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I think once Rogue One gets going in its second hour, it's absolutely fantastic. The first hour is a little rocky though.

And never say never but I've been hearing that she's going to be fired since The Force Awakens so it's tough to believe a rumor that I've been hearing every month for nearly five years. Rogue One was trending on Twitter a couple days ago and I was happy to see someone point out how badly...

And to be fair, she was also in charge when the shit hit the fan with the production of Rogue One and Solo but money talks so her successes by far outweigh her failures.

Absolutely.

Yes. However, I don't think there's any comparison between him working on new movies and adding some CG creatures to the cantina or upgrading CG models from 1997 or whatever weird things he think will make the movies better.

True but I don't think Disney would refuse his input if he wanted to tinker more. I think Lucas has moved on and wouldn't make any more changes now but I think Disney would be willing to make some reasonably inexpensive changes if he wanted to.

I'm not looking to debate this long dead topic with a militant fan but the majority of the new shots in the space battle blend to my eyes and enhance the movie. Once again, I'm definitely not arguing to bury the originals, I'm just saying that the additions in the space battle largely work for me.

The bad CG hasn't aged well (anything organic like Jabba or a ronto) but the good CG (the various spaceships) is much better than the shots that they replaced. None of that is to say that I don't want to see the original versions released but many of the new shots in the space battle look better...

IF that's true (though I don't think it is), they'll likely announce it this weekend at Star Wars Celebration.

I think Disney will only care about the despecialized versions when/if they release the originals. Maybe not even then since an official release will basically put the bootleggers out of business.

I think it'll be on every physical format as a completely understandable way to make the most money.

I disagree about the new movies but yeah, The Clone Wars had some really great stuff in it. The same creative team (minus Lucas) went on to do Rebels which, if you're enjoying The Clone Wars, you'll almost definitely enjoy Rebels too.

You don't think that the internet reaction to the prequels has crossed over into the mainstream audience? You could find tons of people who have never heard a Beatles record that will tell you that they're the best band ever or people that have never seen Citizen Kane that will tell you that...

How you broach the topic of the prequels is irrelevant because the internet destroyed those movies' reputation long ago. People who never saw the prequels would tell you that they sucked thanks to the people who can't stop saying how much they hate them after nearly 19 years. And even if someone...

Well, the shot of the flags changed from the trailer to the theatrical cut so technically, there was never a released version of the movie where the podracer flag was in there. The music was changed from the theatrical cut to all home formats though.

Weren't the flags the same ones used by the podracers in The Phantom Menace? I'd assume that they changed them simply to make sure they aren't the same flag as featured in another movie. I watch Star Wars movies waaaaaaaaaaay too closely and I never would have noticed a changed flag.

And the end credits! :)

I'm sure that Coppola means that there was a bunch of interesting work that never happened because Lucas became 'Mr. Star Wars' and I suppose that's true to some degree. However, George Lucas added so much to the technical side of movie making that that legacy- while much less known- has...

I've always found the Yoda puppet to be one of the most convincing illusions in the original trilogy. If I'm being hyper-critical, when Yoda 'walks' across his hut before he reveals who he is to Luke, it looks like a Muppet but there's so many points where Mark Hamill is doing a scene with a...

I think it's a case by case basis- some of the new effects are good and some are bad. There's CG shots in the space battle in Star Wars that look and work better than the original shots (as groundbreaking as Star Wars was, there's a handful of shots that are weak). Cloud City in The Empire...

It's not the Warners one, it's a podcast dealing with "the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century". They've done multi-episode series on what the stars did during WWII, the women of Howard Hughes, tales of MGM's golden age, Joan Crawford and the Hollywood connections to...

Yeah, there's a link to it a couple pages back in the post when the story came out but you can listen to it here: https://omny.fm/shows/steele-wars/ep-131-3-star-wars-celebration-orlando-day-2-the-l (the relevant portion starts at about 15:30). I'm guessing that there was a 'real' media section...

Yep. And I don't want to be mean since he's just a dude with a podcast and there's outside pressures like a publicist tapping her watch as they near the end of the allotted time, it's loud, I doubt he normally spends his time seeing celebrities & trying to rattle off questions to them, etc. but...

Yeah, a fairly simple way to ask the question is "Are you planning on releasing the original versions of the original trilogy on Blu-ray?". Instead of that, this exchange (which has been posted before) took place: interviewer: "I'm very interested- alot has been said about the, the pass over...

Your post is dead on so there's no need to apologize.

For once, I figured I'd just accentuate the positive. :)

To their credit, The Digital Bits has updated their post from yesterday to better reflect what Kennedy said.

Unbelievably, The Digital Bits is repeating the story with the misconstrued quotes from Kathy Kennedy. It's one thing for a person to read a story and post a link on a message board (it's fair to read something and expect the authors not to lie) but as a news site that is rightly well-respected...

Yeah, listening to the relevant portion of the interview, she's definitely not answering the question of "Will they release the original versions?" The headline "Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy" is good clickbait but half of the headline (the important half) is a...

I always feel like I'll be that one unlucky bastard that a studio decides to sue for $27 million because I downloaded Star Wars but I'd imagine that Josh is right and they go after the people uploading nowadays. Despite its stone age look, I still get a nostalgic thrill out of using the...