[barend]

a good extra feature would be ALL MY MONEY BACK!!!

[Despondent]

Since '97 we've known better.

But really, how much have Thinking fans given Lucas lately? Comparatively?

[Darth Player]

Since '97 we've known better.

But really, how much have Thinking fans given Lucas lately? Comparatively?

For myself, the few SW purchases I have made in recent memory are the DVD set of the OT which I got on the day they were released at the cheapest retail outlet for $36 or so and tax, a ticket to ROTS when it came out (a few days into the release during a weekday afternoon show, I wan't going to sleep on a line to see it) and $5 for a bootleg DVD I watched a couple of times and is here somewhere. I didn't buy the ROTS DVD release or any of the tie ins, especially since I don't care for Burger King's food, so no wristwatch for an extra $2. If some OT bonus package were released, I'd be tempted, but ittle else would.

[jariten]

Since '97 we've known better.

But really, how much have Thinking fans given Lucas lately? Comparatively?

I bought a combination ROTS plastic drink cup (complete with the worst paint-by-numbers rendition of the Obi-Ani duel imaginable) and Obi Wan toy from a toy shop in Osaka for 1,500 yen.

[Despondent]

A toy under $20? Fine. But DID YOU PAY TO SIT THROUGH HIS MOVIE TEN TIMES?

it was a great film. the kind of knockabout spectacle made to be seen in the cinema.

[Giff]

It is really odd that neither the Special Edition theatre release or the DVD had the Biggs/Anchorhead scene reinserted or ESB's Wampa storyline. In the commentary on ESB, Kershner says he ditched the Wampas because they couldn't get it to work right enough to be convincing, which shouldn't be a problem with CGI nowadays. The Biggs/Anchorhead scenes would have had better impact on Luke's tough decision to leave Tattooine and how Bigg's loss was really a big one for him at a crucial time, and the scene was refurnished with new sound and a new print for Steve Sansweet to show at a fan convention, why not add it to the OT?

I'm fine with some of the ESB scenes not showing up on the DVD's because they really werent finished to begin with. About all they have is 3PO ripping off a sticker.

On the other hand, the Anchorhead scenes were shot completely, but later scrapped. I'm not saying they should be inserted into the film (after all, George has done enough "adding")...but they should have been made available to the true fans.

[Giff]

... a ticket to ROTS when it came out (a few days into the release during a weekday afternoon show, I wan't going to sleep on a line to see it) and $5 for a bootleg DVD I watched a couple of times and is here somewhere....

First off, where do you live? Was there really THAT big of a line that you couldnt have hung out for a little? I live in San Diego and while the theater (a 4 year old AMC 24 room theater) i went to didnt have people spending the night for months at a time, the day of the opening I got in line at 3 with a large group of my buddies and we all waited until the opening. It was really the most fun I had had in a LONG time. All sorts of people dressing up, fans having lightsaber battles with the security guards. The line at the end of the night was long, yes....but if you pull up to the theater at 10:45 expecting to be first in line for the midnight showing...well, you're just dumb as rocks to begin with.

To give you an estimate of how long the lines were by me, I'll get a pic of the area from google maps and draw in some commentary via MS Paint or photoshop.


SECOND....if its a bootleg DVD...Lucas didnt get anything for it...so you cant really count that for anything.

[jariten]

A toy under $20? Fine. But DID YOU PAY TO SIT THROUGH HIS MOVIE TEN TIMES?

I'm not sure how much 1,500 yen is in dollors (under 20 though, to be sure). I saw it three times in the UK, and twice in Japan.

But you know, I really don't mind paying money for something I enjoy. I certainly have no desire to see King Kong again, anyway (looking forward to the 4 hour extended DVD cut though!).

[Giff]

To give you an estimate of how long the lines were by me, I'll get a pic of the area from google maps and draw in some commentary via MS Paint or photoshop.

Here you go...ENJOY!

[Darth Player]

I saw the film a few days after the opening during a weekday showing and didn't wait on any lines, and I live in New York, so I knew all the hype was just that. I know the bootleg didn't add to Lucas' vast coffers of cash, so that's one reason I sought it out, the other being my father can't go and sit through a film showing, since he isn't in the best of health and I wanted him to see the film since we saw the OT together when i was a kid. His comments about the films of the PT being visually "too much" with little of a story pay-off pretty much sum it up for me as well.

As for the Anchorhead and Wampa scenes, I would have liked to see them on DVD, or maybe they could have been redone and the fan could have had the option to insert them into the film like the X-Men DVD does. There are 60 hours of film shot for ESB, so there has to be something neat worth inserting instead of the Vader shuttle scene from unused ROTJ Death Star II docking.No wonder the Imperials didn't capture the Falcon, they were all on the docking bay greeting Vader instead of at their posts! The Anchorhead stuff is odd in that it was shot, retouched, and shown at least once at a fan convention, why not include it for a wider fan base to enjoy?

As for the lines seen by satellite photo, its further proof of people having too much money and time on theor hands to the detrement of their own good. I wonder how many of the folks who slept on lines for months on end (if it was true what happened) later really regretted it.

[Giff]

Thats the whole things though...noone in that line reall slept there for more than a day.
I'm sure the people in the VERY VERY front might have slept there the night before, but considering I reached my spot in line at about 3 or 3:30 PM, you can see most people just showed up that night. I think out of 24 theaters available, there was something like 15 of them playing the movie, so I knew I was getting in regardless.

However, I really respect your reason for waiting to see it. I know some people that held off and they had piss-poor excuses, but going to see it with your father whom you watched the OT with as a kid is pretty special.

That still being said...waiting in that line was so much fun. I'd say tha I'd do it again, but I dont think there is another series that i care enought to wait 9 hours in line.

Also, I have an episode III bootleg as well that my friend got from his ice cream man. Its a workprint copy, so it has the numbers at the top, but the quality aside from that is pretty good.

My friend owed me a favor, so I cashed it in and had him give me his bootleg.

This post has been edited by Giff: 06 January 2006 - 10:04 AM

[Darth Player]

I got the bootleg (probably the same your friend got since mine has the timing thing on top) for my father to view at the comfort of his favorite chair at home in front of his TV. I went to the theatre by myself the weekend after to see ROTS for the first time, and by chance saw a guy later that week selling bootlegs. I watched it a few times myself and it helped in some of the critiques I posted here, and it saved me from giving Lucas more of my cash by buying the DVD, but I haven't watched it for a while. When I saw ATOC, there was an IT geek behind me who kept a running commentary under his breath I could hear throughout the film, like "Boba Fett!". I hate going to the movies because people act like savages. I saw TPM and ATOC later for a second time with a friend of mine from High School and college to sit in an emptier part of the movie theatre and goof on the thing the whole time (nothing like being at the AMC theatre at the Disney-fied Times Square/42nd street in NYC and hear the entire audience in a packed movie house give an annoyed moan when Padme says, "Ever since I met you, I've been dying a little bit each day" or something to that effect before the arena duel). For ROTS, we talked about it on the phone, decided not to waste the cash, and though watching the bootleg with a few beers in us at home would be a waste of time as well.

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