but would they have kept cut scenes from the OT? It wasn't as easy to keep the footage back then, wasn't a matter of pulling it off one DVD, and putting it on another.
I am watching the new five-disc DVD of Blade Runner. They went trhough all the original footage and it looks cool. There's even outtakes, scenes that never worked in the first place.
Waht I've seen so far is just in the 3,5 hour documentary, but it's not crappy, grainy temp copies from the time. It really looks beautiful. They could do that to the OT.
SW deserves the same treatment as the outstanding Alien Quadrilogy Box and Blade Runner 5-disc edition.
I love the extended LOTR's, but Alien Quadrilogy and the new Blade Runner 5-disc version rules them all. It's because of the blatant openness: they give you all the versions, all the worthwhile deleted scenes. And for these it works because these films have HISTORY. LOTR doesn't have that yet, plus tehre's no reason for it to have a mentionable history. They made LOTR they wanted to.
BR, Alien and also SW had their problems, personal and/or technical, they deserve more backstory. For instance, who wouldn't wnat to see the Wampa attack scene they shot? I mean, they're prolly crap, but I still want to see them.
But still, the LOTR extra's are all very positive. It's great to watch, I have and watched all the Extended Editions discs... but still... it lacks that bit where frustration, conflicts and limitations drive the filmmakers nuts. It's only time that was frustrating but it hardly endangered the vision of the film. Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Blade Runner had all of that. Just like Gilliam's Brazil, twelve Monkeys and the unfinished Man from La Mancha. Great stuff that.
I want that with SW as well. Gary Kurtz bitching at GL about ruining ROTJ and the PT .... fights, conflicts, that's what I want!
Dec 11th, 2007 10:22 AM
