Original Star Wars coming!!!!!!!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 May 2006, 15:06

£9.99 at CD WOW is cheap. I'd prefer a box set for about £18 though. I'm not keen to pay more as I already own the current box and won't be getting rid of it. They really should create a new box set with that Extras Disc.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 17 May 2006, 15:12

bradavon wrote:What does PWNED mean?

It's a deliberate misspelling of the word 'owned', taking the piss out of people on forums who can't spell, basically.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 May 2006, 15:15

Wouldnt you agree they "mimic" the original posters?
I quite like the covers

Its said there will be a boxset as well as the individual releases but whether they'll be a extras disc as well, I dont know

I'm waiting for it to come up on Amazon.com or something, I dont want to order them from CD WOW as they charge on order.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 May 2006, 19:17

I don't reckon it will contain an extras disc which will be really annoying as I really don't want to have to own two box sets.

That's real overkill. Especially when 3 Discs in each are identical.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 May 2006, 03:02

I don't like the covers either, they look crowded floating head syndrome messes.

gasteropod wrote:
bradavon wrote:What does PWNED mean?
It's a deliberate misspelling of the word 'owned', taking the piss out of people on forums who can't spell, basically.

Bullshit. An editor of Planetquake.com (back when the "planet" sites were self-contained and had their own localised content/communities and not part of the greater Gamespy portal) in 2000 started spelling "owned" as "pwned" just to see if it would catch on and it evidently did.

I don't like the covers either, they look crowded floating head syndrome messes.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 May 2006, 05:17

FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The TC's are non-anamorphic. :shock: :shock:

:x

The Digital Bits wrote: We've confirmed something today (directly with both Fox and Lucasfilm) that we'd begun to suspect... and it's probably going to disappoint a lot of you. It certainly disappoints us here at The Bits. Those new DVD editions of the Star Wars films? The original theatrical versions of the films are going to be non-anamorphic (our original post on this indicated otherwise, but we have confirmed that the widescreen versions will be letterboxed only). What this likely means is that Lucasfilm has simply re-purposed the non-anamorphic transfers that were done for previous laserdisc and VHS releases of the "original" versions of the films. And with that, our enthusiasm for this DVD release has just dropped through the floor. Anamorphic-enhanced versions of the theatrical editions, we'd buy in a heartbeat. But what we're going to get instead is little better than a ported-over laserdisc. In this day and age, releasing a widescreen film without anamorphic enhancement on DVD is just unacceptable. Does Lucasfilm really think fans want those versions of the films on DVD so badly that people just won't care? Yes Virginia, they do. How many versions of these films do you suppose Lucasfilm will try to get fans to buy in high-def over the coming years? And think about it... you just know the studio has to be prepping yet another standard DVD release for next year's 30th Anniversary of the original Star Wars. Do you suppose this means that the theatrical editions won't be included in the super-über box set of all six films? Probably. Ugh.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 08:29

Wasn't the new Ghostbusters SE reported to be fullscreen only but that was proved wrong???

I don't believe it. First Arsenal and now this

According to this, the covers are updates of the original posters.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa120.html#swart

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 May 2006, 11:30

grim_tales wrote:First Arsenal and now this

Oh yes, just remembered you lost to Barcelona this morning. HAHA, England do indeed suck at a game that they invented.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 11:33

I was prepared for the fact the O-OT wouldnt look as good as the 2004 versions but this sucks

Lucas is in a win-win situation here.
Anyway, with 2007 being the 30th anniversary of the OT, will they be released again?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 11:47

This sucks major balls :twisted:

:twisted:

No doubt Lucas will still charge the going box set rate. He really can be a wanker sometimes.

He's a business man fine which is why I didn't mind the way the Star Wars films were released but not Remastering them really just stinks of a smack in the face.

In some ways I'm pleased as I didn't really want to fork out again anyway and I sure as hell won't now. Non-anamorphic will make them completely unwatchable in comparison to the 2004 versions.

I wasn't sure if I would bother and I definitely no I won't now.

EvaUnit02 wrote:HAHA, England do indeed suck at a game that they invented.

I'd bet the English team would whip the ass of the Kiwi team, if you have one

. FYI England are one of the best teams in the world (I think) suck no way.

Still the Kiwi Rugby team is very good and we invented that sport too. Not that I care.

O-OT

???

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 11:59

Original-Original Trilogy.

I agree Brad this sucks ass. If I wanted to watch SW non anamorphic, stereo (OK we cleared the stereo up) I'd go back to watching bloody VHS!!

I'd rather have the recent boxset of the 1997 SEs now.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 12:17

Agreed. The box set contains the 2004 cuts, the 1997 versions aren't on DVD.

As far as I'm concerned until I hear this is a mistake and they're going to be anamorphic the discussion is over. Limited or not I'm NOT buying them in non-anamorphic form.

Why bother? They know these would sell like water off a waterfall but by not Remastering them they're going to lose out on sales.

Suddenly my Bootleg Original Theatrical Cut DVDs look very appealing

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 12:20

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 May 2006, 13:22

The fan remastering effort Project X0 is still going ahead regardless. Excellent.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 18 May 2006, 15:11

Non-anamorphic

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 15:12

Are we to assume you're happy by this?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 18 May 2006, 15:26

Well it takes the piss, just Like I have been saying since they announced this release.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 15:39

Brad Romero is laughing at George Lucas.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 15:41

Well that's not the laughing smilie it's the I'm happy smilie but I guess thanks

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 15:59

No Brad

I'm Happy Smilie =

Laughing Smiley =

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 18 May 2006, 16:17

the old Laffin smiley was far, far, far better the new one is crap.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 17:20

I agree Romero

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 18:30

grim_tales wrote:No Brad

I'm Happy Smilie =

Laughing Smiley =

Oops the dude is right

romerojpg wrote: the old Laffin smiley was far, far, far better the new one is crap.

True. It looks more like an evil grin BUT we still have the old Lauging smilie:

The Old Happy Smilie was much better though, the current Happy one

doesn't even look all that happy.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 May 2006, 18:44

Brad -

is actually the big grin smiley, what Romero means/wants is a return of the old LOL "laughing" smiley (similar to the one on Imports Forum) in place of

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2006, 19:04

Yeah I know but both show you're laughing so do the job.