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

[demiurge1138]

Are they replacing Shaw's face when Luke removes his helmet as he is dieing, or when he appears in astral form at the very end?

I'm pretty sure it's the latter. The former would just be silly.

Not that it would stop George, of course.

I also heard a rumor that the Jabba-meets-Han scene in A New Hope will be redone, so that Jabba's at the size he is in RotJ. Don't know if it's true, but I can always hope.

And now I want to see that re-done blockade runner sequence. Sounds cool.

Demiurge out.

 

[KenM]

I want to see them redo all the scenes with Leia so she is in the steel bikini in every scene.

 

[Mark Chance]

(when we were KIDS..key phrase, people)

Exactly. Lucas is an impressive movie-maker when the critical faculties are disconnected. It takes a child to ignore his lousy dialogue, awkward transitions, tissue-thin characterizations, hackneyed storylines, and ludicrous obsession with being cutting edge. I recently watched the refurbed Star Wars with my 7-year-old son. He loved it. I fell asleep.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

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.

It's mainly Claremont's doing, I think. The whole thing is credited as "by Chris Claremont from a story by George Lucas" iirc. Claremont has long been a hack, but has compensated for his inability to write action by writing comics, which have illustrators. Without that safety net, the whole thing falls apart a bit.

I kind of liked the way magic worked, though. And the cosmology was interesting. The role of dragons, in particular, made me sit up and take notice.

 

[Desdichado]

My brother, right now as we speak, is ripping my old VHS "final release" of the original trilogy to DVD-R. I'm gonna make sure he makes me a copy. I'll buy these new ones, and all that, but I'll probably be disappointed in them.

 

[Desdichado]

Why did he *have* to write and direct the new ones? Didn't have have someone else, Ivan Rietman or something, write Eps 5 and 6? They had far superior dialogue.

Larry Kasdan and Leigh Bracket wrote the screenplay to Empire, and Irvin Kershner directed it. Larry also was co-credited with Lucas on the screenplay of Jedi, and Richard Marquand has the director's credit.

But yeah, I think that's really all the new movies have needed. The stories themselves are fine, but the dialogue and pacing in particular are what drag the movies down.

 

[Orius]

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.

Yeah, seconded. He put the scene where they meet on Yavin back in for the original theatrical releases, he should just go all the way here and restore the whole thing. Full establish that Biggs is Luke's buddy, because it matter more when biggs finally bites it in the end.

 

[Orius]

I also heard a rumor that the Jabba-meets-Han scene in A New Hope will be redone, so that Jabba's at the size he is in RotJ. Don't know if it's true, but I can always hope.

Improved Jabba graphics would be good. The SE Star Wars Jabba looked muddy and terrible. The TPM Jabba actually looked pretty good. Redoing it so it actually looks like puppet Jabba would be good.

 

[KenM]

It would not surpise me if they take out all of the pupet Jabba in RotJ and put in a CGI Jabba.

 

[Orius]

It's mainly Claremont's doing, I think. The whole thing is credited as "by Chris Claremont from a story by George Lucas" iirc. Claremont has long been a hack, but has compensated for his inability to write action by writing comics, which have illustrators. Without that safety net, the whole thing falls apart a bit.

I kind of liked the way magic worked, though. And the cosmology was interesting. The role of dragons, in particular, made me sit up and take notice.

Yeah, I'd agree. The writing is terrible, but underneath it is a pretty good story, and the world is fairly spectacular. They also take a lot of the standard fantasy races and do something different with them instead of merely copying Tolkien. It's a shame that the writing makes the story difficult to follow.