[Chefelf]

according to someone i know who bought the DVD yeasterday, that the deleted scenes are the best ones...

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I would immediately severe all connections to that acquaintance if I were you.

I watched the scenes this morning. I don't think I'm going to do any nitpicking on them... they're just so terribly boring, much like the AOTC scenes.

Not much to say. They made me appreciate the scenes that made it into the final cut.

[Otal Nimrodi]

That's all the insult we need.

[Despondent]

I considered renting the film tonight. I'm glad I didn't pay GL any money today anyway.

Are the Interactive Menus as wonderfully enthralling as the AOTC DVD? Don't tell me Elan's back.

I actually liked the splash screen design on SW.com when the movie was new and still at the Bijou.

Chef, maybe once we've suffered through same, you could Nitpick the commentary? If anything that's the part I'm looking forward to. I said IF anything.

[Chefelf]

Are the Interactive Menus as wonderfully enthralling as the AOTC DVD? Don't tell me Elan's back.

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They're just as tediously unnecessary and annoying as the previous two DVDs.

I don't know if I have the patience for the commentary.

I did watch Rick McCallum flap his gums for the 1 hour, 20 minute documentary on the making of the Mustafar battle. That's enough for me for tonight.

If bullshit were gold, that guy would be the owner of a LOT of gold.

[Revan-47]

Chefelf i too bought the dvd, and i found the documentaries very boring. the deleted scenes were so awful that they made me go through a streak of evil and meanness. I did these things this week

Starved my dog and locked my neighbors 3 year old daughter in a room with it.

drowned my cat in its own urine


made a huge feast and put it in a indestructable glass case and locked it and sent it to ethiopia.


anyways i found the actual movie to be better the 3rd time(the second time sucked for me in theaters, the first time will always be great because of the chills i got from the opening scene and the mustafar duel) im glad i bought the dvd, im going to buy the first two on dvd soon.

You didnt happen to buy the extra bonus dvd "the story of star wars" did you? That has to be the most usless shit ive ever spent 4 dollars on in my life.

[Chefelf]

You didnt happen to buy the extra bonus dvd "the story of star wars" did you? That has to be the most usless shit ive ever spent 4 dollars on in my life.

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No, and I'm glad.

Special features are so overrated. Has anyone in the history of DVD ownership ever watched a special feature more than once?

[Darth Player]

Special features are so overrated.  Has anyone in the history of DVD ownership ever watched a special feature more than once?

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The way Lucas packaged the special features for both the PT & OT make me wonder if his supposed creativity was bored out by some termite like creature. Possibly the best attempt at it is with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, where you have multiple tracks of the director/art department/and actors offering separate commentary, and the folms were made in two versions really, one that would play in theatres and be better to push commercially because of time, and another available later on in an extended version with all the additional scenes put in the DVD. Why Lucas couldn't have done things this way is beyond me. The OT is made to be watched many times over, whereas the PT is barely tolerable after two or three times.

[Storm]

One thought that kept popping up in my head while watching the "creation of the Mustafar duel" feature was that I'm so happy I don't work for George Lucas. It seemed to me that everybody was extremely intimidated by his presence, and typically they would just turn into "yes men" for him. Several people commented that they were allowed to be creative, but I got the impression that Lucas had this concrete idea in his head and really wasn't interested in listening to other people's opinions.

[arius]

One thought that kept popping up in my head while watching the "creation of the Mustafar duel" feature was that I'm so happy I don't work for George Lucas.  It seemed to me that everybody was extremely intimidated by his presence, and typically they would just turn into "yes men" for him.  Several people commented that they were allowed to be creative, but I got the impression that Lucas had this concrete idea in his head and really wasn't interested in listening to other people's opinions.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You are dead on there!



It would take a really strong and persuasive personality to influence GL, the man with the Billion Dollar idea. Nobody wants to contaminate the recipe.

Imagine a Star Wars movie coming out that was a box office failure and it was your ideas that were to blame. Who wants the risk.
The carreer ending risk.

[Despondent]

Musing over the thread title. Can you imagine a PT where they Deleted the Nitpicked scenes? Might make a nice music video.

[Chefelf]

Musing over the thread title. Can you imagine a PT where they Deleted the Nitpicked scenes? Might make a nice music video.

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It's something I try to imagine every day. Then I imagine they deleted the rest of the scenes and started over from scratch.

[barend]

If bullshit were gold, that guy would be the owner of a LOT of gold.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

unfortunatley it is, so he would be.

This post has been edited by barend: 06 November 2005 - 08:58 PM

[KurganX]

So no deleted scene nitpicks? Or just none from ROTS, CE?

Anyway, it's sad when fans can put together better special features than Lucas... (though I will admit that the features for the Prequels are fairly exhaustive... and few fans would have the money to "finish" the deleted scenes from them like Lucas can).

And after seeing what people like MagnoliaFan have done, it's amazing what an editor unhampered by Lucas's machine can do to possibly improve a film!

[Chefelf]

Well... I dunno. They're crappy scenes. Very boring stuff. And they WERE left out of the film. So it's hard to really come up with any nitpicks since they were already extracted (and rightly so as they are all awful).

The fan special features (and compilations) are much, much better. I don't know though. I think the documentaries/featurettes on the ROTS DVD are pretty good. If you're a fan of the movie then these features will be good. It's a good deal at $19.99.

[KurganX]

Even better as amazon was selling it for $16!

Fair enough. And I agree with you, the deleted scenes are more of a curiosity, not really essential to the movie. You don't find yourself wondering why they were left out (though many people wanted the scene with Anakin meeting Padme's family back in because it made their relationship seem more real... but then it seems like Lucas was playing up the 'troubled relationship' angle, at least that's how it's turned out!).

What got me to thinking about the deleted scenes nitpicks was the fact that in your Reasons to hate Episode I you started talking about the deleted scene with Baby Greedo. It could have added some extra punch to watch it and maybe toss up a funny screen cap or something.

'Sides, half the fun is listening to you make fun of the bad parts, but oh well. Your site...

I think what comes out in your SW pages is not just somebody nitpicking, but also a fan, talking about the good, the bad and the ugly in star wars. That's what's entertaining. Many fanboys miss that, not being able to get past the blasphemous that somebody could "hate" something they have devoted their lives to. It's true!

This post has been edited by KurganX: 11 November 2005 - 04:29 PM