Recent content by SilverWook

With MST3K coming back, it was inevitable. :D

Been delving into season two, and hit another glitch. The disc froze up for a couple seconds in the middle of The Toymaker, and my player made so many weird noises in protest I thought it was about to break down! The set being so huge, even if I can still exchange it, I'd have to rewatch...

The Special Editions were released a couple weeks apart from each other, so that could work.

Another weird video glitch. The shot of the two moons in the cliffhanger at the end of His Majesty Smith has weird blocky static going on the exact duration of the shot. It even covers the pillarbox bars. The same shot in the reprise opening of the next episode is fine. Unlike the previous...

It can always pass them when they reissue it six months before Episode VIII comes out. ;)

Has anybody noticed some weird video artifacts going on towards the end of The Keeper Part 2? Around 44 minutes or so, when the Robinsons discover Smith is trapped in a cage again. On the left side of the screen, lasts well into the teaser for the next episode. Like vertical lines not in sync...

Saw it twice at the IMAX dome in San Jose, and wish I could go back and do it again. It felt like I was in the movie. More immersive than any 3D presentation I've seen lately. All the stress of opening weekend and spoiler avoidance behind me, I just kicked back and had a good time. Star Wars...

Was it just me, or were things cut for time in the finale? I still have no idea what happened to the vampire baby, or how the cops finally caught on to the true identity of the Deadly Sins killer. A few tweaks and they'd have one heck of a twisted sitcom with this. ;)

Damn, this is turning into a crummy week!

There was a Jawa in Return Of The Jedi fanning Jabba with what looked like a palm frond.

You mean this site? http://savestarwars.info/ It hasn't been updated since 2010. There has been so much disinformation since 1997, you can't blame anyone if they got some facts wrong. Maybe they put too much trust in their confidential sources, but the site owner is not some delusional fanboy.

If you can call those half assed non-anamorphic discs using 1993 video masters a release. ;) IIRC, even Robert Harris has politely pointed out it wouldn't cost very much to restore the OOT. Lucas never took him up on his offer to restore the films.

He also made the infamous nine episodes remark in interviews that were part of the original making of ESB paperback published in 1980. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Galaxy:_A_Journal_of_the_Making_of_The_Empire_Strikes_Back

I must confess I just dug out my old copy of the book just to check that page. (It's there.) The book came out again in a slightly revised edition in 1997, with a new section on the Special Edition, so I wouldn't have put it past George to change the older parts of the book. ;)

The story goes Lucas badly wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie, but couldn't get the rights. So he made up his own space opera. He even began THX 1138 with a Buck Rogers clip. When tv stations dusted off the Buster Crabbe serials in Star Wars' wake, I totally got where Lucas drew inspiration...