short_round Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Digitally re-mastered plus a bonus disk with over 4 hours of special features! Came out yesterday and I got my copy today! WOOO-HOOO! I know it's forty bucks I should have spent on bullets, but everyone has to have a hobby ... right? "Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn jones Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 shortround, let me know if storm troopers carry radios instead of blasters! lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 All the changes and fiddling are WRONG!! It should at least have the original version (Han shoots first) as well as a pc/sissy/evil director's cut (Greedo shoots first). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz-0 Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 actually from what I ahve heard it si a third version where han and greedo shoot at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 True but it's still WRONG. The original version is far superior. It detracts from the whole purpose of the scene: portraying Han as the anti-hero in a bit of a Eastwood spaghetti-western vein. Geek mode on: George Lucas has stated that since Han has become a cultural icon he did not want him to be a murderer. This cuts into the whole story arc of the Solo character who goes from freelance smuggler mercenary to noble freedom fighter. Han starts out as a shady character. Likeable sure but shady nonetheless. Secondly (prosecutor mode on), shooting someone under a table who is pointing a blaster in your face and telling you that they're going to kill you is not MURDER, it's a justifiable homicide. Lucas has whimped out. Geek mode off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz-0 Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Oh I agree, it's a shame that with all the technology available in DVDs, lucas doesn't bother to actually exploit the medium. There's no reason you couldn't have one disk that had the retouched original (i.e. cleaned up mattes, color corrected, and nothing else) and the "director's vision". DVDs are capable of doing branching scenes. The guy is truly annoying. I think he suffers deeply from an essentially unlimited budget. The first one worked so well compared to all of them. When you get down to it, I think it was because lucas was forced to go "if I put this in, I have to take soemthing else out" and thus only kept the important things. Phantom menace was kind of like the homer-mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 I was a Star Wars fan back when I was very young and could remember lots of comics I piled up. But for the life of me I can't remember how Jabba the Hut looked in the old film. Was he in a costume that also looked like a very big "worm"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 mcoliver, have a look at BDH avatar... Or look here for a complete description of the character... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 Thanks for the link Luca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 I was a Star Wars fan back when I was very young and could remember lots of comics I piled up. But for the life of me I can't remember how Jabba the Hut looked in the old film. Was he in a costume that also looked like a very big "worm"? He didn't appear in the original Star Wars. That's one of the things Lucas added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 Actually, for the original Star Wars they filmed a scene or scenes in Mos Eisley with an actor playing Jabba. He was a man, not a worm, but a big man. He ended up on the cutting room floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 Was there a Mrs. the Hut? And were Jabba's parents both practicing Huts, or was it a mixed marriage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_round Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 Was there a Mrs. the Hut? In a word, yes or at least there was. In Phantom Menace you can see her next to Jabba before the start of the pod race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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