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Rumoured DVD Release of Episode One in April, 2000
danimal wrote with news for the Star Wars buffs: From the NewsAskew site
comes the tidbit that
Star Wars Episode I DVD will be coming out in April of 2000. It's a tip from an anonymous source, but the official announcement is supposed to be coming Jan. 4 from the Lucas man himself. The announcement is midway down the NewsAskew page.
Now I can prove that there are ETs in the senate scene. And I'll be able to look for all of the other add-ins. I wonder if there are anything like the backwards bounty hunters. An excellent movie to watch in slow motion during those large crowd scenes.
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I work in a fairly high-level position with a large video retailer, and all the major retail chains have been notified by Fox on Monday/Tuesday that it will be released on VHS only on 4/4/00 - with a Widescreen edition only being available as part of a Star Wars Gift Pack. DVD? Lucas says "no way" until there are *at least* 10 million DVD players in consumer's homes in the U.S. What's the current date Fox is quoting? 2006.
OK. The DVD of Star Wars: Episode One is coming out...woohoo. (sarcasm.) I'm not really sure, but I may be the one person in america who DIDN'T see the blasted movie. Everyone who I talked to about it said the thing sucked, so I decided not to waste my time. Is this really something slashdot needs to be posting? "A rumored DVD release of something that got bad reviews will be out around 4 months from now." I mean, I could at least tolerate if it were the official announcement, but this is just rumors.
Here comes the flames, and there goes my karma.
I know it's probably against geek rules, but I simply can't see what makes this news. The movie was mediocre at best, violating principles previously put forth in the original movies left and right. Hello, midichlorians!? I know that someone else must have seen through Lucas' pathetic, yet successful, quest for more cash.
Pathetic movie. This news item should have been a mere footnote, if that.
This is a critical time for DVD. With the recent encryption hack and other bad press, it remains to be seen if DVD will finally and truly become the mainstream digital home movie format. People will buy DVD players simply to get the Star Wars series, and the more DVD players there are out there, the less likely the industry will be to turn away.
:-).
:-(
I for one hope DVD doesn't die. And I'm not just saying that because I expect to get a DVD player for my birthday and/or Christmas
I didn't read the story, but I can imagine that the DVD edition of Episode One will contain all kinds of goodies. And when the Original Series comes out... I hope you can get both the original and special edition, but I doubt that.
No sig.
It was rumored that all three Indy films would be out by next April. Is this still the case?
I'd rather see those remastered, letterboxed, and supplemented before I go out and pick up TPM.
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i heard this morning on TV and radio that ONLY the VHS tape will be available April 2000, there will be no DVD for SWTPM at all!
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The significance of this 'leakage' is lost on me entirely. Just about everyone was disappointed by the movie, and now we're supposed to leap up and cheer that it's being released on dvd? Oh, the sheer joy. I can revel in the clumsy story line and horrendous dialog again and again and again! I can even MEMORIZE lines of hideous dialog to IMPRESS MY FRIENDS! That'll be EXCELLENT! I can pick out continuity mistakes and memorize those too as TRIVIA! KEWL! By fawning over the credits, I can trace the familial lineage of the BEST BOY and all the KEY GRIPS! HEY! I can PAUSE the film at any moment and act out seens myself with my vast army of COLLECTIBLE ACTION FIGURES, while guzzling TAB and VODKA out of my VINTAGE BOBA FETT SLURPY CUP!!!
Sorry. That last bit was uncalled for. I apologize.
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..all 6 episodes are out. Lucas himself said that he will not be releasing them on DVD until he can present a complete 6 episode arc.
-Andrei
Yeah, but the bad Linux reviews are wrong. The bad PM reviews are right.
Luckily PM has an excuse -- it's a movie for kids.
No, seriously -- all the star wars films are bound to come out on DVD and video sometime. Why is it news when they do. All movies do it.
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Sigh...um, yes, I know that. And have you ever watched the video version of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?" Check out the scene with Indy letting his father know where to begin the search for the Grail. You're supposed to be seeing them side-by-side, but the transfer cuts between their faces. The movie is widescreen, the transfer is what's not.
Be that as it may, you are correct about me being fucking brilliant. Now convince my employer in time for my next review....
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Ever since DVD has come out, some "person in the know" on USENET has popped up and said "Star Wars in three months!" Then they go on and on about "a warehouse full of boxes" or "their dear, dear friend at Skywalker Ranch said it was so" or some other bunk.
Every time they have said it, it ain't true. I will bet all 51 of my karma points that it ain't true this time either.
Now all that's left is to borrow the $70 for a DVD drive, but even if the software existed to play back DVDs in Linux I would buy Titanic before Star Wars.
Why was Episode I shitty? Oh well... (cracking knuckles)
There was no STORY! Lucas writing a long sequence of scenes, loosely tying them together (sometimes not), and masking the whole thing with dazzling visuals, and calling _that_ a movie was insulting to the general audience. Eyecandy, yes. Entertaining, maybe. Good story, hardly! I don't care if he says 'Episode I' was geared for children, they still deserve a good story!
Talking about children, I despised Lucas' way of handling "war" in Episode I. Showing children that war is fun, that funny things happen constantly in war, and that wars are won with comic accidents shows that Lucas is totally out of touch with reality. I'm not saying there should've been blood and gore, but giving us one line of "isa therea peoplea gonna diea?" to portray the horror of war is not enough.
And acting! Or rather the lack of it. Nobody, _nobody_ did even a decent job of acting in the movie. And I'm not talking about Jar Jar; I think the CGI programmers actually did the best job of "acting" in the movie. The sad thing is that the movie was filled with good actors and actresses: Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson etc. I don't know what the reason for this was, but my speculation is that maybe the actors had trouble relating to green screens. Or maybe Lucas was too restricting in his directing...
George Lucas hasn't directed a feature movie in more than twenty years, and it shows. It seems like he was too totalitarian in his effort. According to the 'Making of's I've seen, he was involved in every single aspect of the movie, starting from the design of the aliens and space ships down to the musical score. This might have been great for a small budget movie like the original 'Star Wars', but when were talking about 100+ million dollar budget, he is just in the way, and restricts the creativity and distracts himself and the people who do this stuff for living. It looks like him being busy with all kinds of stuff that is not his stuff kept him too busy with writing a good story! Or writing a story at all. The movie suffered from a desperate attempt to lay the groundwork for the next five (eight?) movies. Not an easy job obviously, but if you can't handle something, why do it alone?
George Lucas really disappointed me with this one. I kinda liked episodes 4-6, but this was a real flop in every sense of the word, except financially. I went to see it in the theater just for the incredible truel, the choreography by stunt co-ordinator/swordmaster Nick Gillard was just out of this world. It was like totally, awesome! Made my balls itch!
If Lucas does not come up with a good story for the next two episodes, I will not ruin a perfectly good two hours, which I would be better off doing something more productive. Like sleeping. That of course only in the case Natalie Portman will not be in the next episodes!
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Buy 'em on LaserDisc! :) I'll be in luck.
I don't have an LD player (yet) but I'll be damned if I ever watch those friggin' "Special Edition" of the Star Wars Trilogy ever again.
eBay has lots of LD players for sale, so when I pay off the XMas VISA bill
Oh, BTW the place I ordered the 3 LD's from, had them for $8 a piece, or $23 (US) when you ordered the whole batch! Even with shipping and currency exchange to CAN$, I still came out ahead of getting them here, that is if I could find them anywhere.
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Although the earlier response of "retard" is pretty close to the mark, one may want to read the article series, The THX Factor, that was posted a while back at dvdfile.com ...
Baloney!
There are lots of "Kids" movies out there that don't insult the intellegence of adult watchers.
Anything by PIXAR springs to mind.
As for "lightsabers aren't possible," that is the essence of good fiction, right?
There's a certain amount of 'suspension of disbelief' that happend with any good work of fiction, regardless of genre. What gets tricky is when that gets compromised by ridiculous plot points and illogical character actions, both of which TPM had in spades. "Star Wars" was a great afternoon popcorn matinee kind of flick, but had a simple plot, engaging characters, and good action when needed. It created a whole universe in one big gulp that was easy to take and made sense within its INNER logic. TPM introduced a lot of hocus pocus "plot" and a kid-aimed character, Jar Jar, whose comic antics grated on the majority of adults in the audience.
Have you seen Toy Story 1 or 2? There's an awful log of comic action WITHOUT any annoying characters. Are you going to tell me that I can't enjoy Toy Story because toys don't really come to life when I'm not around?
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.