Star Wars blu-ray release date announced tommorow?

[Rarewolf]

Indeed. This isn't "milking" it's being released on a new format, nothing else.

Now, it is milking if there's a better/more feature-laden edition released a few years down the road on Blu-Ray.

Well they'll have to revisit again when there is a 3D product to sell.

Even then 30 hours of extras is only 5 per movie, there's a wealth of people never interviewed for DVD, hours of valid doucumentaries that could be sourced.

I'm not sure there will ever be enough said about the films for some fans!

 

[Aragorn]

Audio commentary with Temeura Morrison on The Empire Strikes Back where he tells us all his stories of.... dubbing over the guy who provided the voice of Boba Fett 20 years later.

 

[RandyS]

I'm not a total SE hater,

I am, but I'm old.

I'm the opposite....I love the SE's. And I'm 40.

And I'm middle of the road. I'm also 40, and while I prefer the originals, I also like the SE's.

 

[Trekker4747]

Indeed. This isn't "milking" it's being released on a new format, nothing else.

Now, it is milking if there's a better/more feature-laden edition released a few years down the road on Blu-Ray.

Well they'll have to revisit again when there is a 3D product to sell.

Even then 30 hours of extras is only 5 per movie, there's a wealth of people never interviewed for DVD, hours of valid doucumentaries that could be sourced.

I'm not sure there will ever be enough said about the films for some fans!

Lucas will cream himself on the 3D thing as it'd give him another chance to go through the films and completely "re-do" them (esp the effects) as that'd be required to transfer a movie filmed in 2D to BD-3D.

 

[Xavier_Storma]

Indeed. This isn't "milking" it's being released on a new format, nothing else.

Now, it is milking if there's a better/more feature-laden edition released a few years down the road on Blu-Ray.

Let's talk AVATAR for example... or LOTR, which has yet to recieve an Extended Edition treatment.

As for me... I cannot wait to get my hands on the 9 disk set and work myself through the new specials (30 hours... ).

 

[Set Harth]

Audio commentary with Temeura Morrison on The Empire Strikes Back where he tells us all his stories of.... dubbing over the guy who provided the voice of Boba Fett 20 years later.

Along with the hilarious anecdote of Lucas getting him confused with Jay Laga'aia.

 

[ichab]

I am, but I'm old.

I'm the opposite....I love the SE's. And I'm 40.

And I'm middle of the road. I'm also 40, and while I prefer the originals, I also like the SE's.

There are parts I like and parts that I don't.

The Han/Greedo scene, the change of Fett's voice and the inserting of young anakin into ROTJ were parts I despise. The inserting of Ian Mcdiarmid in ESB, expanded celebration in ROTJ and Han/jabba scene in ANH were parts I liked. If Lucas changes Yoda to CGI in the other films I'll be disappointed. We know Lucas just can't fight the urge to "tinker" with these movies.

 

[RandyS]

I'm the opposite....I love the SE's. And I'm 40.

And I'm middle of the road. I'm also 40, and while I prefer the originals, I also like the SE's.

There are parts I like and parts that I don't.

The Han/Greedo scene, the change of Fett's voice and the inserting of young anakin into ROTJ were parts I despise. The inserting of Ian Mcdiarmid in ESB, expanded celebration in ROTJ and Han/jabba scene in ANH were parts I liked. If Lucas changes Yoda to CGI in the other films I'll be disappointed. We know Lucas just can't fight the urge to "tinker" with these movies.

And the change from that insipid Ewok music, the only thing John Williams ever wrote that I disliked to the better tune at the end of Return of the Jedi. That was one example of a good change. The only downside to that was that the dumb Ewok music was left in the end credits.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Indeed. This isn't "milking" it's being released on a new format, nothing else.

Now, it is milking if there's a better/more feature-laden edition released a few years down the road on Blu-Ray.

Let's talk AVATAR for example... or LOTR, which has yet to recieve an Extended Edition treatment.

I don't know about Avatar - never seen it, don't own it - but from the moment that LOTR's theatrical versions were released on Blu-Ray, it was made quite explicitly clear that the extended ones WERE coming. Linky There's never been any doubt that they will be. So anyone who buys the theatrical cuts and claims double-dipping, is talking out of their ass.

 

[Set Harth]

The same thing happened with the DVDs. Before the theatrical cuts were even released the Extended editions were already announced, but then you had people eventually getting both versions. As if they planned it that way. Yeah right.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only downside to that was that the dumb Ewok music was left in the end credits.

You mean Yub Yub, right?

I also liked the fact that the SE's cut out Yub Yub, but conversely, they put IN Jedi Rocks, which I hate.

Although I can't say I care for the original song that Jedi Rocks replaced, come to think of it...

 

[Mr Light]

LOTR also had those "Limited Editions" with all new documentary footage, the ones that had the extended and theatrical versions on them.

 

[RandyS]

The only downside to that was that the dumb Ewok music was left in the end credits.

You mean Yub Yub, right?

I also liked the fact that the SE's cut out Yub Yub, but conversely, they put IN Jedi Rocks, which I hate.

Although I can't say I care for the original song that Jedi Rocks replaced, come to think of it...

Yep, that's what I'm talking about.

Which one is Jedi Rocks? Is that the song they sang in Jabba's palace? If so, I agree, I didn't like that either.

 

[Set Harth]

Although I can't say I care for the original song that Jedi Rocks replaced, come to think of it...

I care for it deeply.