Friday, September 10, 2004

Put out an APB on a white pimp-mobile.

I just re-sent you an invite, Ben. If it doesn't work, you will have to remind me of your other, better e-mail. If anyone else also wants to join up for great NFL (nose) pickin' fun, just let me know and leave me your e-mail adds.

On the the other hand, I'm getting waaaay excited for the Star Wars DVDs. They only changed a few things, and they are all good things to change (except for one). The picture quality is supposed to be awesome. Lowery Digital spent six painstaking months cleaning up the original prints and converting them to digital files. This means they still retain the look of the original filmstock, but are now stored on a hard drive, not in a tin canister. If you are interested in the changes, the ones I can remember hearing about are:

Episode IV
Jabba from the SE is replaced by a better, but still crappy CG Jabba
Han and Greedo fire on each other simultainiously

Episode V
Temurra Morrison (Jango Fett) re-recorded all of Bobba's dialogue
The crappy Emperor is replaced by Ian McDiarmand (the Emperor from I, II, III, and VI)
The dialogue in said Emperor scene is somewhat different

Episode VI
Naboo is included in the final celebration
In said celebration, the Jedi Temple and the Senate buildings are visible on Coruscant
Here's the biggest change-Hayden Christiensen appears as a spirit along with Yoda and Obi-Wan at the end, replacing Sebastian Shaw who played Anakin before. Shaw still appears as Anakin in the scene where Luke removes the helmet, but they digitally removed Shaw's eyebrows and matched his eyes to Hayden's eye color.


So, it appears that all of the things added will be good. I think Anakin was replaced be cause Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader killed his father. Therefore, Anakin died when he became Vader. Also making me salavate, the awesome documentary. This sucker is about 3 hours long and chronicles in detail, the making of all three films, plus there are about five or so mini documentaries about other various facets of the making of each film. Be sure to pick up your copy on the 21st.

Bye for now.