Duke Togo

Ok, time for me to start beating the video quality drum again: the first reviews are coming out of the Ben-Hur blu-ray release (which got a brand new, 8k resolution transfer from the original 65mm negative), and to say they are glowing would be putting it lightly. I want to know why Star Wars deserved anything less than this?

You already answered your own question; no reason at all to look there for anyone. Some of you guys are starting to worry me; you're starting to sound like a bunch of Trekkies nitpicking something that happened in an episode of some 40 year old tv show.

Why would they be looking for someone they didn't know even existed?

Again, what are you talking about?

I'm not quite sure how it is overrated. The prequels are universally maligned, Jedi's gotten it's share of flack over the past 25 years, and the "expanded universe" productions are generally mediocre and not well reviewed. With the exception of a small selection of games, books, and the original Clone Wars shorts, what exactly has there been positive to say about SW in 30 years? You can't deny the original film is a classic and one of the most important films ever made, and Empire surpasses it in quality on almost every level. The rest Is a mixed bag, at best. I wouldn't call that overrated.

"My mother?" "Yeah" "Let me tell you about my mother..."

Obi-Wan never says anything about the droids being new. And I still don't understand the issue with Leia remembering her mother. We see her adoptive mother in III. Leia says her mother died when she was young, and her father is the only family member mentioned when Alderaan is destroyed. She didn't know she was adopted, there isn't a continuity problem. Obi-Wan not remembering the droids, the whole issue about who instructed who (Yoda teaching all younglings doesn't fix it), Anakin's age, the Clone Trooper/Storm Trooper issue... Jesus, I could sit here and list problems all day.

Ithink it's a pretty safe assumption to make. Out of all the continuity problems that arose from the prequels, this isn't one of them.

Someone needs to tell Rick that Watto doesn't take REF Credits for that Protoculturr Matrix he's tying to buy so they can get off-world.

I wouldn't watch Avatar again, no matter the cut.

KotOR force bond? I dunno, but her death is just horribly handled. I never quite figured out how she moved around as well as she did 9 months pregnant with twins in her.

The SDF-3 in Watto's junkyard?!?! The secret revealed!

I was under the impression that Alien and Aliens were "special editions," and not "director's cuts." I'm fairly certain the theatrical cuts are the "intended" versions of the films. Speaking of director's cuts, I don't think any single movie has benefited from one as much as Kingdom of Heaven.

I always refer to it as just Khan. *shrug* I'm not a Trek fan and I don't have a lot of friends who are Star Trek fans (atleast, none that ever talk about it), but I can't say I've ever heard or seen it referred to as TWOK.

The Japanese DVD's have an english dub? The only thing Macross II has going for it is the Metal Siren.

This sounds like some sort of riddle that they'd have to solve in order to find where he is lost in space.

WTF is TWOK?

Not sure what this has to do with killing the bad guy. He's going to kill everyone else, so it's self defense.

Can't I strike him down without giving in to anger? Seems like a pretty justifiable move, to me.

1,000 replies in this thread! No, I have nothing to add, here.

The writer says he's not a replicant, Harrison Ford says he's not a replicant, and the book the movie is based on says he's not a replicant. Even with the silly unicorn scene, there's nothing in the movie that actually proves that he is a replicant. And don't anyone bother to bring up the "eyes" bit; its already known that the scene where Deckard's eyes get that replicant look is because Ford accidentally stepped into Sean Young's light.

Abyss director's cut I never much liked mainly because of the ending. It just seemed so heavy-handed to me. Dad Boot is a bit different, because in it's original form it wasn't a film, it was a miniseries. The director's cut extends the run time by an hour, but it's still only just over half of it's original 6-hour length. I've seen both the theatrical and director's cuts, but the viewing was so many years apart I can't even tell you which was superior or what was different.

That's really the whole thing, Mike. I don't care what he does, if he also provides us with the originals. I also don't feel that he "raped" my childhood; I think such analogies and childish and borderline offensive.

Lightsabers make everything better, don't you know this? As far as context goes, here ya go: George Lucas' 1988 Congressional Testimony Sure he did, when he made them available for purchase.

When I saw Aliens at a theater in Dallas 1986, it had the famous "sentry gun" scene in it. For years none of my friends knew what I was talking about, nor could I find any proof that the scene existed. It wasn't until the special editions of the Alien movies came out in the late 90's that I finally saw that scene again. However, the added scene with Newt's parents seems unnecessary to me, though it's not enough to put me off of watching it. BTW, as far as Highlander II goes, it's the only movie I've ever walked out of in the theater. I don't care how they cut it, I don't think you can salvage anything out of that mess.