^ I haven't for about a year actually. I was really into the Jay and Silent Bob get old one though. It got a bit repetitive after a while but the early ones which served as a kind of intervention was really emotional if you know what I mean.

Any mention of possibly bringing Darth Vader back?

funkycat00 said:

Any mention of possibly bringing Darth Vader back?

luke was on his way to being darth jr .. with his robot hand and all

funkycat00 said:

Any mention of possibly bringing Darth Vader back?

Not unless they make Episode III.V.

funkycat00 said:

Any mention of possibly bringing Darth Vader back?

It seems in the novels Anakin appeared to Leia a good number of times

OldFriends4Sale said:

funkycat00 said:

Any mention of possibly bringing Darth Vader back?

It seems in the novels Anakin appeared to Leia a good number of times

To Jacen as well in The Unifying Force. But I'm betting on a new story that voids the continuing story of the novels.

Hudson said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

It seems in the novels Anakin appeared to Leia a good number of times

To Jacen as well in The Unifying Force. But I'm betting on a new story that voids the continuing story of the novels.

I totally lost interest in that storyline.

I was midway into reading whatever book it was where Jacen tries to arrest Han & Leia at Mara's funeral. Couldn't get into it.

I should finish it off to see what happens with that (don't spoil it please).

PurpleJedi said:

Hudson said:

To Jacen as well in The Unifying Force. But I'm betting on a new story that voids the continuing story of the novels.

I totally lost interest in that storyline.

I was midway into reading whatever book it was where Jacen tries to arrest Han & Leia at Mara's funeral. Couldn't get into it.

I should finish it off to see what happens with that (don't spoil it please).

The Unifying Force was the last book of The New Jedi Order, which leads into The Dark Nest Trilogy, which leads into Legacy of The Force (in which Mara dies in book 5), which leads into Millenium Falcon (standalone), which leads into the recently completed Fate of The Jedi series. Have fun reading all 42 books.

Azz said:

Hudson said:

I tried getting into LOTR but it took me 3 sittings to watch Fellowship director's cut. Should I watch the theatrical versions first or is LOTR just not to my taste?

Stay away from the extended editions!

My complex had the theatrical cuts of Fellowship and Two Towers on dvd, maybe i'll be a Middle Earth geek in time for The Hobbit.

I totally disagree, the extended LOTR is much better than the theater released ones. It's only like 10 minutes more of footage per movie but it really fleshes out the characters.

Something I wished Lucas had done with his extended extra disc special. Id have enjoyed ROTS alot more if we had gotten more Padme, Antilles and others forming the beginning of the rebellion. Tacking them on in extra disc was just a waste.

I'm rewatching The Phantom Menace.

Will post my comments:

On second thoughts; there are so many flaws, I'm not sure anyone would bother to read...

[Edited 11/2/12 16:04pm]

lazycrockett said:

I totally disagree, the extended LOTR is much better than the theater released ones. It's only like 10 minutes more of footage per movie but it really fleshes out the characters.

Something I wished Lucas had done with his extended extra disc special. Id have enjoyed ROTS alot more if we had gotten more Padme, Antilles and others forming the beginning of the rebellion. Tacking them on in extra disc was just a waste.

But it's really obvious what the extended scenes are. I admittedly haven't watched much of the extended edition.

[Edited 11/2/12 16:05pm]

lazycrockett said:

lust said:

lThe extended ones are the real deal IMO. Actually they add a total of 2hrs to the trilogy. So best avoided for people who found the theatrical releases too long. Personally I don't get too upset by the star wars special editions with the exception of greedo. That subtle change makes a huge difference to Han's character. I'm Glad Lucas will leave it alone now lest he re release it where han is holding a torch instead of a gun. [Edited 11/2/12 16:11pm]

Is it really that much??? I only have seen the theatrical ones when they first came out in the theaters so I'm not as familiar with them.

lazycrockett said:

lust said:

lThe extended ones are the real deal IMO. Actually they add a total of 2hrs to the trilogy. So best avoided for people who found the theatrical releases too long. Personally I don't get too upset by the star wars special editions with the exception of greedo. That subtle change makes a huge difference to Han's character. I'm Glad Lucas will leave it alone now lest he re release it where han is holding a torch instead of a gun. [Edited 11/2/12 16:11pm]

Is it really that much??? I only have seen the theatrical ones when they first came out in the theaters so I'm not as familiar with them.

Yeah, check it out. 124 minutes additional.

And the trilogy won 17 oscars. You want to know what 17 oscars look like?

[Edited 11/2/12 16:59pm]

Hudson said:

PurpleJedi said:

I totally lost interest in that storyline.

I was midway into reading whatever book it was where Jacen tries to arrest Han & Leia at Mara's funeral. Couldn't get into it.

I should finish it off to see what happens with that (don't spoil it please).

The Unifying Force was the last book of The New Jedi Order, which leads into The Dark Nest Trilogy, which leads into Legacy of The Force (in which Mara dies in book 5), which leads into Millenium Falcon (standalone), which leads into the recently completed Fate of The Jedi series. Have fun reading all 42 books.

I've been good, and have read just about EVERY book in the expanded universe, UP UNTIL THAT DAMNED BOOK!!! (Book 6 I guess??)

I'll make an effort to dig it out and try to get back into it.

I hope that Fate of the Jedi is more appealing that Legacy of the Force.

PurpleJedi said:

Hudson said:

The Unifying Force was the last book of The New Jedi Order, which leads into The Dark Nest Trilogy, which leads into Legacy of The Force (in which Mara dies in book 5), which leads into Millenium Falcon (standalone), which leads into the recently completed Fate of The Jedi series. Have fun reading all 42 books.

I've been good, and have read just about EVERY book in the expanded universe, UP UNTIL THAT DAMNED BOOK!!! (Book 6 I guess??)

I'll make an effort to dig it out and try to get back into it.

I hope that Fate of the Jedi is more appealing that Legacy of the Force.

I was reading this, thinking "I never knew he was such a huge fan" then I remembered what your name was...

lazycrockett said:

lust said:

lThe extended ones are the real deal IMO. Actually they add a total of 2hrs to the trilogy. So best avoided for people who found the theatrical releases too long. Personally I don't get too upset by the star wars special editions with the exception of greedo. That subtle change makes a huge difference to Han's character. I'm Glad Lucas will leave it alone now lest he re release it where han is holding a torch instead of a gun. [Edited 11/2/12 16:11pm]

Is it really that much??? I only have seen the theatrical ones when they first came out in the theaters so I'm not as familiar with them.

theyre soooo much better.

and tha bility to pause and come back to it makes the time issue much easier

Kevin Smith, Woody Allen, and Michael Moore audition tapes for the directing job of Episode 7!

http://theforce.net/lates...148711.asp

Hudson said:

NDRU said:

PurpleJedi said:

I've been good, and have read just about EVERY book in the expanded universe, UP UNTIL THAT DAMNED BOOK!!! (Book 6 I guess??)

I'll make an effort to dig it out and try to get back into it.

I hope that Fate of the Jedi is more appealing that Legacy of the Force.

I was reading this, thinking "I never knew he was such a huge fan" then I remembered what your name was...

Dude...I'm not even going to fishslap you for that one...I think that deserves that you fishslap YOURSELF.

ufoclub said:

I'm Star Wars (1977) all the way without the "episode IV A New Hope" bullshit that was added for a rerelease years later. I read that novelization about 3 times as a kid back in 1977-78.

"Empire" already jumps the shark with ridiculous elements creeping in (check sober criticism of Empire in Fantastic Films issue 22 & 23 , but luckily Empire had lots of brilliant scenes).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/F...0478766237

I am a Star Wars nut.

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I hope Disney releases Star Wars intact as it's original 1977 version. Not the 1981 re-release version with the change and the title.

Oh yeah! I remember reading the Starlogs on "Revenge of the Jedi." It had all these things in it about how Yoda dies and there was a Blue twin of sorts (who must of have been Max Rebo).

And it had the story start on Endor. But that is about all I remember. It did talk about Jabba the Hutt and the space battle...

oh and in 1983 (this is just a random memory) there was a story on E.T. that Mark had been secretly signed to come back in 1999 to play a jedi master. I do not remember if it was said if that was for EP VII or IX. At that same time it was rumored that Lucas was out on Galveston Island in an area he was looking for places to film EP I. (the part of town was a large beach area) But that, even at the time, seemed like just made up nonsense.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

oh and in 1983 (this is just a random memory) there was a story on E.T. that Mark had been secretly signed to come back in 1999 to play a jedi master. I do not remember if it was said if that was for EP VII or IX. At that same time it was rumored that Lucas was out on Galveston Island in an area he was looking for places to film EP I. (the part of town was a large beach area) But that, even at the time, seemed like just made up nonsense.

Don't you HATE those rumors that get you all excited over nothing???

A while back...I think it may've been on the Arsenio show...I saw Patrick Stewart on TV saying that he'd been talking with Carrie Fisher about possibly getting their two characters (Captain Picard and Princess Leia) together in a movie, romantically.

I realize now it probably was tongue-in-cheek...but the geek in me at the time was doing backflips!

For what it is worth: Reports are that Harrison is willing to play Han Solo again (if not him then andy samberg?)

http://insidemovies.ew.co...exclusive/

[Edited 11/6/12 6:13am]

lust said:

lazycrockett said:

Is it really that much??? I only have seen the theatrical ones when they first came out in the theaters so I'm not as familiar with them.

Yeah, check it out. 124 minutes additional.

The Film Name	Original Edition Length (mins)	Extended Edition Length (mins)
The Fellowship of the Ring	178	208
The Two Towers	179	223
The Return of the King	201	251

And the trilogy won 17 oscars. You want to know what 17 oscars look like?

Oscars, shmoscars. They're still pretty awful. Peter Jackson obviously didn't understand the books. The extended editions would be ok if they were totally original fiction, with the possible exception of The Two Towers*, but I can't bear any of the theatrical cuts. As these are likely to be the only LotR films we get for a long, long time, the whole thing was a wasted opportunity to do it right.

* Oh, and take out the umpteen false endings to RotK. When I saw it at the cinema, people actually left commenting on how glad they were it was finally finished. Is that really the feeling Jackson wanted people to have when leaving the last of his trilogy? I doubt it.

[Edited 11/6/12 6:59am]

OnlyNDaUsa said:

For what it is worth: Reports are that Harrison is willing to play Han Solo again (if not him then andy samberg?)

http://insidemovies.ew.co...exclusive/

Hudson said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

For what it is worth: Reports are that Harrison is willing to play Han Solo again (if not him then andy samberg?)

http://insidemovies.ew.co...exclusive/

Thanks! I was having issues!

Lianachan said:

lust said:

Yeah, check it out. 124 minutes additional.

The Film Name	Original Edition Length (mins)	Extended Edition Length (mins)
The Fellowship of the Ring	178	208
The Two Towers	179	223
The Return of the King	201	251

And the trilogy won 17 oscars. You want to know what 17 oscars look like?

Oscars, shmoscars. They're still pretty awful. Peter Jackson obviously didn't understand the books. The extended editions would be ok if they were totally original fiction, with the possible exception of The Two Towers*, but I can't bear any of the theatrical cuts. As these are likely to be the only LotR films we get for a long, long time, the whole thing was a wasted opportunity to do it right.

* Oh, and take out the umpteen false endings to RotK. When I saw it at the cinema, people actually left commenting on how glad they were it was finally finished. Is that really the feeling Jackson wanted people to have when leaving the last of his trilogy? I doubt it.

[Edited 11/6/12 6:59am]

The Fellowship of the ring is an amazing film; the other two... not so much.

The third particularly bad.

Azz said:

Lianachan said:

Oscars, shmoscars. They're still pretty awful. Peter Jackson obviously didn't understand the books. The extended editions would be ok if they were totally original fiction, with the possible exception of The Two Towers*, but I can't bear any of the theatrical cuts. As these are likely to be the only LotR films we get for a long, long time, the whole thing was a wasted opportunity to do it right.

* Oh, and take out the umpteen false endings to RotK. When I saw it at the cinema, people actually left commenting on how glad they were it was finally finished. Is that really the feeling Jackson wanted people to have when leaving the last of his trilogy? I doubt it.

[Edited 11/6/12 6:59am]

The Fellowship of the ring is an amazing film; the other two... not so much.

The third particularly bad.

I agree that it is by far the best of them, aye.