Vader"?
Anakin: You seem to have given this some thought...
Palpatine: Oh, my, no... I'm just really good at this sort of thing... "Vader", "Tyranus", "Sidious", "Maul"... I could come up with names all day long.
Anakin: Wait, haven't I heard some of those before?
Palpatine: No, and neither have I. Now, for your first assignment, I'd like you to go slaughter a room full of children. This is a very important and challenging job, so I need to send someone who I know will be capable of seeing it through...
Bow-ties are cool.
Now that's a lot of money for a box part sh.it and part somewhat unloved re-edit.
Shouldn't this franchies quietly fade away ? I loved the movies when they came out and watched the in the theatre as a kid(ep4-6), but as one game critic said, the sh.it of Star Wars outweighs the good, and that is by and large the first two movies(I like the third, ep6 too though) and a game or two.
Who needs this box ?
Han shot first
When you pry the laserDiscs from my cold, dead hands
Han did not shoot first. He was the only one who fired!
paid again for the DVD, and since the unmolested versions of EPsIV-VI aren't in high definition anyway, it doesn't make sense to replace the DVDs.
here is another reason not to upgrade: I have a HD projector and a huge screen. The SW films on DVD look very good on a large screen. The encoding on the regular DVD versions of the films seems to be pretty good, so unless you are some sore of videophile, you will probably be happy with the results.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will be available for $139.99 US/$179.99 CAN and the Star Wars: Trilogy Sets for $69.99 US/89.99 CAN. Pricing for each set will vary by international territory."
Excuse me Lucas? The dollar is above parity. YOUR dollar is worth LESS than mine, not ~30% MORE!
I had no intention of giving Lucas another dime of my money, but this makes me even more determined.
I did find this quote interesting:
'Flanked by a legion of his finest Imperial stormtroopers, Darth Vader himself joined Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to announce the release, vowing "The forces of the Empire will be at your disposal to assure the success of this endeavor."'
So Fox and Lucas are allied with the dark side...
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... Why do SW fans seek out crap like the 1977 special, and yet also howl in agony when they have to watch Jar Jar for 5 minutes? I mean, have you really watched the SW special? It is PAINFUL. Jar Jar is like 3% of episode 1.
If I had a gun to my head and was forced to watch one or the other, I would pick episode 1...no wait, I would just take the bullet.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
I won't buy either set until DVD can no longer be played, and the player I have stops working. Have I spent a fortune on the sets?
NO!
I waited until the DVD set of the original trilogy was relased that had older versions of the movie. The CG used in special edition is glaring in the sense it doesn't match the rest of the film: watch the scene added of the fighters in space on their way to the Death Star in A New Hope. My beef was that, and not that Holo shot first stuff.
Did I mention I waited until Amazon had them on sale, and that it was after the VHS set I had(orignal trilogy in a VHS release before Special Edition) finally stopped working. So Lucas isn't seeing much from me at all. I'm not an idiot that will buy every relase, and I'm only OCD about cleaning, organization, and logic.
These are the new censored / altered versions of the films. In lieu of other recent events, Lucasfilms decided to rewrite some of the scenes because some people were uncomfortable with the terminology in the earlier versions. With these new versions, teachers will be able to show these movies without feeling awkward.
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Some of the changes include
- The word "slave" will be replaced with "indentured servant"
- Princess Leia no longer in metal bikini in episode VI, wearing a Victorian dress
- All ewoks, wookies and other humanoid-looking aliens will now be wearing a loincloth (at the very least), even if they don't appear to have genetalia
- Darth Vader will now don a racially sensitive multi-colored rainbow suit, so we don't infer or suggest that black is the color of evil
- Any offensive phrases or insults will be modified as to not insult nerf herders, or anyone else. For example, the phrase : "Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" - will be replaced with : "Why you highly self esteemed, intellectually challenged, unkempt appearing person that moves large animals with a cane!"
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Make sure you buy the originals and the prequels separately. It's cheaper.
No. In fact there are some quotes from Lucasfilm that these are being sourced from 2K masters made for HD broadcast some years ago, and that no additional remastering will take place until it is done for the 3D versions.
These will look better than the DVDs, but there will be a better looking version later.
Don't have a cite handy, so Google it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNrK53uA84
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Let me make this short and sweet. George Lucas isn't a filmmaker. A real filmmaker has an appreciation for his creation and its significance within our culture. He treats it with respect. Lucas, OTOH, has taken every opportunity he can to take the original trilogy, rip them apart, stuff them with cheap special effects, repackage them, and sell them yet again. That behavior, as reprehensible as it is, can almost be forgiven if he had the decency to keep the original versions--the ones we all remember from our childhood--available. But NO, he refuses to do that. He is essentially spitting in the face of every Star Wars fan out there by denying them the opportunity to watch the unaltered, un-bastardized versions of the films they love and denying them the opportunity to show their children these cinematic gems. No, this man is not a true filmmaker with an appreciation of his creations and respect for the millions who enjoy those films; he's a shameless, money-grubbing hack who has made a mockery of his films and has essentially given their fans the finger.
I will not buy this man's dreck. I have downloaded rips of the old laserdiscs and burned those to disc. The quality is pretty awful, but at least they're the original films, and these are the ones I plan to show to my kids, and when they ask me why the quality is so bad, I'll tell them what George Lucas did and use it as an object lesson as to why unbridled greed and hubris are bad things.
I'm in the same boat as you and feel the same way. I've paid enough for these movies many times. AFAIAC I already legally own them. My suggestion to everyone is that they download the Bluray versions off the net and when the feds knock on your door call the ACLU and EFF and tell the authorities you already legally own the film. No jury would convict, and I reckon the MPAA wouldn't like to make this a test case for fear of setting a precedent.
for someone who seems to be all about technological advances per cinema, why is lucas always so late to the game with home video releases? sure he wanted to wait till the blu-ray v. hd-dvd war was won, but that was like 2 years ago. how long did it take for a dvd release? that guy can fuck right off.
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No. In fact there are some quotes from Lucasfilm that these are being sourced from 2K masters made for HD broadcast some years ago, and that no additional remastering will take place until it is done for the 3D versions.
These will look better than the DVDs, but there will be a better looking version later.
Don't have a cite handy, so Google it.
Interesting. Thanks for the tip!
Wow! Could you overreact a little more? I merely mention TPM was the last SW I watched, and you act like I went on a multipage rant about it. Seriously, how high were you when you posted that, and can I get some?
How about evil Jar Jar Binks as shown from the last Robot Chicken Star Wars episode? See the short clip on YouTube.
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