ROTJ CUT SCENE on Star Wars Blu-Ray for next year....

[Runner]

Sorry for veering, but watching ROTJ with my 5-yr old yesterday. He asked me if the ewoks were Chewie's guards. Lol!

I don't like ewoks, but the brown one next to Chewie has to be the most adorable thing I have seen! :lol

I always thought the other Ewok looked like Gary Coleman!

 

[Lancer]

sorry, but no OT, no way I'm triple dipping on this.

I'll get it later for second hand for cheap.

 

[cayman shen]

Gah, I dunno. I'm so fed up with these movies being tinkered with. I think I'm gonna go on an Alien kick for awhile.

 

[Solo4114]

Honestly, I think we've heard this song before with Lucas saying "Well, you know, there's just no way to release the old films. they don't exist anymo-- JUST KIDDING!! Here's the old films (from a laserdisc rip) on DVD! Enjoy! Oh, and uh...to get them...you have to buy my super-duper special edits (which I made a few minor adjustments to...) again. And again. AND again."

You ask me, Blade Runner is the best example of a DVD set that preserves the original in ALL its myriad forms, AND enhances it. (Enhance....enhance...) Will they ever do that with Star Wars? Maybe. Hell, I wouldn't put it past Lucas.

 

[letmebestormy]

Well, regardless if this was shot back in the day or not....well done on leaving it out. It doesn't provide anything meaningful to the movie. The Luke intro and the lightsaber intro in the film are much better.

 

[niennumb1]

If you look carefully in the clip there are some dust and particle specs that look to be pretty dating to the footage.

Though I know you can fake a lot of that in post too. Just saying I don't know why they would have made something new and have that footage look older looking.

I know it's a web video, but if you look close you can see some of that film dirt in that shot. Just before Luke turns on the saber you see in the dark hoot area of his face a light blotch spec for a split moment.

 

[NAZGÛL]

To me Hamill saying he now remember doing this has alot of bearing.

I think they perhaps combined a few diff take outs to make this (Vader parts). I dont think its new shots.

 

[Bryancd]

Okay, boys, I emailed Rinzler about this and he said exactly: "As far as I know, it's all vintage, but I wasn't in on the blu-ray efforts." Back to square one, I guess.

I agree it's vintage, it just may not have been him.

 

[blipper]

...well done on leaving it out. It doesn't provide anything meaningful to the movie. The Luke intro and the lightsaber intro in the film are much better.

I couldn't disagree more. I'd argue the reinsertion of this new scene is vital to making Return of the Jedi a much stronger movie.
There was always something off about Luke's intro in Jedi; he shows up, to all intents and purposes a cool headed powerful Jedi, and there's no hint of the revelations and repercussions from the previous movie.

Were this scene restored it addresses this straight away and we now know Luke is having to (constantly?) deal with Vaders temptation from his very first moment in RotJ. We also infer that he must be preparing to face Vader again, in a renewed state - by far a better narrative first step as opposed to waving Force fingers at Gamorean Guards.

It is such a great and dramatic continuation of ESB for Luke's story to start this way rather than the comparatively mediocre Jabba scenes, which really, is just leaping in to finish Han's story. That should be secondary to Luke's.

 

[OldKen]

I couldn't disagree more. I'd argue the reinsertion of this new scene is vital to making Return of the Jedi a much stronger movie.
There was always something off about Luke's intro in Jedi; he shows up, to all intents and purposes a cool headed powerful Jedi, and there's no hint of the revelations and repercussions from the previous movie.

Were this scene restored it addresses this straight away and we now know Luke is having to (constantly?) deal with Vaders temptation from his very first moment in RotJ. We also infer that he must be preparing to face Vader again, in a renewed state - by far a better narrative first step as opposed to waving Force fingers at Gamorean Guards.

It is such a great and dramatic continuation of ESB for Luke's story to start this way rather than the comparatively mediocre Jabba scenes, which really, is just leaping in to finish Han's story. That should be secondary to Luke's.

I feel the same way. I have thought about it a LOT these last few days and have shown this scene to my friends who are die hard SW fans (Huge fans of the movie but could care less about prop collecting) All of which have agreed that it makes a better intro.

 

[Westies14]

I feel the same way. I have thought about it a LOT these last few days and have shown this scene to my friends who are die hard SW fans (Huge fans of the movie but could care less about prop collecting) All of which have agreed that it makes a better intro.

I feel like "something like this" could be a better intro, but this is kind of poorly done and was cut for good reason. Luke looks like he's pretending to fix something for his kid, wiggling that stick around on the side like that... The two scenes feel so pasted together, as well. I didn't even get that Luke was supposed to be reacting to Vader the first time I watched it.

 

[Jet Beetle]

Most actors don't remember what they filmed and what they didn't. they do their scenes and move on. I'm friends with William Katt - and I bug him constantly about events that took place on the set of Greatest American Hero. he has some great ones, but when we watch the show together he'll turn to me constantly and say - "I don't even remember doing that" or "Wow, I forgot i was on Good Morning America" - Mark just forgot -

 

[Jet Beetle]

wiggling that stick around on the side like that... .

Wait - what footage are we talking about now?:lol

 

[Goonie]

Most actors don't remember what they filmed and what they didn't. they do their scenes and move on. I'm friends with William Katt - and I bug him constantly about events that took place on the set of Greatest American Hero. he has some great ones, but when we watch the show together he'll turn to me constantly and say - "I don't even remember doing that" or "Wow, I forgot i was on Good Morning America" - Mark just forgot -

It's just like that Chris Farley sketch on SNL, "Do you remember that time... that was awesome!" :lol

 

[niennumb1]

That stuff happens a lot. I even shot old home movies of stupid things we'd make up on the fly wearing monster masks and doing stupid chase scenes to music like 20 years ago as kids and my friends would say, "I totally don't even remember doing this!" and laugh!

The big thing I have to ask is why they would even lie that it was shot long ago and not more recent. It's part of what's going to be on the Blu-Ray and there is no point in really making it up.

I DO though think if it was going to be new that they would have made the lightsaber illuminate the cave more when he turned it on. They did different lighting techniques with the prequels than the OT. That's kinda my big selling point that this is legit OLD VINTAGE footage.

Speaking of classic vintage..... SNL... remember this?
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shop-at-home-network/274181

Well maybe not THAT too far back vintage...

 

[micdavis]

"Not Bruce Boxlietner" :lol

 

[Solo4114]

That was awesome!

 

[foxbatkllr]

LOLing at this discussion. I saw it, I was there. There was no question in my mind that this was original.

As a side note, Ben Burtt showed some footage he shot of the filming of the "sandstorm" scene. He showed a couple of takes from a couple of different angles. He also showed some home video footage of himself playing around in the Falcon cockpit after ROTJ was done and just before they were going to destroy the set.

 

[rocketeer25]

YouTube video has been pulled. Anyone else got another link?

 

[NAZGÛL]

YouTube - Star Wars - Return of the Jedi [ Never Showed Scene: Luke Builds His Lightsaber] HD [SciFi]