THE PHANTOM MENACE - YES!!

[mrbasehart]

Has a date for this one been announced?

I think I saw 1st of November written somewhere.

[jammindude]

I think the original thread said Monday the 29th?

[kodiakthejuggler]

Nope.

November 1.

[LadyKenobi]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

At last.  Oh, Mike, thank you.  One down, two to go.

you'll notice a scene on Coruscant where the air-taxi takes Padm? and her Harajuku girls to a tower. Now this is found on the current DVD, so those who want to watch on their ancient VHS tapes (1999 and up) will have to go and rent the modern (read: revised) Epi 1 DVD.

Truly, I have found my people.  Especially you, J-Proof, because I was nodding my head the entire time I was reading your "other movies" list.

Is anybody else sucking it up and shelling it out for the un-batshit-insane-Lucas DVD versions of the original trilogy?  That he should have released with apostate redigitized versions in the first place?  I have ANH so far, because in the end, I am, in fact, his bitch.

[J-Proof]

may i please be the first to say go get your self a copy of ben hur pak man, or forever hang your head in shame.  Ill admit that its damned slow movie, but that one scene is so ridiculously amazing that it really needs to be seen. 

Ben Hur is one of my favorite movies. You know, they had miles worth of film footage of that chariot race sequence.... Now - Heston is arguably one of the very best actors, or one of the very worst, but I still loves me that movie!

[Sharktopus]

Heston is arguably one of the very best actors, or one of the very worst, but I still loves me that movie!

Charlton Heston is a great actor the way Plan 9 is a great movie. He's right up there with Adam West and the Shatner: The Holy Trinity of Ham.

Is anybody else sucking it up and shelling it out for the un-batshit-insane-Lucas DVD versions of the original trilogy?  That he should have released with apostate redigitized versions in the first place?  I have ANH so far, because in the end, I am, in fact, his bitch.

Not until my well-worn THX edition VHS copies become one with the force. I just can't bring myself to buy the special* editions again just to get the original versions, especially when they're untouched to the point of having the old substandard sound mixes. Release them alone George, and maybe I'll think about it. I'm sure there'll eventually be some 9+ disc deluxe boxset that I'll be horked into buying some day.

*Special in the way the kid down the street who wears a helmet everywhere he goes is special

[King Rygar]

Not only did my jaw drop to the floor when I found out about the Episode I Rifftrax coming up, I totally lost it when I realized I already own the dvd! The Fifth element was the only other one so far that I already owned.

I suffered great humiliation the other day when I bought The Matrix, Cocktail, and Top Gun all at the same time. Not to mention the dignity I lost when I bought xXx. I took pride in being the only person I know who hadn't seen that movie. Now I own it. And I am ashamed! 

[LadyKenobi]

Not until my well-worn THX edition VHS copies become one with the force

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Oh, but they're only available for a limited! time!  George needs a new flannel shirt.

I will say, however, in Ep1's defense, that I think it contains the best lightsaber battle in all six films.  That John Williams wasn't at least nominated for "Duel of the Fates" was a crime.

And yet... JarJar.

[dlobro1080]

I suffered great humiliation the other day when I bought The Matrix, Cocktail, and Top Gun all at the same time.

Since when is The Matrix a bad movie?  Yeah, the sequels are a little ponderous and un-crowd pleasing (the bad guys don't die at the end!), but the original is a pretty great movie.  Cocktail and Top Gun, yeah, that'll garner some humiliation.

[dlobro1080]

Is anybody else sucking it up and shelling it out for the un-batshit-insane-Lucas DVD versions of the original trilogy?  That he should have released with apostate redigitized versions in the first place?  I have ANH so far, because in the end, I am, in fact, his bitch.

Not me.  I'm done giving him my money for stuff I already bought 20 times, especially since there was no remastering.  When the 30th Anniversary mega box set comes out, I might be tempted to get that if there's enough bonus stuff packed in.  Plus I hear they're getting rid of that awful Yoda puppet from Episode 1 and putting in the great CGI Yoda.

[Sharktopus]

Oh, but they're only available for a limited! time!  George needs a new flannel shirt.

Yeah, limited to only ten bazillion copies. I love how George always makes appearances dressed like Michael Moore's slightly better-dressed cousin when he's just a few bucks shy of buying the moon. Or is it a space station?

[Rufus T]

This is going to be an awesome rifftrax.

[SmilinJackRoss]

I just cannot watch this movie straight through in one sitting.  I tried on friday night, but to no avail.  One thing that really bothers me:

At the end lightsaber battle, when they get caught in those red forcefield things, Obi Wan is back farther than Qui Gon and Maul, and Obi Wan can't quite catch up once the forcefields came down.  But in the beginning of the movie you see these two Jedi's run away from those machine-gun robots with some kind of "super speed" jedi powers.  Why didn't Obi Wan use those powers to get through those forcefields?

[jammindude]

I just cannot watch this movie straight through in one sitting.  I tried on friday night, but to no avail.  One thing that really bothers me:

At the end lightsaber battle, when they get caught in those red forcefield things, Obi Wan is back farther than Qui Gon and Maul, and Obi Wan can't quite catch up once the forcefields came down.  But in the beginning of the movie you see these two Jedi's run away from those machine-gun robots with some kind of "super speed" jedi powers.  Why didn't Obi Wan use those powers to get through those forcefields?

You got me there....I've seen that movie so many times I've almost memorized it....and I've never seen this "super speed" that you speak of...

[LadyKenobi]

The superspeed is seen at the very beginning of the film, when they're running from the droidikas after escaping the poison gas.

How much does it bother you that I've already had this discussion about the use of the Jedi speed during the lightsaber battle?  The most satisfactory explanation I've heard is as follows:  1) It takes a tremendous amount of energy to run at "Jedi speed." 2) As a Padawan, Obi-Wan didn't yet have the skeelz to properly budget that energy while in the midst of a very physical battle. 3)  I am a hopless, hopeless dork.