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Old 04-01-04 | 10:41 AM
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anthony daniels woulve been GREAT on commentary. his stories when he used to cohost the star wars nights on QVC were really good.
He has a CD out there ("Wonder Column in Space") where he recounts a lot of SW stories... it's a blast. I grabbed an autographed copy right before the Wizard Star Wars store closed shop.
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Old 04-01-04 | 11:00 AM
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Actually, I'd like to see Lucas put this into the ending scenes of "Episode III"
In regards to the Toshi Station scene, how would you work this into E3? A flash-forward?


Also, I'm pretty sure I remember Hamill said in a Hyperspace chat that he was participating on the DVDs. Maybe he's just in the docu's, but I'm pretty sure we'll see him.
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Old 04-01-04 | 03:21 PM
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In regards to the Toshi Station scene, how would you work this into E3? A flash-forward?
That would actually be a very cool idea.
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Old 04-01-04 | 05:16 PM
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1 dvd for the extra's doesn't sounds like a lot. I'm looking forward to this set.
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Old 04-01-04 | 06:12 PM
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He thought the films were incredibly silly. He was happy to cash the checks, but upset at how this character overshadowed his entire career. He has mentioned that he throws away all Star Wars fan mail before even reading.
You are right that he was resentful that he was only known for being Obi-Wan. But you are dead wrong when you claim he thought the films were silly. He didn't think that all. In fact, he was one of the very few who thought that Star Wars was going to be a good film, even when his friends were telling him he was crazy to co-star in them. He stated in a number of interviews that he thought Star Wars was going to be a very good film, and he came to that conclusion when he read the script.

If Alec Guiness thought Star Wars was silly, he would have never participated in ESB and ROTJ. Guiness was proud of his work in Star Wars. It just pissed him off that nobody remembered him for his early work, onyl for being Obi-Wan!
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Old 04-01-04 | 06:43 PM
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Well I would contend that only a fool wouldn't remember him from such films as Oliver Twist, Bridge on the River Kwai (his best role), Lawrence of Arabia, and The Ladykillers. I have to scratch my head at any jackass who when asked who Guiness is can only remember Kenobi.

Give me a break.
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Old 04-01-04 | 06:58 PM
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Who's more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?
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Old 04-01-04 | 08:09 PM
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Who's more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?
The latter....although I must say John Kerry comes in at a close second.
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Old 04-01-04 | 08:12 PM
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Well I would contend that only a fool wouldn't remember him from such films as Oliver Twist, Bridge on the River Kwai (his best role), Lawrence of Arabia, and The Ladykillers. I have to scratch my head at any jackass who when asked who Guiness is can only remember Kenobi.

Give me a break.
Oh yeah, forgot about his role in LOA. What's his name, Prince Feisal, that's it.
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Old 04-02-04 | 12:14 AM
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Question: Luke Skywalker appears as a character in the "Star Wars: Jedi Academi".. and I could swear Mark Hamill is doing the voice. Does that mean he's distancing form the role/series?
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Old 04-02-04 | 12:31 AM
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Old 04-02-04 | 02:20 AM
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I'm still a little disappointed about no regular editions, but the extras should help make up for it a little. They sound pretty good!
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Old 04-02-04 | 03:11 AM
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How many different Star Wars threads are there!? Shouldn't there be a sub-forum for goodness sake???
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Old 04-02-04 | 06:32 AM
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How many different Star Wars threads are there!? Shouldn't there be a sub-forum for goodness sake???
Just wait until we get closer to this badboy's release date
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Old 04-02-04 | 07:51 AM
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Just wait until we get closer to this badboy's release date
No kidding... it'll come in waves.

Wave 1 - Anticipation

Wave 2 - Stores break street date and people gloat

Wave 3 - Best Price? threads

Wave 4 - Release day... praise/complain threads ensue.

Wave 5 - Post-coital problem threads

Wave 6 - "Have you received your replacement discs yet?" threads

(just kidding on Wave 6, I hope )
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Old 04-02-04 | 08:26 AM
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Well I would contend that only a fool wouldn't remember him from such films as Oliver Twist, Bridge on the River Kwai (his best role), Lawrence of Arabia, and The Ladykillers. I have to scratch my head at any jackass who when asked who Guiness is can only remember Kenobi.
I agree with you, but they did. The character of Obi-Wan overshadowed his other great characters.

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Old 04-02-04 | 08:54 AM
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You are right that he was resentful that he was only known for being Obi-Wan. But you are dead wrong when you claim he thought the films were silly.
Silly may have been a paraphrase (although I thought that was the exact word he used). Unfortunately, I'm moving in a few weeks and all of my books are packed up, so I can't go to his autobiographies to get the straight story. "Fairytale rubbish" is a phrase I recall him using at one point, along with referring to his dialog as "mumbo jumbo".

The point is that he regretted participating in the films, aside from the financial aspect. I personally doubt that Guinness would have done a commentary for *any* film (he wasn't a fan of revisiting his past work), but he definitely wouldn't have done one for SW.
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Old 04-02-04 | 09:00 AM
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Originally posted by TomOpus
No kidding... it'll come in waves.

Wave 1 - Anticipation

Wave 2 - Stores break street date and people gloat

Wave 3 - Best Price? threads

Wave 4 - Release day... praise/complain threads ensue.

Wave 5 - Post-coital problem threads

Wave 6 - "Have you received your replacement discs yet?" threads

(just kidding on Wave 6, I hope )
your lips move, but I can't hear what you say...
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Old 04-02-04 | 10:56 AM
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I love the packing on this.
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Old 04-02-04 | 12:48 PM
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From Best Buy:
The 4-disc Star Wars Trilogy includes Episode IV: A New Hope; Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and a feature-packed bonus disc:


Star Wars: The Independent Films feature-length documentary
The Evolution of Characters featurette
The Influence of Star Wars featurette
Lightsabers/Fights featurette
1977 featurette
Comprehensive gallery of posters and artwork
Star Wars Battlefront X-Box video game demo


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Old 04-02-04 | 12:50 PM
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I hope the featurettes don't even mention Eps. I-III.
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Old 04-02-04 | 04:12 PM
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Honestly, I don't really like how there are so many audio tracks, along with commentaries on each movie. It seems more bits will be taken away from picture quality. I wish they would have kept more bits spared for picture as they did with Indy. Indy had two 2.0 foreign tracks in addition to a 5.1 English track I believe.

I don't know, maybe it won't make a difference.
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Old 04-02-04 | 04:26 PM
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I'm so glad we got a video game demo on here instead of deleted scenes.........Please don't say "well, maybe there aren't any" because we all know that the Behind the Magic CD Rom had 2 of them. These better not be all the specs.
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Old 04-02-04 | 04:47 PM
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I'm buying this DVD for three reasons and three reasons only!

- Star Wars
- Empire Strikes Back
- Return of the Jedi

Other than that, I don't care what extras they include. I've seen a ton of those extras anyway. However, I'll take 4 hours of quality extras over 15 hours of fluff bullsh*t! So bring it on.

Besides, the official spec have not been anounced, and this is not in all likelihood the definitive release of these films.
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Old 04-03-04 | 12:42 AM
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In case mine was the thread crap, I will add this: I think the cover for this dvd package is insanely good, and I'm not even that much of a fan. It makes me want to buy it, which I will, and that's saying a lot. The back, though, I don't really care much for since it looks like a hockey mask with the way the eye part is shown flatly in the light...... anyway....

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