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I was at Blockbuster earlier looking for something to rent, and I couldn't really find anything else I wanted to see/play, so I picked up A New Hope on Blu Ray just to see the quality of the transfer. So far, it actually looks pretty fantastic. The one scene so far that was added in the special edition looked weird and out of place, obviously, and the sound mix sounds clearer at times than it does at others, so that's pretty weird. But as far as picture quality, this is the best I've ever seen ANH look. Pretty interested to rent Empire / Return Of The Jedi next and see how those fair against this one. Oh god, you guys hate me, don't you? 
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Feb 25, 2012 04:23
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I think most of the posters here would agree with you. As much as I enjoy bitching about the changes, the blu-rays look loving gorgeous.
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Feb 25, 2012 04:38
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I'm pretty sure I could never bring myself to buy them, though, as long as the loving abomination that is Jedi Rocks remains in RotJ. Edit: Why am I just now noticing that Han has almost the EXACT SAME CONVERSATION with Jabba near the Millenium Falcon as he does with Greedo in the Cantina just a couple minutes earlier? The lines of dialogue are almost completely unchanged. I've seen this movie more times than I can count, but I never picked up on that until now 
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Feb 25, 2012 04:44
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Oh god, you guys hate me, don't you? Well, your money went to Blockbuster and not directly to Lucas, so I don't see the harm. Also, the reason the dialogue is the same in the two scenes is because the Greedo dialogue was supposed to cover up the exposition in the missing Jabba scene. Then they put it in, rendering the Greedo scene redundant, except to show that Han is a badass. Then they made Greedo shoot first, thus rendering it completely redundant.
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Feb 25, 2012 05:18
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Empire Blu Ray looks pretty loving stellar as expected. This has always been my favorite of the originals, and my favorite aesthetically too. Glad to see it got such a beautiful transfer. The Blu Rays aren't being sold individually, are they? If so, I'd just buy Empire and say gently caress the rest.
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Feb 25, 2012 06:59
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OK,this is awesome: http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/22/the-voice-of-admiral-ackbar-speaks/
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Feb 25, 2012 07:33
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Duckman2008 posted:OK,this is awesome: Yeah, it is. Ever since I was a kid, I always, always LOVED Admiral Ackbar, well before he became an Internet joke thing. gently caress Boba Fett, Wedge and Ackbar are the best minor Star Wars characters.
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Feb 25, 2012 23:11
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EU authors also had the decency to give Ackbar a quiet death before he could be used by some hack to fight Vong or orgy bugs or emo Jacen.
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Feb 26, 2012 01:47
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Big Mean Jerk posted:EU authors also had the decency to give Ackbar a quiet death before he could be used by some hack to fight Vong or orgy bugs or emo Jacen. He did fight the Vong, though. It was in one of the later books.
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Feb 26, 2012 01:59
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Chairman Capone posted:He did fight the Vong, though. It was in one of the later books. Not really, he popped in, gave a blinding flash of the obvious, then popped out.
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Feb 26, 2012 05:00
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arioch posted:Not really, he popped in, gave a blinding flash of the obvious, then popped out. "Just fight them you morons!"
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Feb 26, 2012 06:45
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Chairman Capone posted:He did fight the Vong, though. It was in one of the later books. At least he got to win decisively against them.
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Feb 26, 2012 15:55
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That Zahn book sounds really awesome...I too, am excited. Now if only they would allow him to do anniversary editions of the Dark Force Rising and The Last Command like he did with Heir to the Empire.
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Boondock Saint posted:That Zahn book sounds really awesome...I too, am excited. Yeah this part really sucks. Apparently they did not sell well enough. That does kind of make sense seeing as a lot of people here have bought them at least three times.
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Feb 27, 2012 03:02
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Timothy Zahn posted a link on facebook, to someone's suggested viewing order for Star Wars. It starts as something that's been mentioned before here (IV, V, then go back to the prequel trilogy, then finish out with VI), but goes a step further and completely removes Episode I. He does a really good job explaining why this actually makes the series, and the surprises throughout, work much better. Worth a read.
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That was a great analysis, and it solves the dilemma I was having over how best to introduce the Star Wars movies to someone (assuming they actually wanted to see the prequels also). I might actually try watching them in this order sometime myself.
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So the first spoilers from Apocalypse are coming out...some choice developments, spoilered just in case anyone here actually cares: Remember the Father, Son, and Daughter who controlled the Force from those Clone Wars episodes? Apparently Abeloth is their "Mother" and is trying to turn Luke, Ben, and Ben's Sith girlfriend into new versions of Father/Son/Daughter. Also apparently Yoda told Luke all about those guys during his ESB training, and Luke sends some Jedi to their planet to get the Son's dagger to kill Abeloth with. Also at one point Luke meets up with Darth Krayt, who gives Luke advice on how to fight Abeloth, and apparently it's retconned that somehow Jacen became a Sith in order to fight Krayt because somehow he was tricked that Luke was Krayt or something stupid and convoluted like that. Also I think Luke meeting Krayt completely goes against Legacy's backstory but then again Denning. My favorite bit, the book ends with Jag and Daala running against each other in an election for Emperor/Empress.
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From that article:quote:Then, he force chokes Jabba’s guards, something only Vader has done in the series! Nobody else sees him do this. I just had the biggest "  holy poo poo how have I never noticed that before" moment.
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Chairman Capone posted:So the first spoilers from Apocalypse are coming out...some choice developments, spoilered just in case anyone here actually cares: Maybe I'm just broken after putting up with the EU for all these years, but this honestly makes a lot more sense to me than "ridiculously powerful force user who has just been chillin' in the Maw for millenia and only just now decided to make a break for it." As for the Darth Krayt angle. I saw that one coming. At least Jacen's involvement with him at least. And as soon as the "journey across the galaxy to retrace Jacen's steps" thing started I figured Luke would probably run into The One Sith at some point. So called that too.
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Chairman Capone posted:So the first spoilers from Apocalypse are coming out...some choice developments, spoilered just in case anyone here actually cares: I don't want to watch some terrible loving Clone Wars episode just to understand what's been going on in your terrible goddamn 9-book series. Seriously, gently caress you Denning.
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What gets me is, they started planning Fate of the Jedi in 2007/8, the first books were published in 2009, and yet the whole Clone Wars Force planet episodes didn't even air until 2011, at which point 2/3 of the FOTJ books had already been published. Even if the authors had had some early information from the TV show I can't imagine it was that early. This is basically confirmation that they literally went into this book series without an ending in mind. Either that, or the ending they had was so vague they could just throw it out and incorporate this new stuff without messing up their series any more than its bad writing had already messed it up.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don't want to watch some terrible loving Clone Wars episode just to understand what's been going on in your terrible goddamn 9-book series. Seriously, gently caress you Denning. Basically, Father, Son, and Daughter were these ageless Force gods living at the edge of the Galaxy. The Daughter represents the Light Side, the Son represents the Dark Side, and the Father kept the balance. The Father was gonna die and wanted Anakin (the Chosen One) to replace him. Anakin said no, a bunch of stuff happened, blah blah blah they all died and I can't believe this information is taking up valuable space in my brain I MUST GET IT OUT 
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Pththya-lyi posted:Basically, Father, Son, and Daughter were these ageless Force gods living at the edge of the Galaxy. The Daughter represents the Light Side, the Son represents the Dark Side, and the Father kept the balance. The Father was gonna die and wanted Anakin (the Chosen One) to replace him. Anakin said no, a bunch of stuff happened, blah blah blah they all died and I can't believe this information is taking up valuable space in my brain I MUST GET IT OUT Holy poo poo, just when you think Star Wars can't get any dumber.  At least there's a Zahn book coming out which will own hard and actually have a coherent plot.
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VaultAggie posted:Holy poo poo, just when you think Star Wars can't get any dumber. *Insert a bunch of retard tripe talking up Clone Wars as like OT Star Wars again*
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Pththya-lyi posted:Basically, Father, Son, and Daughter were these ageless Force gods living at the edge of the Galaxy. The Daughter represents the Light Side, the Son represents the Dark Side, and the Father kept the balance. The Father was gonna die and wanted Anakin (the Chosen One) to replace him. Anakin said no, a bunch of stuff happened, blah blah blah they all died and I can't believe this information is taking up valuable space in my brain I MUST GET IT OUT That's exceptionally stupid, even for the EU. I don't think I'm going to bother with Apocalypse unless someone big dies.
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Read like half of those spoilers, what a bunch of spurious bullshit. There's probably been more linking/borrowing from other stories in 9 books, than the entire NJO.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That's exceptionally stupid, even for the EU. I don't think I'm going to bother with Apocalypse unless someone big dies. It's not even the EU, it's Official Star Wars Canon.
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Yeah, it's probably no big surprise that that stuff came from Lucas. I'm just surprised midi-chlorians weren't also involved.
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So according to wookiepedia, an old friend returns for the final book of the FotJ series. The Killiks are back!
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Bug orgies for everybody!
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thrawn527 posted:Timothy Zahn posted a link on facebook, to someone's suggested viewing order for Star Wars. It starts as something that's been mentioned before here (IV, V, then go back to the prequel trilogy, then finish out with VI), but goes a step further and completely removes Episode I. He does a really good job explaining why this actually makes the series, and the surprises throughout, work much better. Worth a read. This was definitely worth the read. My wife's never really seen the films so I think I'll go this route when she's finally ready to sit down and watch them.
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The woman and I picked up the blu-rays and a player a few days ago. So far we've made it through IV and V. I think we're going to watch it in the order mentioned previously. Sounds interesting. So why has nobody mentioned that the menus on the blu-rays are atrocious? The bonus discs with the deleted scenes are the worst offenders. Instead of sorting stuff out by type of feature, they sort it by movie, then setting (like hoth or tatooine), then finally by feature. This is also my first experience with blu-rays, and I was really never aware that everything takes for-loving-ever to load. That compounded with the convoluted menus makes everything way more tedious than it should be. That said, the films themselves look pretty great. The whole color correction/timing bullshit still kills me though. Send me the freaking negatives. I'll rotoscope that poo poo. "Aww gently caress yeah, they fixed that lightsaber color! Oh wait, I guess not?" On another note, is there any word on the next celebration? I missed V when it was in Indy and haven't had a chance to go back since I've been stuck in Ohio. I'm all grown up now and can do poo poo like buy plane tickets. I want to give Anthony Daniels $20 so that he can look upon me with disdain. *edit* Just answered my own question. loving Florida. Nope. astrollinthepork fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Mar 2, 2012 |
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So I think this guy makes an interesting point; I don't agree with everything he says though, homogeneizing the fans a bit too much for starters, the title seems chosen for shock value, but well:EUCantina posted:EU Action/Reaction: We Don’t Need George Lucas I'm not sure we can isolate Star Wars from the rest of the Lucassphere this easily, however...
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So Simon Pegg is now the official voice of Dengar. Which leaves me to ask, a: why Dengar? and b: why not make your own dude Simon?
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It's awesome that Pegg's gonna be on Clone Wars, but are they seriously just gonna cram every single character from the entire expanded universe into that show? I wonder who's gonna play Wuher.
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thrawn527 posted:Timothy Zahn posted a link on facebook, to someone's suggested viewing order for Star Wars. It starts as something that's been mentioned before here (IV, V, then go back to the prequel trilogy, then finish out with VI), but goes a step further and completely removes Episode I. He does a really good job explaining why this actually makes the series, and the surprises throughout, work much better. Worth a read. This is pretty interesting. I like his reasoning, and I might try watching the films in that order at some point. Still, one issue that stands out is the line in Episode II, where one character mentions that Nute Gunray has been put on trial several times without being removed from his position as leader of the Trade Federation. Wouldn't the exclusion of Episode I potentially make the meaning of this line a trifle obscure? Phylodox posted:It's awesome that Pegg's gonna be on Clone Wars, but are they seriously just gonna cram every single character from the entire expanded universe into that show? I was wondering about the use of Dengar. I thought he was meant to be only a few years older than Han Solo, and that he didn't become a bounty hunter until after the Empire took over. No doubt Wookieepedia will engage in some desperate form of damage control to reconcile the inconsistencies.
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Phylodox posted:I wonder who's gonna play Wuher. Bartender from ANH, right? Oh god why did I know that without looking it up... 
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