Just noticed something funny on the ROTS dvd!

[the mongoose]

SPOILERISH--SORT OF

Right after the big struggle involving Mace, the Emperor, and Anakin......when the Emperor leans his head back to laugh, you can see all of his dental fillings!!!:D Nothing mind blowing or cool or whatever, but I got a good laugh from it.

[bklyndv]

You know, in North By Northwest... just as Cary Grant gets "shot" in the lodge restaurant, a little boy behind him can be seen plugging his ears.

Shit like that aggrivates me more than is probably healthy.

- jim

[myrrh]

After watching the deleted scenes to this, I feel that Lucas should release a boxed set of DVD that has all six films in it, with all the deleted scenes put back in each one. If you watched the extra stuff on ROTS, they said that the opening battle sequence was originally a hour long!!!

Plus half the deleted scenes were the ones with them forming the Rebellion. That who subplot was removed from the film and now that I know it exists, it kind of irritates me. Plus, Yoda landing on Dagobah. Damn, these were some good scenes.

Lucas put all the deleted scenes back into Episodes 4,5,6 when he put them on DVD, why couldn't he put these ones back in? Come on, the whole pod race sequence was great. Those deleted scenes from Episode 2 added some debth to them falling in love.

I realize the story is about Anakin, and understand why all the scenes were removed or cut short, but he really needs to take a cue from Peter Jackson here, and release the full versions of these films in a super Star Wars Saga boxed set.

[Animal Boything]

Lucas put all the deleted scenes back into Episodes 4,5,6 when he put them on DVD No he didn't. They weren't even on the DVDs, much less cut back in. Are you talking about the Jabba the Hutt scene? There were a lot of others that have yet to see the light of day. Also, Star Wars movies aren't the same thing as Lord of the Rings movies, they're all about fast pacing and cheap thrills. Making long, drawn out versions would just ruin them. I'm all for leaving scenes on the cutting room floor if they mess up the pacing. It was nice of them to put them on the new DVD at all.

Hopefully the formation of the rebellion will be the basis of the tv show they reportedly have in the works. I hope Bail Organa is the star because he kicked ass in the movie.

[b.miller]

yeah i remember someone here posted links to a whole movie that some guy cut together with deleted/alternate/elongated scenes from the original trilogy that was pretty mind-blowing with exactly how much stuff did not make it to the DVDs.

also, LOTR sort of had the excuse, just like Sin City is doing, of putting scenes in that were in the book... they were in the book so really they should be in the movie blah blah blah. i personally think that Jackson just got lucky/awesome that the director's cuts still flow and pace along nicely. Lucas' prowess in editing i'm not so confident in. Plus did you see that recreated sequence on the episode 1 disc with the aqua boat ship thing almost falling over the really bad CG waterfall? yeah, i wouldn't make fun of THAT if it was cut into the film.

but anyway, on a general note about this whole thread since i haven't commented yet... those sorts of things (seeing an actor's dental work, seeing an extra react before the event, stuff like seeing the little jet nozzles on the "scalding hot" grill when Arnie throws the guy onto it while getting his clothes in Terminator 2) are really aggrivating in that once you notice them you can't really un-notice them. It's like the 555 telephone number thing or the cigarette burns at the ends of reels or how the lightning always comes exactly at the same time as the thunder whenever there's a storm... they just pile up and change the way you watch movies... Premiere magazine has a little column dedicated to it called "gaffe squad" and i hate it. it's always better not to know that shit... ignorance is bliss, man.

[grady]

After watching a great deal of the second disc for ROTS, I was becoming very bored and annoyed by the film and everything about it. This type of reaction is rarely produced by a DVD supplemental disc, but I thought it should be noted.

Another complaint: The documentary produced for the Episode 1 DVD called Beginning was fantastic. Instead of producing a documentary showing the creation of 58 seconds of a sequence, I would have much rather seen a documentary called Ending or Conclusion, modeled in the same fashion and cut from the same dress patern as the Beginning documentary, but focusing on the final star wars film to be made, EVER.