Just finished syncing this up to my "Special Edition" Star Wars copy (the only original version I have is on VHS and I currently do not have a functioning VCR). Actually it worked pretty well because you guys did mention a lot about the SE changes. No matter how many times I see the SE version, the original is still what I see in my head.

I grew up on Star Wars and saw this first movie in the theater with my grandmother when I was 4 years old and I still remember going, but don't remember anything about being there. Empire and Return I remember much better - I still have the Emperor's Elite Guard figure and hang card that I bought coming out of RotJ with my dad since they were my favorite new character design from the movie (and the Imperial Shuttle is still my favorite ship).

In 4th or 5th grade my friend's father was the first person I knew with a VCR and he had purchased Star Wars (for what I think was over $100 back in the early eighties) and we watched it all the time.

Great job on the commentary - A lot of fun discussion and it was the first time I heard of RetCon - but I'm well aware of the concept, especially in the Star Wars universe.

One note from the SE- R5-D4 (the red robot in the Uncle Owen/Jawa scene) is still shown parked next to Artoo in the one shot even though he had moved forward to be purchased. I remember picking this oversight out when I was a kid - I guess Lucas was too busy with chicken-footed dewbacks and getting Han to step on Jabba's tail to fix this one.

Really enjoying watching these movies again with you guys in my ears.

Huh. Interesting observation. I think he didn't think about it too hard.

DiF is not done with Star Wars, there's one more film to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezeYJUz-84

I've heard it - it's okay. I laughed a few times. I think Mike is trying to raise funds for his movie, hence these commentary tracks. 2 hours of geek humour.

I don't think during the making of Star Wars Lucas had the idea that they were clones at all. I don't think you need clones if you keep to the three film model.

Binary Sunset. Tears every time.

So Obi Wan Kenobi can understand wookie-speak. First there's the fact that he's talking with Chewie in the cantina and then he nods in response when Chewbacca makes noises after he says "who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" Which leads me to wonder what Chewie says at that moment.

But then, given how everyone in the movie can interact with Chewbacca and no-one asks for a translation, I'm inclined to think that everyone understands the wookiee language. And I'd extend that to droid beeps as well (to cover what Trey says about him not buying that Han can understand the droid doing repairs on the Falcon in ESB).

A gallery of Star Wars posters.

The Italian and Russian ones are particularly mad:

During the communist era we didn't 

Back then we had our own custom posters for almost all foreign movies. Now we get the generic ones (the 1997 Special Edition theatrical release in Poland had the standard US posters).

There's another gallery here.

These two come from Poland:
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-7376767
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-6940998

Nowadays, only some arthouse cinemas in Poland occasionally commission custom posters.

Last edited by MartyJ (2013-01-19 02:52:13)

That's one of those posters where I want to ask the artist, "have you actually seen the movie?"

I'm pretty sure that the author of this poster did not. He even turned "Kershner" into "Wershner".

Last edited by MartyJ (2013-01-19 19:43:09)

What's funny about the Russian one is that the tagline at the bottom reads: "A Space Western", as that's I guess the closest way they're able to classify it for their audience.

Also this one is fucking rad:

Last edited by bullet3 (2013-01-20 07:03:21)