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Post by Noel on Aug 2, 2007 17:41:03 GMT -5
One of our other threads has degenerated into a discussion about plot holes in the "Star Wars" universe, so in order to make that somehow on-topic I decided to start this one. In case you didn't already know, Rick Baker worked as a makeup effects artist on "Star Wars : A New Hope", a few years before he did American Werewolf. For the Cantina scene in that movie, George Lucas needed as many weird alien-looking things as he could get, which prompted Baker to pull a few random ones off the shelf, including a couple of werewolf type masks. These characters were of course then incorporated into the universe as belonging to particular alien races. For pictures and info go here: www.starwars.com/episode-iv/bts/article/f20030502/indexp2.html |
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Post by ArcLight on Aug 2, 2007 19:50:09 GMT -5
And then they yanked them out of the so-called "special editions." The bastiches!
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Post by Werewolf on Aug 3, 2007 3:18:53 GMT -5
And then they yanked them out of the so-called "special editions." The bastiches! I know  I hate the specials editions! |
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Post by Marcus on Aug 3, 2007 5:11:44 GMT -5
I think I've got 3 versions of the films, the originals on VHS, the digital remastered ones on VHS and then the special addition on DVD. hmm too many do you think?
I remember the werewolf dude in the catina, but I must admit I didn't notice him gone during the special addition one.
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Post by Werewolf on Aug 3, 2007 5:26:37 GMT -5
Bit like me then. I had them taped, then bought on VHS, then the remastered ones bought on VHS in normals and widescreen (don't ask!) and then i've just bought the orginal filsm on DVD. I don't own any of the new films.
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Post by Noel on Aug 3, 2007 10:28:46 GMT -5
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE MADE GREEDO SHOOT FIRST!!!
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Post by ArcLight on Aug 3, 2007 10:30:46 GMT -5
I got...I think four versions of the films now. The 'Definitive Collection' laserdisc set. The 'Special Editions' on VHS and DVD and the originals on DVD. Oh...and DVD rips of the DC laserdisc before Lucas finally put them out. Had another copy of them on laserdisc before the DC came out, but when I got that I gave them to a friend.
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Aug 6, 2007 12:13:37 GMT -5
I have the origional triology on double disc dvd, disc 1 are the most recent versions, disc 2 the theatrical cuts. I didn't get to see the origional version until last year, so I didn't see the two wolfies before, although I did know of them. I used to be an avid collector of the action figures, one of the wolfmen made it into a figure.
What I would really like to see is a "A New Hope" extended edition. Normally I hate that kind of thing, like in the case of "Lord of the Rings" (runningtime...tooo...loooooooong), but I know there is a handfull of scenes cut featuring Peter Cushing.
PS
Peter Cushing was origionally going to play Obi Wan Kenobi, and CHristopher Lee was to be Grand Moff Tarkin, the role that went to Cushing
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Post by Noel on Aug 6, 2007 12:24:53 GMT -5
I watched all the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy back-to-back once. Started in the mid-afternoon and didn't finish til the early morning. If you take a drink every time Ian McKellen gets a twinkle in his eye then you end up pretty out of it by the end.
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Post by Werewolf on Aug 7, 2007 2:10:47 GMT -5
PS Peter Cushing was origionally going to play Obi Wan Kenobi, and CHristopher Lee was to be Grand Moff Tarkin, the role that went to Cushing I could have gone with that! |
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Post by Marcus on Aug 7, 2007 5:46:50 GMT -5
A little bit of triva about Peter Cushing in the Star Wars film. The boots that were part of his costume were too small for him, so he was unable to wear them for any extended time. Which is why most of the shots of him are from the waist up, as he was wearing a pair of slippers for most of his scenes.
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Post by Werewolf on Aug 7, 2007 7:24:08 GMT -5
A little bit of triva about Peter Cushing in the Star Wars film. The boots that were part of his costume were too small for him, so he was unable to wear them for any extended time. Which is why most of the shots of him are from the waist up, as he was wearing a pair of slippers for most of his scenes. ;D I've heard that before. The scene where he's threatening Princess Leia would have been much less sinister if we could have seen him in his slippers. What do you think he wore? Pink fluffy ones with no backs or daft novelty ones! |
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Post by Noel on Aug 7, 2007 7:25:01 GMT -5
Hehehehe, Grand Moff Tarkin wore slippers! No wonder his troops didn't take him seriously!
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Aug 8, 2007 2:54:59 GMT -5
Love that slipper story, I have the interview in some magazine somewhere someplace  A friend of mine did a marathon LOTR extended etc. once, half way into the first I practically fainted and went home. |
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Post by Marcus on Aug 8, 2007 3:43:20 GMT -5
I thnk he'd either have had giant fury werewolf feet slippers, or those criss-cross coloured ones that are almost like tartens.
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I hate the specials editions!
