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#1776
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re: Star Wars
that thread along w/ the slip cover thread are just about the worst places on the internet currently.
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re: Star Wars
![Big Grin](/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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Don't be drinking anything when looking in that wax museum thread. I almost choked on my pepsi several times.
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#1782
DVD Talk Legend
re: Star Wars
What is it about Star Wars that brings out everyone's inner retard on the internet? Why are you guys obsessing over some inner sleeve artwork that you'll probably glance at for a few seconds before moving onto the discs?
The only thing I can say about the past few pages is that it is not as bad as blu-ray.com's SW thread, which is already over 1,000 pages and has 30-page arguments over the color of Vader's lightsaber in the Blu-Ray trailer.
The only thing I can say about the past few pages is that it is not as bad as blu-ray.com's SW thread, which is already over 1,000 pages and has 30-page arguments over the color of Vader's lightsaber in the Blu-Ray trailer.
#1785
DVD Talk Hero
re: Star Wars
Yeah, that is great. The main characters of the original trilogy are pushed into the upper left corner, while minor characters from the prequels are given prominent positions. Jesus... Luke, Han, Leia, and Lando are stuck up there behind the fucking Ewoks.
Passive aggressive, much?
Passive aggressive, much?
#1786
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re: Star Wars
It also represents a lot of fans frustrations with SW the last 15yrs... that is the continuing examples of the bar being lowered again and again - starting with the films, all the way down to their marketing and presentation. I'm glad they've gone ahead and made some of the obvious fixes that should've been done 7 years ago, but I'm also disappointed they didn't meet the industry standard of including previous documentaries for this release. The vast majority of professional artists and marketing reps would've laughed this packaging artwork off the first time it was shown to them, but yet here it is, representing what was at one time a serious sci-fi series.
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re: Star Wars
![LOL](/images/smilies/lol.gif)
Wax Tom Cruise and Wax Fonzie
Here's their last days on Conan. Hilarious.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ44c7aABZg
They get it at 3:12 and there's a montage of clips after that. It's worth watching from the beginning.
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#1788
DVD Talk Godfather
re: Star Wars
Yeah, that is great. The main characters of the original trilogy are pushed into the upper left corner, while minor characters from the prequels are given prominent positions. Jesus... Luke, Han, Leia, and Lando are stuck up there behind the fucking Ewoks.
Passive aggressive, much?
Passive aggressive, much?
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re: Star Wars
#1793
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re: Star Wars
It also represents a lot of fans frustrations with SW the last 15yrs... that is the continuing examples of the bar being lowered again and again - starting with the films, all the way down to their marketing and presentation. I'm glad they've gone ahead and made some of the obvious fixes that should've been done 7 years ago, but I'm also disappointed they didn't meet the industry standard of including previous documentaries for this release. The vast majority of professional artists and marketing reps would've laughed this packaging artwork off the first time it was shown to them, but yet here it is, representing what was at one time a serious sci-fi series.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It would be so easy for LFL to knock this sucker out of the park, but they just take the easy way out because there's so many that will buy this regardless of the flaws or z-grade packaging and artwork. You may ask why it matters if so many will buy it anyways, and IMHO that just makes you a part of the problem. You're accepting "good enough", and the problem in this case is that we're not talking about a budget horror film from 40 years ago, that 12 people saw in the cinema, and the negatives were lost, found, lost, found, and then finally put on DVD, recalled, put out on another DVD that was short-printed, we're talking a multi-billion dollar franchise that refuses to make available the most requested facet of the whole thing. I love the Clone Wars series, I used to read the books, I have some of the graphic novels, but I would sell a kidney at this point for good versions of the original cuts, and that's just re-goddam-diculous for a franchise of this standing.
That's why we complain, not because it's would be such a massive undertaking to make it happen, but because we know from other restored films that it could be done with a snap of George's fingers. Metropolis? Joan of Arc? All the lost Doctor Who eps? Really, George, get with the program.
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re: Star Wars
![LOL](/images/smilies/lol.gif)
Look, I can't say I would go so far as to not buy something I wanted based on artwork, but I can appreciate being disappointed by it. I go through this with just about every Bond DVD and now Blu-ray release. Man, those old 60s movies in particular had some amazingly cool poster campaigns but the DVD releases are terribly generic Photoshop jobs putting two different head shots together against a uniform gun barrel background. I keep buying because they do a bang-up job with the movies and bonus content, but I'd be lying if I said a part of me doesn't slump a little each time I see the look of the releases. Maybe for next year's 50th Anniversary releases they'll actually put some thought into them? Probably too much to hope for, but my fingers are crossed anyway.
So, yeah, artwork is an admittedly minor aspect but on that admittedly minor level, I can entirely appreciate being disappointed by it. Though, personally, I'm fine with what we've been shown for these releases. My sights are set on the Complete Saga box and somewhere around 700 posts ago I went on record saying I actually like the simplicity of that design, with young Anakin and Luke.