Amish Trooper
Master Member
Re: Happy Star Wars Day
I find the lack of c scar disturbing.
I find the lack of c scar disturbing.
Star Wars blu ray in September
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cayman shen
Master Member
The Holiday Special is available in its entirety on youtube. I saw it for the first time a few months back. It was unholy. Lucas has made a lot of bad calls regarding this franchise, but supressing that excrement wasn't one of them. I'd rather slurp urine from the corpse of a donkey than sit through that again.
clancampbell
Sr Member
It's worth watching just to see Carrie's drug induced trance and song! Mark Hamill's makeup is shocking too. .....however, i have to agree. I've had it for a good 20 years on VHS (although i haven't had a VHS player for about 7 years..) and i only watched it once....
Rich
Hedjii72
Sr Member
I find it interesting that we turn our back on it as a piece of history. I don't like much of it either, but it is certainly worthy if nothing more than getting another look at props, costumes, actors, and of course the cartoon.
Only on the RPF do we embrace warts-and-all bumps on the props, but want to re-write history when it comes to the wart-like productions.
Only on the RPF do we embrace warts-and-all bumps on the props, but want to re-write history when it comes to the wart-like productions.
darth_myeek
Sr Member
Ok, I'll bite. :lol
Why were the "May 4rth" & "SW Blu-Ray" threads combined?
Why were the "May 4rth" & "SW Blu-Ray" threads combined?
Yes, that’s the kind of cover artwork that I want for my trilogy of badness. The lifeless stare of a lifeless character who gives people very bad advice and ends up being a complete coward in the end. Of course he should be the most prominent character showcased on the cover.
cayman shen
Master Member
The art for Star Wars releases has always been awful since the original poster art VHS tapes.
Are you nuts?? the change in dialogue in the Vader kneeling scene is the WORST atrocity in the entire SE. Even worse than adding Greedo shooting.
Han doesn't even shoot FIRST. Han shoots Greedo. The end. No first, just shoots. Greedo never got off a shot, let alone first.
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Yes, that’s the kind of cover artwork that I want for my trilogy of badness. The lifeless stare of a lifeless character who gives people very bad advice and ends up being a complete coward in the end. Of course he should be the most prominent character showcased on the cover.
It's just awful, isn't it? Glad I don't got no bluray-player. Don't want this kind of ugly crap littering the living room...
The execrable Holiday Special is more SW than the cover of that box, lol! Least it's got the '77 Han Solo in it.
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Absolutely. And since Greedo has a gun on Solo and has just stated his intention to execute him, Solo is firing to save his life anyway, so the change is totally redundant. Lucas totally lost the plot with that nonsense. The way it plays now, Han just sits there like a dozy idiot waiting to be executed, only escaping as a result of Greedo being a lousy shot. What a load of crap.
Yes. Adding McDiarmid is one thing, but there was no need to rewrite the dialogue...especially so poorly!
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
The holiday special is one of the most bizarre cultural artifacts of the last 50 years. It's so bad that it's not even 'so bad it's good'. It gets to that point then goes beyond it to realms of badness never dreamed of. But the nature of its badness is mesmerising. Not the show, that's not mesmerising, just the strange, nightmare surrealism of the badness. This badness is truly stunning. Imagine the Star Wars characters inserted into a sort of endless, eye-wateringly tedious variety show, with actual variety show 'stars' doing comedy routines, cooking spots, musical numbers and so on. Imagine Chewbacca's son switching on a holo-tv because he wants to watch a lame variety dance/mime/juggling act, imagine watching the entire tedious act... If you can imagine these things you begin to have some sense of the frightening desolate weirdness that is the Holiday Special...
jme3
Sr Member
For 90 bucks for all six films, I didn't really expect anything fantastic as far as packaging so I'm not hung up on what they're offering. I don't have a bone to pick with the content either really, but what seems a slap in the face is that we here in the US, the genesis and epicenter of the film industry, are the last to get this. Is this a jab by a liberal George Lucas or something...?
Hedjii72
Sr Member
Why did they pic Yoda as the prominent character in the Prequel Trilogy cover?
Isn't Anakin Skywalker the main focus of those films?
If they're gonna do that then they need Admiral Ackbar as the prominent character on the OT cover cuz he's just plain bada**!!!
I had to search to find the image of Luke Skywalker on the OT packaging. Sad, considering the OT used to be called "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker".
Agent RayBans
Sr Member
Not a fan of the box art for the box set.
I actually like the concept a lot! But not the art itself so much.
I still think the TPM teaser banner with li'l Anakin casting the Vader shadow was the best art of the prequel bunch. Cool to see it paid off on screen in AOTC as well... intentional or not.
Yuck. That is a terrible cover. I'd rather see some iconic Star Wars imagery instead of some painting that has hardly any Star Wars feel to it. I'd rather the cover be all Black with the Star Wars logo on it than that painting.Not a fan of the box art for the box set.
Sweet
+1 on the yuck.
Some cool box art was the only thing that might get me to buy them.
No thanks.
I'm sure someone will give them to me. I have yet to BUY a single version of the SEs, yet I own 3 or 4. Both DVD and LD.
Are the BR forced 16:9 like the SpikeTV broadcasts?
or do we get letterboxing? Can't believe we STILL need to ask this.
Some cool box art was the only thing that might get me to buy them.
No thanks.
I'm sure someone will give them to me. I have yet to BUY a single version of the SEs, yet I own 3 or 4. Both DVD and LD.
Are the BR forced 16:9 like the SpikeTV broadcasts?
or do we get letterboxing? Can't believe we STILL need to ask this.
