The Star Wars films on Blu-ray

[Charles Gunn]

Oh dear.

http://imgur.com/a/uKl8e

Absolutely brilliant Thanks for posting that. The second and fourth pictures almost had me spitting tea over my keyboard with laughter.

Having bought the complete Saga a few days ago (from the Sainsburys deal of the day offer) I've been watching the original three films in the set and quite a few times I was thinking about some of those above joke images when the scenes appeared.

I will say that I was a lot happier watching the films on BD then I had been with the 2004 DVDs, I think mainly because most of the grading issues had been fixed, so the films seemed to look more like they should, Lucas tinkering aside.

[Chris]

£45 in-store in Morrisons. I'm hoping that it will drop to about £30 soon.

[Charles Gunn]

£35 is about the lowest I can see it going, and at that price you'll be lucky to get hold of a copy.

[Chris]

The Alien set dropped like a stone though and that was a Fox title.

[Charles Gunn]

It did, but Star Wars is a lot more popular. I waited about a year for the apes set to drop below £20. Depends how long you want to wait.

[Andrew F]

I picked up a copy in Morrisons last week, but have only just been able to have a look at the set. It's a very nice collection - the clips I've watched from the films themselves look fantastic, and the extras are good. Nice in particular to have things like the deleted scenes, many of which haven't been seen before, although its easy to see why most were trimmed. My only real disappointment is the packaging itself - the digistack is already coming apart.

[rickcurz]

I just finished watching the third film, and it is another stunning transfer. The best of the three prequel trilogy films and frankly better than Return of the Jedi in my humble view.

[hartley]

I just finished watching the third film, and it is another stunning transfer. The best of the three prequel trilogy films and frankly better than Return of the Jedi in my humble view.

I honestly think ROTS could have been the best of all six, if only Lucas hadn't been such an egomaniac and had just let a decent writer have a quick look at the script. Some of the dialogue between Anakin and Padme is among the worst I've ever heard.

Plus of course Lucas's meaning of "hide Luke from Vader" appears to be "put Luke with the only family Vader has, in the last place his mother lived, and DON'T EVEN CHANGE HIS NAME FROM SKYWALKER", for f**k's sake...

[Richard Ward]

I honestly think ROTS could have been the best of all six, if only Lucas hadn't been such an egomaniac and had just let a decent writer have a quick look at the script. Some of the dialogue between Anakin and Padme is among the worst I've ever heard.

Plus of course Lucas's meaning of "hide Luke from Vader" appears to be "put Luke with the only family Vader has, in the last place his mother lived, and DON'T EVEN CHANGE HIS NAME FROM SKYWALKER", for f**k's sake...

Presumably he thought Vader would never, ever want to go back there since that's the place where he was forced to live as a slave, his mother was murdered by Sandpeople and where he took his first steps on the road to self destruction. It's not exactly Club Med to him, is it? Still, I'm surprised he didn't pop down for a few hours in A New Hope, just to catch up with Watto...

Isn't it the case that he's not looking for a Skywalker because he thinks his kids are dead, and no one else would mention it to Vader because only the Emperor/Yoda/Obi-Wan knows that he's Anakin (every one else thinks Anakin Skywalker died in the Jedi purge)? Why would anyone else think that information is important to him?

Obi-Wan just calling himself Ben on the other hand... hmm. Not a watertight disguise...

[hartley]

Isn't it the case that he's not looking for a Skywalker because he thinks his kids are dead, and no one else would mention it to Vader because only the Emperor/Yoda/Obi-Wan knows that he's Anakin (every one else thinks Anakin Skywalker died in the Jedi purge)? Why would anyone else think that information is important to him?

Perhaps, but it's not inconceivable that one day Vader would hear about this kid called Skywalker living on his old home planet, is it? Everyone seems to know everyone else in this tiny galaxy, after all.

[Richard Ward]

Well, it's not like Obi-Wan wasn't looking out for Luke. Who's to say if anyone did come snooping he didn't use the old Jedi Mind tricks or just lightsabre their ass. But then who was Luke by that point anyway, though? Just some kid. No one outside of Anchorhead knows who he is (all the gossips/spies/baddies seem to hang out in Mos Eisley, and Luke had never been there before Ben took him). And who apart from the Lars remembers the Skywalkers?

I'm not saying it's all watertight, and I know old Beardy was just making it up as he went, but in this case I think it's possible to cut him a bit of slack.

[Julian K]

Posts about the Star Wars timeline have been moved here.

[Alan]

In case anyone's interested, I've got a like new set of the Blu-ray 'Complete Saga' set going dirt cheap on ebay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/alansteed116/m.html

[Frankymole]

Well, it's not like Obi-Wan wasn't looking out for Luke. Who's to say if anyone did come snooping he didn't use the old Jedi Mind tricks or just lightsabre their ass. But then who was Luke by that point anyway, though? Just some kid. No one outside of Anchorhead knows who he is (all the gossips/spies/baddies seem to hang out in Mos Eisley, and Luke had never been there before Ben took him). And who apart from the Lars remembers the Skywalkers?

I'm not saying it's all watertight, and I know old Beardy was just making it up as he went, but in this case I think it's possible to cut him a bit of slack.

Before the prequels came out, the impression I got, especially from the first film, was that everyone who was anyone to do with the Jedi perished in the Clone Wars, so no-one knew/cared. Besides Vader, only Kenobi survived and he didn't even bother changing his surname. Maybe Skywalker and Kenobi are common family names.

[Frankymole]

It's an interesting one this - I know several people who swear blind that the caption was there when they went to see it on the first run. My mother is excluded, as she believed for years the first thing that comes on screen is the droids in the desert because she arrived late at the cinema (and only went then to find out what this C3P0 all the kids were talking about was...)

Had she seen the trailers/adverts on UK television? C-3PO and R2-D2 during the TIE fighter attack etc? I wonder if those trailers survive, I'd like to see them again (1970s continuity/other adverts around them too).