DVD!...DVD!...DVD!
MYSELF AS WELL AS TALON HAVE BEEN SPOILED BY DVD. WOULD YOU BELIEVE I DID NOT OWN A DVD PLAYER AND HELD MYSELF BACK FROM BUYING ONE UNTIL THE RELEASE OF EP1 ON DVD? NOWADYS I'M THE PROUD OWNER OF 67 OF THOSE FLATTEN PLASTIC DONUTS!
WELL, 'GOT OUT OF THE MAIN SUBJECT HERE FOR A MINUTE BUT THE DVD FORMAT HAS INDEED IMPROVED THE VIEWING OF FILMS 100 TIMES AND THEIR 5.1 DIGITAL SOUND EXPOSED THROUGH A HOME THEATER SYSTEM IS SUPERB, NOT TO MENTION THX WILL BLOW YOU AWAY.
WHEN THE CLASSIC TRILOGY BECOMES AVAILABLE ON DVD, IN FACT, WILL BE PACKED WITH SPECIAL FEATURES, FEATURETTES, FACTS, EASTER EGGS, DELETED SCENES AND ALL THE LIKES.
REMEMBER THAT WE LOOK AT THE MOVIES AS PURE ENTERTAINMENT, A WAY TO TRANSPORT OURSELVES TO A SUBREAL WORLD AND HAVE FUN WITH THEM BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, LUCAS AND COMPANY NOT ONLY LOOK AT THE FILMS AS A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT BUT ALSO AS A BUSINESS; AN INCREDIBLE MONEY MAKING MACHINE WHICH HAS TURNED ONE ORDINARY MAN WITH AN INCREDIBLE VISION INTO A BILLIONARE.
THEREFORE WHEN THE TRILOGY GETS RELEASED (AND AS TALON SAID, NOT THIS YEAR), WHAT WILL MAKE IT DEFINITELY ATTRACTIVE TO THE FANS AND AUDIENCES IN GENERAL?; WHAT WOULD MAKE THE MASSES BUY THEM, MAKING THE DVDS AN INCREDIBLE MONEY SOURCE FOR LUCASFILMS? THE ANSWER LIES IN THEIR FEATURES:
IT WON'T BE JUST THE FACT OF THE MOVIES HITTING THE DVD FORMAT FOR THEIR FIRST TIME AND THAT US, FANS, WITHOUT A DOUBT WILL BITE ON THIS BAIT AND SHELL OUT THE MEGA BUCKS ON THEM, BUT ALSO THE PROVISION OF A GREAT COVER PRESENTATION AND AN ARRAY OF ATTRACTIONS WITHIN THE DVDs TO MAKE THEM APPEALING TO MOVIE VIEWERS IN GENERAL.
THE DVDS WILL BE ANOTHER MONEY SUCKING MACHINE FOR LUCASFILMS WHO IN RETURN WILL PAY US BACK WITH MORE INCREDIBLE PRODUCTS AND WILL KEEP OUR MINDS AND SPIRITS HIGH IN THE INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE THAT "STAR WARS" IS.
ON THE SUBJECT OF "QUALITY IMPROVEMENT" FOR THE FILMS, I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY WHEN THE MOVIES WERE RERELEASED IN THEATERS BACK IN 1997, CERTAIN SCENES WERE NEVER REALLY "IMPROVED".
TAKE FOR INSTANCE THE RANCOR SCENE. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE COLOR IN THE MOVIE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AND THAT MANY OF THE SCENES WERE PROPERLY "WORKED ON" WITH COMPUTERIZED EQUIPMENT MAKING THEM VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS, THE RANCOR SCENE WAS LEFT WITH BLACK BORDERS ALL AROUND THE BODY OF THE MONSTER, LOOKING SOMEHOW WHEN COMPARE TO THE REST OF THE FILM, "OUT OF PLACE."
PERHAPS THE IDEA BEHIND LEAVING SOME SCENES NOT TOTALLY FINISHED, WAS TO KEEP FANS SALIVATING FOR A BETTER PRODUCT AND DVD MIGHT HAD BEEN FORESEEN AS THAT TOOL OF IMPROVEMENT.
WHEN IT COMES TO DELETED SCENES, BIGGS DARKLIGHTER FAREWELL TO LUKE SKYWALKER IN TATOOINE SHOULD BE INCLUDED. IT DOES NOT BREAK AWAY FROM THE FILM AND IN FACT GIVES US A BETTER VIEW OF BIGGS, WHO WAS SEEN VERY SHORTLY IN THE ORIGINAL VERSION.
REST ASSURE WE WILL SEE FEATURETTES ON "HOW IT WAS MADE" PROPER SCENES TO FIT IN THAT SUBJECT WOULD BE THE "CHASE THROUGH ENDOR," "FLIGHT AND GROUND BATTLES" AND SO FORTH. ALL OF THIS, OF COURSE, TAKEN TO A BIGGER EXTEND THAN THE PRODUCERS DID WITH THE DOCUMENTARY INCLUDED IN THE VHS WIDESCREEN VERSION A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK.
WHEN WILL THE DVDS BE AVAILABLE?... IT IS HARD TO TELL. BUT ANYTHING REALLY IS BOUND TO HAPPEN AND SURPRISES COULD TAKE PLACE. WHAT LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THIS IS THE SUDDEN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE "PHANTOM MENACE" ON DVD AFTER WE HAD HEARD SO MANY TIMES BEFORE IT WAS GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME OR PERHAPS UNTIL THE END OF THE PREQUELS TO BE TRANSFERED TO DVD AS A COMPLETE SET INCLUDING THE SEQUELS. THEN.. PUFF!!, THERE IT WAS ANNOUNCED ALL OF A SUDDEN. A STRONG REQUEST BY FANS AND ITS MONEY MAKING CAPABILITIES PLAYED THE TRICK ON IT.
I DO FORESEE A COMPLETE SET INCLUDING THE SIX FILMS WITHIN A YEAR OR SO FROM THE END OF THE PREQUELS, SAY BETWEEN 2006/ 2007
WHETHER IS SOONER THAN LATER OR VICE VERSA, WE WILL SEE THE REST OF THE "STAR WARS" FILMS INMORTALIZED IN ROUNDED SHINY PLASTIC AND, THEY WILL BECOME A CLASSIC AND INDESPENSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT SOURCE TO HAVE IN ANYONE'S LIBRARY OF FILMS.
