And I have no problem with the change to Yoda in Phantom Menace, or the cleaning up the effects and the making Ewoks blink. It's the alteration of character traits that ticks me off.
Someone needs to have a sit down with Lucas, give him a gun, and then point a gun at his head and say, "Are you going to let me shoot first, Mr. Lucas?"
There's been no tweaking to Yoda outside of TPM. What you saw was likely old footage of them studying the OT Yoda to try and properly recreate him as CG. Though the same can't be said for ESB:R...
Sources well-positioned to know have told me that Lucas actually seriously considered replacing the puppet Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi with the all-digital version, and even had tests conducted to see how it would look. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. (For the record, I'm told that the digital Yoda just didn't look right or mesh well with the real, physical, practical Dagobah sets. Shocking, I know.)
Doesn't really say much that hasn't already been said in this thread, but here's Red Letter Media talking about George Lucas and Star Wars in a non-Mr. Plinkett sort of way.
VERY great interview with some fantastic points. Something I was not aware of is that the original directors of Empire and Jedi are both dead now.....and now George is crapping all over their vision.
Oh, I adore RedLetterMedia's stuff. He's hilarious, in all sorts or wrong ways. His reviews of the prequel trilogy will each take up 90 minutes of your life (for each film, god help you if you watch all three reviews in one sitting) but I highly recommend watching them. He makes so many good points, and he makes them so very well. Just ask the women chained up in his basement.
I love all his little conversations with Palpatine in the trailers. There hasn't been one of those in a while. On the plus side, it's pretty clear that his next review is going to be Indy 4.
No. But I lost a sunday afternoon.
I got tired half way through the 3rd movie review but I made it. And I still live. FEAR ME!
Also the "People vs. GL interview" was quite good and I learned that there was a 16:9 version of the original movies on video. Why not use these for the 2DVD sets instead of the Laserdiscs then?
Also the "People vs. GL interview" was quite good and I learned that there was a 16:9 version of the original movies on video. Why not use these for the 2DVD sets instead of the Laserdiscs then?
1. There is absolutely no reason we should have to resort to home video releases for a modern Blu-Ray release.
2. In what world are you living in? Because I don't remember a time when VCRs supported anamorphic playback on widescreen TVs.
3. Converting the Laserdisc transfers to anamorphic is literally about as simple as clicking a checkbox in an amateur-level DVD burning program. The versions I've been using for awhile have been reburned copies of the 2004 GOUT version, but with anamorphic video. The lack of anamorphic video was ENTIRELY intentional.
VERY great interview with some fantastic points. Something I was not aware of is that the original directors of Empire and Jedi are both dead now.....and now George is crapping all over their vision.
To be entirely fair, Kershner didn't complain the first time Lucas did this, and in fact lit up when he saw the extra windows in Cloud City, as it was something he'd originally wanted to do that George threw in as a gift to him.
How did you like the changes made to Empire for the 1997 theatrical rerelease?
My film is the way I cut it. The other films were changed - a lot. My film, I can tell you just what was done. The Snow Creature [Wampa] was added, which was good for merchandising. It was okay, but I could have lived without it.
When I went up to San Anselmo, California, to see the work in progress on the Special Edition, we looked at the film, and I was making some notes about color changes and sound - never about cutting. No cut changes. And we came to the scene where the group is on Cloud City, walking through a corridor. When I had originally shot it, I was not happy, and I told George I didn't like the set because it was just a corridor and we should have had round openings so you see the city as they walked through. It would have cost a lot of money to open it up and put miniatures out there, and it would have taken more time to build it, and you're always fighting time.
So, I'm sitting in the screening room looking at the scene. They walk down the corridor, and here are the openings and there is the city. I was shocked. I said, "George, look!" And he said, "Yeah. It's a gift for you." But those were the only changes.
3. Converting the Laserdisc transfers to anamorphic is literally about as simple as clicking a checkbox in an amateur-level DVD burning program. The versions I've been using for awhile have been reburned copies of the 2004 GOUT version, but with anamorphic video. The lack of anamorphic video was ENTIRELY intentional.
Is the picture stretched afterwards or are you just missing half of the picture like on the horrible DVD-Version of Psycho I bought recently. I'd rather watch it in 4:3 with black borders left and right but no such option is available. They just butchered the whole movie.
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Aren't we allowed to love the movies we grew up with and be irate that they are being treated this way?
We're already having George Lucas crap on us with these changes, we don't need more idiots mocking us when we complain about it.
okay, okay... that first frame did make me lol.
And I have no problem with the change to Yoda in Phantom Menace, or the cleaning up the effects and the making Ewoks blink. It's the alteration of character traits that ticks me off.
Someone needs to have a sit down with Lucas, give him a gun, and then point a gun at his head and say, "Are you going to let me shoot first, Mr. Lucas?"
Conan ftw
Tomorrow.
Only heard about Episode 1. Thank God.
There was a small clip on line where the team , George's team, was working with ESB material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPKZhXth7M
I cannot stop laughing.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Now that's pretty funny.
Dude I saw it, but it may have been brought down, or it may have been a alternative reality, I tend to experience those...:o
stop the LSD and seek help.
Also ads for the bluRay in Deus Ex: Human Revolution:
http://www.pixelitis.net/news/stars-wars-blu-ray-ads-in-my-deus-ex
Dude, was that a joke, how rude was that? Dude, man.
Peace.
Wow. That's almost like if you went to a movie theater and during the opening credits there was an add for Viagra down in the corner or something.
Doesn't really say much that hasn't already been said in this thread, but here's Red Letter Media talking about George Lucas and Star Wars in a non-Mr. Plinkett sort of way.
Heh, this one is actually pretty funny (for a change)
...wait! I didn't mean that!
Looking forward to his no doubt forthcoming Indy 4 review.
No. But I lost a sunday afternoon.
I got tired half way through the 3rd movie review but I made it. And I still live. FEAR ME!
Also the "People vs. GL interview" was quite good and I learned that there was a 16:9 version of the original movies on video. Why not use these for the 2DVD sets instead of the Laserdiscs then?
2. In what world are you living in? Because I don't remember a time when VCRs supported anamorphic playback on widescreen TVs.
3. Converting the Laserdisc transfers to anamorphic is literally about as simple as clicking a checkbox in an amateur-level DVD burning program. The versions I've been using for awhile have been reburned copies of the 2004 GOUT version, but with anamorphic video. The lack of anamorphic video was ENTIRELY intentional.
To be entirely fair, Kershner didn't complain the first time Lucas did this, and in fact lit up when he saw the extra windows in Cloud City, as it was something he'd originally wanted to do that George threw in as a gift to him.
Is the picture stretched afterwards or are you just missing half of the picture like on the horrible DVD-Version of Psycho I bought recently. I'd rather watch it in 4:3 with black borders left and right but no such option is available. They just butchered the whole movie.