the vynsane asylum

Star Wars Tech is on DVD at the Star Wars Shop site (though obviously Sleazer's is less expensive). I don't really remember that one, or maybe I should say I'm probably getting it confused with another similar special. I remember a three-part thing along similar lines from around the same time - is that it?

Anyway, yeah, the Legacy one is awesome. I remembered they premiered it while Celebration IV was happening, meaning a good chunk of its target audience wouldn't be around to see it, which I thought was an odd choice.

sorry, I went MIA for awhile there...Diabolical if you still want these, let me know and I'll either mail you some burned discs or I can upload the .ISO files through our FTP site at work so you could download them...whatever works for ya.

I must now admit to being torn over blu-ray. Not because of Star Wars itself, but the fact that this is the worthy, fully-loaded set we should've gotten in 2004. It's missing some stuff, of course, but, still, it's tempting.

I don't plan under any circumstances to upgrade my DVD collection if I get one. (though it might be nice to again be able to buy movies with special features). All blu-ray players are backward-compatible, right? Are they all upsampling DVD players, or whatever that's called?

anarky wrote:I don't plan under any circumstances to upgrade my DVD collection if I get one. (though it might be nice to again be able to buy movies with special features). All blu-ray players are backward-compatible, right? Are they all upsampling DVD players, or whatever that's called?

i'm pretty sure all BD players are dual-format DVD/BD. i don't think they're all 'upsampling', though. i think it's just like it switches gears from DVD to BD.

I'm not a Blu-Ray convert yet.
I'll still buy the DVD if I can get it substantially cheaper and I still buy DVDs if I don't give a shit about the audio/video.
I really didn't feel the need to see The King's Speech in HD, so I picked up the DVD for $10.

I've purchased a few Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs for a couple of reasons.
1. The movie has the special features on Blu-Ray only, so the DVD is a bonus of sorts.
2. The price between the DVD and the combo pack is only a couple of bucks (or in the case of Black Swan, it was actually cheaper at Target).

I'll definitely be getting a Blu-ray player when the set comes out, no doubt about it. But as you said, I don't feel compelled to upgrade the movies I already have, outside of maybe a few that would look really great in full HD (but BD apparently upconverts DVDs from 480 to 720 anyway, yes?).

As to the set, it's both interesting and odd that the documentaries are mostly old. I guess after so much coverage you'd start repeating yourself, so you might as well just go back to the start. But I'm glad they're not double-dipping stuff from the DVDs (aside from one of the commentary tracks for each film, it seems, unless they're using alternate takes from the same people). I'm most intrigued by the deleted scenes and Lucasfilm Archives stuff, though, and to see what's been changed for this release.

Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were on Spike Saturday. I watched parts of both. I think they got worse.

After Anakin brings back his mom's body, he throws that one little tantrum about how he hats Obi Wan because he holding him back. A few minutes later, Anakin is off to save him from Dooku. Then he proceeds to save Obi Wan again in the beginning of ROTS for the 9th time.

Something else I didn't realize before, but I hate the kid Boba Fett. He had a stupid fake laugh.

The battle on Geonosis sucked, too. Sam Jackson's and Yoda's "commands" to the clones were overstating the obvious.

There were a few other things that bugged me, but I can't think of them now. I think it was something about Palpatine in ROTS.

Ran wrote:There were a few other things that bugged me, but I can't think of them now. I think it was something about Palpatine in ROTS.

It was probably everything about Palpatine in ROTS. He was even worse than Jake Lloyd in TPM.

The one thing that kinda bugged me while watching part of AOTC is Anakin sits in front of his mom's grave, all emo and shit, then acts like nothing happened 2 minutes later on Padme's ship.
Her pointy nipples cheer me up too, but still...

Diabolical wrote:

Ran wrote:There were a few other things that bugged me, but I can't think of them now. I think it was something about Palpatine in ROTS.

It was probably everything about Palpatine in ROTS. He was even worse than Jake Lloyd in TPM.

No! NO! NOO!!!
Worst acting ever from an otherwise awesome actor in a Star Wars film.

huh? Palps pwned ROTS !!!

How is this Bluray set "fully loaded"??? The vintage docs sound cool but it would be nice to have From SW to Jedi on there...but of course that features lots of Snootles puppet footage, so it had to go. I need to dig my VHS copy out of storage and rip that onto a DVD soon.
Star Wars Tech instead of the superior Legacy Revealed, that's pretty lame IMO. A documentary on the 501st is interesting, sure I will watch it but I don't think it belongs on an official SW boxset when so many other more proper docs / segments could be included. I just feel like they could have made a lot of better quality choices.

I think I'm turned off by that stupid May 4th "All Will Be Revealed" line of horseshit...I (stupidly) assumed that meant they would reveal the full content of the set, INCLUDING the specific deleted scenes??? No word on that.

I'm still excited for the set though, since I'm still NOT over SW and look forward to pulling a Bluray marathon this Fall. And I got a handful of cool Vintage figs recently, which made me more nostalgic.

I have to agree that Palpatine didn't rule in ROTS, Skeez.

That whole "the force is strong.... with youuuuuuuu" bit sounded so froggy, it was awful. I can't get past it.

I didn't mention in my post about actually maybe wanting this now that Jake Lloyd let it slip in an interview about the blu-ray that he'll "miss the puppet Yoda" in TPM. Which means more major changes.

Which I really, really means the long-rumored, semi-confirmed by Williams years ago, new score for ANH. As long as Lucas isn't going door-to-door and destroying older versions, I wouldn't mind seeing the rumored Jimmy Smits ANH scene, either.

Lucasfilm pretty much said a few years ago that a future release would probably include digital Yoda in TPM, so that is no surprise.
And I know they did a full on clean-up/remastering of all of ANH's audio.

And every time someone mentions a Jimmy Smits cameo in ANH, I can't help but picture a brief shot of him sitting at a desk, looking out a window, seeing the Death Star and the green light coming right at him. He turns around, looks into the camera and says "Ooooh NO!" in a real slapstick way, almost like a corny Mexican tv show.

I can't imagine it would be a necessary scene. But it was semi-confirmed when shooting either AOTC or ROTS. And he was one of the few actors who didn't insult himself by doing a shitty job in the prequels.

jjreason wrote:I have to agree that Palpatine didn't rule in ROTS, Skeez.

That whole "the force is strong.... with youuuuuuuu" bit sounded so froggy, it was awful. I can't get past it.

Well...yeah...the guy just busted a nut, was fully spent. Of course he's going to sound like that.

I'm excited at the thought of TPM Puppet Yoda being gone...regardless of Jake Lloyd's preference, that thing sucked and I felt that way before I ever saw a digital version, so I'm not saying it from a pro or anti CGI perspective. When they "revealed" his look in 1998(?) I thought it looked bad then, just didn't "look" like Yoda to me. If they crafted a puppet that looked more like ESB/ROTJ versions, I would say leave it alone, no need to replace.

Oh, and after thinking about the SE Jabba scene this week (not sure why, but I was thinking about it), I really wish they would have left Jabba out of ANH.