NOOO! Jar Jar to appear in Return of the Jedi DVD

[Arnwyn]

Anakin Hayden Christensen's face (badly) added to the body of Sebastian Shaw at the end of Return of the Jedi

Wow. That's just crap.

The other changes, though, I can live with. Yeah, even the Gungans cheering.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Cheering Gungans do not bother me.

Photoshopping whuzzhizname, the pretty-boy who played Anikin, into RotJ bothers me.

I'd comment further on these changes but there's simply too much hate in my soul. George Lucas drinks the blood of puppies. I think that covers it. Moving on....


The first Willow sequel book was just stupid. They changed Willow's name, changed his character ("What can change the nature of a man?" A really crummy writer, that's who!), blew up all the major cities in the original movie setting, killed off Madmartigan by around paragraph three, introduced a new warrior guy and explored his character only to kill him off in the end, introduce a new race of tall furry river guys for no real reason, and in general they ignored the movie and essentially created a new setting from scratch. I don't know why they even bothered to stamp the word "sequel" on the cover. It wasn't a sequel. It was a fantasy novel that ripped a couple of very minor characters from the Willow movie, the tiny little comic relief guys and the princess who is now a teenager. That's it! That's all that book is!

Oh, and the whole story could have been circumvented in roughly fifteen minutes except that the renamed-Willow didn't feel like telling people who he was. He just sits back and let things go to crud. Really. I'm not making that up. There was more character consistency and motivation in the Dungeons & Dragons movie than this piece of drek.

Bah! Lucas! Festering crapweasel!

 

[Celtavian]

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I just don't understand. *sigh*

 

[Pants]

Its still Star Wars, its STILL the OT

I dunno, these are starting to barely resemble the movies I grew up with. It doesn't seem like Star Wars much anymore...

 

[Rackhir]

What I found most surprising about the SE OT, was that they didn't fix some of the obvious flaws in the movies. Like in the attack on the death star, there are some shots where it is painfully obvious that you are looking at a model. I mean if you are going back and adding in entirely new scenes or new elements into old scenes, why not fix the few FX shots that sucked in the original film. In general I'm amazed at how well the fx and look of the films have held up. Most of them still look state of the art today.

BTW has anyone ever seen the reshooting of the blockade runner sequence from the begining of SW, that they did in Imax for an imax movie on Special Effects? That was a real jaw dropper it looked so amazing. Maybe when they release the HD versions of things, they'll include it.

 

[Kai Lord]

BTW has anyone ever seen the reshooting of the blockade runner sequence from the begining of SW, that they did in Imax for an imax movie on Special Effects?

Yes! I was so shocked when that it wasn't included in the SW:SE theatrical release I actually wondered if somehow my theater had mistakenly gotten a hold of the original version of the movie instead. The new dewback scene quickly put that question to rest.

It was amazing, with blaster fire from the Star Destroyer ricocheting off the Blockade Runner's deflector shields and the whole back end of the Star Destroyer shimmered from the heat off the engines. I was utterly blown away. The only thing I could think of was that they put so much effort into making that opening scene better that they thought they'd be forced to go through and do that for *every* scene to make them match, and decided to just leave the way it originally was.

Originally the SW:SE was scheduled to open in May of 1997 on the exact day of its anniversary but George pushed it up to January when he found out that his buddy Spielberg wanted to release Jurassic Park: The Lost World on that same weekend. I bet losing half a year made them cancel a lot of SFX enhancements that were already underway.

 

[myrdden]

Cheering Gungans do not bother me.

Photoshopping whuzzhizname, the pretty-boy who played Anikin, into RotJ bothers me.

That sums it up for me as well. Although I don't really see why the Gungans need to be in the fianle, it won't bother me if it does come to pass.

Digitally adding in Hayden over the previous actor Shaw, however doesn't seem right to me at all. Enhancing/re-doing SFX is one thing, replacing actors digitially is another.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Yes! I was so shocked when that it wasn't included in the SW:SE theatrical release I actually wondered if somehow my theater had mistakenly gotten a hold of the original version of the movie instead. The new dewback scene quickly put that question to rest.

It was amazing, with blaster fire from the Star Destroyer ricocheting off the Blockade Runner's deflector shields and the whole back end of the Star Destroyer shimmered from the heat off the engines. I was utterly blown away. The only thing I could think of was that they put so much effort into making that opening scene better that they thought they'd be forced to go through and do that for *every* scene to make them match, and decided to just leave the way it originally was.

Originally the SW:SE was scheduled to open in May of 1997 on the exact day of its anniversary but George pushed it up to January when he found out that his buddy Spielberg wanted to release Jurassic Park: The Lost World on that same weekend. I bet losing half a year made them cancel a lot of SFX enhancements that were already underway.

I remember seeing that a long time ago. Amazing stuff, and I too was surprised when I didn't see it in the SE. In fact, I had gotten to the point recently where I was wondering if I'd actually seen it...or just dreamed it. It's been that long and I've only seen it that one time.

 

[Orius]

Actually, he co-wrote a whole trilogy of sequels to "Willow." I read the first one, but it was so confusing, and so bad, I lost interest and never bothered with the other two. The only thing good about any of the sequel books was the cover art.

I have the book, and I want to like them, because I liked Willow, but it's hard. Like you said, the story is just too damn confusing.

Willow doesn't really play a huge part in the books, and that's because he's sort of supposed to be in the background. The story is more about Elora Danan's destiny than Willow. He's fairly central to the story in the first book, but then the story shifts to elora, and he sort of gets moves to the background.

 

[KenM]

I just hope the Star Wars DVD's has the scene on Tattoine with Biggs and Luke, either back in the movie, or with other deleted scenes. DVD is the perfect place for it.