the vynsane asylum

anarky wrote:Call me nuts, but driving a pod on what amounts to an racetrack (one filled with obstacles, but still a racetrack) looks a fuckload easier than driving a speeder bike through a dense forest at similar speeds. For Luke and Leia, no big problem plotwise. But those Stormtroopers aren't Force-sensitive. And they're not only handling the woods well (all are killed, but by the Skywalker twins except for one dumbass who looks back to gloat and runs into a tree), but they're looking off to their sides and shooting at targets moving just as fast while dodging trees.

biker scout troopers have macrobinoculars built into their helmets to aid in avoiding collisions at high speeds. i imagine they're trained to have a sense of the time-difference between what they see and when it will actually be near them. by comparison, luke and leia are doing it without enhanced vision (other than the force). the looking around and firing, i can't account for.

the thing that always bugged me about the speederbike chase was the fact that they're going at least a hundred miles an hour, but leia's parka is blowing around as if she's standing still in a mild breeze. it would be whipping around her like crazy at those speeds.

But she's Leia, and unconsciously uses the Force to prevent anything happening to her that makes her less hot.

Also, I think pod racers are going at like 400-600 mph (kph?).

The speeder bikes look like they're going just as fast because of the trees and shit.

Diabolical wrote:Also, I think pod racers are going at like 400-600 mph (kph?).

But, then, Han and the asteroids. We know for a fact he's not Force-sensitive, he has no special equipment, just the equivalent of a giant flying tractor-trailer. And he's got to be going a fuckload faster than 600 mph.

Lando didn't need any Jedi powers for his lady killin' grin like Kit Fisto. Odd that both grins occurred during sequences where C-3PO was in pieces.

anarky wrote:Star Wars is coming to blu-ray. IF the new set with all the bonus extras aren't on DVD, and IF I can buy just the three originals (or the originals and TPM, if they fix Yoda), I might actually consider the supposed upgrade.

I wonder if blu-ray will make the Star Wars movies look like fucking soap operas like it does with every other movie I've ever seen on blu-ray.

I don't know too much about Blu-ray, but it seems to me that the TVs that they have set up to play them in stores are often configured incorrectly (like they're on a different picture setting or something). Some look fine and some look like shit, so it's seemingly more an issue with retarded employees than with the technology. My friend with whom I'm living this fall will bring a Blu-ray player so I'll be able to tell for myself, but I'll definitely be upgrading when the set comes out.

Hopefully they'll use a better source for TPM. I watched TPM and ROTS on digital projections at CV, and the difference between the two in terms of visual clarity was staggering.

This is also the first time ever that they've released them as a six-film box set, which is notable. You should at least be glad you haven't had to get them all before.

Nah, I just had to buy the OT four times and TPM twice.

You know what I meant.

I've also seen - surprise, surprise - people bitching that the original versions aren't likely to be included on this set, since the masters are the 2004 DVD versions. So if you want to wait for that, it might be happening down the road, as it did on DVD.

I probably sound bitter when I say this, but I really understand that business is business and exists to make money, but I have no doubt 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm will continue to milk home video releases of the movies for as long as it's humanly possible.

I saw on Yahoo that they are going to add a deleted scene to ROTJ.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-t ... -fans.html

The scene was originally intended to be the segue between the opening scene of "Jedi," which has Darth Vader on the new Death Star, and Luke's rescue mission of Han Solo on Tatooine. The scene features Vader trying to communicate with his son, Luke, through the Force, as Luke ignites his light saber for the first time. Now that this scene has been rescued from the cutting-room floor, we know for sure that Luke had to build his new light saber himself and not just pick one up at a galactic general store.

I don't remember hearing about this one. The only deleted scenes in ROTJ I knew of were the sandstorm scene, Royal Guards kicking someone's ass, & more General Madine scenes. They better include a lot more than 1 deleted scene to get me to upgrade to blu-ray.

That's the one they showed at CV and leaked to YouTube. It's not bad, but a bit overdone. Like DB, I had no idea it was actually filmed.

They're not putting the scene into the film, just in the deleted scenes section. Mark Hamill made that pretty clear when he introduced the clip, but there seems to be some misconception there. There will definitely be more scenes, but I think they picked that one since it's somewhat of a holy grail as deleted scenes go. As I saw it, I was shocked that it actually existed.

If I bought an autograph from Mark Hamill for $125...then would he put it into the film?

I don't have BluRay player so I don't have to worry about such decisions for awhile.

Eventually they'll make a SW Saga anthology that has ALL the versions of ALL the films and about five discs worth of extras in one Titanium Case. I'll just buy that one.

Finally saw that new scene on youtube. Not impressed. Why was everyone in the audience cheering?